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David Corbett posted:Vaguely wondering now if GH could've pulled off an autovictory if he'd attacked India rather than wasted his time and manpower trying to put down the nascent zombie apocalypse in Chungking Nah, he would have been stopped cold the second his forces hit an armored division, the Japanese ToE just isn't good enough to deal with those. Although this being the AI they've probably kept all of their non-Indian Commonwealth units in Karachi or something.
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David Corbett posted:Vaguely wondering now if GH could've pulled off an autovictory if he'd attacked India rather than wasted his time and manpower trying to put down the nascent zombie apocalypse in Chungking Best way for Japan to autovictory is to take Australia and more of the DEI. I've never seen anyone pull off a big Indian campaign outside of taking Celyon to gently caress with the British.
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24 July 1945 Halsey's Third Fleet launches a large-scale attack on the main Japanese naval anchorage at Kure, sinking the battleship Hyuga, fleet carrier Amagi, and cruiser Tone in shallow water reminiscent of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The British Pacific Fleet, relegated to a supporting role in this revenge story, cripples the escort carrier Kaiyo. Northeast of Luzon, the destroyer escort USS Underhill becomes the only warship to be sunk by Kaiten in a confused back and forth engagement in which she rammed one Kaiten and was struck by another. The resulting explosions detonated the DE's boilers, tearing her in two and killing about half the crew. It's been awhile, but minesweeping is still a terrible job. This time it's HMS Squirrel, which is scuttled after striking a mine in the Gulf of Thailand.
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   Another sub pops up and sinks a ship.   The battleships are off to pay another visit to Port Moresby. One the way they come under attack.  Another day, another air raid.   Another unit bites the dust.   The Allies continue to get better in the air. This would be worrying if it was not mid 1945. 
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  Audible gulp.  UNLEASH HELL!  We bring down a liberator. They've not sent liberators here in a while.   We get a hit on a ship. Nice for one of our subs to do something.  The 5th Indian division arrives, and our men run into them head first, taking heavy losses. I need to rest them up now before beginning the attacks once more.  I'm actually surprised the AI thought to reinforce its position in India. That's a lot more thinks than I thought it was capable of! 
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  Now their going after the escorts....  We get evens on this raid.  A nice dull day – but the battleships are going back in tomorrow!
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Did you capture a lot of supplies at Silchar? It seems like you haven't had the no-supply malus for a few days.
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holy gently caress how many planes do the allies have at Port Moresby is that where the daily Rabaul raids are based?
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Jul 27, 2019 20:28
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Under 300 plane points behind. A few more bombardment missions like that and you could get there.
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Jul 27, 2019 20:48
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Destroyed on field, 19, operational losses, 9. It would be nice if, just once, shelling the airfield would just utterly demolish it. Is it possible to shell PM, Buna, and Lae simultaneously, enough to get your own bombers to start making suppression runs?
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Jul 27, 2019 22:56
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That should eat supplies like a fucker though, that's getting on for 1000 engines worth of planes needing repairs. e - maybe only 800, I forgot 36 & 37s are only two engined.
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I think the AI gets to ignore that or magic supplies out of thin air or something? These airfield shellings would be hell on a human player but I think the AI gets to cheat around it.
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Jul 27, 2019 23:16
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Surprised the AI isn't doing like round the clock 300 B-29 raids on Rabaul. Presuming they'd have enough supplies there to do so nearly indefinitely, only lose 1-2 bombers a raid, and probably have enough aviation field support to repair any damaged in a couple days. How goes the fighter situation on Guam and Rabaul? Have enough fighters there and they on max upgrade priority and shipping in replacements? And I guess is it worth it to take a lot of the highly experienced pilots to put them into training to help boost your starting pilot status? Particularly for the IJN which seems to go through their air groups each raid..
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Jul 28, 2019 00:25
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Probably more important than the numbers of aircraft destroyed and damaged is the "Airbase hits 34, Runway hits 54."
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Madurai posted:Probably more important than the numbers of aircraft destroyed and damaged is the "Airbase hits 34, Runway hits 54." Again, they've likely got so many supplies that it was probably fixed in an hour.
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Volmarias posted:Again, they've likely got so many supplies that it was probably fixed in an hour. They just drive the bulldozer around to flatten the wrecked planes and make a new runway
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Jul 28, 2019 02:38
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Steel plate runway is now aluminum in 54 places.
