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I spent two hours messing with my audio settings this morning, then did a quick Castle Story run to test them out in the wild. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8y3eopUoV4 Can people let me know if this sounds any better at their end? Thanks!
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Grey Hunter posted:I spent two hours messing with my audio settings this morning, then did a quick Castle Story run to test them out in the wild. Sounds great. Mic is clear and the mix is well balanced. Noise gate is obvious but not clipping your speech.
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Oct 8, 2018 14:19
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glynnenstein posted:Sounds great. Mic is clear and the mix is well balanced. Noise gate is obvious but not clipping your speech. Cool, a bit more playing with the noise gate and I may well be there!
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Oct 8, 2018 14:53
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   The franks do poorly today.  Erm, were you guys not told about the carrier to the south?  Come one guys!  For the love of.....  This is bit better.   This is a drop in the ocean, but it's got to be doing some disruption!   It's a poor day all around for our fighters.   Yeah, not a good day. Looks like the Guam lot are not that skilled. I wonder why. *NOTE FOR AMERICANS THIS IS WHAT WE ENGLISH CALL SARCASM*
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Oct 8, 2018 18:27
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It was such a bad day that Grey is hiding the score screen from us.
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habeasdorkus posted:It was such a bad day that Grey is hiding the score screen from us. I've never felt so immersed by this thread before
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Oct 8, 2018 19:03
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8 October 1944 HMS Mulgrave meets the usual fate of minesweepers by striking a mine off Normandy. Beached, salvaged, towed back to England, but not repaired.
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Oct 8, 2018 19:24
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:I've never felt so immersed by this thread before We the audience should divide into army and navy factions and compete to influence emperor grey.
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Oct 8, 2018 19:28
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Ron Jeremy posted:We the audience should divide into army and navy factions and compete to influence emperor grey. Buddy, we'd need separate threads to contain the animosity I now feel towards anyone in the IJA faction.
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Oct 8, 2018 19:39
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yeah, a combat result like this can only be caused by 2 things: lousy pilots lousy settings
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Oct 8, 2018 19:47
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Franks are Army planes, obviously they wouldn't help the Navy by attacking an Allied carrier.
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They probably saw that storm in the morning and decided it wasn't happening.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:8 October 1944 It's crazy what a high percentage of these losses are little support craft. I guess it makes sense, since there are probably a lot more of them than the capital ships. I wonder what the man-month-casualty rate was on a minesweeper versus, say, a cruiser.
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Grey Hunter posted:I spent two hours messing with my audio settings this morning, then did a quick Castle Story run to test them out in the wild.
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Cartoon posted:Overall a big improvement. The particular characteristics of your voice make it harder than it would otherwise be to pick out syllables. This is a common problem with the male voice. Emphasising frequencies above 5K (You can do a hard shelve at 10K) will help to brighten and clarify the areas that are being muffled. Why yes. indubitably. You lost me. I'm using Voicemeeter to alter things, are you saying I should raise the pitch of my voice a bit? I've got a slight lisp that kinda muffles what I say - there is nothing I can do about this oc, but I'm open to any tips on how to alter it. I get why there is a "youtube voice" now - that high pitched sound is easer for people to understand. but would wreack my vocal courds in seven seconds. "HEY HEY HEY! I'm Grey hunter and welcome to my grognard you.. cough cough cough." 
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Grey Hunter posted:You lost me. I'm using Voicemeeter to alter things, are you saying I should raise the pitch of my voice a bit? I've got a slight lisp that kinda muffles what I say - there is nothing I can do about this oc, but I'm open to any tips on how to alter it.  Leave Bass and Middle alone to start with. Turn the one marked 'high' up as much as you can stand. It will do the "Youtube voice" as much as possible with simple EQ. Mess with the others till you have a good sound but leaving them at 0 plus or minus should be OK.
