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Grey Hunter posted:
This timeline's John Thach came up with some sort of ThunderboltDeathBall tactic that allows Jugs to win against 10 to 1 numbers.
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Next WiTP LP should be goon v goon where one group of goons plays as the IJA and the other as the IJN.
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Dec 7, 2018 00:03
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there's a bunch of us doing Guadacanal as IJN and IJA vs USN/USA/CW, come point and laugh!
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Dec 7, 2018 02:13
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6 December 1944 HMS Bullen, a frigate, breaks in half off the Scottish coast after suffering a homing torpedo strike amidships from U-775.
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Dec 7, 2018 04:22
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Pershing posted:Seconding the request to give an update on the progress of the India army. How close are they? Due to a typo they're actually marching to Indiana. It'll take a while though.
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Dec 7, 2018 04:33
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Chunky Monkey posted:Next WiTP LP should be goon v goon where one group of goons plays as the IJA and the other as the IJN. I'm actually running a Goon v Goon WITP LP right now. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3874693
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Dec 7, 2018 11:00
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Saros posted:I'm actually running a Goon v Goon WITP LP right now. I've been digging it btw.
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Dec 7, 2018 16:58
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:6 December 1944 how do homing torpedoes work in this time period by the way?
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Dec 7, 2018 20:35
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Mans posted:how do homing torpedoes work in this time period by the way? Acoustic homing, I think. Attracted to the noise of the engines/screws.
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Dec 7, 2018 20:50
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Pershing posted:Seconding the request to give an update on the progress of the India army. How close are they? By now, continental drift has brought the Indian subcontinent a few millimeters closer to Chungking.
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Dec 7, 2018 22:12
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Mans posted:how do homing torpedoes work in this time period by the way? Basically, the torpedo has a small array of hydrophones in the nose and a simple device to turn the control surfaces in the direction of the strongest signal. The torpedo relies on passive acoustic homing, meaning it tends to zero in on the fast—and therefore noisy—screws of escorts. That's why you see so many destroyers and frigates in these reports.
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Dec 8, 2018 03:43
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   Poor Bettys.  We continue to spar off Rabaul.   And that's another year done!
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Dec 8, 2018 05:02
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:Basically, the torpedo has a small array of hydrophones in the nose and a simple device to turn the control surfaces in the direction of the strongest signal. The torpedo relies on passive acoustic homing, meaning it tends to zero in on the fast—and therefore noisy—screws of escorts. That's why you see so many destroyers and frigates in these reports. That's why one of the attempts at submarine countermeasures during WWII was the acoustic decoy. The British version was "Foxer", the Canadian was "CAT", and the US version was "Fanfare". they were towed a few hundred meters behind the ship, and they were just devices intended to make as much noise as possible, in the hopes that it would confuse the torpedo and make the torpedo home on it instead until the torpedo ran out of fuel. As a way to counter things like that, later torpedoes, starting in the 60s, supplemented their acoustic and sonar homing with wire guidance, which you still find with modern torpedoes. The torpedo, when fired, is attached by a wire to the ship that fired it. That lets the ship manually override and steer the torpedo itself, so long as the wire is still attached.
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Dec 8, 2018 06:40
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not quite, the 'Lerche' torpedo was an experimental active, wire-guided weapon, but never quite worked as intended. Furthermore, wire-guided weapons were sometimes used from fixed torpedo-emplacedments on the shore and guided via optical tracking. A simple control circuit merely requires an op-amp to guide an torpedo towards the loudest source of noise. https://hackaday.com/2014/03/28/a-mini-op-amp-based-line-following-robot/
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Dec 8, 2018 17:54
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7 December 1944 Kamikaze attacks in Ormoc Bay claim the destroyer USS Mahan and fast transport USS Ward. In an ironic twist, exactly three years earlier Ward—then still configured as a destroyer—had fired the opening shots at Pearl Harbor while engaging a Japanese midget submarine attempting to enter the anchorage. Just north of Leyte, another fast transport, the Japanese T-11, was sunk by US land-based aircraft.
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Dec 9, 2018 04:08
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  Our ships are out hunting.   Down goes a Superfortress.  Some quiet days.  Tanker.
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Dec 9, 2018 05:51
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A Superfortress getting downed by Japanese flak has got to be the perfect metaphor for how the war has been going for the Allies so far.
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Dec 9, 2018 06:01
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Grey really needs to get some better planes or pilots or something
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Dec 9, 2018 06:08
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McNally posted:Acoustic homing, I think. Attracted to the noise of the engines/screws. OpenlyEvilJello posted:Basically, the torpedo has a small array of hydrophones in the nose and a simple device to turn the control surfaces in the direction of the strongest signal. The torpedo relies on passive acoustic homing, meaning it tends to zero in on the fast—and therefore noisy—screws of escorts. That's why you see so many destroyers and frigates in these reports. That's really interesting, thanks! Is it me or are the Allies really quiet right now? Outside of air raids I don't think there's a single offensive anywhere. Shouldn't the brits be pushing in the continent by now?
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Dec 9, 2018 12:53
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  I'm just dropping some more supplies off here.  We've not had a sniper hit in a while!  Another superfortress bites the dust.  The guys in Hong Kong are getting good at shootng down Superforts! 
