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(from a few days ago) Check out those Japanese sorties  Also, I'm glad the Hankow troops have supply again. For a while. I was wondering at the time if damaged squads would properly reform without supply, or if Grey was getting hit harder than he thought because the low supply was causing slower reformation of squads. That would requiring knowing exactly how this engine works and HAHAHAHAHA
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The Empress Australia would have the speed to leave behind escort destroyers, but that doesn't explain the tankers that didn't have an escort.
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Feb 7, 2017 00:36
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RA Rx posted:The little landing craft that could. If a torpedo detonated under that landing craft, it would have landed halfway up Mauna Kea.
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Lord Koth posted:edit: Holy poo poo, I just noticed there are 3 Minekaze-class destroyers in the Kidou Butai's escort screen. Those ships were obsolete by the beginning of the war, let alone now - they should be on permanent convoy and patrol duty, not escorting a main battle fleet.
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Mar 13, 2017 02:46
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He's been behind in supply most of the time and nothing seems to work.
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Mar 17, 2017 21:28
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whitewhale posted:Amphibious tanks? I'm pretty sure that the Navy calls those 'Battleships'. Speaking of which where are they, this is hunting season and they seem to have slept in. Yamato and Musashi are in the area sinking shipping, and the US has the Maryland nearby, hopefully they meet in honorable battle. Edit, wrong US BB, corrected CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Mar 23, 2017 |
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Mar 23, 2017 15:47
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Does the Yamato fit in the Panama Canal? We'll send the flagship to DC to accept Truman's surrender 
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Apr 10, 2017 03:31
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whitewhale posted:To put it into perspective by this point the allies were uniformally switching to 40mm Bofors mounts, on later British ships these were auto-loading, auto-tracking and radar guided sextuple mounts. http://www.allpar.com/history/military/bofors.html
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Apr 18, 2017 15:23
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RA Rx posted:How.... how? CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Apr 25, 2017 |
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Apr 25, 2017 01:21
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Maternal Grandpa was already management at an International Harvester factory, so he stayed stateside and made stuff. Paternal Grandpa got deferments to finish his degree at Notre Dame, then went OCS and worked in logistics. No war heroes here. Just a factory man and someone who gets the food to the troops so they can fight.
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Apr 30, 2017 18:12
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Zeroisanumber posted:The shipyard is a bit overloaded. The Oi's refit time should drop once the carriers are done with.
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May 7, 2017 03:57
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Tankers come in all sizes in this game an just get the designation TK. Looking at the combat screen, the Santa Maria is larger than the DDs torpedoing it, and almost as large as the BB. And then there's the other TK, Isis, which looks like a converted AK. There are converted cargo ships that specialize in oil transport and there are specialized oil transport ships; visual cues and oil capacity (hidden 3 menus deep) or victory points (hidden 3 different menus deep) is how to tell them apart. I'm joking. Somewhat.
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May 14, 2017 05:50
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Robo Captain posted:Everyone jokes about the Bob Semple, but I think the Schofield deserves some love too. edit so I don't double post: Grey, those three TKs all have heavy fires, so they are done for. Great job! CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 03:00 on May 28, 2017 |
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May 28, 2017 02:56
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goatface posted:I think the plan is that their supply is incapable of keeping up with their numbers and renders their units even shittier than normal, so they don't ever have the AV to break out.  The Allied adjusted AV is 0. They have 400k+ troops and no bullets. As long as the IJA has bullets (and they have a road open bringing supplies, and possibly another road opening up) they will hold the siege. I have a question: If a Chinese Army HQ is defeated and surrenders, does that HQ unit respawn in Chungking? Could there be multiple HQ units hanging out waiting for rescue from the siege?
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Jun 12, 2017 03:13
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Night10194 posted:Oh boy. Hellcats. There's no replacement for displacement.
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Jun 27, 2017 20:32
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Grey Hunter posted:I'm going in with historical incompetence.  Your ASW saved your rear end back there, a sub had several tankers and an oiler in its sights. That convoy was juicy as gently caress.
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Jul 2, 2017 19:14
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8 flattops? Rut Roh
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Jul 4, 2017 17:18
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What's more grognardy: that the total airframe production can get shut down without the knowledge of the player, or that once the production is turned on the factories churn out bunches of airframes with the stockpiled supplies, filling the KB squadrons in a few days?
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Jul 16, 2017 02:55
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Kibayasu posted:New Zealand is now Grampa Simpson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkJehlr1tEw Oh and this was all while under fire from the Japanese artillery so some of the cooks and accountants got explodified.
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Jul 25, 2017 02:20
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Night10194 posted:At this point? General orders. An IJA General ordered it to hinder the IJN.
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Jul 27, 2017 18:44
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Well that's gonna suck mightily when the BBs and the Kido Butai come back for replenishment. Unless the Japanese troops are in negative supply because somehow the Allies sneak stole the base and Grey is attacking to take it back before the fleets come home. How did those Allied troops get there in the first place?
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Aug 13, 2017 05:26
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I think Grey had trouble with Midway as the US, and as Japan had very bad invasions of Port Moseby and Darwin.
