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OpenlyEvilJello posted:No warships sank, so no, according to me. Bunch of cargo ships got sank. The story of the Daigo Maru is kind of interesting. It was an ore carrier that got sunk in the East China Sea. 49 sailors managed to survive the sinking and decided their only hope was to head to Japanese occupied China. 30 of them died on the way, and then, when they got to China, realized that they were in unoccupied China, so 18 of the 19 of them committed suicide so they wouldn't be captured.
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   The carriers find some fun on the first day!  What the hell? My dive bombers can't even get hits like that!   A dull day except for that BS strike! I'm pulling those ships out before I lose any more!  Yeah, this figures. Let's hope I can damage that task force some more in revenge. Edited the 8th into the same post as the 9th, sorry!
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How did you manage to take 15 shell hits from an air attack?
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That was probably a skip bomb attack. Those shell hits are from strafing.
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Leperflesh posted:How did you manage to take 15 shell hits from an air attack? 
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Keeping the Indian Navy bottled up. We haven't seen a single Indian ship in the Pacific so it's clearly working.
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Wrong model IIRC. B-25D didn't have the 75mm gun.
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Magni posted:Wrong model IIRC. B-25D didn't have the 75mm gun. Correct, the H variant has it.
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it was also cool but extremely useless
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Strategic strafing.
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  I'm so glad I sent some surface raiders with these guys.  Look, I told you to flee two days ago. Your deaths are not on my conscious.  We've not seen many Mitchell strafes – but they are scary!  One of my pilots gets a bit overenthusiastic!   Down you go, you malaria spreading bastards!   Another sub hit ends a bad day.  There is little I can do if they refuse to flee a hot zone!  Owch.
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10 January 1945 Japan's escort No. 42 torpedoed near Okinawa by USS Puffer. 11 January 1945 US fast transport Belknap damaged beyond economic repair by suicide aircraft in Lingayen Gulf (these fast transports get reported because they're converted old destroyers).
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Lakedaimon posted:was that the first Kamikaze strike of the war so far? nah there was an earlier one
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So are these individual, possibly accidental kamikaze attacks? Can't imagine that a plane without explosives wouldn't do much to a ship.
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Basically, yeah. They're dudes in (presumably hosed) planes choosing to hit their target the hard way. Against a transport it probably doesn't make much of a difference whether the plane is loaded with explosives. The ship doesn't have the structural bracing to take that sort of impact.
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There was a huge conversation on the matrix forums where the resident guy who was familiar with the game code said he didn't want to reveal how kamikaze damage is calculated because "the devs wouldn't have wanted that" but strongly hinted it was mostly a function of how big the plane is and not much else
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Generation Internet posted:There was a huge conversation on the matrix forums where the resident guy who was familiar with the game code said he didn't want to reveal how kamikaze damage is calculated because "the devs wouldn't have wanted that" but strongly hinted it was mostly a function of how big the plane is and not much else "The devs wouldn't have wanted its single-digit playerbase to be mad at it" is a legit concern.
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Probably base it on the size and number of engines. That having been said you can really, really gently caress the Allies up with kamikaze attacks.
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  Firstly, my carriers have found everything, secondly, they really mauled those attackers!  This is a poor start.  Much better.  The Sussex just puts up to much flak!  Even the destroyers have teeth now!  Two more liberators down – and we've been able to bag 7 search Catalinas' today!  Another freighter bites the dust!  The only thing to do anything interesting was the carrier groups – but boy did they have a day!  Shame nothing was loaded.
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12 January 1945 Task Force 38 raiding in the South China Sea bagged a substantial haul: the (Vichy) French light cruiser Lamotte-Picquet, Japanese training cruiser Kashii (you remember these guys, Grey kept sticking them with the fast carriers even though they only make ~18 kts), escorts Chiburi and No. 17, 19, 23, 35, 43, and 51, patrol boat No. 103 (ex-US minesweeper Finch), and minesweeper W-101 (ex-British Taitam), as well as numerous cargo vessels. In Europe, Britain lost the minesweeper Regulus to a mine strike near Corfu and the German minesweepers M-273 and M-1 were sunk near Bergen by RN surface forces and RAF aircraft respectively.
