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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Long range aviation regiments bombed German civilian targets by night throughout the war. It wasn’t a big volume compared to the western allies, but they still regularly put bombers over German and occupied cities. If you have reliable, consistent reports of Soviet, American or British pilots strafing crowds of civilians in packed roads then feel free to post them. Because that was one of the Luftwaffes hobbies.
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Mans posted:If you have reliable, consistent reports of Soviet, American or British pilots strafing crowds of civilians in packed roads then feel free to post them. You don't have to deliberately strafe refugee columns for your tactical air operations to have a major impact on civilians, especially in heavy urban combat.
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Mar 23, 2019 00:39
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Mans posted:If you have reliable, consistent reports of Soviet, American or British pilots strafing crowds of civilians in packed roads then feel free to post them. are you saying that fire bombs on neighborhoods at night doesn't have the same intent?
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Mar 23, 2019 00:42
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warcrimes chat is starting to stray into bad territory guys
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Mar 23, 2019 01:05
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Flavius Aetass posted:are you saying that fire bombs on neighborhoods at night doesn't have the same intent? ChaseSP posted:Boy did the Axis love bombing cities and strafing civilians so much. This was the original topic. A small notice before you start mentioning Dresden.
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Mar 23, 2019 01:40
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Yeah, bombing cities. US and allied forces strafed lots of civs riding horses and driving cars in '44 and '45 but that's the nature of war. So why bother starting a pissing contest?
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Mar 23, 2019 05:03
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   Say hi to my battleships.  The cruisers also do some sparring.  We bag three attacking planes.  On the next wave we trade planes.   They continue to hit Magwe.  There are a lot more raids than this, but they continue to hit the already ruined runway rather than planes, so I'm not reporting them.  Their using a LOT of planes though.   I'm going to send the carriers out again – they've had a week of shore leave at Rabaul, and the pilots will be getting lazy. 
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Mar 23, 2019 05:20
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SO in the last couple weeks you've lost.. What, 200 or so planes? Ow.
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Mar 23, 2019 06:18
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its like he passed some arbitrary ai script trigger like "okay by this point it doesnt matter what your strategy is just throw everything at them"
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Mar 23, 2019 06:45
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Yeah, I have a good buffer atm as I'm going to be on holiday next week, and it looks like some scripts have changed this month.
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Mar 23, 2019 08:40
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RIP Horatio Hornblower
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Mar 23, 2019 19:01
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alex314 posted:I’ve read a paper a couple of months ago that the very first “shot” was Luftwaffe bombing the poo poo out of some village. Guess they simply itched for some Guernica style fun. That was actually a fairly recent discovery, only established a few years ago. Schleswig-Holstein was the opening shot of the war for decades and remains infamously iconic in that sense, but it was beaten by the bombing of Wieluń by about five minutes. I made a post about the events of Day 1 of World War II in the old milhist thread a few years ago. You can find it here in a Google Doc.
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Mar 24, 2019 00:13
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Does the hyuga and use carry any planes?
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Mar 24, 2019 00:21
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  I need to clear this guy before I can send out the carriers.  There we go!   Well done lads!  We have another killing spree at Guam.  You know the drill here, just assume all destroyed on ground losses come from here.  Ahh, the air war swings my way again.  The war at sea has always been mine.
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Mar 24, 2019 05:23
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Are your capital ships being on fire from the shell hits an issue or not?
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Mar 24, 2019 07:35
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That was a surprisingly good showing from the Mauritius over two days considering how atrociously outnumbered it was.
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Mar 24, 2019 10:20
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wedgekree posted:Are your capital ships being on fire from the shell hits an issue or not? It's only a few destroyers, they're ablative.
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Mar 24, 2019 11:43
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So Grey i know that you are several turns ahead of us and that this is probably a moot point by then, but is there a reason why you don't spread those grounded planes out across several of your nearby bases using, oh i don't know...the railroad that links them all together? Even if it dosn't help you get any of them in the air, it will force the allies to waste alot longer on bombing each individual squadron to bits instead of grinding them all down at the same time.
