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TheDemon posted:Most of that escort and the CAP were KI-84s. And hey, no P-39s shot down while on defense at least. The P-39/-63 campaigns in IL2 Sturmovik are first class flight-sim fun. The P-63 around the Black Sea gave a great mix of A2A, A2G, and A2S missions in a pretty solid aircraft. The P-39 was so successful against German bombers with that phat 37mm that the P-63 was produced. e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pal8pHJLw9A mllaneza fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Jul 31, 2019 |
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   The skies are clear of enemy planes today.  It's my turn to ruin runways and put down planes.   I remember when Liberators scared me.   Yeah, I'm in control over the Marianus now. 
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Tomorrow is a very big day. Good luck, GH.
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The Soviets activate on August 9th correct? I’m curious what actions, if any, the AI will take with the Russian units at that point to make things interesting.
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29 July 1945 Okinawa claims its final picket destroyer: USS Callaghan sinks after a kamikaze hit. 30 July 1945 This is a historic day, on which we bear witness to one of the US Navy's greatest disasters and, in the same incident, the final Allied warship sunk in World War II. Four days ago, USS Indianapolis, a Portland-class Treaty cruiser launched in 1931 that had served as Raymond Spruance's Fifth Fleet flagship, delivered the uranium-235 and other components of the atomic bomb Little Boy to the island of Tinian in the Marianas, setting speed records in the process. Two days later, two days ago, she departed the Marianas for Leyte in the Philippines to undergo training. Today, July 30, approximately 15 minutes after midnight, Indianapolis was fatally struck by torpedoes launched by the Japanese submarine I-58. In just 12 minutes she rolled over and dived for the ocean floor, taking some 300 men with her. Nearly 900 therefore remained in the water, adrift, with little survival gear. Indianapolis slipped through the cracks in Navy record-keeping, and it was not until August 2 that anyone else learned of the sinking, when a PBY and Ventura chanced to fly overhead on routine patrol. By the time rescue arrived, only 316 men remained of a crew of 1195. The loss of the Indianapolis remains the single greatest loss of life from a single ship in US Navy history. In slightly more mundane news, the destroyer Hatsushimo sinks to a mine strike near Maizuru and the escorts Okinawa and No. 2 are sunk by carrier aircraft nearby. 31 July 1945 A British midget submarine sinks the heavy cruiser Takao in Singapore Dockyard.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:
Uh, where are you getting that Takao sunk? All I was aware of (or seeing) was Operation Struggle further crippling the seaworthiness an already crippled ship that was just being used as an AA platform in the harbor, and continued fulfilling that role afterwards too. Not even a matter of the harbor being so shallow the deck could remain above water either - the ship just settled in the water a bit but remained afloat. Though at the very least the Brits didn't actually lose any lives in that completely pointless task, unlike the attacks on Kure.
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RIP Quint
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mllaneza posted:The P-39/-63 campaigns in IL2 Sturmovik are first class flight-sim fun. The P-63 around the Black Sea gave a great mix of A2A, A2G, and A2S missions in a pretty solid aircraft. The P-39 was so successful against German bombers with that phat 37mm that the P-63 was produced. supposedly the armament was a huge pain in the dick because the muzzle velocity of the M4 cannon was like 2/3 of the Browning M2s, pretty hard to zero and with quite a bit of dispersion around the zero point
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Lord Koth posted:Uh, where are you getting that Takao sunk? All I was aware of (or seeing) was Operation Struggle further crippling the seaworthiness an already crippled ship that was just being used as an AA platform in the harbor, and continued fulfilling that role afterwards too. Not even a matter of the harbor being so shallow the deck could remain above water either - the ship just settled in the water a bit but remained afloat. I've been going off David Brown, Warship Losses of World War Two, which has a day-by-day reckoning. He says "Sunk in Singapore Dockyard (laid up damaged – see 23 October 1944) by charges laid by crew of RN midget submarine XE-3." But I agree, that does seem to be an error.
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Once Grey finishes overrunning Assam and Darjeeling, he just needs to take Ceylon and the British will be forced to surrender on account of inadequate tea reserves.
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  I'm through playing, now we just finish them.  Here they come again.  Sigh, same old.  I wonder if anything interesting happens today.  Bring it on!  The data from the last game stops here, so the graphs get a bit weird.  Guess who got nukes.  Operation silk road sees the number of based the Allies hold actually decrease.  I think this one really shows how poorly the AI is performing.  Aircraft losses close to just 240.  The over two to one losses the Allied army has taken in the war is stunning – they managed to lose more than the AI did!  When was the last time we saw and Allied carrier? Though it should be said my own carriers are not cutting the mustard due to pilot losses.  With 2.5x the number of ships lost and 3x the value, the Allied navy has left me in control. What does this mean? I will be, unless the Soviets prove interesting, be accepting the Allied surrender in one months time.