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Yay for the carriers! Hope you can hit some important things with them as they sweep!
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   Whoops, we've strayed to close to Auz.  Hey! They still have Banshees!  With escorts its more of an even trade.  They keep coming!  The CAP runs out of ammo, so I get this worrying sight!  My own strike is murder.  It's been a while since we saw a tanker.  This is an effective strike.  A lot of the afternoon strike gets lost.  We do maul some more tankers though!  A 300 point jump is a very good day! We murdered them in the air and at sea!  This blasts us past 2000 ships sunk. I lost 1598 in my entire game.
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Christy Mathewson is getting drubbed. Someone call the bullpen.
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2000 cooks, clerks and combat engineers, with their entire motor pool. Savage
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goatface posted:2000 cooks, clerks and combat engineers, with their entire motor pool. Savage That was actually a USO tour. The US gets around 20 total, but they rotate in and out of the theatre based on the historical touring schedule, so only around 5 are ever in the theatre at one time. Each USO unit's ability to raise Morale is set individually, based on which '40s entertainer is attached to it. If Grey is lucky, that was Abbott and Costello.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:That was actually a USO tour. The US gets around 20 total, but they rotate in and out of the theatre based on the historical touring schedule, so only around 5 are ever in the theatre at one time. Each USO unit's ability to raise Morale is set individually, based on which '40s entertainer is attached to it. If Grey is lucky, that was Abbott and Costello. I can't tell if you're being serious, but knowing this game I can easily believe it.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:That was actually a USO tour. The US gets around 20 total, but they rotate in and out of the theatre based on the historical touring schedule, so only around 5 are ever in the theatre at one time. Each USO unit's ability to raise Morale is set individually, based on which '40s entertainer is attached to it. If Grey is lucky, that was Abbott and Costello. 
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P-38h, the "We didn't think our upgrade path through and accidentally screwed up high altitude opperations" model. At least it got a sweet gun and I'm sure the Aussies are happy with the improved cooling systems.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:That was actually a USO tour. The US gets around 20 total, but they rotate in and out of the theatre based on the historical touring schedule, so only around 5 are ever in the theatre at one time. Each USO unit's ability to raise Morale is set individually, based on which '40s entertainer is attached to it. If Grey is lucky, that was Abbott and Costello. I honestly can't tell if you're serious or not because this game is...well, this game.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:That was actually a USO tour. The US gets around 20 total, but they rotate in and out of the theatre based on the historical touring schedule, so only around 5 are ever in the theatre at one time. Each USO unit's ability to raise Morale is set individually, based on which '40s entertainer is attached to it. If Grey is lucky, that was Abbott and Costello.
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Grey Hunter posted:
Over 2000 ships sunk for all nationalities. The Allies, of the numbers that can be confirmed, have lost 1,165 ships. Edit: If you're using my tracker, that is.
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It's so *weird* in 1945 seeing the Allies take 2:1 air losses STILL
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wedgekree posted:It's so *weird* in 1945 seeing the Allies take 2:1 air losses STILL Japan has good planes and a not-completely-devastated pilot corps.
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i cant wait to hear more about USO tour simulation, and lol that they named a ship after a HOF pitcher but i guess you run out of poo poo to name the things after a while this is when i miss the summaries of ships that got sunk's IRL careers most of all
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  Surface raiders surprise a tanker task force at Buna.  They they scythe through another smaller convoy.  On their way home they blow up some landing craft.  Make that a lot of landing craft.  The carriers are heading for home for a quick replenishment.  Losses are mounting, and I want to keep them topped up.  That's going to leave a mark.  We fend off the afternoon air strikes.  How long can the Allies take these kinds of losses without any gains to show for them?  Because stuff like this must look terrible in the papers.
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That's a lot of empty LCT's just kinda sitting around doing nothing, are they prepping an invasion of somewhere? Also RIP USS Poughkeepsie, I never even knew you existed but now that I do I should have called you as my lucky ship 
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Wait why do the allies hold Buna anyway? Did we lose it at some point, or was it just never taken to begin with? Why didn't the Manus crew wind up there?
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