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The funniest thing about Grey shooting down massive swarms of P-40s is that every pilot that dies in one of them is a pilot that isn't flying a P-47 or P-51. The Americans are slowly attriting their pilot corps by forcing them to fly in planes that couldn't beat the zeroes at the start of the war.
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5 March 1945 USS Tilefish torpedoes Japan's minesweeper W-15 south of Kyushu.
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overmind2000 posted:The funniest thing about Grey shooting down massive swarms of P-40s is that every pilot that dies in one of them is a pilot that isn't flying a P-47 or P-51. The Americans are slowly attriting their pilot corps by forcing them to fly in planes that couldn't beat the zeroes at the start of the war. Problem is, Grey isn't letting them get equal quality pilots.
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Mar 6, 2019 12:35
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FrangibleCover posted:Yes they could, the Zeroes getting anything done was mostly a pilot quality differential thing. The late model P-40Ms and Ns (Kittyhawk III and IV) were very well regarded and are more than a match for a Zero given equal quality pilots. Yes but also the Allies are still putting up 1941 vintage P-40B/Es
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Mar 6, 2019 20:28
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   An American sub pops up.   My planes spot a heavy cruiser.   It seems after yesterdays blood bath, neither side has the planes to pick up hostilities today. 
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Mar 7, 2019 06:09
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  The raiders say hello to another troop convoy.  They return to finish the job.  This is the real prize though!  The returning carriers do good work over Munda.  Their subs are suddenly very active.   The Guam turky shoot continues.  My men are getting fed up of Turkey.   The men in Burma do their bit.  Planes keep dropping from the air, and I'm happy about it.  In real life, my Raider force was hunted down and killed by carrier based aircraft a year ago. Maybe two.
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Mar 8, 2019 05:44
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6 March 1945 The RAF sinks Z-28, a German destroyer, in Sassnitz Roads.
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Mar 8, 2019 07:05
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I know the Allied replacement rate is insane but they lost fifty pilots to your ten today, that kind of thing can't be sustainable.
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Mar 8, 2019 07:48
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Any pilot in a P-40E who knows that he can out-dive and out-climb a Zero is a pilot that will win all of his engagements with Zeros.
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Mar 8, 2019 09:04
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That’s true but I think every adult US male is resting on the floor of the pacific, and 14 year old boys are being shipped out with a day’s training to go up against Grey’s aces.
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Mar 8, 2019 09:30
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Grey Hunter posted:
The Torsk is still floating. 
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Mar 8, 2019 09:49
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Ikonoklast posted:The Torsk is still floating. I've been there! It's a fun tour.
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Mar 8, 2019 12:31
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Please tell me it had that paint job when active. Also, I know that officially Gray has ruled that this timeline goes with his Axis WITE playthrough, but I still like the incongruity of the US and UK utterly mashing the Germans in the current WITW playthrough while at the same time the US is utterly hapless in the Pacific theater.
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Mar 8, 2019 14:03
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mllaneza posted:Any pilot in a P-40E who knows that he can out-dive and out-climb a Zero is a pilot that will win all of his engagements with Zeros. Takes a while to out-climb them after outdiving them to the seafloor
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Mar 8, 2019 14:50
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  My Bettys actually get a hit!  Nope, still no escorts.  Time for the carriers to head home and replenish losses. Then head right back out again! 
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Mar 8, 2019 18:42
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Grey Hunter posted:
The allies are running out of cargo ships to act as ablative armor to eat up all your ammo.
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Mar 8, 2019 21:23
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How many destroyer escorts has Grey sunk so far? The Americans built 507 over the course of the war but it seems like every one of them that shows up gets immediately sunk, he must be denting their numbers in some way.
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Mar 8, 2019 22:12
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They’re doing their job. Escorting those cargo ships all the way down.
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Mar 8, 2019 23:50
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Lots of them should still be doing Atlantic runs.
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Mar 8, 2019 23:53
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goatface posted:Lots of them should still be doing Atlantic runs. As slowly as possible.
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Mar 9, 2019 02:56
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8 March 1945 Japan's escort No. 69 is damaged by US LBA and will sink under tow in a week. Also I got married today!
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Mar 9, 2019 04:37
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:
Nice!
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Mar 9, 2019 04:39
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Ardeem posted:Nice! I think you quoted the wrong part.
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Mar 9, 2019 04:53
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:8 March 1945 Congratulations on your 74th anniversary.
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The Sandman posted:Congratulations on your 74th anniversary.  We got a good laugh out of this one, thanks.
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Mar 9, 2019 05:40
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Bip Roberts posted:I think you quoted the wrong part. Lmao
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Mar 9, 2019 08:51
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May your ship never sink 
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Mar 9, 2019 16:23
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  Bye bye Bettys.  There is a bit of Dogfighting over Munda. We win, of course.  We're taking losses, but at least they are taking more!  Had to say it, didn't I.  This is a normal days bombing of Munda by the way, I just don't normally report it as there is nothing there worth bombing.  Mitchells meet the wall of death.  More dogfighting in Burma – I've highlighted the invasion force in red – they are slow.  Lucky bugger.  We still came out on top today due to the large number of Allied planes crashing!
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When's the second Pearl Harbor raid? Pearl Harbor 2: Pearl Harder
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Neophyte posted:When's the second Pearl Harbor raid? 
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9 March 1945 The German minesweeper M-412 runs aground off Granville on the western coast of the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy and is scuttled by the crew. What it was doing there as the Western Allies were hitting the Rhine I have no idea.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:9 March 1945 Probably helping to defend the Channel Islands. They were occupied until the war ended.
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Mar 10, 2019 01:36
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  What are you guys doing out here?  I'm covering the landing of fresh troops.  WITH DEATH!  Although nowhere near as efficiently as last time.  There are a lot of waves however.  Our own strike takes losses.  This is more like it.  Boom!  Delivering troops and supplies to Ndeni while at the same time sinking the next invasion force. Efficency. 
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Mar 10, 2019 21:54
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Despite the fact that it's just a different line of text, something about the, "... obliterated by a direct hit..." line is *so* satisfying.
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Mar 10, 2019 22:17
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It's painful to watch the AI lose this many APAs and AKAs.
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Mar 10, 2019 23:45
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Post-war American aircraft design is gonna be insane now that the Zero has proven itself a dominant platform well into 1945.
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overmind2000 posted:Post-war American aircraft design is gonna be insane now that the Zero has proven itself a dominant platform well into 1945. Jets designed to turn fight through primitive thrust vectoring via engine ports to the wing tips.
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Log082 posted:Jets designed to turn fight through primitive thrust vectoring via engine ports to the wing tips. Flown by 17 year olds that passed the vision test and have 40 hours of take off / landing training. Where have you gone, Major Richard Bong Our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you. woo woo woo Also I am 100% behind the Allies trying to take Singapore in March 1945 without taking anything else. It makes sense when "the AI should push at Singapore in March 1945" and Grey having minimal defenses in the area because he's destroying everything around Rabaul. And because the AI is weird, the Queen Elizabeth will try to unload 3000 hardened troops at the dock and it will work but they end up on the hex across the straight from the actual city. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Mar 11, 2019 |
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CannonFodder posted:
I thought she sank, but looking at the list, that was the Queen Mary.
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(same thing as before, if my posting bothers you, I'll edit it out of existence, Grey) Hey guys, do you want to see what it would have been like, if Operation Charnel House would have happened in the Greyverse? Well, it happened in my playthrough. The Chinese front in my game was about the same as Grey: repelling the Chinese out of every major base, then trying to take Chunking while piles and piles of enemy units re-spawned or spawned there. I started massing an obscene amount of men and material to try and take the gigantic fortress, but I didn't have high hopes of taking it. Then, March the 8th, in 1943, when the last batch of reinforcements reached their positions to attack the city, the Chinese army decided to attack , maybe they hoped to catch us unprepared. But the first Japanese soldiers had been there for at least a whole month, giving them time to fortify and get ready for anything.  More than 5 000 artillery pieces, more than 4 500 vehicules and more than a million men clashed in Chunking. The 630 000 Chinese soldiers managed, despite the terrain and their somewhat worse leaders (the Japanese force was directed by the 1st Army, commended by none other than Hideki Tojo himself) to acheive a 1/10 ratio. How did it go? well...  A bloodbath. An absolute, atrocious bloodbath. So many dead in a single day. But the next day, they attacked once more!  This time, the odds didn't give them a shadow of a chance. And guess what, they were right!  In two days of attacks, the Chinese had lost more than 300 000 men, and losing a whole unit in the process, while the Japanese force lost less than 4 000 soldiers. The next day, the invading force decided to launch an assault, hoping the enemy had sufficently weakened itself by sending their soldiers to the slaughter.  Much to my surprise, we acheived 2/1 odds! and tore down two levels of fortifications in a single attack!  Of course, our losses were painful, and we lost many engineers. But we still managed to inflict more casualties than we took. However, the Chinese, for the third day, attacked the Japanese positions.  Their offensive strenght was a mere shadow of itself, at this point. Not only were their forces depleted, their supplies must have been running out as well.  We lost less than 200 men, and 2 vehicules, while more than 75 000 Chinese soldiers were lying dead on the field. This was the last offensive of the Allied in the Battle of Chungking, now they are desperately trying to hold the line. In my game it's now March the 20th, and Chungking's fortifications have been lowered to level 5. DarkParchment fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Mar 11, 2019 |
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