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Also, evil Genius LP starts today! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3896395
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Kangxi posted:Another LP? You absolute madman I've got another in the pipe as well..... Themes avatar bears this out I feel.
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   Yawn. Liberators.  I think these guys just flew around each other for a bit.   Another city falls to overwhelming Soviet forces. Another unmanned base also falls.  The Russians hit hard, but their movement is slow. There is a limit to how much land they can take.
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Aug 17, 2019 19:37
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  The raids here continue.  Somehow, they are still convincing people to get into planes.   The men are finally rested, and we kick off the fighting again.  We hold the Red Army again!  Well, in one place.  I have to say the number of Soviet air strikes has dropped in the last couple of days. Lets hope that continues.
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Aug 18, 2019 20:59
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  The good work continues!  We drive off a sub.  We hold once more, but for how long?  A quieter day.  But it's time for Operation Pearl Harder to leave.... (With no zoom, this was a nightmare to show)
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Aug 19, 2019 17:57
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Yeah, there is little I can do in China to stop the Russians, so it would be six months to a year of losing bases every few days. It's fun now, but it would get old fast.
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  The Steel Rain continues.  The soviets are still bombing, there is just nothing interesting left to blow up....  The Communists take another base.  The Red air force makes the mistake of visiting Japan.  Ignore the random bit of China, this is actually over Rabaul.  We really did a number on them today!
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  The bombs keep falling.  A few bases still have planes to destroy.  That gods-dammned motherfucking +Terrain bonus.....  Ground combat is why I never want to touch this game again once this LP is over. Everything in my favour bar the terrain and it does THAT to me.
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Aug 21, 2019 17:57
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Comstar posted:From reading Castles of Steel I don't think any human player would put up for a single turn what happened in real life. It would depend on how it was communicated. X has missread orders. Y is holding while awaiting clarification. Z is ignoring your orders and is attacking for his own personal glory. As long as it is clear this why your plan is in tatters, most people would be fine.
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  I'm mainly showing this as it's a dull day so far and this is a different target.  That's more like it!  The 3rd infantry regiment has a bad day.  The last forts at Kalgan are overwhelmed.  The Red Army takes another base, but it's not the lightning war we were expecting. That's a lie, we know how ground combat works in this game, we were all expecting this.
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  We're closing in on more planes killed than lost. And this will help.  A dull day, but look at that – we are now only 11 points off having destroyed more planes than we have lost.  Operation Pearl Harder is still moving forwards. That's the battleships in tow for Not with a whimper, but with a bang.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:23 August 1945 Imperial command thanks you for your service.
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  Come on! Daddy needs a net 11 points!  Yeah, that's what I'm talking about!  Well, this gets me nothing.  Again, that is better.  The Soviets know my plans, and target my airfields. Drum roll please....  Bingo! The Allies have now lost more planes, ships and troops than I have! I also hold more land. Their situation in untenable.
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Aug 25, 2019 18:09
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  The numbers make me happy.  Eh, at least an attempt was made.  Kalgan falls today.  Another slow Soviet advance.  We approach the Midway leg of our journey.
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  Oh yeah, they still have subs. I'd forgotten.  It seems to be another of those active sub phases.  Poor show guys.  Very poor show.  Keep on bombing, keep on bombing.  Another Soviet advance.  We shot down a load of enemy search planes, so numbers are still good for today.  As long as you don't look at ships.
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  A bad day, or running low on planes?  Just a split wave!  A British cruiser, there? I kind of doubt that.  This is a strange place to attack, they must have come down from the North West.  Kind of an odd day for enemy placement....
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  We take out some invaders.  Blink and you'll miss it today.
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  Boom.  We have a good day here.  This is a fair fight.  So is this.  Two bases lost in a day.  The fleet has reached the turn.....
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  Always makes me happy.  Another base falls to the Soviets.  fairly dull day,
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Maybe not the last day. There has been AI fuckery meaning the 1st was a bit anticlimatic
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   Flawless!  Another base falls. The Soviet advance seems to be picking up speed.  My god, they had a bad day in the air there.  September 1st. Pearl Harder.
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  I continue to show my dominance.   The carriers come into range of the level bombers from Pearl.  The come in wave, after wave.  We gun them down in large numbers.  Though some get through to see our carriers, none land any hits.  We hold here with heavy losses.  Air losses are heavy, but could be worse – and there are no hits on our ships yet. We have sent a note to the Allies detailing an armistice with us holding the territory we have under arms. We shall see how they respond to this.
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Velius posted:You can get A7Ms. You just have to actually plan plane research, and it’s a convoluted and tedious mess. By late 1944 some players are fielding A7Ms, and by 1945 some of the more exotic stuff can come online, including rocket and jet models. The J7W shinden, Ki-83 heavy fighter, and other planes can be competitive with the best allied offerings in air combat and sweep roles. But they all suffer from high service ratings, which means they can’t be used at a high rate without days of downtime for maintenance, and Japan has a fixed number of squadrons available to use no matter how well you’ve been doing. So you might have a thousand trained pilots and airframes sitting around, but you can’t use them. In fact, and I’ve mentioned this before, the game forces withdrawal of squadrons that historically were empty irrespective of how the war goes. Or it bugs out and drains your political points.
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  Another day hanging around Pearl, and still no sign of a single engine bomber.  Just more Invaders.  Oh, and some Mitchells.  We take another wave of plane losses across China.  I think my carriers may be bugged again – I am going in close tomorrow. Two days of Operation off their main naval base and they have not hit a single carrier at loss. The Allies mull over my demands.
