RA Rx posted:

Also, normally I wouldn't post any Kancolle (ship anthro series that fanservice-type anime fans like), but since it's a timeline of Axis ships/characters being built, commissioned, launched and sunk/killed... Do keep in mind it's somehwat spoiled by the wardrobe damage they take as they die, but if you can tolerate it their mass destruction and finally carpet bombing by the end wave of 'monster' torpedo bombers is a great payoff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PNEg75VDG0

I'd feel bad, except every time the schadenfreude wanes and sympathy rears its head I remember that the crews on these warships committed crimes against humanity as a matter of routine:

OpenlyEvilJello posted:

British frigate Tweed

PhotoKirk posted:

USS Califorina's armament:

As built:
12 × 14 in (356 mm)/50 cal guns
14 × 5 in (127 mm)/51 cal guns
4 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal guns
2 × Mark 15 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes

After refit:
12 × 14 in (356 mm)/50 cal guns
16 × 5 in/38 cal Mark 12 guns (8×2)
56 × 40 mm (1.57 in) Bofors anti-aircraft guns (11×4, 5×2)
31 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon cannons

barman posted:

Hi Grey Hunter

Great to see you are back with war in the pacific

I followed your previous one for 4 years, took me 2 weeks to catch up with this one, great job again !!


I like the way you keep it realistic, but after going through 200 posts with

` .... my planes get murdered.` it is time to act a littlebit

We both have been playing this game for a long time so we know how it works right ?


1. You have over 1500 fighters, if they come with 60 you make sure you have 80 on CAP

Defense :
Use layered CAP , 1 group at 9000 , 1 group of franks at 15000, 1 group of Georges at 19000 (the bombers come in at 18000) , 1 group of Franks at 29000
set range to 0, it has no sense defending the 2 hexes from Rabaul
Transfer your best fighterpilots to these(from all other squadrons), put your best pilots and leader in 29000 feet frank group, they are the spitfire killers. they get the dive on the spitfires !
Make sure you have a radar in rabaul, else ship one to rabaul

Change all leaders to leaders with high air /inspiration

Offense : set 2 groups at escort at bomberhight, only use fighters with armour (tojo, george ) NO crappy Oscars or Zero's
let them escort Francis , armored bombers, no Betty zippo's
Once you have armored Oscars, put them on low naval attack (1000 ft, to attack the small convoys, and kamikaze later)

Use your political points to transfer all groups to the AiR HQ in Rabaul, make sure the air HQ leader has high inspiration

2. Kill 'm on the ground, the spitfire VIII has a normal range of 4 and extended range of 7: so probably they are based at Gasmata, which is 4 hexes away from rabaul : bomb they every day with battleships or cruisers. Holes in runways, will increase operational losses and decrease motivation

3. It is 1944 , stop using and producing unarmored fighters from 1942 !
Only produce Franks, Georges, TojoC, Francis, Judy and Jills for naval attacks ,
Stop producing everything else , research the zero 5c , so finally you have some armor , start reseaching the Sam
retool the oscar production to oscar IIIA and IIIB (kamikazes later)
Switch every group in your active theaters to these planes, Tojo's on the small bases , georges and franks on the advanced bases, Always use layered caps and separate groups for CAP and escort, every other plane only for training or china

- use the "list destroyed air groups" button under "aircraft losses" to resurrect more fighter groups

I know you have a buffer, so it will take a while to see the effects, but it will save you (and us) a year of agony !


If you upload any savegame I would be happy to help you out, it wll only take 15 minutes

Keep up the good work and destroy these imperialist fighters !

Leperflesh posted:

Maybe you could show your settings, and then the goon experts in the thread can diagnose what's wrong?

Saint Celestine posted:

the Japanese Army's Submarines

Epicurius posted:

It makes sense, if you think about it. How else was the Japanese Army going to handle naval operations? Rely on the Navy?

Grey Hunter posted:

Edit, wrong thread!

gradenko_2000 posted:

This makes the Russo-German War Eastern Front total conversion mod all the funnier.

Grey Hunter posted:

Grey Hunter posted: