War in the Pacific Day by Day - Imperial Edition

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > War in the Pacific Day by Day - Imperial Edition

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

HMAS Australia please. :australia:

# ¿ Dec 8, 2015 00:18

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 4, 2024 11:49

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

TildeATH posted:

Who was the guy that said we should have had flying boat bombers instead of aircraft carriers? Was there any truth to his claims?

You may be thinking of this, by the M113 Gavin crazy person.

Edit: Here's his main "article" on aircraft carriers.
Starts off strong with this particular bit of :tinfoil:

quote:

The shocking truth is that Germany DID create and use atomic bombs and WE OVER-RAN THEM WITH GROUND MANEUVER NOT ONE SECOND TOO SOON. Not one second. The margin between them nuking New York city with long-range bombers was only a matter of DAYS. When Germany set off its first nuke in a test the German officers against Hitler set off a bomb trying to kill him in desperation, which slowed him down. We are talking critical days here. General Eisenhower said 6 months. 6 months of delay reaching Berlin and we'd all be speaking German now.

AceRimmer fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Jan 10, 2016

# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 05:38

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

fredleander posted:

Hmm....wherever did you read that......?

gently caress MacArthur.

Bonus :lol:

posted:

MacArthur knew that he was born to rule, and born to greatness. Part of the reason he knew this, was that his mother repeatedly told him so. In fact when he went to West Point, she moved into an apartment nearby to supervise, and spent the next decades harassing every public officials she could think of to improve his chances of recognition and promotion.

link

# ¿ Jan 14, 2016 01:27

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

posted:

When I read the often somewhat degrading descriptions of him, I get the same feeling as when I first started researching the German Operation Sea Lion (Unternehmen Seel�we), the planned invasion of England in the Fall of 1940. The Germans are often portrayed as military amateurs with little or no experience in naval warfare or amphibious operations in spite of their recent military successes on the European continent and Scandinavia and their flare for offensive improvisations and Kraftsammlung! How could this be? The conclusions reached by myself after some years of research indicated that Operation Sea Lion was quite feasible, a jewel of military planning and execution. With General Franz Halder, the venerable German Army�s Chief of Staff as its progenitor, this should surprise no one. It was German staff work at its best and most expeditious. So convinced was I that I ended up writing a book about it.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2016 23:15

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

TheDemon posted:

Worth noting that besieging Moscow would cut the rail line from Arkhangelsk, where the lend-lease supplies arrived.

I always thought most of the Lend-Lease supplies arrived in Murmansk? Or was that route cut or at least heavily interdicted by the Germans during a certain time period? :confused:

edit: nvm, discovered that the primary lend lease port switched from Arkhangelsk to Murmansk in December of 1941.

AceRimmer fucked around with this message at 10:53 on Jan 16, 2016

# ¿ Jan 16, 2016 10:15

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

Gnoman posted:

Compounding the problem, the seekers were quite likely to position and detonate the torpedo behind the target due to the way sound propagates and the lack of decent filters on the hydrophones, and was also very vulnerable to towed decoys. It would work great against lone ships, but those were rare, and already easy meat.

Wow, I had no idea that Ferdinand Porche also dabbled in torpedo design.

McNally posted:

Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson does not go by his middle name. In fact, you'd actually have to do some digging to discover that his middle name is Emil, because he's commonly known as "Clarence E. 'Bud'" or "C.E. 'Bud'" Anderson, yet somehow despite this you still got his name wrong. Everything I've ever seen you write seems to have a rather half-assed approach to detail and you never cite sources. It is objective fact that anything you say needs to be treated with suspicion, if not outright scorn.

Hey now, I'm sure you're wrong based on his top secret Japanese sources. What's that? You can't read Japanese? :smug:

Truly a master of revisionist history, in the vein of the great Belton Cooper and Victor Suvorov. :rolleyes:

AceRimmer fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jan 19, 2016

# ¿ Jan 19, 2016 21:28

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

i81icu812 posted:

I see that the allied subs have realized their torpedoes are worthless and are taking to deck guns like the should.

I wonder if it's coded so that the switch happens after x duds or just happens by x date in the game for Mk. 14 equipped subs?

Speaking of which, Ch. 6 of Hellions of the Deep (available sans images here) is highly recommended if you're interested in the Mk. 14 saga.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2016 02:22

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

pthighs posted:

It's by date. Starting in 1943 all torps with dud rates above 49% drop by 20 (I think the Mk. 14 starts at like 90% dud rate). Then in September 1943 the dud rate goes to a fixed 10%.

Right, I meant the switch to using deck guns during the high dud phase. Or is it more that using a deck gun is always a thing in favorable circumstances to conserve torps?

