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16 May 1945 En route to evacuate the Andaman Islands, the Japanese heavy cruiser Haguro is ambushed in a close-range night torpedo action by RN destroyers Saumarez, Venus, Vigilant, Virago, and Verulam while transiting the Malacca Straits. USS Hawkbill torpedoes the minelayer Hatsutaka off Borneo.
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Comstar posted:Well we all know how accurate IJN carrier kill reports are in '45. I'm almost sure they were close to 100% accurate. Kinda hard for reports to be inaccurate when there are no reports anymore. 
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May 17, 2019 19:55
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Grey Hunter posted:Ladies, Gentlemen. Quoted for new page.
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May 17, 2019 19:58
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terrenblade posted:Quoted for new page. I can't believe I have to wait like a week for the game while Grey gets to play it with a review copy.
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May 17, 2019 21:19
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Grey Hunter posted:Ladies, Gentlemen. 
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May 17, 2019 21:28
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Beyond building ships, I sort of hope it has a somewaht better political model and ability to handle multiple conflicts? It always felt weird that basically only *one* country could actually be at war and it was always with you.
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May 18, 2019 01:01
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   Guam takes more planes from the Allies.   We take more losses to a bombing raid. Curses, a few more days and we would have been fully operational!   Those stupid airfield bombing runs.  My carriers are not finding much. Which is a disappointment. 
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May 19, 2019 18:20
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  A sub goes for our carriers.  We find one target at least.  Guam carrys on Guaming.  I guess they have to come out on top occasionally.
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May 19, 2019 18:20
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  Not my tankers!  Where are the escorts?  Grumble.  I protect the raiders.  Efficiently.  I can always depend on the lads at Guam.  My god, they lost a lot of planes today.  Again, I would have noticed a 2000lb bomb report.
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May 19, 2019 18:20
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So either the AI is using most of its strategic bombers to hunt down ships or there are BTDs already active. Not a whole lot of planes can cart around 2000lb bombs.
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May 19, 2019 18:31
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18 May 1945 Destroyer USS Longshaw is wrecked by shore batteries after stranding on a reef off Okinawa.
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May 20, 2019 04:16
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  I'll try and get the planes out for a bit.  T'is a bit of a dull day.  GET OFF MY LAWN!  I can't get the guys off Guadalcanal, the ships can't dock there. *lets not ask how they got them off.  Oh yeah, another CVE.  Even better than the last one!
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May 20, 2019 18:21
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Grey Hunter posted:*lets not ask how they got them off. 
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May 20, 2019 18:57
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Who got the bright idea to put depth charges on a 13 knot CV?
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May 20, 2019 21:57
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Grey Hunter posted:
Is the next ship propelled by oars?
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May 20, 2019 22:14
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sparkmaster posted:Who got the bright idea to put depth charges on a 13 knot CV? Look, it's an escort carrier, ok? What do escorts do? ASW, that's what. QED. - Some Japanese army dude probably (Yes, those were IJA carriers, because of course they were.)
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May 20, 2019 22:18
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8 aircraft is a rather symbolic amount though. Did they just stick a flight deck on a freighter, and still used it as a freighter as well?
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May 20, 2019 22:41
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Dunno-Lars posted:8 aircraft is a rather symbolic amount though. Did they just stick a flight deck on a freighter, and still used it as a freighter as well? They were tankers with flight decks slapped on the top, I have to imagine the 8 planes were entirely just whatever would fit on the end of the deck. Rather amusingly, the two surviving ships of the 'class' had their decks peeled off-post war and just kept on being tankers, none of them having seen any combat. Surely if they'd been sent to the front it would have changed the tide of war. Grey get on it, maybe they'll reach Pearl by 1946!
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May 20, 2019 23:43
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Dunno-Lars posted:8 aircraft is a rather symbolic amount though. Did they just stick a flight deck on a freighter, and still used it as a freighter as well? Imagine if the war ran into like 1946 or 1947. They'd be calling 3 barges lashed together a CVE.
