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The Sandman posted:Better question: how much to tell everyone it was my idea if it works and blame someone else if it doesn't? This.
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Donkringel posted:What is the ship class CS for? The Nisshin was actually an armoured cruiser, aka an ancient & massively underarmoured piece of poo poo, and should have been sunk as a target ship in 1942.
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goatface posted:The Nisshin was actually an armoured cruiser, aka an ancient & massively underarmoured piece of poo poo, and should have been sunk as a target ship in 1942. Uh, given that Nisshin was actually sunk in 1936, then raised simply to be used as a target ship a second time (without bothering with repairs), the ship that was just sunk was most likely THIS Nisshin - a seaplane tender.
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Apr 2, 2019 01:56
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This this was a Patreon link, I would have thrown you a buck a month. Just sayin'
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The stretch goal is prime DEI rubber Stretch goal 2 is a relic of CL De Reyuter a genuine Dutch Rudder
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Grey you had me thinking the soviets invaded this turn. Can I suggest a simple perk? A post with the location/action of lucky ships of the donators?
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I hope somebody does a MadLibs version. I'd give it a shot but 
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   With balls of steal, another sub sails into Tokyo bay, and we blast it from the water.  To the south, we confirm a kill.   More Bettys make a suicide run.  Once again we outfight the allies by a factor of 2:1   This is mainly to report I am still bombing Chunking.   You flew all that way to take on some PT boats?   Some dodgy choices by my Bettys caused some heavy air losses today.  The Silent Service have finally entered the war proper, and seem to be paying for it.   It's interesting how close my score is to the AI's – but its the Allied score that's holding them back.   Them taking a base at some point might help.  Aircraft losses continue to close.  There is pretty much no change in their ground losses. We would need to be fighting on the ground for that to happen.   When was the last time I saw an Allied carrier?
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Is it worth it to stop flying the Betties? Also congrats! Two badly hit Allied subs! The Allies probably have more active ones at this point than they do carriers.
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The world wonders
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Hey, Grey Hunter, is there any chance you can share the raw data for those graphs? I'd actually love to do a couple more interpolations for funsies; it would be interesting to see the deltas, not just the totals.
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Chuu posted:This this was a Patreon link, I would have thrown you a buck a month. Just sayin' I'm in two minds about this, as I've already had a chunk of cash off you guys. So I went with the joke version. It's not like I'm hurting financially like Lowtax, and I've got the buffer from the GFM for things like the upcoming Rule the Waves 2 LP. Although with the "government" faffing around like they did last night, I may reconsider in the future! Part of the joke was putting it in dollars when I'm English, as they would survive Brexit better. Volmarias posted:Hey, Grey Hunter, is there any chance you can share the raw data for those graphs? I'd actually love to do a couple more interpolations for funsies; it would be interesting to see the deltas, not just the totals. Sure, I'll try and remember to host my spreadsheet at some point. its not like it will have any massive spoilers beyond "more allied ships are sunk".
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Lord Koth posted:Uh, given that Nisshin was actually sunk in 1936, then raised simply to be used as a target ship a second time (without bothering with repairs), the ship that was just sunk was most likely THIS Nisshin - a seaplane tender. That would make a lot more sense.
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1 April 1945 No losses to report today, but American troops landed on Okinawa this morning. Fighting in the waters around the island will be, in its own way, as bitter as the fighting on land. Sporadic kamikaze attacks caused some damage on day 1, including hits on the battleship West Virginia and carrier Indefatigable, but nothing too severe as both of these ships more or less shrugged off the attackers.
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  Apparently yesterdays damage reports were overstated.  see, now I have to wonder if my captains are lying to me.  Or could my guys be this good?  Their subs are everywhere, that's for sure!  My franks get cut to pieces.  The Islands have some good pilots now!  This new script for their subs is weird. It seems to assume I just have Japan left for some reason.  It's not working well for them.