# ¿ Jan 21, 2016 02:40

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

Ragaman posted:

How about Pedo Butai, have I gone to far now

Reposting my favorite Mk. 14 thing ever:

# ¿ Jan 28, 2016 06:43

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

TehKeen posted:

What's the story about the one Sub crew/commander that dropped a live Mk14 from a crane next to an admiral or something like that?

That seems vaguely familiar but I was only able to find this story:

# ¿ Jan 28, 2016 17:53

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

Such incredible game design. :allears:

# ¿ Feb 2, 2016 20:29

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

LordPants posted:

code:

CL Leander to Fleet Command

Mayday mayday, ship hit, and is sinking.

Abandoning ship.

- Fred

# ¿ Feb 16, 2016 03:21

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

Ikasuhito posted:

As it happens I believe we are a scant one week from today from when Grey's last attempt came to a screeching halt

Are there any mods that completely flip the game so that the US is the underdog? All the ones I've heard about just seem to give both sides tons of new toys to play with. I know that it's completely ridiculous but it could be interesting gameplay-wise.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 00:16

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

Jesenjin posted:

Is Grey taking a break because 1942 wasn't a leap year?

whitewhale posted:

Are you sure you selected the correct island for the Pearl raid? The naval war is going to get painful soon.

Why, are the battleships going to be a big boon to AI amphibious landings or what?

# ¿ Feb 29, 2016 23:13

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

A White Guy posted:

This UI. Goddamn.

I would love to get into this game, but the UI just looks unbelievably bad.

Yeah, really makes me wish there was something intermediate between this game and War Plan Pacific.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2016 20:17

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

Night10194 posted:

Wasn't part of the reason for the stunning success of our subs that Japanese ASW was really really poo poo? Like as lovely as their damage control?

Basically that plus seriously underestimating American subs due to the Mk. 15 torpedo travesty as far as I understand it. Also ASW and convoys didn't really fit into the whole decisive battle idea?

# ¿ Apr 2, 2016 22:19

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

My lucky ship :ohdear:

# ¿ Apr 18, 2016 02:13

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

Gort posted:

Lancasters were able to hit the Tirpitz pretty reliably.

At least by WW2 standards, yeah.

Target Tirpitz is a pretty good book, particularly the more insane schemes to sink it, like those poor unlucky midget subs. :eyepop:

AceRimmer fucked around with this message at 17:51 on May 19, 2016

# ¿ May 19, 2016 17:49

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

A few poor meteorologists are getting a visit from the Kempeitai... :commissar:

# ¿ May 25, 2016 06:10

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

Or the JDS Mirai sailed back through time and wiped out the garrison with Tomahawks. :anime:

# ¿ May 25, 2016 20:10

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

MrYenko posted:

Maybe their ~~doomstack~~ princess is in another castle?

Has anyone checked up on the Tokyo Bay Fortress recently? :ohdear:

# ¿ May 30, 2016 19:36

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

Saint Celestine posted:

Goddamn. Did that troop convoy have no escorts besides a DD?

Looks like the BB/DD posse was there too, the allied ships just slipped past everything but a single destroyer.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2016 19:03

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

steinrokkan posted:

You are thinking about WITE, where the game actually does track each soldier's inventory and his individual shots during combat.

Not truly groggy enough unless you're tracking every pixelman's individual mood/morale.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2016 00:01

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

Speaking of unlucky ships, is the YP-108 ( :tinfoil:

MV Joyita

) in the game? Or one of the crazy mods that adds a bunch of tiny ships?

# ¿ Jun 14, 2016 01:02

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

lenoon posted:

It's not just that, it's that grey forgot to reroute the reinforcements and they sailed unsupported into a shitstorm. I did some mock history write ups, probably lost now. There were something like 4K Americans left on the island when the fleet withdrew, would have made for some epic movies.

Around what date does this happen in the LP? I skimmed through June 1944 and didn't see it.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2016 22:04

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

So at what point do the Brits get a doomstack in India analogous to the one the US gets if Japan invades the West Coast?

# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 18:30

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

Try not to land any troops on North Sentinel by mistake. :ohdear:

# ¿ Jul 6, 2016 05:43

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

So did a whole platoon of Marines just defect to the Empire? :confused:

Things are going to get weirder than the Iwo Jima disaster in this LP I think.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2016 08:02

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

A White Guy posted:

An NZ higher up was especially peeved that he did not receive his box of cigars.

Welp, at least it makes Galipoli brilliant in retrospect in the Greyverse.

# ¿ Dec 3, 2016 03:36

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

Not to mention the finest damage control on the 7 seas! :ohdear:

# ¿ Dec 5, 2016 16:13

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 4, 2024 11:49

AceRimmer: Mar 18, 2009

Ikasuhito posted:

drat right! At this rate we will be marching into Washington and dictating terms of peace in the white house in no time.

And on the pedestal these words appear

# ¿ Dec 7, 2016 09:14

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > War in the Pacific Day by Day - Imperial Edition