|
I would like to call CVE Gambier Bay.
|
#
¿
Dec 10, 2015 07:25
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 7, 2024 19:27 |
|
|
How does gameplay work for a Japanese player? Is it a "gobble as much as you can and then hold aa long as possible" strategy, or "constant fighting until you get pushed back and then a fighting retreat to hardened positions"?
|
|
#
¿
Mar 16, 2016 20:59
|
|
|
Does invading those islands unlock kamikazes for grey?
|
|
#
¿
Jun 26, 2016 18:35
|
|
|
One thing I love about this thread is when I see a flurry of activity I know something cool or devastating happened in the lp, or goons are arguing/geeking out/ranting about some historical ww2 point which is great as well.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 3, 2016 22:26
|
|
|
TheDemon posted:The AI has a set of historical and ahistorical plans that it deploys at more or less appropriate times. My guess is we're seeing it activate the Guadacanal plan. If you know the plan, is it consider unkosher to run an exact counterplan? Or what is the general regard for knowing the meta?
|
|
#
¿
Aug 5, 2016 21:38
|
|
|
This may have been talked about earlier, but can sunk ships be refloated/salvaged?
|
|
#
¿
Dec 16, 2016 16:35
|
|
|
Besides the battleships, how is the American cruiser and do replacements? Could grey just murder all the escorts for carriers? Then with even 50 CVES they are fairly dead if they are piecing through.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 5, 2017 06:03
|
|
|
Is anyone knowledgeable about the Shinano or wargamed what that ship could do? The whole idea of the carrier seems neat, making a carrier around the Yamato battleship hull, but the thing got sunk before it did anything. I'm curious to what people's thoughts are about its effectiveness had it deployed earlier in the war, advantages/disadvantages, etc.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 7, 2017 08:05
|
|
|
Speaking of Taffy 3, in WW2 was there ever a horrifying amount of sinking that occurred for an invasion fleet like we are seeing? Battle Off Samar is the only thing I can think of and that was just a narrow dodge from disaster.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 7, 2017 23:40
|
|
|
Props to that one Warhawk pilot that saw all those enemy planes and helpless ships and said "I gotta get me some of that".
|
|
#
¿
Mar 9, 2017 22:18
|
|
|
What exactly does a Japanese player do at the end of the war? No fuel, no ships, no planes, no pilots. Do they just pray for their pixel man's and press the next turn button?
|
|
#
¿
Mar 28, 2017 18:07
|
|
|
Will we continue getting I 21 updates?
|
|
#
¿
Apr 22, 2017 19:48
|
|
|
Actually what was the best branch and position to be in in order to save your rear end? I would think european theatre, navy.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 29, 2017 04:22
|
|
|
I love when this thread has a bursts of new posts. Either something exciting happened in the L.P. or there is a cool ww2 discussion going on. To contribute my grandparents. My maternal grandfather was a marine during Guadalcanal campaign. He laid communication lines and he wasn't allowed a gun while he was doing it. I have his service machete which my mom says he never cleaned off, so family rumor is he had to use it in self defense at one point and that isn't rust. My paternal grandmother had two husbands, a Canadian pilot and American Pilot (my grandad). Her first husband, the Canadian, flew planes for the lend lease act over to Britain. He suffered a mechanical malfunction and his plane crashed one year into the marriage. My grandfather, who had grown up with her, consoled her and they got married. Then my grandad was shipped off to Africa and Italy, flew the warhawk and was shot down over Cassino monastery and was presumed dead. He was actually captured and interned. Reason he was presumed dead is that armed pilots were getting shot over there instead of captured, but grandad never brought his service pistol with him. Grandma who was understandably upset at the germans/Italians, joined up to go to war... And was sent out to Australia to work with wounded soldiers. She taught a lot of them how to play tennis as a way of helping them move around.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 30, 2017 17:37
|
|
|
Question, can you control the Chinese situation so well that you purposefully trigger the Russians and then farm them for points?
|
|
#
¿
Jun 17, 2017 21:28
|
|
|
gradenko_2000 posted:It's been a while, but AFAIK: Do you send those planes without escort, or is it a good idea to have em escorted anyway? Historically they flew solo real high right?
|
|
#
¿
Jun 23, 2017 20:34
|
|
|
Grey Hunter posted:The time I accidently blew up a planet will forever be my worst mistake. Can we get a link to that?
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2017 06:06
|
|
|
Grey Hunter posted:I much prefer the other death star story from the Paradox/DW game where I lead a world killer on a suicide mission to win a war between good and evil by blowing up the Ancient Evil races homeworld. I just like imagining the in game bureaucracy that would have had to happen. Head Engineer: 2.3 trillion space bux for one DM3000 item? Better order two, one for backup. Look, that's 4 trillion even, I saved 600 billion! Let the accountants worry about the money pushing. *Some time later* Quartermaster: So... what do we do with this spare... death... moon... thing? I would really like it not to orbit here. Or anywhere near here. Head Admin: Eh. just send it to the general deployment area all the other star cruisers go to. It'll be fine. *Some time later* Space Admiral: Alright, orders from supreme space admiral, straight from the emperor's mouth. We're taking all ordinance in system and kicking the rear end of those fury rodents. Space Admiral Aide: Does... that include the death laser? Because it only has one weapon and it's "gently caress this planet up". Space Admiral: Didn't you hear me? Orders from the emperor. If he wants to gently caress up a planet, he's going to use the death laser. SAA: Yea but nothing in the orders says death la- SA: Do you really think they would forget about the planet destroying weapon? Now warm up the hyper drives, I'm going to go get a massage.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2017 16:08
|
|
|
Does dive bombing do more damage (in real life) than just dropping the bomb? Like I feel the kinetic energy of the bomb in addition the explosion would do something, but I am hoping someone knowledgeable can go further into this.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2017 20:52
|
|
|
Cool, thanks for the info on the dive bombing folks.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2017 23:20
|
|
|
Question about pacific/Atlantic sea campaigns. Did the Panama canal get much use, or was shipbuilding more an east coast to east coast, West coast to west coast aproach? If the Japanese interdicted the canal would it have had much effect, or was that just not logistically possible for them? Is it a possibility for Grey?
