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really they should be making curvalinear tabletop games and your pieces slide off if theyre not in the center
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Bip Roberts posted:really they should be making curvalinear tabletop games and your pieces slide off if theyre not in the center painted spherical earth magnet with metal, historically-accurate individual ship tokens, or death
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Feb 26, 2019 02:48
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Bip Roberts posted:really they should be making curvalinear tabletop games and your pieces slide off if theyre not in the center The map in that is actually big enough that they have to account for hexes being larger in teh middle scale wise than at the top and bottom O.o
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Feb 26, 2019 02:51
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A geodesic dome style map for something like this. Somehow place the pentagons in non-important places or do the other grognardy solution of special rules when moving to and from a pent as opposed to a hex.
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Feb 26, 2019 03:20
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I recently purchased World in Flames for a playthrough this year, and I'll need a bigger table to set it up. Here it is with a bottle of Reference Port. It actually has 3 boards, one for Navy, one for the USA and one for Production/turn tracker, and those don't fit...
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Feb 26, 2019 03:24
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shalafi4 posted:Each of these map segments are *almost* 2ftx3ft How would this even work as a board game? So much of this game is about trying to figure out where your enemy is.
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Feb 26, 2019 04:55
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   Another superfort gets shot down.   Here we trade a Zero for a Liberator.  Then get back to business.  Business is regrettable slow today.  Scratch that, there is a sudden rush to the bottom towards the end of the day.  Late to work, but still delivering the goods.   The Tojos get to party.   Even more ships sink, I am forced to ask once more – where are the Allied carriers? Today takes me past 80,000 points. Will the Allies ever be able to break this?  The numbers are good, if not the points.
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Feb 26, 2019 06:05
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Not a bad haul. You also -probably- took out those two tankers or crippled them so hopefully that will put a potential crimp in the USN? And congrats on the continuing attrition of the strategic bombers. Come summer won't the USAAF b egetting like an extra 2-3000 of them?
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Feb 26, 2019 06:26
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Time to seize Vancouver Island and start strat-bombing the USA.
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Meanwhile Stalin has taken all of Germany and is drawing up plans to invade British France.
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Feb 26, 2019 21:23
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25 February 1945 USS Hoe torpedoes the Japanese escort Shonan south of Hainan.
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Feb 27, 2019 02:36
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   We claim a privateer on the way home.  We lose a plane tangling with fighters.  We trade planes. I come out on top if you count engines. Which the game does.  We stay ahead in kills as more of theirs crash on landing. 
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Feb 27, 2019 05:33
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In fiarness with the 'counting engines' thing it's a strategic bomber that's like four or five times the size of a fighter and has a crew of 8-12 and a half dozen guns on it (at minimum) vs a trade for a single fighter. I think that's fair.
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Feb 27, 2019 05:36
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Also Known As Todd.
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There was no time to inspect his letter of marque he was dangling out the window.
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I just got my Grandfathers (AUS) military records. From what I can read of the....cursive handwriting, he started in the 24th infantry battalion, before transferring to be a Pilot Officer in the RAAF, went to Canada for training and came home again, never going to war itself apart from training. In THIS timeline, who knows where he ends up. It's good he out of the infantry, they ended up going to PNG and having many battles there.
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  We gun down another Privateer on the way home.  The carrier based planes are putting the work in.  This still makes me smile a little bit.  Another wave of planes go to die at Guam.  Dammit, I need those supplies!  We hit them hard in the air today.  It's odd to have the only ship on this sheet for once.
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Feb 28, 2019 05:45
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How are there so many Privateers? You are killing at least 1 a day. How is that lose rate sustainable?
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Zhanism posted:How are there so many Privateers? You are killing at least 1 a day. How is that lose rate sustainable? Grey would have to kill 1 a day for five years to wipe out the numbers produced for the US Navy during the war, and that wouldn't account for the ones built for the Air Force, Coast Guard, and other Allied nations.
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   The Allied subs have become active once more.  My Bettys commit suicide again.  So do some Kates.  Helldivers gets through the CAP and hits a cargo ship.  Its busy over Burma again.  The air war continues to go in our favour.  TWO ships lost in a single day?
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After all these air battles the aces page must be looking interesting. Is there a way to see the US one?