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I'm just remembering the Silent Hunter LP wherr you ended it by sailing into Pearl Harbour
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2 April 1945 A kamikaze hit totals the fast transport Dickerson off Okinawa. A carrier sweep up north claims escort No. 186 and fast transport T-17 near Amami Oshima. In the Philippines, USS Shaw—rebuilt after suffering severe damage in the attack on Pearl Harbor—runs hard aground, ending her second career.
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  I realised I've not done this in a while.  On the way home they murder these guys.  Then a few more.  I love the image of these guys steaming through a convoy shelling it with impunity.  Stay away from my boats!  Learn your place!  Their back again....  They leave one alive as a warning.  Just die already!  Oh boy, they did not enjoy that day!  I loved it though!
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Apr 4, 2019 04:22
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A ten to one loss in the air in your favor can't be sustainable for the Allies even in 1945.
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The Allied sub script appears to be for Operation Starvation, the blockading of the Home Islands with the aim of starving the Japanese into submission instead of having to invade. The effects OTL were felt into the 1950s, even after a concerted effort by the US to try to reverse them.
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CoffeeQaddaffi posted:The Allied sub script appears to be for Operation Starvation, the blockading of the Home Islands with the aim of starving the Japanese into submission instead of having to invade. The effects OTL were felt into the 1950s, even after a concerted effort by the US to try to reverse them. How was it felt? Seems simple to me, just use all those Liberty ships to make up for what you sunk. But I bet it's not that simple.
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I imagine you don't want to use Liberty Ships as one time minesweepers especially in shallow waters.
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just a sidenote: LCM 543E had been sunk. How many ships do you have to build until it dawns on you that the name should better be retired.
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Dunno-Lars posted:How was it felt? Japan had food rationing until the end of the US occupation in 1952.
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Kodos666 posted:just a sidenote: LCM 543E had been sunk. How many ships do you have to build until it dawns on you that the name should better be retired. Probably by the time the 4th LCT 58 shows up, and is subsequently blown up.
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Hey, if it works for the flagship of Starfleet...
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Kodos666 posted:just a sidenote: LCM 543E had been sunk. How many ships do you have to build until it dawns on you that the name should better be retired. You have to build this many. 
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Epicurius posted:Japan had food rationing until the end of the US occupation in 1952. UK til '54
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3 April 1945 Japan loses the escort Manju to a USAAF raid on Hong Kong; another at Kiel claims the minesweeper M-802. V for Vegas posted:You have to build this many. Maybe it's just low-fidelity printing, but that really looks like it says CV-8, which is Hornet.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:3 April 1945 Zooming in, it definitely does. Of course, CV-6 was hardly the first Enterprise even in USN service (to say nothing of all the ships the British have named that too), so it's pretty wrong from that perspective too.
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Grey Hunter posted:
THE USS TANG CANNOT BE KILLED!* *except by her own torpedo
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Grey, sail the entire navy into Anchorage or Vancouver, then work your way down the coastal cities until you reach San Diego 
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Invade Osutoraria!
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  We blast our way through some PT boats.  Poor things explode when you look at them!  That's more meaty prey.  They made over 2,000 of these things, and it feels like I have sunk about half that.  Your guess is as good as mine.  Its practice for the Singapore garrison at least – they have been alert for an invasion from India for most of the war.  They have not lost their edge at least!  It's a bit full on today!  And that, I hope, is the last we hear of the Tang.  Not my tankers!  Thankfully, I have a ton of ASW 8/9 escorts sitting in Tokyo as they have not been really needed.  That one was irreplaceable.  My god, the sea is full of subs!  Losing the tanker hurts, but I think I win on volume.
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A 28 point tanker! Is that the largest one in the game?
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Sink boats, sink boats, sink more boats. When you're done, the Boat language will be spoken only in Hell.
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You hit the Tench? That's not impossible, but that captain hosed up real bad.
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Zeroisanumber posted:You hit the Tench? What makes you say that?
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Tang must've fired her last torpedo. I really wish I'd waited till she was sunk in the game to make that joke. It's a much better setup than the last one.
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