Grey Hunter posted:

Lord Koth posted:

Honestly, 27 shells per turret still seems incredibly low, especially given said ammo would need to be split between two, possibly three, types (Type 1 AP, Type 0 HE, possibly some Type 3 AA shells too). Assuming that number doesn't just refer to a single type of shell (in which case where the hell are the other ammo types listed?).

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Each mounting held 300 rounds with 180 rounds stored in two handling rooms on the rotating structure and the remaining 120 in shell rooms. The practice was to feed projectiles from the lower handling room until the supply was exhausted and then feed from the upper handling room.

Saint Celestine posted:

....torpedo? From say... a submarine? From say... a country the US is at war with?

Seems a lot more likely than a mine in the middle of the atlantic.

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At 0510 on 13 June, a large sheet of flame and dense smoke were seen rising from the Escanaba, though no explosion was heard by the other ships in the convoy. She sank at 0513, going down so quickly that she did not have time to send any distress signals. Storis and Raritan were ordered to investigate and rescue survivors while the rest of the convoy began zigzagging and steering evasive courses to avoid enemy submarines. Although Storis and Raritan were able to arrive on the scene within ten minutes, only two survivors and one body could be found. At 0715 the two vessels returned to the main body of the convoy, having rescued Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Melvin A. Baldwin and Seaman 1st Class Raymond F. O'Malley, Jr., and having found the body of LT Prause. The entire crew of 13 officers and 92 men was lost to the explosion or to rapid hypothermia in the 39 °F (4 °C) water with the exception of Baldwin and O'Malley, whose survival was attributed to their soaked clothing having frozen their unconscious bodies to floating debris, which prevented them from following their shipmates to the bottom.

The exact cause of the explosion could not be determined at the time, but was commonly attributed to a torpedo fired by one of several U-Boats which were in the area at the time. However, no U-Boats claimed the kill, and, according to Browning, it is now considered more probable that the cutter was sunk by a drifting mine.

A cunning stunt posted:

Man, every time the Kiddo Butai sorties out, I have to experience the emotional rollercoaster of elation at seeing my lucky ship in the list, followed by the disappointment of realizingd it's the APD and not the DD.

A cunning stunt posted:

Perhaps, but I suspect that the Shimakaze we're looking at now is the converted Minekaze-class destroyer from 1920, and not the advanced DD launched in 1943. In real life, the older ship would have been renamed by the time the war started.

Would anybody else be able to clarify?

Donkringel posted:

Can we get a link to that?

Jobbo_Fett posted:

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Bold Robot posted:

This was probably a bad decision but I picked up WitP during the sale. Out of curiosity, how long does the average turn take?

gradenko_2000 posted:

Five Japanese warships sunk in Battle of Leyte discovered

The Michishio, the Asagumo, the Yamagumo, the Fuso, and the Yamashiro

Triggerhappypilot posted:

...instead of doing the logical thing ... on the interface you get absolutely no explanation and have to rely on the spotty manual and the forums.

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You would not get me on a landing ship for love nor money.

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

Ok maybe all of this is a distraction and the carriers are taking the long way around through Suez and they'll show up in the East China Sea as part of a surprise attack? I don't know.

Also, I imagine the headlines back in the US read something like "Unemployment Rate Declining Yet Again!"

NGDBSS posted:

Which update was it? I skimmed the Distant Worlds portion but didn't spot anything relevant to that.

Danann posted:

The author of Japanese Destroyer Captain will probably have some good tales of live-training cruiser Katori and his efforts to get her off the front lines already among all the other wild events in Greyverse.

Grey Hunter posted:

It just feels odd not having any Allied ships on here.

habeasdorkus posted:

Come get stuck in with us! I promise I'll get your boys killed in new, interesting, and gruesome ways!

Grey Hunter posted:

Could be worse, I could be a serial killer.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Kamikazes are activated if the Allies own a base within 15 hexes (traced only by sea hexes) of either Tokyo, Takao, or Saigon, and if the date is later than Dec-31-1943.

I'm not sure but maybe Wake Island was enough to activate Kamikazes?

In any case, you're also supposed to convert entire squadrons into Kamikaze-capable squadrons, and you can only convert one squadron per day, and they have to be specifically told to embark on the Kamikaze mission type in order to do carry out these kinds of attacks.

What I'm thinking might have happened is that Kamikazes were activated recently, and the game's code allows for individual Kamikaze attacks if the air combat model produces a plane that decides to do it on the spot as they're crashing or whatever.

MA-Horus posted:

Like where in the goddamn hell is the Heavy fleet? Just sailing a goddamn convoy of sitting ducks around with no heavy gun or anti-ship support?

And the AI doesn't even have the excuse of being tricked to chase after empty flat tops!

Grey Hunter posted:

I'm not an immortal space Croctapus in real life you know.

Huh, a Paradox mega campaign where the viewpoint isn't the king, but the Immortal Space croctopus sent to earth to "conquer" it after two slight mishaps with a superlaser.