War in the Pacific Day by Day - Imperial Edition

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Epinephrine: Nov 7, 2008

Mikl posted:

There was a two-player AAR on the Matrix forums, an expert Japanese player versus a new Allied player. The Japanese player was winning handily (mostly because of the Allied player having to learn to play the game as they were playing it), so the Allied player went "gently caress it" and launched an invasion of Hokkaido. It turned out the Japanese had overextended because of overconfidence, so the Allied conquered all of Hokkaido in a few days. Then in a stroke of luck / skill he launched an invasion of Honshu and managed to sink the huge carrier/battleship combined TF the Japanese had rallied to fight off the invasion.

Then the game ended because of "save file corruption" on the Japanese side.

Please tell me you have a link bookmarked somewhere.

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# ¿ Apr 30, 2024 01:44

Epinephrine: Nov 7, 2008

Grey Hunter posted:

Thousands more die at Changsha, the battle is all but decided here.

We shatter another force. This must be making it hard to replace losses in China.

Am I seeing this right? Is GreyHunter Changasha plus Kukong away from liking up the northern and southern fronts?

# ¿ Feb 11, 2016 22:16

Epinephrine: Nov 7, 2008

Leperflesh posted:

The first WitP game (requires archives) started December 7th, 2009 and was completed on July 18th, 2013. So that's 3+ years just for that one game, and we've had at least one more abortive attempt before this one.

As an aside, Grey, it'd be cool if you linked to the previous game in your OP or the second post or something, for posterity.

Gery's allied run is also on the lparchive.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2016 23:50

Epinephrine: Nov 7, 2008

Suppose Rangoon is truly empty and Grey takes it asap with no casualties. How much does this change the state of the game?

# ¿ May 26, 2016 02:27

Epinephrine: Nov 7, 2008

TildeATH posted:

To fully evaluate your hypothetical, are we to assume Grey is still playing? This is important.

Assume Gray, a player from an alternate universe with sufficient luck to have this happen and sufficient reliability to not make a mistake.

# ¿ May 26, 2016 02:51

Epinephrine: Nov 7, 2008

IRL, USS Wasp was sunk on 1942 September 15. Grey is 1 month, 13 days ahead of schedule on the kill.

Congrats!

# ¿ Aug 3, 2016 14:52

Epinephrine: Nov 7, 2008

steinrokkan posted:

That's awful and confusing

Red = Japan, Green = Allied (as in the game)
Dark = Current game, Light / dotted = "previous game"

That precisely. We want to know how well Japan and the Allies are doing now versus last time. A "correct" visualization will reflect the two important factors by changing one visual component per factor.

However, at this point it's not too important so long as you know to compare yellow to blue and orange to green.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2016 19:12

Epinephrine: Nov 7, 2008

SerthVarnee posted:

Once you run out of planes/pilots, just convert the carriers back to their originally intented state of glorious cruisers/battlecruisers/battleships/tourist traps.

Then we can finally say that the carrier idea was fun but ultimately unsustainable.

Turn them into floating all-girls high schools!

# ¿ Apr 4, 2018 14:59

Epinephrine: Nov 7, 2008

Loss of an IJA division, c'est la vie. Let's get to the more important question: how irreplaceable are those xAKs and LSTs? How much does that delay the IJN's inevitable victory?

# ¿ Dec 12, 2018 07:16

Epinephrine: Nov 7, 2008

Decoy Badger posted:

I feel like a dud bomb hitting directly would have done more damage than what Junyo took. Maybe the historical inaccuracy in scouting reports also transfers to damage reports these days.

Rather than play down the damage, they played up the size of the bomb dropped on them. Next thing you know ships will claim to have survived nukes.

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# ¿ Apr 30, 2024 01:44

Epinephrine: Nov 7, 2008

I can't believe I've been reading this for 4 years. Congratulations! Encore!

# ¿ Sep 14, 2019 19:19

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