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Decoy Badger posted:Do xAKs have 7x the capacity of xAKLs? Why such a great point difference? The short answer is yes. xAK and xAKL are ship type designations that each cover a wide range of specific ship classes. xAKs are normal size civilian cargo vessels and xAKLs are small ones. The smallest xAK might be not thaaat much larger than the largest xAKL, but many xAKLs are truly small and some xAKs are pretty big. Really good transport ships like AKAs or APAs could easily be like 30 points. Some xAPs are literally ocean liners and are worth about the same.
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ro5s posted:Would an upwards pointing gun actually be any use? That sounds like a nightmare to aim rather than just pointing your nose at something. They'd use a separate reticle/gunsight so its not so bad, and yeah it can be pretty useful, since you might be shooting at your target outside of its defensive armament.
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ro5s posted:Would an upwards pointing gun actually be any use? That sounds like a nightmare to aim rather than just pointing your nose at something. extremely useful for night fighters 1) you can stay below the enemy and hopefully out of his defensive guns and also out of sight 2) you don't have to climb quite so high 3) generally easier to acquire targets looking up at the planform of the plane silhouetted against the sky rather than trying to look at the cross section they had their own gunsights, it's just a fixed gun system exactly like the ones pointing forward. some later german models had automatic photovoltaic sights.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:extremely useful for night fighters Plus some aircraft had armor protection or were at least designed with attacks from 6 o'clock in mind. German night fighter pilots said that the upward firing guns were able to easily hit the fuel tanks/engine radiators of British bombers at a nice flat angle. From behind you had to also chop through the control surfaces and/or a nearly perpendicular wing.
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   Tankers! Shame one escapes.  We then maul the Allies victory fleet.  Blood! Revenge!  Through all this the destroyers get out of position, and let the motorboats get some torpedoes into our battleship!  Of course, all this means they are a bit low on ammo for the actual bombardment.  Dawn see the motorboats still harassing the now wounded battleship, but now she can use her guns better.   Nothing but some recon killing in the air phase, but oh boy was that a sea phase!  Allied morale must be weakening.  She will make it.
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So will Kongo basically be out for the rest of the war? And having lost track, how many BB's do you have left in active service?
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Jobbo_Fett posted:They'd use a separate reticle/gunsight so its not so bad, and yeah it can be pretty useful, since you might be shooting at your target outside of its defensive armament. Also another side benefit. If the cannon is behind and above you the muzzle flash won't kill your night vision.
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That's some giant balls from the PT boats who just charged into a Japanese fleet and torpedoed a battleship
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ro5s posted:Would an upwards pointing gun actually be any use? That sounds like a nightmare to aim rather than just pointing your nose at something. The guns were pointed up at an angle, the intent being to approach from below and behind but out of view of the rear gunner on British heavy bombers. Once close enough to engage the unsuspecting straight flying bomber, the cannon would be fired in a long, surprising burst into the belly of the bomber, generally destroying it in one burst. It was very effective in that a lot of early losses were without the victim radioing they were under attack and the British were unaware of what was killing their night bombers for some time, assuming flak was taking them out.
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  Hey! Your not allowed to hit my ships!  Rabul is attacked in force.   Looks like there are still a few planes here.  Another normal day in mid 45.
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Jul 11, 2019 05:53
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10 July 1945 USS Haddo torpedoes the Japanese minesweeper W-27 near Tadosaki.
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Are you by chance still shipping planes *in* to Guadalcanal or have you canceled that? ... You seem to have lost more there than you had at Rabaul or Guam.
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Grey Hunter posted:Another normal day in mid 55. Japan still holds strong.
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1: How long until more action on your Western front? 2: Are you able to air drop supplies to them? Those troops had a pretty bad supply malus by the time they took the city, and did not capture much.
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  Hmm, who still has strikes ordered.  Just a day of bombing the same old targets.
