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alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Bah, all good ones are taken already.
I'll take Shropshire as I did the last time, please.

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alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Pretty dull 4th of July. Also having recently caught up: congrats on spawning the offspring, remember that it gets better.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Grey, buy one of those white noise generators and learn to wrap kid snugly. Check it on youtube, it helps.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Grey Hunter posted:

He's only waking once in a night, but if its early, I end up getting up as I normally get up 4-5am.

Mrs. Gray must have amazing genes, first couple of weeks with my kid it was every 90-120 minutes.
You're a titan among men to take care of a kid, work and still play grog games.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Nice progress in China.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

With barely any merchant fleet you can concentrate on taking all of China and as much India as you can :allears:

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

goatface posted:

I brought her a drum, because I am an excellent uncle.

One of two things will happen:
1. She'll ignore it
2. You'll never be invited again.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

This thread is full of defeatists! Of course brave IJN sailors and pilots will destroy the enemy! Saying otherwise is akin to treason! :japan::respek::ese:

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

That defence against Sian force was some shameful display!

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

I'd rather have Grey replay as Allies, but now I'm rooting for the Empire :japan:

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Maybe they have a side business with Palembang commander, but forgot to cut IJN air wing in?

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Yessss, go forth and die pixelmen!

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Those merchant marine captains and crews just weren't aggressive enough :japan:

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

I remember during your Allies run japanese long range naval bombers were deadly. Why we don't see your Betties decimate enemy shipping?

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

After some time to let AI learn it'd be boring. Look at how many errors are caused by small details and AI would be amazing at that. Search patterns, supplies, setting up groups and squadrons... Look how many ships GH has lost by losing track of some group.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

LLSix posted:

After following this thread for so long I wince every time I see someone in HOI4 deploy a BB battlegroup without air cover. Its horrifying to watch them set ships to patrol at random in range of land based air.

So thank you for teaching me to fear torpedo bombers Grey.

Do HoI4 have a proper naval damage model now? I remember as long as 1 HP was left on a ship it could be fully repaired in earlier games.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

How many bombs can a drat merchant ship with some stuff bolted on survive?

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Talking about Zeros and IJN I've seen a cool movie recently: Eternal Zero
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2404217/

With bonus ugly baka Gaijin

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Enterprise eats a sub-launched long lance salvo :black101:

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

So that's how IJA could have suffered millions of casualties in allied LP and still fight. With a game so detailed it's weird there's no impact to your industry from drafting everyone capable of holding a rifle.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Or AI is using them to supply this cruiser force. I think we'd see Allied CAP had carriers were present.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Katznmaus posted:

Enemy CVs confirmed sunk!

Big E sunk!

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Or AI sails Saratoga and Enterprise, with Grey having a jump on them at night.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Awww yisssss :black101:

Let's hope the weather doesn't affect tomorrow's strike, I want big E down!

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Or they simply ran away and there won't be any further contacts :tinfoil:

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Yes, now hunt and kill Big E!

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Yess :black101:
I hope you've got your kevlar mesh shirt and some padding ready..

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

For a moment the extend of Grey campaigns will just be limited by ground based planes and supplies. And then Shokaku eats a torpedo salvo from a sub...

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Can Grey get a BB group to Noumea to do a night swim-by shooting?

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Nice showing from that CAP, or that carrier airwing is extremely green.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

That was some quality pixelmen murder there, Grey.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

:black101: indeed! Good they didn't get a drop on your carriers in a bad weather, or carrier air wing didn't try to bomb some prepared land base instead!

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

I hope my lucky ship didn't go down to one 250 kg bomb :ohdear:

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Oberndorf posted:

As groggy as this game is, what exactly is that simulating?

Disruption mostly. Some 14-inch shells landing in an area are bound to mess stuff up.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

McNally posted:

I have a save game to go back to, but the game is crashing EVERY time I return to Pearl Harbor.

Try to resupply elsewhere and then go to Pearl. It worked for me once.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

You all miss the main point: the oiler is British! As there's not much of RN presence left AI needs to satiate GH thirst for Tommy blood.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Great day for the IJN!

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

Aww yiss! I'd watch a movie about that battle!

alex314
Nov 22, 2007

In human game can Allied side use a shitload of 1 ship fleets as a sort of "ablative armor" for your invasion of Japan proper? It looks like it'd confuse massive airstrike and end up in attrition fight with a massive carrier air of Allies. Or even eat up Kamikaze strikes, it looks like Allies could throw more merchant ships at the problem than Japan has planes.

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alex314
Nov 22, 2007

So I'd want one destroyer as a early warning TF, a couple of transport decoys and then a couple of CVE/CV with full fighter CAP waiting to meet enemy over my decoys? It's weird you cannot set mission target class for your planes. It's not like it'd make the menu any worse :)

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