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4 January 1944 US carrier aircraft force the Japanese minesweeper W-41 to beach near Takao, but off Mindoro JNAF suicide aircraft engulf CVE USS Ommaney Bay in uncontrollable fires.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:4 January 1944 There's fairly decent film of that last one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzsRjkUNpw8
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Jan 5, 2019 02:12
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   We have more fun in Burma.   We Punish their bombers today.  There are many raids, and we chip off the odd bomber here and there.   Look at those planes losses! But with one or two being killed over 20 or so raids, it would not have been interesting reporting. I am ready to take another base off the Allies though! 
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Jan 6, 2019 07:00
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5 January 1944 Escort carrier air groups covering the Lingayen Gulf invasion torpedo the Japanese escort destroyer Momi.
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Jan 6, 2019 07:06
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Geeze, your pilots at Rabaul are getting -really- good at knocking down strategic bombers. Is it worth it to rotate some of them to other air units to give thier experience/training around? Are the fighters there fully upgraded to current models? And you see any need to send in replacements or not?
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Jan 6, 2019 07:14
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What loving altitude are those superforts coming in at?
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Jan 6, 2019 16:37
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Why is Japan not only winning the air war but inflicting 3:1 casualties in 1945  I know I shouldn't be surprised anymore but just..... ???????
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:5 January 1944 Just checking; are we not in 1945 IRL as well now? Crazycryodude posted:Why is Japan not only winning the air war but inflicting 3:1 casualties in 1945 I'd usually just make some joke about Grey warping realities, but at this point I don't know myself either.
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Jan 6, 2019 17:15
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   I'm still reducing Chungking to rubble.  Guys, we all know you can do better.  These Privateers put up a good wall of fire.  The Mitchells do not.  It's a heavy day of fighting over Rabaul.  You know, I'm just going to read this as them having to cross a couple of miles of minefields to get to the starved Allied troops.  The oh so stable combat engine comes up again, but this time I have the troops to win in a few days time.  You win some, you lose some.
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Jan 6, 2019 19:16
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Fort level 6, nice. Just banzai charge at their reinforced concrete star fort.
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Jan 6, 2019 19:33
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goatface posted:Fort level 6, nice. Just banzai charge at their reinforced concrete star fort. It's just a moat. The moat is filled with saltwater crocodiles. The tactic is to feed them J Rations until they burst.
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Jan 6, 2019 21:27
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Serpentis posted:Just checking; are we not in 1945 IRL as well now? Haha, well, turns out if you type "1944" for an entire year it becomes reflex.  6 January 1945 JNAF suicide aircraft knock out the destroyer-minesweeper Long and fast transport Brooks (the latter merely permanently damaged rather than sunk) in the Lingayen Gulf invasion. Over in northern Europe, escort destroyer HMS Walpole is totaled by a mine strike off Flushing.
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Jan 6, 2019 23:15
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goatface posted:Fort level 6, nice. Just banzai charge at their reinforced concrete star fort. .... It's working? No destroyed squads and two fort levels down in a day. L6 forts mean nothing without troops to hold them.
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Jan 7, 2019 07:10
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I wonder how Allies can force bomber aircrews to attack Rabaul? They get staggering losses, that would cause mutiny IRL.
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Jan 7, 2019 09:57
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Recently they've been getting absolutely hammered, but until about a month ago they were sending 10 bombers and losing 1-2. Is that much worse than daylight bombing over Germany before 1945? If it is, then command probably drops the number of missions per crew down from 25 to something like 20.
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Jan 7, 2019 15:14
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alex314 posted:I wonder how Allies can force bomber aircrews to attack Rabaul? They get staggering losses, that would cause mutiny IRL. You strongly underestimate the courage and fortitude of human beings in combat. 8th Air Force alone lost around 4,100 heavy bombers over occupied Europe. These losses are nowhere near that.
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Jan 7, 2019 16:05
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Sure, it's not "Operation Tidal Wave", but imagine your crew is one of 6 aircraft, and every time you fly 2 don't come back.
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alex314 posted:Sure, it's not "Operation Tidal Wave", but imagine your crew is one of 6 aircraft, and every time you fly 2 don't come back. if i recall correctly, the screenshots do not always show the full scope of aircraft engaged in combat
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Jan 7, 2019 16:16
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According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Bomber_Command the highest single-sortie loss rate for Bomber command was 11.8% That was extreme and utterly unsustainable. The overall loss rate for Bomber Command operations was 2.2 percent, but loss rates over Germany were significantly higher; from November 1943 – March 1944, losses averaged 5.1 percent
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Jan 7, 2019 18:17
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Does anyone have an explanation as to why the AI really loves penny-packets? It's not even historically accurate- bombing raids rarely numbered less than 50 aircraft at a time, and carrier groups rarely had just one CV.
