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Errata - Sydney is no more Australia's capital than Brisbane. The city you are looking for is Canberra that was built deliberately 100 kms from the coast to avoid 'diplomatic' naval bombardments. My only regret is Japanese subs (other timeline) didn't do more damage to Sydney/Brisbane.
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Ardeem posted:I wonder if the I-400s can reach Canberra. Not that procing infinite renforcments would be a good thing, but the WTFery of that strike. quote:The Seiran was specifically designed for use aboard the submarines and could carry an 800 kg (1,800 lb) bomb 1,000 km (620 mi) at 475 km/h (295 mph).
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shalafi4 posted:ok I'm used to a lot of the weirder ship designations but what on earth is a KV? K as a designation for corvette was retired prior to WW2 but who knows what bizarre exceptions exist in this game or indeed in the reality it represents.
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Yorkshire Tea posted:I found the Sealion talk on the previous page super interesting. Did the Germans ever really have a plausible win point for the war? Could they have conquered all of mainland Europe, not invaded Russian during Winter, won in Northern Africa and then just peaced out of there until they got their nukes working for Britain? What if the Nazi's had accepted Chamberlain's ultimatum and retreated out of Poland? The Russians would have done the heavy lifting invasion wise and then apportioned the spoils to the Nazis under the non-aggression pact agreement. Sealion. On paper the French should never have been defeated in 1940. The final deciding factor in warfare is the enemy's will to fight. Who can say whether England wouldn't have capitulated in the face of an airborne invasion? The message that the two sides took away from Crete was radically different. The Allies were in awe of the power of an airborne attack and the German's were horrified by the size of the casualties sustained. In alternate history you can only rely on figures and probabilities. Actual history is usually more astonishing.
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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:-Accidentally flipping a tank over on a hillside facing the enemy A Great Uncle of mine was one of the 'lucky' New Zealanders who got to storm Monte Cassino. I'll have to transcribe his oral history of it sometime becuase it was 100%  Ardeem posted:Wait, this nonsense? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Nu94khHoo
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Gaj posted:History Question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto quote:The Battle of Taranto took place on the night of 11–12 November 1940 during the Second World War between British naval forces, under Admiral Andrew Cunningham, and Italian naval forces, under Admiral Inigo Campioni. The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history, employing a small number of obsolete Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious (R87) in the Mediterranean Sea. The attack struck the battle fleet of the Regia Marina at anchor in the harbour of Taranto using aerial torpedoes despite the shallow depth of the water. The devastation wrought by the British carrier-launched aircraft on the large Italian warships was the beginning of the ascendancy of naval aviation over the big guns of battleships. According to Admiral Cunningham, "Taranto, and the night of November 11–12, 1940, should be remembered for ever as having shown once and for all that in the Fleet Air Arm the Navy has its most devastating weapon."[2]
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But hand wringing is what we ~do~. Also I don't think increasing Grey's workload is ultimately a great plan.
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Slightly unrelated but has anyone else sniggered that the tech advance in Civ V to get submarines is refrigeration?
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Congratulations Cartoon for being the first confirmed actual victim!
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Jobbo_Fett posted:oystertoadfish already claimed that. I really wanted a double claim-kill
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Grey Hunter posted:Lets skip to the ship kills shall we? http://www.rms-rangitiki.com/ :kiwi:  Call yourselves a Grognard computer games company!? That's a joke! You hear me a joke! 
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Grey Hunter posted:In other related news, I'm now a father. Name?
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Oh no! The update is late! Looks like we might have to induce it! Also gets better? With all kids there's a bit of a sweet spot between ~3 and 10 but then, depending on gender, you have all the issues of a teenage girl or all the worry of an irresponsible teenage boy. Once that's over you have to worry about their financial stability and basically you die before that gets better.
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Leperflesh posted:By that standard we should be individually naming B52s. And every other bomber capable of carrying a nuke. And hell, individual cruise missiles, too.
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 Now she wants to know why you don't recognise her and won't return her calls.
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Pro music gift tip! Small metal tube xylophones. Give them to the relatives kids just as they are leaving for a long car journey. They are easily the loudest, piercingest, most annoying thing out there and are decently cheap ~  ~/~ Enemy carrier must be met with overwhelming force! Send out the Yamaoto and every destroyer too!