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Oct 9, 2018 08:44
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Ron Jeremy posted:We the audience should divide into army and navy factions and compete to influence emperor grey. the obvious next step up from goon-v-goon games of Combat Mission will be a goon-v-goon campaign of War in the Pacific
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gradenko_2000 posted:the obvious next step up from goon-v-goon games of Combat Mission will be a goon-v-goon campaign of War in the Pacific So, take three months to build up planning for the invasion of a random Pacific island, two hundred supply convoys back and forth, coordination of 20-30 escort craft doing ASW sweeps across twenty hexes for 90 days individually each day, ensure proper air support, naval bombardment, supply bases in range.. ... I want to see this done. Dangit. Who breaks first? Goons or the Game?
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Oct 9, 2018 09:27
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wedgekree posted:So, take three months to build up planning for the invasion of a random Pacific island, two hundred supply convoys back and forth, coordination of 20-30 escort craft doing ASW sweeps across twenty hexes for 90 days individually each day, ensure proper air support, naval bombardment, supply bases in range.. I wasn't entirely joking, mind you: WITP supports running two-or-three-day turn cycles, so it doesn't have to be a daily commitment as long as Grey gives us the per-day combat reports. You would just have to work out how broad or specific the command structure would be. Alternatively, Pacific War, WITP's predecessor, plays out at one week per turn
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Cartoon posted:What I'm suggesting is called EQing or equalization. See attached picture: Ta! I'll mess with that later!
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pthighs posted:It's crazy what a high percentage of these losses are little support craft. I guess it makes sense, since there are probably a lot more of them than the capital ships. I read one of those memoir/schlocky novel type things recently of a guy who started the war on a minesweeper doing donuts off the coast and he makes it sound like fuckin Verdun which I thought was to spice things up a bit but apparently it might be less exaggerated than I initially thought. Like a plethora of OSHA stuff, a friendly spot of fragging the rear end in a top hat skipper, and a couple airstrikes friendly and enemy.
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Well, war is one of those things that is hard to quantify - its the most intense time of anyones life, but no one fights in every battle/location, so its hard to say what is the most dangerous. I do remember reading in A Bridge To Far of a German solider saying the fighting in Arnhem was worse than he had seen in Stalingrad - but you have no idea if he was part of the house to house there, or on the "quieter" fringes.
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Grey Hunter posted:
I'm catching back up on the thread after not reading it the past two years. When I saw this I got the biggest grin on my face. A day worth remembering. The week before this was pretty amazing too.
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   Curse you!  We strike a task force that is to close to Rabaul, but get no hits.  These guys commit suicide.  This is a better strike.  No attacks on the carriers today. Reports still have them south of Guam though. 
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Thirteen Betties go out and seventeen come back damaged.
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So as a reminder to everyone, LSDs (Landing Ship, Dock) are effectively a mobile dock, and thus extremely helpful for amphibious operations. Additionally, unlike many ships, the US actually has a rather limited number of them (at this point in the war they have 11 total, with the next not available until March '45)... and here's yet another one sailing around with basically no escort whatsover. This makes 8/8 of the initial class of LSD the US fielded that have either been sunk (one of them), or damaged (mostly heavily). As well as two more from the follow on class, of which one of them was also heavily damaged. Incidentally, Jobbo. I was checking the Ship Database, and then referencing online to get total numbers, and the LSDs seem to be classed wrong. They're all currently labeled as Belle Grove-class, but everything I'm seeing puts Belle Grove, and most of the rest for that matter, as part of the Ashland-class - which makes sense, given USS Ashland is LSD-1. The two exceptions being Casa Grande and Rushmore, which I'm seeing listed as part of the follow on Casa Grande-class. Mainly curious if it's just an error, or if you're pulling from other source (which I'd like to look at if so - I'm always up for more ship books).
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overmind2000 posted:Thirteen Betties go out and seventeen come back damaged. Look if you have a better way to boost production I’m sure Grey would be glad to hear it.