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Jan 7, 2019 18:29
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habeasdorkus posted:Does anyone have an explanation as to why the AI really loves penny-packets? It's not even historically accurate- bombing raids rarely numbered less than 50 aircraft at a time, and carrier groups rarely had just one CV. the AI isn't taught to wait for troops, planes and ships to accumulate
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Jan 7, 2019 18:35
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   One of my supply ships is picked off.  I remember when I used to get this happy about killing Liberators!  Two in one day? That must be a record!  These guys are in a lot of trouble now! And for once, I don't mean my attacking force.  A dull day in the air, but my new offensive on the ground continues! Cleaning up bases isolated since 1942! Look, it looks good in the papers.  Hey, that torpedoed ship survived!
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Jan 7, 2019 19:13
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Noemfoor is just inhabited by engineers and clerks
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Jan 7, 2019 20:46
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Lots of engineers. Guess that explains the level 6 fort they had.
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Jan 7, 2019 22:58
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I like how game 1 was this epic struggle that mostly followed the contours of sanity, while game 2 has been us slowly realizing more and more just how thoroughly broken and mad this game is.
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7 January 1945 (New Year's resolution: stop giving 1944 as the year) Two more destroyer-minesweepers succumb to air attack (note: not suicide) in Lingayen Gulf: USS Hovey and USS Palmer. In Manila Bay, the last USN-IJN surface action of the war results in the escort destroyer Hinoki sinking under a hail of gunfire delivered by a quartet of American destroyers.
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Jan 8, 2019 00:51
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So, what does Noemfor have that makes it worth a ground attack? Or is it just maintaining the offensive momentum? Also I guess given the lack of taking big air bases close to Japan that the nearest place strategic bombers could operate out of is probably Australia that has the infrastructure built up to support them.
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Jan 8, 2019 02:01
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Taking a base in 1945 as Japan is its own reward.
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Jan 8, 2019 02:12
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its worth 32 points to each side, so a 64 point shift. Plus entertainment for you guys. I can't just sit here for a year!
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Jan 8, 2019 06:32
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Well, you could always try and do something lik get enough of a foothold in the area to consider whether it's realistic to attack and occupy Port Moresby to interdict the flow of supplies to Australia? Also yay for the slow and steady progress of drawing the USN into decisive battle! ... How many carriers do you have now and how are you operating them in separate task forces? And are all the planes on them/Rabaul up to date or they training for the moment?
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Grey, what’s the plan to get the troops from Burma into India once they cross the Himalayas? The infrastructure between Burma and India sucks.
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May as well send a few guys on barges to police up all those dot bases. And then retake Rota.
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  Now this is an interesting place to have a carrier...  If only all fights were this one sided.  The commander here, on his own initiative I might add, pushes his men one last day and captures the enemy, taking the base for Japan! Now I will reload most of them an take that base to the north.  The Empire is still expanding! I've reversed three months of allied gains in two weeks.    We are reminded the Americans do actually have subs.  One of our ships takes a hit.  It seems their snipers are out in force today.  Here we get some small measure of revenge.  All in all, it's not my day though.  Stupid Allies and their working stuff. The carriers haven't drawn planes in several days, so they are fill and going out south today!  At least these are my first ship losses of the year. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Jan 11, 2019 |
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9 January 1945 USN air sinks Japan's escort No. 3 near Formosa.
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Bold Robot posted:Grey, what’s the plan to get the troops from Burma into India once they cross the Himalayas? The infrastructure between Burma and India sucks. Probably the same as the IJA's plan in RL. Pure bushido spirit to overcome 'logistics' and 'supplies'.
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AIUI the game is actually kind of bad at representing just how impossible it was to move any reasonable amount of supplies across the Burma-India border.
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Yeah... they are going to be fine. Well as fine as they would have been if they had remained in China.
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Jan 10, 2019 15:25
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Did Anything happen on the 8th of january ?
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barman posted:Did Anything happen on the 8th of january ? In Egypt, the Prime Minister won a governing coalition in Parliament. On the Western Front, Allied opposition against the German advance in the Battle of the Bulge was hardening, and the German Army was forced to pull back to avoid encirclement.
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barman posted:Did Anything happen on the 8th of january ? No warships sank, so no, according to me.
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