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Not a step back! Er...I mean, banzai?
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Moon Slayer posted:ronpaul_itshappening.gif YEEEEESS. 
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:supposedly the armament was a huge pain in the dick because the muzzle velocity of the M4 cannon was like 2/3 of the Browning M2s, pretty hard to zero and with quite a bit of dispersion around the zero point Yeah, the big cannon and the .50s are really, truly separate. The 37mm is pretty high velocity, but it's still a case of lobbing the shell in an arc. The convergence setting for the cannon is going to be where the shell comes back down and crosses the level plane, going down in its arc.
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Broken Box posted:kirov reporting I don’t even know if this is what you were referencing but Hell March immediately started playing in my head.
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Akratic Method posted:I don’t even know if this is what you were referencing but Hell March immediately started playing in my head. That, or the Apocalypse Tank's "It is day of JUDGEMENT" seems appropriate. Onward, Grey! Show that communism is just as weak and heartless as capitalism!
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How are your points and the AI Japanese points about the same, since you're ahead on what seems like every metric compared to the AI Japan.
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The first war was a bloodbath.
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Akratic Method posted:I don’t even know if this is what you were referencing but Hell March immediately started playing in my head. Red Alert 2 - Kirov airships
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Beach all your unused crusiers on the coastline of Korea in hull-down position. Not much else is gonna be able to damage those IS-2s 
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I love how something as important as the Soviet Union declaring war on you is relegated to a single line at the end of the intelligence report. Never change WiTP. Never change.
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Chunky Monkey posted:I love how something as important as the Soviet Union declaring war on you is relegated to a single line at the end of the intelligence report. Never change WiTP. Never change. IIRC, the atomic bomb was merely an all caps last time around.
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Right - plans for ending this thing. Of course, I don't want this to go out on a whimper - I'm board guys, see you later, so here is the plan. I'm going to move the carriers and battleships back to Japan, then give them a week or so to replenish and re-arm. Rabaul is a bit low on supplies due to the lost convoys. The I'm going to sail to Pearl Harbour. My reasoning is this - the Allies are losing on every front, and a second attack on Pearl Harbor will break American morale - they have lost huge numbers of men and ships for no gain in four years. even an unsuccessful raid will force them to the peace table. For the Japanese, losing the fleet to win the war is a worthwhile trade. This is not realistic of course, but will have to do for this LP.
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I know there are AARs where a skilled Japan player manages to sail over to the West Coast and mess with American production/supplies there, but have there been any times when people skilled at the land game (insofar as you can be good at it) withstood the Soviet invasion of Manchuria?
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Grey Hunter posted:I'm going to move the carriers and battleships back to Japan, then give them a week or so to replenish and re-arm. Rabaul is a bit low on supplies due to the lost convoys. I think the Yamato firing main gun armament on Pearl Harbour could be defined as "war winning".
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Grey Hunter posted:Shame she's sunk then. Good thing my Mutsu is there to take the lead then. TehKeen posted:You'll be lucky if she doesn't randomly explode in port for no reason on the first turn. Hah!
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Arcturas posted:How are your points and the AI Japanese points about the same, since you're ahead on what seems like every metric compared to the AI Japan. if you look, Grey-as-the-Allies also lost a lot more men and materiel than the AI-as-the-Allies, so doing better also came at a much higher cost.
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Grey Hunter posted:Shame she's sunk then. Well it's a good thing no one's told the IJA about that!
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Pirate Radar posted:I know there are AARs where a skilled Japan player manages to sail over to the West Coast and mess with American production/supplies there, but have there been any times when people skilled at the land game (insofar as you can be good at it) withstood the Soviet invasion of Manchuria? One player decided to invade the Soviet Union straight off. It was an interesting move.
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in the non-Admiral's Edition version of the game it was a legitimate strategy to invade the USSR right off the bat because the land combat model was even more broken at the time to the point where the Japanese would have a good shot at succeeding
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The reason we haven't seen Allied Carriers is because their intelligence somehow missed the sinking of the Yamato and the papers have turned the ship into a Flying Dutchman responsible for every unexplained sinking and mishap in the Pacific. They're basically chasing the fourth of three pigs and losing the war for it.
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gradenko_2000 posted:if you look, Grey-as-the-Allies also lost a lot more men and materiel than the AI-as-the-Allies, so doing better also came at a much higher cost. GatA also lost a lot of ships properly pushing back Japan instead of sitting in San Diego like the Allies in this game. Grey: if any of the KB is left after Pearl Harbor Harder, is Vladivostok worth bombarding? Oh, and actually sink a dang ship this time. Third time's the charm. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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Grey Hunter posted:I'm going to move the carriers and battleships back to Japan, then give them a week or so to replenish and re-arm. Rabaul is a bit low on supplies due to the lost convoys. Hell yes.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Let's make this end the way it began.
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