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kibaces posted:After all these air battles the aces page must be looking interesting. Is there a way to see the US one? That'd be a long list of KIAs.
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Grey, any clue at all when your Burma force will meet heavy resistance? That seems to be the last offensive push for the IJA and the IJN has Rabaul locked up.
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will the USSR invade Manchuria at some point or does that need a trigger the allies haven't come close to reaching?
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oystertoadfish posted:will the USSR invade Manchuria at some point or does that need a trigger the allies haven't come close to reaching? They turn aggressive (activate) on the historical date or if the Japanese player initiates hostilities or drops the Manchuria garrison too low. There’s an active AAR on the Matrix forums where a player accidentally dropped off supplies in a soviet controlled hex and activated them, in January of 1942. It doesn’t go well from there.
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And what is the historic date? I'm going to add it to my calendar.
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Guess Grey should have engineers up there building fortifications and rotating in lots of AT units if he's not already?
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wedgekree posted:Guess Grey should have engineers up there building fortifications and rotating in lots of AT units if he's not already? The consensus I've seen so far is that there's no point in even bothering. Personally I'd like to see him try, but I'm not sure it's actually possible.
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 This is a Soviet armor corps. By itself it has 1250 vehicles, which is probably as much as most of the IJA armor “divisions”, of which there are potentially three (which have at best the “type 3” tank that’s a bit worse than Shermans. It also has enough organic AA to be virtually immune to bombing from the mediocre IJA level bombers and the tanks are probably impossible for anything in the Japanese order of battle to harm. I’m not sure how many they get in 1945, but I’m guessing the answer is more than Japanese armor divisions. Once the soviets activate all that can be done is to delay them and hold them off with forts, river crossings, and cut off their supplies. Early they have much lighter equipment but still hundreds of good planes, an absolute ton of artillery, and a bunch of light tanks. Velius fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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so basically, come august 1945 we will have the most hardened, well-equipped and best-led land army in the world barreling down at us through china in addition to the nukes i'm starting to see why japan surrendered
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I looked it up, and the atomic bombing of Tokyo on July 16, 1945, in GH's Allied playthrough, was worth somewhere in the neighborhood of 11,000 points:quote:Jul-15-1945: Japan has a score of 87,508; the Allies have a score of 163,429, or a difference of 75,931 The actual delta from one turn to the next was 11,634 points, though not all of that is due to the damage caused by the atom bomb alone As of this latest Japan turn of Feb 28, 1945, the Japan has 80,253 points, and the Allies have 46,931 points, or a difference of 33,322. If we peg the value of a nuke as being worth about 10k points, and we say that Grey will take two of them, then that's going to increase the Allied score to 66,931 points, or reducing the difference to 13,322, still in favor of Japan. That puts them well short of what they'd need to just break even with GH, never mind what they'd need to double his score and trigger a surrender. Remember that for every nuke they drop after the second, their victory "grade" goes down a notch, to the point I think the game considers it a Japanese victory if the Allies use five or six before a surrender is triggered.
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basically we're playing a game of how many nukes can I eat. EDIT - though, if mainland Japan eats six nukes, I may have to call the game and move on to Stellaris with a tomb world race.... Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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Grey Hunter posted:basically we're playing a game of how many nukes can I eat. And we still have to wait a year to find out.
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dublish posted:And we still have to wait a year to find out. Three months or so until we see how trigger happy the AI is to begin with!
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gradenko_2000 posted:I looked it up, and the atomic bombing of Tokyo on July 16, 1945, in GH's Allied playthrough, was worth somewhere in the neighborhood of 11,000 points: All that assumes the ai drops the nuke somewhere important. Grey dropped his on mainland Japan, I don’t think the ai has an air strip large enough for a nuke in range. I doubt 6 nukes dropped on some pacific atoll will have the same effect. Except for waking up Godzilla to fight Tokyo bay fortress
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Grey Hunter posted:basically we're playing a game of how many nukes can I eat. I would absolutely read the Adventures Of The Unconquered Imperial Japanese Star Empire.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I looked it up, and the atomic bombing of Tokyo on July 16, 1945, in GH's Allied playthrough, was worth somewhere in the neighborhood of 11,000 points:
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