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overmind2000 posted:The Japanese Army doesn't know how to make carriers Might as well put torpedo tubes and heavy cannon on that thing to make it a jack of all trades that does everything poorly.
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Ikonoklast posted:Might as well put torpedo tubes and heavy cannon on that thing to make it a jack of all trades that does everything poorly.
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An LCI(M) getting hit by a 5-incher should produce a pretty spectacular boom. Those things were basically a floating 4.2in mortar battery.
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   We bag ourselves another superfort.   Thank god for graphs!   The scores remain at parity   No bases have chaned hands in months, but I have high hopes for Operation Silk Road.  The gap in plane losses has closed to 777 points.  Here are the heroic pilots making this possible.  And here are my plane productions – now working at a much better speed, I notice some errors and correct them – mainly taking the planes with large stockpiles and putting them on to the new AM7 Zeros!  It's been a poor month for ship sinkings.  A single light carrier doesn't get you very far. I expect things to improve in the next month, Silk Road and the new Zeros should see me making headway.
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Good to see Japan does actually have a TRACOM. What XP do fresh recruits start with, and how does that compare w/ the Allied run?
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mercenarynuker posted:Good to see Japan does actually have a TRACOM. What XP do fresh recruits start with, and how does that compare w/ the Allied run? Nice!
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We're in sight of the A6M8, the ultimate Zero 
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   Oh yeah baby, close that plane gap!   Then there are these guys.  You win some, you lose some.
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  There are no hits, but its the afternoon, and nothing else interesting has happened today.  A new plane type hits Rabaul – we bring them down in large numbers, but its much more costly.  A new plane! Exciting! Can't wait to see my AM7s!  I must have missed this, or its an old hit just sinking randomly.
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I vote you prioritize Guam and Rabaul for the new upgrades. Unless both will do so automatically. Presuming that you need to ship out individual airframes to each base and then engineering squadrons to do it.
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Those pilots are crackerjack by now. A band of flying samurai butchering American airmen by the score.
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Grey can put 90 Ki-84s in the air in '45, he deserves the kill count.
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  The cowards have to come at night to be effective.  Well, except at Munda where they did the smart thing and levelled the airfield early on.  We all know what happens when the come in the day!  Good sub.  A perfectly normal day in 1945.  Right down the the unreported 500lb bomb hit.
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  Their back!  Time to have another go at Ndeni, before they overwhelm my defences with base forces.
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overmind2000 posted:How far out is Operation Silk Road? You'll be getting daily updates in the next few days. crawling forward at 2 miles a day...
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  Oh god tanks! My only weakness!  Tanks are my one big worry for the invasion of India – the allies have them, and I have no way of dealing with them!
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I think one of the only Japanese tanks capable of going up against Allied armour (Type 4?) has been available for a while. Probably difficult to land it on an island from a fast transport, but it presumably exists somewhere.
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"I don’t see anyone else coming up with any better ideas." - Bob Semple
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Decoy Badger posted:I think one of the only Japanese tanks capable of going up against Allied armour (Type 4?) has been available for a while. Probably difficult to land it on an island from a fast transport, but it presumably exists somewhere. Type 3, which is roughly a Sherman analogue. The Type 1 isn't exactly terrible either, though it is worse, and the final version of the Type 97 was at least tolerable. None of those were really responsible for the reputation of IJA tanks, since all produced versions of the 1/3 were kept on the Home Islands for defense during the anticipated invasion, and that last version of the Type 97 was regarded as at least alright - not up to modern allied standards, but not a deathtrap like earlier stuff and at least workable.
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6 June 1945 Celebrate the first anniversary of D-Day by trying to keep destroyer-minesweeper USS J. William Ditter from sinking after two kamikaze hits! The ship was damaged beyond repair. Also, Halsey sailed Third Fleet through a typhoon again yesterday.
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  More clearing the skies over Guam.  It's what we do best!  We have another go at clearing the tanks.  With the exception of Ndeni, things are going well. Operation Silk road is now 18 miles out.
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BurningStone posted:And he didn’t sink anything? Or are you not posting losses to natural forces? No losses, just major repairs necessitating the withdrawal of two fast carriers, two escort carriers, three cruisers, and several smaller ships. Pittsburgh, a 13,000-ton heavy cruiser, lost over 100 feet of her bow to the storm.
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BurningStone posted:And he didn’t sink anything? Or are you not posting losses to natural forces? Nah, nothing was actually sunk in this one. Unsurprisingly, light to heavy damage on a bunch of ships though. It did have the distinction of crippling the launch capability of TWO Essexes though, which had all avoided the previous one. Also tearing a huge chunk of the bow off a heavy cruiser, which required an actual stateside return for that ship. Guess who got off scott-free without a single reprimand again? And unlike the last time, where the inquiry ultimately put the fault on Halsey but excused his actions due to wartime stresses, here they directly pushed for retirement or reassignment but the CNO refused to do anything.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:No losses, just major repairs necessitating the withdrawal of two fast carriers, two escort carriers, three cruisers, and several smaller ships. Pittsburgh, a 13,000-ton heavy cruiser, lost over 100 feet of her bow to the storm. Wow. That’s the equivalent of a decent sized battle.
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The IJA marches through Karachi, preparing to lay siege to Persia only to find out that Germany surrendered last month. Anyway IJA in Karachi IJN in San Francisco
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   Bye bitch!  She's having a good day today!  I just want a couple of days to rebuild the runway!  It's plane murder over Rabaul.  Dammit!  3:1 in adjusted odds and we can't win. Stupid game!  Another good day – Operation Silk road is now 16 miles from target.  This was the only let down – bar the broken combat system of course!
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  The I-22 continues its hunt.  Her captain is going for numbers over tonnage.  The Allies only effective tactic claims two more planes.  HOW MANY PLANES ARE LEFT!  Plays patriotic music, skips kill list.  4:1 in numbers, 8:1 in points.  I think the Allies would do better if they could avoid my fighters for the rest of the war. Silk Road is 14 miles out.  We complete another tanker conversion.  He he.
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I wonder how many hundreds of shot down planes are littering the area around Rabaul. Are they a navigation hazard yet?
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Crazycryodude posted:I wonder how many hundreds of shot down planes are littering the area around Rabaul. Are they a navigation hazard yet? I'm curious about the ace list. There have to be some legendary pilots fighting over Rabaul.
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8 June 1945 HMS Trenchant sinks the Japanese heavy cruiser Ashigara with five torpedoes in the Bangka Strait. Minesweeper USS Salute hits a mine off Brunei. 9 June 1945 USS Sea Owl torpedoes Japanese escort No. 41 near the southern tip of Korea.
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Zeroisanumber posted:I'm curious about the ace list. There have to be some legendary pilots fighting over Rabaul. I believe this months compilation post contains the ace list as well.
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