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Dec 10, 2018 05:24
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How are the Japanese planes downing Superforts? I didn't think they could /fly/ that high. Still nice. guess you might want to send some of your extra Tojos to Hong Kong if the USAAF is goint to be sending in wheedly amounts of strategic bombers.
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Dec 10, 2018 05:38
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wedgekree posted:How are the Japanese planes downing Superforts? I didn't think they could /fly/ that high. Still nice. guess you might want to send some of your extra Tojos to Hong Kong if the USAAF is goint to be sending in wheedly amounts of strategic bombers. Based on the screenshot it looks like the Superforts are flyinh at 14000 ft.
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Dec 10, 2018 05:52
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Yeah, for whatever insane reason the AI seems to mostly be flying them below 15,000ft, which is well within the effective interception altitude of Japanese aircraft.
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Dec 10, 2018 06:51
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So the superforts are being sent at Hong Kong in groups of 4-12 at low heights and without escort. ... Sure why not Is it worth it then to base a couple more Tojo squadrons there if you're going to be phasing them out then Grye just to get some easy kills and points?
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wedgekree posted:How are the Japanese planes downing Superforts? I didn't think they could /fly/ that high. Still nice. guess you might want to send some of your extra Tojos to Hong Kong if the USAAF is goint to be sending in wheedly amounts of strategic bombers. Superforts were able to do what they did historically because they flew at 10k feet at night Before they did that, they flew at like 30k feet (maybe higher?) in the day, which was outside the reach of IJ aircraft and flak, but resulted in bad bombing accuracy, especially when they discovered that that was where the jet stream started Curtis Le May correctly predicted that A. the IJ didn't have effective night fighters, and that they didn't have any effective flak at the 10k range band. The AI isn't doing this, which is why Grey is so much more successful.
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Dec 10, 2018 06:55
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Yeah, you get much above 15K in this game with level bombers and your accuracy becomes terrible.
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Dec 10, 2018 07:28
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Can we get a map of the real life battle lines overlaid with Grey's map as of December 7th 1944? I know the difference is drastic, especially in China, but the gods eye view would be really helpful.
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Dec 10, 2018 15:16
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  I pick off another troop convoy.  Then they move on to some cargo ships.  Kittyhawks are easy prey.  I do love my surface raiders. The carriers are one more resupply from being back up to strength.  He he he.
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Dec 10, 2018 19:24
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You didn’t just kill a troop convoy. That AGC is an amphibious command ship. The allies get like five of them, and they provide huge bonuses to amphibious assault when coupled with an amphibious force headquarters (which may well be on board, and which are also limited). Well done.
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Dec 10, 2018 19:40
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Japanese surface raiders are alive and well going into 1945  Do they get any substantial refits that would increase their effectiveness like radar and better (by Japanese standards) flak?
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Dec 10, 2018 19:55
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Velius posted:You didn’t just kill a troop convoy. That AGC is an amphibious command ship. The allies get like five of them, and they provide huge bonuses to amphibious assault when coupled with an amphibious force headquarters (which may well be on board, and which are also limited). Well done.
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Dec 10, 2018 20:21
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I think the Allies get maybe a dozen AGCs, but either way, a very good kill. The two AKAs (attack transports, extremely good for amphibious landings) are also a nice get.
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Dec 11, 2018 02:19
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Bold Robot posted:I think the Allies get maybe a dozen AGCs, but either way, a very good kill. The two AKAs (attack transports, extremely good for amphibious landings) are also a nice get. It lets the Allies land their base forces faster, stronger, more alive.
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Reuben Sandwich posted:IIRC, that is the 2nd or 3rd one GH sunk. pre:AGC Appalachian USA C2-S Blue Ridge-class Command Ship Damaged: HF, HD AGC Blue Ridge USA C2-S Blue Ridge-class Command Ship Sunk AGC Mount Olympus USA C2-S Blue Ridge-class Command Ship Damaged: HF, HD AGC Rocky Mount USA C2-S Blue Ridge-class Command Ship Damaged: HF, HD AGC Wasatch Damaged: HF, HD Jobbo_Fett fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Dec 11, 2018 |
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Dec 11, 2018 19:06
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  Jackpot! There are to many ships for my cruisers to sink each on individually, but some of these are going down!  We have a good days bombing here.   Disaster strikes as a mixed force of Allied carriers hits one of my troop convoys! This is a massacre, but thankfully a rare one!  The afternoon strike finishes the job – this may be my worse losses of the war so far! Also first sightings of the Avenger II's.  I'm not going to sugar coat it, that's 25,000 men lost, a whole division plus several support groups on their way to Manus. This is a hit. That said, its not weakened any defences, just cost lives – and points. Two whole ships survived in that task force. I've ordered the second task force to redirect. Lets hope they don't get hit!  That said, we're only down 78 points. For today.
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Dec 12, 2018 05:41
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What the gently caress
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Dec 12, 2018 05:47
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... Quiet days spent rearming are over. ... Also shouldn't you like evacuate Manus at this point Grey? That was like half your shipping and JEEBUS.
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Dec 12, 2018 05:49
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That sure was a roller coaster of an update 
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wedgekree posted:... Quiet days spent rearming are over. Yeah, the AI can take the losses but Grey can't.
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25,000 men and 500 artillery pieces. OW.
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