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Aug 28, 2017 00:50
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I guess unrestricted submarine warfare in Tokyo Bay is what happens when Tokyo Bay Fortress is moved to Luganville. Hey Grey, have you re-taken Rabaul yet?
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Aug 28, 2017 19:07
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Maybe the AI is somehow hindered by the arcane logic of WitP. The Allies sent a submarine to Tokyo harbor, but did not set it to attack. It sat in Tokyo harbor for two weeks, parked at a distant dock and getting refueled. One day a Japanese officer appears with a telegram from the USN stating "You're supposed to sink the Japanese ships." The American sub leaves the dock, slips below the waves, and the man who delivered the letter, the IJA Officer smiles
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Aug 28, 2017 22:11
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gently caress it, chase down the carriers! Put Musashi in a tiny task force that will go back and bombard Noumea
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Sep 17, 2017 06:01
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My bad, Yamato was the one that ate some torps. have her and Nenohi bombard and have the rest chase down the carriers, her speed is a hindrance to the rest of the task force.
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Sep 18, 2017 05:29
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RZApublican posted:They were gonna give the docked ships oil The AI is getting things backwards. They attacked Luganville with cooks, trucks, and then troops with guns. They are now invading Singers with oilers to refuel the invasion force, then supply ships with no troops, then cooks/trucks/troops, then maybe naval attack ships.
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Oct 1, 2017 02:53
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My lucky ship, the Alabama, is now in the Pacific and showing up in reports. Yay!
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Jobbo_Fett posted:
 I'll take SS Drum, the submarine at the same park as the Alabama. edit: The battle report says the Alabama sunk, but the overall report at the end of the post says the New Mexico sank. What's going on? The world wonders. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Oct 31, 2017 |
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Jobbo_Fett posted:
Did you sign me up for the Drum? Now that New Mexico is officially down that means Alabama was truly sank that day.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Yup, its all on the spreadsheet Also, Grey, dude, it's the 3rd even in Hawaii.
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wedgekree posted:Is it worth it to put a lot of your higher experience pilots into training or rear areas so they can work with other squadrons or go back to the pilot pool/reserve so you have them onhand or is the payoff of haing all your elites on the carriers a worthwhile tradeoff so you can inflict maximum pain with them? As the Allies, the complete opposite is true for pilot training. Every Ace should be pulled from the front if possible during the first year and set to training pilots back home. The Allies start out with kinda crap planes and few carriers, but later on get better planes and way more of them, and more carriers. Aces training pilots home will have them ready when the later push in 1943 and 1944 happens. I think at this point Grey has great pilots in the KB that sink lots of ships and dumb pilots in the land based squadrons that keep trying to attack Port Morseby with 4 Betties, but part of that can be blamed on the grognardy rear end game. He's got good land based pilots on the Western front. His fighter squadrons do well against other fighter squadrons and poorly against the big 4 engine bombers (Liberators and B-24s) but that's historically accurate. What's not historically accurate is B-24s hitting naval shipping at anywhere near the rate they are in this game. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 09:45 on Nov 7, 2017 |
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pthighs posted:I believe they are generally random, but you do get some real pilots in both sides, like Thatch and Dick Bong. Are you telling me Wigglesworth wasn't an actual pilot?
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Nov 12, 2017 05:16
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gradenko_2000 posted:Both a transport TF and a carrier TF abhor surface combat. The DD escorts would only have engaged to run interference for the carriers to withdraw, but since the Japanese transports would also have withdrawn immediately on their end, everyone runs away and nothing happens, even if that's not what we think would have happened IRL.
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Nov 21, 2017 18:35
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Leperflesh posted:Is it necessary to take a unit out of strategic move mode after it arrives, or does it do that automatically? The real question is how deep in the menus is the button to move a unit out of strategic mode. Over under is 2.5 levels down. Also, great job Grey at taking control of the seas. Truly battleships (with air cover) are the future. How much oil do you have for those thirsty ships? CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Nov 27, 2017 |
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Nov 27, 2017 06:30
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Usually its not transmitted, and subs don't really want to make calls prior to torpedoing their target, so it ultimately falls in the unfortunate costs of war column
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:Sailing back to Japan at the speed of a dinghy, somebodys cursing higher command Like seriously Grey, Ikazuchi should be sitting in a harbor until Patton drives his tanks into Tokyo. It should never again be part of a fleet. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Jan 8, 2018 |
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Jan 8, 2018 04:36
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I know the US is an industrial powerhouse, but are good showings like today making a dent in the US 4 engine bomber supply? When Grey was the Allies he had problems with keeping them in supply, but he was also trying to strategic bomb the Main Islands from China so his supply chain was wonky.
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Jan 16, 2018 06:35
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Fun fact: At peak production, the Ford Willow Run Bomber Plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan was capable of producing one B-24 Liberator every 63 minutes. During a single three-day span in April 1944, the plant produced one hundred completed bombers, and over the course of the war produced or produced production kits for a total of 8,765 bombers. Oof.
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Ikasuhito posted:In this world the US ends up switching to the dd/mm/yyyy format because of this fiasco. Making this the darkest timeline.
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