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   Down goes another Superfort.   We win in Burma again.   Sigh.   A rather dull day.   Thank god for graphs! As you can see, little has changed, compared to the meteoric rise of the Allies in my game.   They need to start taking bases!  They need to stop losing planes so quickly – their catching up my losses!  Loosing all these soldiers isn't helping.   The less said about their ship losses the better! All in all, a normal month with repeated losses for the Allies, but I don't have the supplies nor the strength to attack anywhere.
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Grey Hunter posted:basically we're playing a game of how many nukes can I eat. I'm all for that!
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So what's the status of the army you've been marching overland towards India? And have you considered preempting the Soviets by invading them yourself? Also Rota is I believe the only Allied base in Superfort range of the HI, so if you retake it Japan proper is immune to nukes until the Allies seize a new airstrip for them.
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everydayfalls posted:Except for waking up Godzilla to fight Tokyo bay fortress One of my goals in life is to get rich enough that I can finance the best designers and programmers in the world to create an incredibly groggy Godzilla strategy/milsim game that literally only I will play and enjoy.
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1 March 1945 TF 38 claims the escort Tsubame at Sakishima Gunto and the torpedo boat Manazuru near Okinawa.
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Volmarias posted:Oh my god, I just found out that you're doing this thread again, for the Japanese. I've just reached this post today, it took me more than a few months but I've only got a few thousand posts to go. Here's hoping I reach the end before GH finishes!
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  Bloody snipers! Why could none of my bombers ever do this?  Escorts? You ever hear of them?  Nope, apparently not.   At least we have planes in the air I guess.  I've adjusted the settings at Rabaul, maybe this time they will send out some help for the bombers. Not that they weren't supposed to be doing that already.
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2 March 1945 Germany loses another minesweeper to nature: M-575 capsizes in a storm near Øresund.
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  This is the first attack on Rabaul we've seen in a while. We greet it with fire.  The Allies are invading!  It's another Kiwi suicide brigade.  Well, lets see if we can kill some more Kiwis then. Sigh. The carriers will go south for their ships.
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What does your current R&D look like, Grey? Will you be getting the most advanced Zeroes ahead of schedule?
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  Oh god, I think they are already on to just unloading supplies....  They do have some air support. Most likely based of Luganville.  Dakka dakka dakka.  These guys know whats up.  The Cruisers are out raiding again.  The carriers close on their targets.  There is a new type of Thunderbolt out it seems. It dies like the old type.  Another failed invasion and their air losses continue to run at twice my own. I am moving a divison to Nedini though!
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I'm surprised how light your losses were for wiping out the NZ armor. I know you outnumbered them so much etc but through this LP, armor usually extracts a more disproportional pricing against the Japanese?
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Zhanism posted:I'm surprised how light your losses were for wiping out the NZ armor. I know you outnumbered them so much etc but through this LP, armor usually extracts a more disproportional pricing against the Japanese? Maybe they were these bad boys 
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Zhanism posted:I'm surprised how light your losses were for wiping out the NZ armor. I know you outnumbered them so much etc but through this LP, armor usually extracts a more disproportional pricing against the Japanese? 11 vehicles and 7 troops means that presumably most of them were just sitting there doing nothing.
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vyelkin posted:Maybe they were these bad boys The IJA's continued use anti-tank rifles finally pays off!
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I am curious how those 11 tanks managed to breach the line to attack support units.
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I'm looking at 7 men and 11 vehicles having an unmodified assault value of 10 and that's just absurd.
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Leperflesh posted:I'm looking at 7 men and 11 vehicles having an unmodified assault value of 10 and that's just absurd. Dave put a brick on the gas pedal of the halftrack, it will be a distraction. This is a good idea and nothing bad will happen.
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I'm loving staggered your pilots are bringing down Jug-Ns, American pilots still must be trying to turn fight with Zeros.