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  The Carriers are in close, and here come the single engine attack planes.  I have to say, I was expecting greater numbers.  Now we seem to be on to the less scary ones – maybe they are saving the 120+ wave for later....  but it just seems to be more of the previous – level bomber after level bomber.  My own attack is taken apart by the CAP – but this was never about victory, but making our presence known.  The afternoon strikes begin, and we see two more avengers.  Finally, after raid after raid, they land a bomb hit!  Then a second!  My afternoon wave meets the same fate as the morning one.  Then we get the prize – she may not be a warship, but hitting anything this close to their main base is a political win!  In a day of inconclusive dog fighting, this is all I need to claim victory.  We lose big in this wave.  Then they hit us several times more.  My losses are catastrophic, but that was never the point. People are outraged that after four years of war, the Japanese are still able to strike at Pearl Harbor.  With minimal damage.  Meanwhile, two more Allied ships and their crews are at the bottom of the ocean. There are protests on the streets of most major American cities. In Britain there is also a weariness from six years of war. It is announced a few minutes before midnight that the allies have signed an armistice with the Empire of Japan – the stalemate that is costing so many lives daily, and the apparently inability of Allied generals to win any form of victory, it is decided to give the Japanese their gains and settle for Peace. The Soviet Union requires more convincing, but their own heavy losses against the Germans means that Stalin also sees the need for peace – without the lend-lease supplies from the Allies, the crippled Soviet forces will be forced to crawl across China while their Allies are at peace. Japan claims its war gains, and there is little the Allies can do except demand inspections of the areas, more to save face than anything else. Reports of the Allied incompetence begin to come in.  Pearl Harbor contains one battleship and one carrier.  It's airfields filled with heavy bombers and other planes with pilots past their service dates. There is one squadron on Avengers on the base. So where are the rest of the allied ships?  The bulk of their fleet is safely holed up in San Francisco – with no intention of ever coming out to fight.  The vast majority of the air force is also stationed at bases here. No wonder we saw no real threats at Pearl Harbor – the Americans have been stockpiling their more deadly planes here. The post war inquests lead to huge numbers of Generals being dishonourably discharged and sentenced to long prison terms. General MacArthur takes his own life in a cell. Japan goes into a boom post war, as it has unrestricted access to oil and raw materials from the Greater Co-Prostperity Sphere, and the world as we know it changes..... Thank you for sticking with me on this one – I love to read you comments, and I'm just sorry the AI was so broken to not give much of a threat. I hope you've enjoyed it! I think I'm done with this game now though.....
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Thanks for all your words guys - It can get pretty quiet in threads like this, and It's always nice to know people have been reading, even if they have not been commenting (I know there is not often much to say, so this is not a criticism) This one was much more of a slog than the previous one, mainly because it deadlocked so early and there was little I could do to make it interesting - the game just won't allow for anything stupid. Kibayasu posted:Another years long LP down. What a legend. I did consider doing either Distant Worlds or Stellaris, but for now I want to get either FOG:E or RTW2 done - three text lps spreads me to thin! I'm open to suggestions to what you guys would like to see next though!
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Bold Robot posted:I would love to see a Distant Worlds LP just like this one - screenshots and text, no goons-in-command type stuff, just you doing your thing and posting it. I'm trying a mix - videos are quicker, and work better for some games, but you can do different things with SS, so I'll always try and keep a couple of those running. I don't mind firing up DW again, if people want to see that.
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V for Vegas posted:What would have happened to Operation Silk Road? Was India wide open? Blocked by +terrain - dispite having 10:1 numbers, apparently the terrain has stopped a quarter of a million Japanese veterans. i81icu812 posted:And can you save scum so you get off a satisfying strike on pearl eventually A sucessful strike is not possible - they have to many fighters in the air - the one thing the AI has not sent home. Getting the fleet back is easy - they only got a few hits out of luck today, so tomorrow they will be back to level bombers only. mllaneza posted:Grey, you were a legend when you started this LP. You are a goon amongst goons now, Goonus Maximus Octopodus. But have I peaked? Is this the greatest thing I will ever achieve in my life? How can I beat this? Things on my speculative list Distant Worlds/Stellaris Japan game Stellaris with a CYOA race building section. Combat Mission: Black Sea Mercenaries game. Anno 1800 Transport Tycoon. Spearhead Modern - The Brexit Wars. (hopefully averted after yesterdays fun in parliament) Some other tabletop game with a campaign. (Longstreet for the ACW?)
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gradenko_2000 posted:Congratulations on another successful run, Grey! Huh, a Paradox mega campaign where the viewpoint isn't the king, but the Immortal Space croctopus sent to earth to "conquer" it after a slight mishap with a superlaser. habeasdorkus posted:If you did this as a Yooper style Goon run merc squad, I would be all in for it. That would be the plan - have you guys buy units, take contracts, go on missions and control the guys on the ground - then hope to make enough money to pay for all the poo poo that gets blown up during the mission. The engine would be the fight, CM has no civilians in it, so that would limit the mission scope somewhat - but I think it could still work. with some GM trickery.
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Two? I only blew one planet up by mistake.....
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overmind2000 posted:I hope whoever handled the previous WitP game for lparchive.org has been collecting Grey's posts from the start, it'll take a long time otherwise. Oh god, I'm so behind on archiving threads......
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SerthVarnee posted:Im still just checking this thread every day for updates. You did this to me Grey! and i thank you for it! I've worried myself I've missed updates a couple of times! I actually played some ANNO 1800 for myself this morning. no LPing or anything. I might even do some Fantasy General vids tomorrow.
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He's nearly 3 and a half.....
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cambrian obelus posted:Congratulations Grey. Yeah, I was trying to do a history style LP where I rewrote the whole thing at the end to get more of a flow. Then CK2 came out. I think I lost it a couple of hard drives ago
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Pershing posted:For those who aren't following the Something Awful Propaganda thread in GBS: That is amazing. That's going to be a wallpaper at work, just to confuse all my coworkers.
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