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Mar 24, 2019 13:34
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The runway was destroyed day 1. There is no way to move them.
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Mar 24, 2019 14:41
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But there is a railroad right there? Admittedly i've only ever played the game as the allies, but i usually make heavy use of rail transporting for planes that need to move around in India, Australia, Java and the US coast so i don't see why the same wouldn't be possible for you to do here.
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Mar 24, 2019 15:10
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For the love of God. I copied WITW and WITE to drive, but not with. No updates for a week.
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Mar 24, 2019 18:50
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What Grey don’t want us to know? 
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Mar 24, 2019 18:54
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Ah, the tea break.
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Mar 24, 2019 19:07
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And the streak is broken, after what, 9 years plus the first aborted Japanese run. That's incredibly impressive to say the least. Hold on, Grey, is someone holding you hostage? Shock attack an atoll for yes, sink the British navy for no.
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Mar 24, 2019 19:10
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Nah, I just got sidetracked trying to get weekly updates for three games ready. Witp is buffered to the end of the month, and was leas of my worries. So of course its the one I forget.
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Tevery Best posted:That was actually a fairly recent discovery, only established a few years ago. Schleswig-Holstein was the opening shot of the war for decades and remains infamously iconic in that sense, but it was beaten by the bombing of Wieluń by about five minutes. I appreciate the correction on this—I wasn't aware of the air attack.
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Mar 24, 2019 20:05
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Savescumming to hold off the viscous allied onslaught. What a scandal!
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Mar 24, 2019 20:10
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More kiwis! Kiwis everywhere. Their subs are becoming more active though.
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Mar 24, 2019 20:21
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Bip Roberts posted:Savescumming to hold off the viscous allied onslaught. What a scandal! Their attacks have been pretty slow-moving…
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Mar 25, 2019 02:19
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at this point we probably have enough undated screenshots and narration to cobble together our own witp_ebooks updates
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Mar 25, 2019 02:28
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Ersatz March 25th Magwe gets bombed even though there's nothing there. Three Betties suicide into a cloud of Mustangs at Milne Bay. Cruiser Force returns to Rabaul today. Carriers sink 300 DEs, lose 20 aircraft, bad trade for Japan at this stage in the war. Helldivers make a go at Guam, escorted by P-26 Peashooters.
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FrangibleCover posted:Ersatz March 25th Tokyo Bay Fortress awakens, ventures south. SS Sailfish hits TBF with two torpedoes, evades contact. TBF limps back to Tokyo Bay for repairs, will be docked for rest of war.
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Current status : trying to figure out where my kid learned the name "Maximus" which he is now insisting on calling my sister in laws cat Max. No. He has not watched Gladiator. He's three next week.
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Mar 28, 2019 16:07
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Well I did recently talk about the SC 2500 Max bomb...
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Mar 28, 2019 16:13
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No updates, and it's on page 404.
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Mar 28, 2019 19:01
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Tokyo bay fortress not found 
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Mar 28, 2019 21:32
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Grey Hunter posted:Current status : trying to figure out where my kid learned the name "Maximus" which he is now insisting on calling my sister in laws cat Max. Tangled.
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  Oh my god, they scored a hit!  Oh guys, someone has to make up the losses eh?  Better!  Now we're properly back on track.  Magwe gets a day off! 
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  Down goes a Privateer.  The carriers reach Ndeni.  They engage the enemy.  Waves hit our guns. Waves go down.  For the love of god, escorts are not optional!  Checks carrier settings. All good. Curses.
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   We lose a ship, but get some hits in.  Magwe is bombed again.  Come on guys!  At least they got a hit.  Would it hurt you to send a single fighter in support.  Thanks, this actually makes me feel better.  See, they did bring fighters!  I'm surprised they still come here.  That was a painful day. 
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