|
|
#
¿
Aug 2, 2017 00:26
|
|
|
How long until these mass sinkings reach mainland papers in america? Edit: update on prior page.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 3, 2017 17:48
|
|
|
Question for Kamikaze activation; Are Kamikazes really good? I know it can cause quite the kerfuffle, but is the opportunity cost not worth it? Or would a good metagamey strategy be to try and get kamikazes activated early and then take the allied shipping to task?
|
|
#
¿
Oct 1, 2017 23:46
|
|
|
Does Grey ever get access to the two I 400 subs? Are they any fun? Is there any "experimental" weaponry that is modeled?
|
|
#
¿
Dec 8, 2017 22:39
|
|
|
Ikonoklast posted:Since we are in on the topic of the Murmansk Convoys i would like to present to you the potential tank vs. u-boat battle on the north pole that sadly never happened: This man was a great thinker.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 28, 2017 15:41
|
|
|
Those rebased planes are doing fairly good work. Is there a downside to having that many planes on the islands right now?
|
|
#
¿
Jan 7, 2018 19:06
|
|
|
Are there any good movies or books about the fighting in China? I just can't wrap my head around it. Seems very different type of combat from the European theatre, and I keep picturing it like the Vietnam war in my head.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 19, 2018 00:48
|
|
|
Mycroft Holmes posted:your best bet is to got to the military history thread in a/t. Good idea. Thank you. Epicurius posted:Here are various newsreel clips about the war between Japan and China in the 1930s. Oh this is neat! Thank you.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 19, 2018 03:41
|
|
|
Jesus. Taffy 3 was was a better defensive obstacle for an invasion fleet than what the AI is showing now.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 15, 2018 06:35
|
|
|
PittTheElder posted:How did the US handle shuttling supplies around the South Pacific in WW2 anyway? Did they bother to convoy it up, or was there a recognition that it was unnecessary, since the Japanese weren't using their subs for commerce raiding? Convoys were not used as much, mostly for the reason you already hit on. Another reason is that the pacific campaign had ships hitting multiple areas, more spread out than concentrated on a single point (beyond Australia). I found a neat article breaking down the different supplies, problems and logistics that quartermasters faced here .
|
|
#
¿
Mar 16, 2018 01:12
|
|
|
acidia posted:Based on a few minutes of research I think the next fighter that may push the air war back to parity is the Mitsubishi F-1. It's still a long ways out but research may have been rushed. Only get 77 airframes produced though. May as well hold out for the F2 airframe, at the very least you nearly get them in the triple digits.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 18, 2018 01:23
|
|
|
dylguy90 posted:
What does that do? Seems like it would cause massive efficiency penalties.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 18, 2018 18:36
|
|
|
wedgekree posted:... why are IJN PT Boats worth like ten points and USN ones worth one? Going way off base here, but I think the Japanese patrol boats were functionally destroyers.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 28, 2018 08:18
|
|
|
I was thinking "drat, the heroism of those PT boats saving the transports is going to be good propaganda for America" Then I got further into the update and more ships kept sinking and then the PT boats died like all the rest.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 28, 2018 19:41
|
|
|
Those plane losses smart. How noticeable is the drop in pilot quality now?
|
|
#
¿
Mar 30, 2018 18:07
|
|
|
Generation Internet posted:I wonder where the American fleet carriers are The world wonders as well. Oh wait fack that's my lucky ship! Totally missed Gambier bay (and so did the planes!)
|
|
#
¿
Mar 30, 2018 18:19
|
|
|
Lord Koth posted:So, that many Hellcats and Helldivers operating off Casablanca-class escort carriers of all things seems... unusual to say the least. Does the game not model the significant difficulties of launching and landing those off flight decks that short, or is the AI just being reckless? Or is there a bigger flattop around? This is me guessing, I would think it would greatly increase operational chance for lost aircraft of that type
|
|
#
¿
Mar 31, 2018 00:50
|
|
|
Are all vps equal? For example is it fine to trade 18 points of airframe for 18 pts of ships/bases?
|
|
#
¿
Apr 12, 2018 16:03
|
|
|
In another L.P. run by Libluini (Masters Of Orion) the game engine has a limitation on how many ships can be present In a battle. So if you send space fleets and a transport fleets together, if there are too many fleets the game picks at random which goes into battle. I think this is the situation here, and the game just picked all transports. Next turn will roll the battleships and carriers.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 26, 2018 15:52
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 7, 2024 19:27 |
|
|
Question, why do the Japanese planes have such Anglo names? Oscar, Bettie, and now Rita? Or are they longer Japanese style names that happened to have Anglo names encased inside of them and allied airmen just nicknamed them?
|
|
#
¿
May 6, 2018 16:02
|
|