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  Pagan is hit. The allies are using their new air superiority. Supplies are on their way to fix this!  We have a poor day over Rabaul.  Their operational losses make this a better day!  A wounded ship sinks.
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11 July 1945 Japanese destroyer Sakura is mined in Osaka harbor.
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  drat subs!  We flak up a liberator.  At least this is evens.  So I'm sending the carriers north towards Guam – to cover the incoming supply convoy. 
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  Some of my damaged battleships are back, so I sent them to Port Moresby as a coming home party.  What;s that? Their pranking the locals?  Oh those boys.  Another day of fighting.  This is why I need to send the carriers north!  A different convoy comes under attack.  A day of ups and downs – but it looks like one of those ships had some planes on it!  At least we sank more than we lost – this turn!
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You burned down Notre Dame. You monster.
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14 July 1945 Raiding near Hokkaido, TF38 air groups sink escorts No. 65 and 74 and escort destroyer Tachibana as well as severely damaging and grounding escort destroyer Yanagi. They also seriously disrupt the vital Hokkaido-Honshu coal traffic.
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  We flak up a night raid.  The Battleships have more fun.  A day strike hits our airfield. This is unheard of!  This is going badly today!   Take that you underwater stalker!  A poor day.  At least we took out a sub.
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The Manchukuo Garrison score has been climbing steadily the last year or two... improving unit TOE or is Grey secretly planning to invade Russia?
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Decoy Badger posted:The Manchukuo Garrison score has been climbing steadily the last year or two... improving unit TOE or is Grey secretly planning to invade Russia? Preparing for the inevitable...
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15 July 1945 The carrier sweep picks up escort No. 219 and minesweeper W-24.
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This should be the one time the combat model works in Grey's favor, though: the Soviets are stuck at the same glacial movement speed as everyone else. August Storm is flatly impossible for them to pull off.
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  The carriers arrive, but are not that efficient.  Then a Helldiver slips through the CAP and gets a hit! When I check the damage reports at the end, this is actually a near miss, and she has taken no damage. Phew!  Just stop bothering us!  That's a lot more air kills than I was expecting.  Lots of ships go sinky.
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Sortie the BBs!!
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Ron Jeremy posted:Sortie the BBs!!
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Ron Jeremy posted:Sortie the BBs!!
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16 July 1945 US subs sink the torpedo boat Kari and the gunboat Nankai (ex-Dutch minelayer Regulus) in the Indies.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Sortie the BBs!! Yeah! Quit loving around with the useless carriers and send the REAL capital ships out!
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Ron Jeremy posted:Sortie the BBs!! Detach the CA s and DDs from your carrier group and Rebase them to Guam Sortie the CAs, sortie the destroyers, sortie the BBs and at least change the cap range to 0 . Do Anything else then putting zero nightfighters on carriers near an enemy airbase !
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  Take that!  The numbers are good, but the impact is lacking.  The Junk carriers have been told to mess up their airfield.  The CAP does its job and drives off the enemy attack.  We are messing them up in the air!  He he he.
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  I blow Buna up for some fun.  Then there is the traditional post-bombardment sinking of the LCTs.  We lose some planes trying to sink a destroyer.  These guys get no air cover.  In the afternoon, its right back to heavy losses.   My men have finally managed to march forward, and as expected, the second line is nowhere near as well defended.  The air losses swing to their favour.  The sea continues to be mine though. In another timeline, Japan surrendered today. This is now my longest LP
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Wow I cant believe its been that long
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How effective are carriers at anti-submarine ops? Does sticking an escort carrier into a convoy have a good chance of fending off/destroying any would-be attackers?
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Grey Hunter posted:In another timeline, Japan surrendered today. This is now my longest LP  I seriously wonder if the allies will get around to nuking something in this game. And where will they drop them.
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I bet it will be Guam
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Volmarias posted:I bet it will be Guam Ndeni, but only after the Kiwis have landed
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