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aphid_licker posted:I read one of those memoir/schlocky novel type things recently of a guy who started the war on a minesweeper doing donuts off the coast and he makes it sound like fuckin Verdun which I thought was to spice things up a bit but apparently it might be less exaggerated than I initially thought. Like a plethora of OSHA stuff, a friendly spot of fragging the rear end in a top hat skipper, and a couple airstrikes friendly and enemy. I'm going to recommend Subchaser by Edward Stafford. It's rarely exciting, other than the Sicily show, but it's a great account of 30 mostly reservists living on a 110' wooden ship. Try it as a very well written palate cleanser. https://www.amazon.com/Subchaser-Bluejacket-Paperbacks-Edward-Stafford-ebook/dp/B009SC1RZ8
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Lord Koth posted:So as a reminder to everyone, LSDs (Landing Ship, Dock) are effectively a mobile dock, and thus extremely helpful for amphibious operations. Additionally, unlike many ships, the US actually has a rather limited number of them (at this point in the war they have 11 total, with the next not available until March '45)... and here's yet another one sailing around with basically no escort whatsover. This makes 8/8 of the initial class of LSD the US fielded that have either been sunk (one of them), or damaged (mostly heavily). As well as two more from the follow on class, of which one of them was also heavily damaged. Of the 11 the US would have by now: 1 is confirmed Sunk 3 are assumed Sunk 3 last reported heavy fires and heavy damage 2 are damaged and 1 is okay As for the Ship Database, I am pulling straight from the game.
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Lord Koth posted:So as a reminder to everyone, LSDs (Landing Ship, Dock) are effectively a mobile dock, and thus extremely helpful for amphibious operations. In game terms, what advantages do LSDs have exactly? In what way are they better than APAs? In my game I have only used them once and I wouldn’t say I noticed much of a difference, though I’m sure there’s something going on behind the scenes like the troops get less disruption or something.
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overmind2000 posted:Thirteen Betties go out and seventeen come back damaged. How you goin' get fired on your day off?
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  I clear some transports out south of Lea. I also take out a PT boat, but lose the shot.  The Betties hit another densely packed troop ship.  The air war seems to be swinging their way again!  The Essex has a friend, and a lot of flak!  Attack. The. Carriers. (I have checked their settings btw.)  I can't break the flak around their carriers, but I just need a couple of lucky strikes – or for the planes at Guam to get in on the action!  Taking out the Baxter put me into positive points for today though!
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More dudes died on that troop ship than at Pearl Harbor or D-Day. GG AI, GG.
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Is it just an idiosyncrasy of the game or were the allies really sailing a transport filled with 3.6k ground troops alone into enemy waters with no escorts anywhere
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This is the WitP AI, it's having a genius moment when it manages to only feed a division or so of troops into certain pointless death per month.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Is it just an idiosyncrasy of the game or were the allies really sailing a transport filled with 3.6k ground troops alone into enemy waters with no escorts anywhere It’s just the AI being stupid. There’s no reason any of the ships we are seeing should be anywhere near Rabaul, let alone something as valuable as an amphibious assault ship like that.
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The IJA and IJN might be rivals, but the USN is actually murdering the army way better than we are.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Of the 11 the US would have by now: That's only 10 ships  . One hasn't actually been spotted yet.For the other thing... despite the obsessiveness with details this game seems to go into, I can actually see them folding the Casa Grande-class LSDs into the initial class for simplicity. No clue why the Ashland-class is mislabeled by them though - USS Ashland was laid down, launched, and commissioned first, so it's not even the situation you had with one or two other classes where the second ship ended up in service first, or the Astoria/New Orleans-class screwiness. aphid_licker posted:More dudes died on that troop ship than at Pearl Harbor or D-Day. GG AI, GG. What's even more insane? That ship apparently only has a capacity of just barely over 2,000 people, including the crew (roughly 1500 troops, 500 crew). So the genius AI either massively, MASSIVELY overloaded the ship, somehow, or it's yet more screwy WitP combat mechanics.
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To be fair if the AI didn't sail ships past Rabaul it wouldn't be worth it basing a significant bomber force on Rabaul and those bombers would be eating troop ships wherever it was hot instead. Not as many and not as badly defended, but everything Grey has done is still possible with aggressive players on both sides.
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