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I have a wonderful vision of a bar full of Japanese submariners on Truk being respectfully asked to pay up their extensive tabs and the tearful goodbyes from local comfort women. It seemed like it could have gone on forever, alas.
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That's a repeat episode Grey-san
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:Today's historical warship loss is... nothing. No further losses in my source until 2 October.
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Leperflesh posted:You can't even toss a lifeboat or two overboard?
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A very interesting book in the context of this LP http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8608998-sunk quote:Sunk: The Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet, 1941-1945 by Mochitsura Hashimoto, Edward L. Beach (Introduction)  moments. Like when during a night action and surrounded by enemy destroyers a lieutenant attempted to jump into a subs deck mounted patrol boat with a samari sword to continue the fight only to end up hanging onto the railing with one hand in the rough seas. 
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Insane multiple year LPs. A shameless honesty when it comes to bad command decisions. The occasional lame pun and now you want grammar, spelling and aesthetics!? For shame.
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Cantorsdust posted:Holy poo poo we're actually going to have a battleship on battleship battle without any carriers in World War loving 2.
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Also Japaneses torpedoes are liquid oxygen powered. How many do you want lying around?
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:Oh, Italy.  http://www.worldnavalships.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3414
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It will all be over by Christmas!
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Nenonen posted:Over by Ōmisoka, you mean. 
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Ardeem posted:Future American ships in this timeline are going to be super battleships with costal gun mounts on them.
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Doesn't it seem odd to you?
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Somewhere just off Luganville: "We few, we happy few, we band of typists and other supply clerks."
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These 'improved' graphs suck donkey balls. Can we get the old ones back?
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TheDemon posted:It's a little ridiculous that there are uncovered convoys trickling through the Coral Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troopship quote:The modern troopship has as long a history as passenger ships do, as most maritime nations enlisted their support in military operations (either by leasing the vessels or by impressing them into service) when their normal naval forces were deemed insufficient for the task. In the 19th century, navies frequently chartered civilian ocean liners, and from the start of the 20th century painted them gray and added a degree of armament; their speed, originally intended to minimize passage time for civilian user, proved valuable for outrunning submarines and enemy surface cruisers in war. HMT Olympic even rammed and sank a U-boat during one of its wartime crossings. Individual liners capable of exceptionally high speed transited without escorts; smaller or older liners with poorer performance were protected by operating in convoys.
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GH Jnr will probably do better than the IJN comand
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Grey Hunter posted:We lose quite a few plans to an air raid at Rangoon.
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You call them Kiwis but from the flags they would appear to be Australians. Where are you getting the NZ info from?
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There might be some kind of a panic response in this alternate timeline. 'US must do something to stop the spread of the Yellow Peril!' It is arguable that the Australian campaign in New Guinea was exactly this, also the whole Burma Chindits and the Doolittle raid. Without an active island campaign it would look like the mighty USA was doing bugger all to help in the Pacific theatre.
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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... Maybe it should be.
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If they were accountants I think this could be considered an acceptable loss, cost of doing business and strategic downsizing.
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I've read of more but can't find actual citations in ten minutes:quote:On 4 March 1943, during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, General George Kenney ordered Allied patrol boats and aircraft to attack Japanese rescue vessels, as well as the survivors from the sunken vessels on life rafts and swimming or floating in the sea. This was later justified on the grounds that rescued servicemen would have been rapidly landed at their military destination and promptly returned to active service.[75] These orders violated the Hague Convention of 1907, which banned the killing of shipwreck survivors under any circumstances.[76] quote:In the aftermath of the Malmedy massacre, a written order from the HQ of the 328th US Army Infantry Regiment, dated 21 December 1944, stated: No SS troops or paratroopers will be taken prisoner but will be shot on sight.[26] Major-General Raymond Hufft (US Army) gave instructions to his troops not to take prisoners when they crossed the Rhine in 1945. "After the war, when he reflected on the war crimes he authorized, he admitted, 'if the Germans had won, I would have been on trial at Nuremberg instead of them.'"[27] Stephen Ambrose related: "I've interviewed well over 1000 combat veterans. Only one of them said he shot a prisoner ... Perhaps as many as one-third of the veterans ... however, related incidents in which they saw other GIs shooting unarmed German prisoners who had their hands up."[28]
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