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Saint Celestine posted:Imagine if the war ran into like 1946 or 1947. They'd be calling 3 barges lashed together a CVE. Catamaran carriers at last 
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May 21, 2019 00:05
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Zhanism posted:Is the next ship propelled by oars? Wind actually. 
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May 21, 2019 03:24
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Endurance should be unlimited surely.
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May 21, 2019 03:36
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Pretty sure endurance in this case means how much food and freshwater for the crew they can stuff aboard.
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May 21, 2019 04:11
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So seriously, what does our pilot list look like? Are a reasonable number alive and not MIA/KIA? What kind of average XP do these guys have? Grey has an ahistorically successful piloting squadron, somehow, so how is that playing out with the various stats for new pilots and such?
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May 21, 2019 04:27
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uPen posted:Wind actually. Is this from a mod or is it really in the game?
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May 21, 2019 04:31
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mercenarynuker posted:So seriously, what does our pilot list look like? Are a reasonable number alive and not MIA/KIA? What kind of average XP do these guys have? Grey has an ahistorically successful piloting squadron, somehow, so how is that playing out with the various stats for new pilots and such? Does the IJN/IJA have any capability to rotate good pilots back to training squadrons? Or is that not possible wihtin the game engine? Or is it not really worth it in the end to figure out how to transit them back to somewhere behind the lines, etc?
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May 21, 2019 05:26
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Bold Robot posted:Is this from a mod or is it really in the game?
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May 21, 2019 06:45
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Cartoon posted:What does your heart say? It is in the game, but a mod corrected a stat that was 1 point off. Like, the firing angles of one of the machine guns.
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May 21, 2019 09:30
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If that ship is around, I say make it our win condition to sink it
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May 21, 2019 15:06
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wedgekree posted:Does the IJN/IJA have any capability to rotate good pilots back to training squadrons? Or is that not possible wihtin the game engine? Or is it not really worth it in the end to figure out how to transit them back to somewhere behind the lines, etc? It absolutely is possible, and assigning good, high xp pilots to the training command IIRC gives any newly recruited pilots better starting stats. This can be further enhanced by having the on-map squadrons do training flights.
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May 22, 2019 03:35
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Magni posted:It absolutely is possible, and assigning good, high xp pilots to the training command IIRC gives any newly recruited pilots better starting stats. This can be further enhanced by having the on-map squadrons do training flights. So rather than having all your pilots get killed, dump 'em into training command then and let them sit given you're going to take a couple hundred air losses the next time the carriers go out anyways?
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May 22, 2019 05:15
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  Large parts of Buna explode once more.  Double strike, for just when they think it's over.  Trying to build up at Guadalcanal was a mistake it seems.  They finally get a hit in at Guam!  Just surrender for gods sake!  Our gains in the sky almost wiped out by our losses on the ground.
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May 22, 2019 05:21
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Why is there no CAP over Guadalcanal? Is the airfield just wrecked at this point?
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Yeah, they caught them before the main fighters had finished repairing after being unloaded, and since then, the runway has been to cratered by daily bombing for anyone to take off.
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May 22, 2019 08:55
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wedgekree posted:So rather than having all your pilots get killed, dump 'em into training command then and let them sit given you're going to take a couple hundred air losses the next time the carriers go out anyways? With enough administrative effort, it's entirely possible to juggle Japan's training program in order to produce competitively skilled pilots. It ... just happens to take a lot of administrative effort, in a game with an abysmal UI for doing so. It's like trying to shift hundreds and hundreds of lines from one spreadsheet to another, without windows, and while only being able to select one line at a time.
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May 22, 2019 09:31
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Grey, how much the lack of political points affect you?uPen posted:Wind actually. Amazing!
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Its annoying. A lot of planes and units are trapped on Japanese soil, waiting for an invasion that will never come.
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May 22, 2019 15:45
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Grey Hunter posted:Its annoying. A lot of planes and units are trapped on Japanese soil, waiting for an invasion that will never come. Oh, don't worry, it's coming in a few months, USN or no.
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  Another night of bombardment shows the Allies who's in charge here.  Run out of planes. Please.  We lose ground in the air war today. 
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When do the Soviets activate? August 8th in reality, wasn't it?
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