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Pirate Radar posted:They just drive the bulldozer around to flatten the wrecked planes and make a new runway That's probably faster than trying to fix the old one. 54 hits on the runway itself from 8-, 14- and 16-inchers? That runway must look like something out of WWI pictures of Verdun or the Somme. Supplies isn't really the bottleneck most likely, it's more likely the number of construction and base units they have around to actually fix up that mess that's gonna slow things down.
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25 July 1945 HMS Stubborn torpedoes patrol boat No. 2 east of Soerabaja. 26 July 1945 Minesweeper HMS Vestal goes down to a kamikaze over by Thailand.
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Magni posted:That's probably faster than trying to fix the old one. 54 hits on the runway itself from 8-, 14- and 16-inchers? That runway must look like something out of WWI pictures of Verdun or the Somme. There won't be a lot of duds and delay-fuzed bombs hiding around though, so they can start bulldozing faster. I think.
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The AI will also just magic it back into perfect service.
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Jul 28, 2019 14:58
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Volmarias posted:The AI will also just magic it back into perfect service. Things like this is why I'm no longer prepared to fight it out for another year.
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Are you going to call it on 9 August?
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:Are you going to call it on 9 August? see, this kind of thing is why england's greatest prime minister was lord palmerston 
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  Good morning Port Moresby!  This is your reminder who is winning this war!   We take more hits from their bombers.  And look at that – we're now less than 300 points behind the Allies in plane losses.  Another good day for the battleships.
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Jul 28, 2019 20:17
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Grey if you do quit the LP early (and you should) please end it with something funny, like sailing an invasion force into Sydney harbor
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He's already marching half a million men through the jungles of eastern India to try and take Calcutta what more could you ask?
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Accidentally marching though Indiana instead
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28 July 1945 Round two of the strikes on Kure comes in. By this point the heavy units of the IJN are essentially immobilized due to lack of fuel and pose little threat to combined Allied fleets. The battleships Haruna and Ise go down in shallow water along with the cruiser Oyodo. Aoba, another cruiser, sinks inside the dockyard. Other casualties are the escort destroyer Nashi (which would later be raised and serve in the JMSDF) and escorts Nos. 6, 30, and 45 (sunk or crippled by RN aircraft).
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Literally two days of Battleship bombardment and.. upwards of 500 planes damaged and there are barely 15 or so destroyed on field. Andd.. Probably the field will be completely repaired in a day or so and then the massed bombing raids will continue.
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wedgekree posted:Literally two days of Battleship bombardment and.. upwards of 500 planes damaged and there are barely 15 or so destroyed on field. I remember reading somewhere, I think earlier in this thread, that plane damaged numbers are calculated off of individual hits - so if 3 battleships pour 3 volleys into a field and shrapnel from each volley and each ship hits the same plane, you end up with +9 planes damaged, and that's why the numbers are so high.
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Flavius Aetass posted:see, this kind of thing is why england's greatest prime minister was lord palmerston My bad, 15 August.
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If the war keeps going, does the US get the last two Iowas that were historically cancelled?
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Pirate Radar posted:If the war keeps going, does the US get the last two Iowas that were historically cancelled? I just want to see some of the Alaska BC's.
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  We're able to protect our ships today.  Well, until the Helldivers come in – we make them pay though!  Right, I need to do something about those buggers on Rota.  You will be avenged!
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  You see, I was toying with you, I could have destroyed you at any time, but it was fun, killing your pilots, milking your planes. But then you crossed the line.  These guys run late, and pay the price.  Their return strike causes them more losses.  The Helldivers fare no better.  Seems like they have empties Kohima to hold me here.  Lets see what the can get into the air tomorrow.
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So the Allies have.. A hundred and seventy thousand men available to throw at you in India? Ow. How ar eyour supplies doing down there?
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RIP to those guys who mounted up their P39 Aircobras to face modern zeroes.
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wedgekree posted:So the Allies have.. A hundred and seventy thousand men available to throw at you in India? Ow. How ar eyour supplies doing down there? No, that was an allied bombardment attack: Grey's the defending force in that screenshot. Allies have 30,800 to Grey's 170k.
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Ron Jeremy posted:RIP to those guys who mounted up their P39 Aircobras to face modern zeroes. 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 was crap in the Pacific, but at least it got used to good effect by the Soviets.
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