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I completely forgot this would be starting again this year. Some bastard has claimed my lucky ship!
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Grey, your horrific spelling and this games awful UI design are such a natural combination.
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Dec 26, 2015 19:16
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 It's not the most interesting screen. Though it does show that we are depressingly behind in the ships sunk list.
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Dec 26, 2015 22:16
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24 knots is a significant speed drop. Maybe they can fix some of that engine damage en-route, but it's an irritation if there are cruiser squads doing crazytimes or subs out there. Would be nice to know if those 9 hits on the Java were from the 14" of the BBs or the 5" guns of the destroyers.
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Dec 28, 2015 01:12
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There's an armour division at Clark Field, right? Those little pixel men are running across the open fields at tank guns. Also, holy poo poo boyo. Getting the super-deathstacks rolling a bit early. That is an insane day of combat, 100k men storming a city.
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Dec 28, 2015 16:55
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785 combat squads is a lot of terrible Chinese infantry. What was the figure for how quickly they produce new ones?
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Dec 28, 2015 21:18
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6650 tons of boat, assuming she's the Wilhemsen Troja. I think those pilots may have been overstating their hits.
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Dec 29, 2015 19:36
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LLSix posted:Japan had crazy ideas about who to ask to act as a go between for them. They'd just kicked Russia's rear end, but for some reason hoped Russia would act as a go between to USA for them. They didn't really have many friends, or even neutrals, to call upon. They were belligerent with pretty much all of their geographical neighbours, which also happened to include most of Europe because they had colonies and enclaves that were being threatened. One of the perma-neutrals like Switzerland or Sweden, maybe? If they could be convinced to get involved.
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Dec 30, 2015 17:58
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AG is an auxiliary; general, (I assume this one) so it may well have been carrying munitions and fuel. The excellently named Iron Knob is a fairly generic 4kt cargo ship, the Doryssa is probably this one which seems to have been a merchant marine oil tanker.
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Dec 30, 2015 19:06
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The Russo-Japanese war in the early 1900s Russia lost, humiliatingly so.
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Dec 30, 2015 22:08
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It involved the destruction of two Russian navies by a "minor" power. There were probably some people around who were still quite angry about that.
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Dec 30, 2015 23:15
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Holy poo poo that's a lot of passenger liners. You need to blockade Singapore until they're all dead.
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Dec 31, 2015 21:20
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The Dominion Monarch is a 3500 troops at 20 knots job, so she's nice to get out of the way. The Leonard Wood is smaller and slightly slower, but actually designed as a possibe troop ship. The Mount Vernon is better than both, carrying 6000 troops plus crew, cruising at 20.5 knots. Basically, kill all passenger liners.
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Jan 1, 2016 22:12
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If Grey doesn't sink at least 20 CVEs he has lost.
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Jan 2, 2016 16:58
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Probably. They're tiny little things, but not really anything else.
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Jan 3, 2016 03:29
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They might give a leadership bonus to amphibious landings.
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Jan 3, 2016 15:04
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Took the ship lead 
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Jan 4, 2016 19:59
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That is a lot of dead pixelsquads. The Aldebaran is the same AG we saw the other day, so she was probably already pretty hosed up before the two new torpedoes were even launched.
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Jan 5, 2016 18:29
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I'd hope the plan is something like one of:  So that it follows roads and might get there in under a year.
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Jan 5, 2016 20:34
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Every frost-bitten dong causes a delay in your ship building due to the drop in morale back home.
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Jan 9, 2016 00:58
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Are those Vals bombing the liners with SAP or GP bombs?
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Jan 9, 2016 18:17
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It's a different kind of warcrimes chat, but it's not entirely unexpected.
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Jan 9, 2016 18:59
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Nah, he just needs to find the right thread in D&D and he'll fit right in.
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Jan 9, 2016 19:14
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His boat is, I think we saw it kill something last run.
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Jan 9, 2016 20:34
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Flying boats are good and cool and I would like to have one.
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Jan 10, 2016 02:44
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Those are floatplanes, which are fractionally less good. Flying boats are the ones that float on their hull rather than pontoon-y bits.
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Jan 10, 2016 03:06
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Broken ship being shuttled back to Seattle? January weather was never going to be kind if it had any serious damage.
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Jan 10, 2016 19:11
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Not if they're full. Maybe the Pearl attack didn't go as well as we hoped.
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Jan 10, 2016 20:28
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Some superb piece of pathing that takes it up North East until it can sail down the "safer" water of the West Coast? Sounds plausible.
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Jan 10, 2016 20:54
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The Illisos is a 4700 ton cargo ship, a slow steamer if she's this one: http://www.flotilla-australia.com/images/illisos.jpg. 9.5 knots as a max speed is only a few knots faster than a sub while submerged. The Konan Maru is in the game as an AK, but this one is a troop transport. There are a whole bunch of them though, so we may never know which one it is. My surviving granddad has told us he sailed on a wooden hulled minesweeper in the English Channel, and swept some of the D-Day landing beaches. He told a story about being horrified by bodies floating in the ocean, and a superior trying to help by offering to shoot them so they'd sink. He won't talk about it otherwise, and he never let anyone accompany him to the reunion meets he went to every year.
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Jan 12, 2016 17:27
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Invading Britain would involve invading Wales and Scotland. Nobody wants to do that, they speak funny.
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Jan 15, 2016 01:22
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VX-145 posted:Nothing from the grandmothers, unfortunately, although one of the great-grandparents was a Home Guard volunteer? My family history is a little obscure. On nan-chat, I only ever knew my maternal grandmother as a lovely lady with crippling arthritis and a neurological condition that interfered with her speech centres. This has always made it a bit hard for me to come to grips with the stories of her at 20 years old and able to do a full rebuild of a british army dispatch motorbike.
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Jan 15, 2016 20:19
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Grey Hunter posted:
What the gently caress even happened here? They're more experienced and have better morale? hosed up if true
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Jan 15, 2016 20:30
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Give that sub man a medal, and give those destroyer captains a slap. edit - Ammo explosion must have been fighter rounds rather than torpedo storage. Can you tell damaged ships to ditch ammo? goatface fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Jan 16, 2016 |
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Jan 16, 2016 21:11
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Where the gently caress did all her planes go? They ditch? They dead?
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Jan 16, 2016 22:02
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That would make sense.
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Jan 16, 2016 23:31
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The Bofors 40mm series of guns are still in use on Spectre gunships (the AC-130 planes with the cannons in the side), largely unchanged from the original 1934 design. Some designs are just good.
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Jan 17, 2016 14:44
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I would like to claim a KV, but I don't know which ones are in theatre. I think the HMS Hollyhock should be around for most of it.
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Jan 17, 2016 19:04
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That will be fine, ta.
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Jan 17, 2016 19:17
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Limping two thousand miles across the Pacific in winter. rip edit- probably closer to two thousand miles goatface fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Jan 17, 2016 |
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Jan 17, 2016 19:34
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