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MA-Horus posted:I'm loving staggered your pilots are bringing down Jug-Ns, American pilots still must be trying to turn fight with Zeros. John Thach must have bought it way early in the war for that kind of idiocy to continue. The idea of a turning fight in a Thunderbolt is just bonkers.
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Dogfighting in a jug 1) dive 2) dakka dakka with 8 .50s 3) repeat
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LeadSled posted:John Thach must have bought it way early in the war for that kind of idiocy to continue. The idea of a turning fight in a Thunderbolt is just bonkers. We can check that! He's in the game.
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pthighs posted:We’ve a way to check that! He's in the game. Ftfy
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Ron Jeremy posted:Ftfy You must be fun at parties
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Splode posted:You must be fun at parties Is it a Thach Weave joke?
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Oh maybe, my bad
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Splode posted:Oh maybe, my bad I wouldn't worry, it went so far over my head I didn't realize there was a joke there till it was pointed out. Now that it has been though, appreciative chuckle to the OP
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Davin Valkri posted:Is it a Thach Weave joke? First time I heard about Thach Weave. Looked it up on wiki, but don't get the joke as I am missing some crucial info. Could you, or someone else, please explain the joke?
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pthighs changed the "we" in "We can check [if John Thach is still alive in-game]" to "we've", which is homophonos with "weave". P-47s losing to Zeros suggests that the Thach Weave tactic was never invented. It's not the best of jokes.
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I definitely snickered at the original joke but it certainly loses something after having to be exhaustively explained.
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hailthefish posted:I definitely snickered at the original joke but it certainly loses something after having to be exhaustively explained. It only gets better.
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  The Privateers get a surprise as the carriers arrive.  Though not as much of a surprise as these guys.  Generally, things go well.  We start running out of ammo well before they start running out of planes.  Then these guys ruin everything by going in without an escort.  Yes, I checked, there should have been fighter support. The AI strikes again.  The afternoon starts and we begin work on rebuilding the K/D ratio.  But my pilots have other ideas.  Guam does it's part.  I won, just, 91 losses to 100 kills. I recheck the carriers are supposed to be supporting my fighters. They are. 
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What the gently caress
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I hope the war lasts long enough that the late-war Japanese prototypes enter mass production. I want the A6M8 Zero to have its time in the spotlight.
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overmind2000 posted:I hope the war lasts long enough that the late-war Japanese prototypes enter mass production. I want the A6M8 Zero to have its time in the spotlight. Are J7Ws in the game?
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terrenblade posted:Are J7Ws in the game? I found a list of every aircraft in the game and when they are introduced: http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=886159 J7Ws come into play in August, and A6M8s show up in June. It would be hilarious if the jets are deployed but I'm pretty sure Grey cancelled those. zetamind2000 fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Mar 5, 2019 |
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Crazycryodude posted:What the gently caress Grey, why don’t you detach the ca and destroyer from your carriers , put them on a surface raid and put long range cap over them from the KB. Next turn attach them again. The kb will slaughter any attackers. 91 points = 10 destroyers, there are more ways to sink ships besides air power :-)
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Gort posted:The difference between your fighter performance and bomber performance is stunning. Japanese bombers are notoriously unarmored and undergunned, in exchange for longer range. Except the game engine hardcodes it so carrier aircraft have a 7 (Allied) or 8 (IJN) maximum strike range so that ends up being fairly useless. There’s also a gigantic mission disadvantage to fighters in an escort role so they die like flies. Overall there’s something weird in the late game where the Allied fleets become just invincible when piled up in sufficient numbers - even 1000 planes coordinating to attack an allied invasion force will routinely achieve zero hits, kill barely 50 allied planes, and die to the last. This is probably because the allied CV and CVE force can get equal numbers of planes on potential CAP, and the game engine has no idea what to do with that besides just roll dice within the abstraction and plug its ears about the infeasibility of keeping track of that many planes without bleed-through in reality.
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