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Gort posted:When do the Soviets activate? August 8th in reality, wasn't it? August 9, 1945. At 11pm on August 8 they sent the "we declare war" and at 12:01 on August 9 the invasion started. Not coincidentally 3 months after Germany's unconditional surrender was August 8.
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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. Can you cheat it? If I remembver because some glitch you lost them.
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21 May 1945 USS Chub torpedoes the Japanese minesweeper W-34 in the Java Sea.
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In WWII submarine news, the USS Batfish sails again. https://www.thedrive.com/news/28167/midwest-flooding-re-floats-historic-wwii-submarine-for-the-first-time-in-decades quote:Aerial video from KOTV News on 6 shows the USS Batfish floating comfortably in at least 15 feet of water on Wednesday as the Arkansas spills over its banks and swamps the city of Muskogee. Normally, the 77-year-old Balao-class submarine serves as the centerpiece for Muskogee's War Memorial Park, standing bare on a bowl-shaped lawn as both an interactive museum and a point of pride for the region. But these floodwaters have it sailing again like it's 1943.
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It possible to game-edit to give yourself more political points? That seems reasonable given it's an actual bug in the game.
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   Hey, that's better.   Guys, I've come to expect better from you.   Most of my air kills come from me destroying a large number of float planes in the recon phase.  wedgekree posted:It possible to game-edit to give yourself more political points? That seems reasonable given it's an actual bug in the game. Not that I know of.
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Presuming the airfield at Guadalcanal isn't leveled for a day or two it possible to repair it enough to evacuate?
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wedgekree posted:Presuming the airfield at Guadalcanal isn't leveled for a day or two it possible to repair it enough to evacuate? Nah, its visited daily, so its hovering at 75% damaged. plus my ships can't dock, so they can't get the planes off - I assume they just throw them off the side to get them off then raft them to shore. In other news, FNG 3rd edition is out, so I'm gauging interest for another tour in Nam!
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"Grey Hunter" posted:
"Hot drat, Vietnam!" (words of a more than enthusiastic Marine Corps sergeant on the way to the Da Nang beaches in 1965.)
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Grey Hunter posted:Nah, its visited daily, so its hovering at 75% damaged. plus my ships can't dock, so they can't get the planes off - I assume they just throw them off the side to get them off then raft them to shore. I'm game as heck. Last time I got field promoted into command of my own squad, then died heroically charging an RPG guy before he could blast us to bits (turned out an RPG is a pretty good melee weapon). EDIT: also my arrow-drawing game has improved massively since last time!
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Please take me to 'Nam, GH.
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Awesome! Looking forwards to seeing the new thread when it starts
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   Things go very badly for one of our subs.  Sigh.  As the carriers return home, three bombers slip through the cracks, and one of them lands a hit.  Things continue as normal at Guam.  My god, something interesting happened!  Operation Silk Road is finally across the river and closing in on the first base!  The carriers are all fine, although they all need some time in dry dock to repair their wear and tear.
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...that bomb "hit" on Junyo seems to have been more like a miss by 50 meters that mildly shook up the ship.
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Magni posted:...that bomb "hit" on Junyo seems to have been moe like a miss by 50 meters that mildly shook up the ship. Indeed, I don't think a Japanese ship has ever taken a 1,000lb bomb so gracefully before
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I feel like a dud bomb hitting directly would have done more damage than what Junyo took. Maybe the historical inaccuracy in scouting reports also transfers to damage reports these days.
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Decoy Badger posted:I feel like a dud bomb hitting directly would have done more damage than what Junyo took. Maybe the historical inaccuracy in scouting reports also transfers to damage reports these days.
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Having read the FNG thread from afar (as I was a reserve throughout) drat right I'd be interested in another go at it!
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  I've not killed a landing craft in a while.  A strike at Tarawa goes poorly.  Normal.  I'm annoyed I lost the SS, but this ship took a hit from a ventura.. literally the first time I've seen one of those things hit anything!
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  I'll let you blame the weather for this poor performance. This time.  We drive off a sub.  The allies hit 50,000 points! Only 34,382 behind me!
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25 May 1945 Night raids off Okinawa total the fast transports Barry, Roper, and Bates (which later capsized), minesweeper Spectacle, and destroyer-minesweeper Butler.
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  We set another tanker on fire.  The fighters at Guam continue their work.  The carriers are nearly home, then they can get a bit of portside work for a week or two while they replenish losses.
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How goes building fortifications along the Mangchuko/Mongolia border? Hoefully you'll have some level ten fortificadtions by the time the Soviets invade. And is it worth it for the IJN given you're using the carriers heavily offensively and so rebuilding thier airgruops a lot to just put the most experienced/surviving pilots to training duties rather than keep them in the field so your base pilot skill goes up? If you're going to keep rotating the carriers in and out at a high tempo would that be worth it or not? wedgekree fucked around with this message at 05:07 on May 28, 2019 |
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27 May 1945 USS Forrest, another destroyer-minesweeper, is irreparably damaged by suicide aircraft off Okinawa.
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  This guy must be from the carrier.  Just another day at Guam.  The carriers are home and drinking deep from my supply pools.  One of our subs succumbs to wounds.
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   Superforts claim a kill.  What a dull, dull day.  Thankfully, most work on the carriers can be carried out at Rabaul.
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Japanese fighter aircraft shooting down half a dozen superfortresses in a single day, up to 15 operational Japanese carriers, China reduced to an immortal city. What a game.
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28 May 1945 USS Drexler, a picket destroyer, sinks with heavy loss of life after the impact of a P1Y1 Frances rolls her over on her beam ends. 29 May 1945 Another picket, USS Shubrick, takes irreparable kamikaze damage.
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Mans posted:Japanese fighter aircraft shooting down half a dozen superfortresses in a single day, up to 15 operational Japanese carriers, China reduced to an immortal city. I'm not sure if a lot of those count as 'carriers' but yeah, wow. The KB is fully in strength as a force, has at least two strike groups that can be deployed, and Japan has a functioning economy and a defensive perimeter. Also 1945 and an invasion of India is commencing.
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Another good WW2 twitter thread from Patrick who went to Guadalcanal over the Memorial Day weekend. https://twitter.com/prchovanec/status/1134173179801325568
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V for Vegas posted:Another good WW2 twitter thread from Patrick who went to Guadalcanal over the Memorial Day weekend. This is a pro click.
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  Bye!  Dammit! That was an unlucky hit!  Evens is acceptable.  My carriers have taken more hits this month than in the last year.  This could be worse. 
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  Out of nowhere a task force tries to sail into Rabaul.  Their air support does nothing. As usual.  Just another day at Guam. Another suicide run by the AI.  Not a bad day all told!
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I like 'a random Allied TF goes into Rabaul Harbor'. First straight up Destroyer vs Destroyer engagement had in a bit. At least the CVE is in port.. Under repair..
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Ikonoklast posted:Why did the japanese put depth charge racks on their CVEs ? gently caress it, why not.
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Volmarias posted:gently caress it, why not. Because a 14 knot large expensive unmaneuverable CVE is useless DCing submarines. Thats why you use small cheap DEs instead.
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Ikonoklast posted:Why did the japanese put depth charge racks on their CVEs ? The Japanese Army doesn't know how to make carriers
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