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I'll take HMS Illustrious. She got along well enough last time, after all... ... 
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Oh man, ground floor on another one of THESE LPs. Awesome. Sign me up for the HMS Royal Sovereign. It sounds impressive, it should BE impressive. Despite being a BB in a CV's world. ...Also it doesn't take years to appear and doesn't go away. That too.
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I remember there was a scenario where Japan gets a lot of goodies to make playing against them a bigger challenge. What exactly do they get again?
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Dec 8, 2014 23:14
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The last thread was amazing, so this one should be as well. USS Wasp for me, if she's not taken.
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brb on fire posted:Oh man, ground floor on another one of THESE LPs. Awesome. Sign me up for the HMS Royal Sovereign. It sounds impressive, it should BE impressive. Despite being a BB in a CV's world. Well, it gets donated to the Soviets in '44, so.... And it's slow and (mostly) unupgraded, so no doubt the AI will have it flagging carrier groups.
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Dec 8, 2014 23:50
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Sign me up for CA Ashigara.
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Davin Valkri posted:Somebody needs to keep track of this and post the kills as they show up. My first post in this thread will have a confirmed kill list in it, approved by Grey Hunter. I'll only be including Allied ships confirmed sunk in combat reports as opposed to the wildly inaccurate intelligence reports, and marked in spoilers so as not to ruin any suspense either by those of us watching the LP or anyone who comes in late to the party. Jonad posted:Sign me up for CA Ashigara. Already taken
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Neophyte posted:I'm looking forward to GH showing how ridiculously complicated the Japanese industry control is in this game. I've read AARs on the Matrix forums, but it still just looks like a bunch of numbers to me. HI points, R&D, engines...ecch.  I'll claim BB USS Alabama as my lucky ship, I drive past it twice a week as it sits in Mobile Bay.
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 ...Do I get to pick again? How did I miss that? Actually, screw it. There's a charm in cheering on a lovely bucket of bolts. Who knows, it could even do something useful ah who am i kidding you're never even going to find the sodding thing. My curiosity compels me though: What did the Soviets do with it after 1944?
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Dec 9, 2014 01:49
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Used it to guard arctic convoys going in to northern Europe.
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Dec 9, 2014 01:52
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I'll take USS Saint Paul.
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How is the entire thread not talking about GH striking out on the Pearl Harbor BBs?? That is so Grey Hunter LP!
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gohuskies posted:How is the entire thread not talking about GH striking out on the Pearl Harbor BBs?? That is so Grey Hunter LP! He probably got at least one, FoW on airstrikes can be pretty severe. Even then, the difference between a sunk BB and one that's out of commission for 6-12 months is just VP.
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Dec 9, 2014 02:17
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If they're all still afloat, the AI might actually try and repair them all. Drydocks backed up until 1950.
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Dreamsicle posted:I remember there was a scenario where Japan gets a lot of goodies to make playing against them a bigger challenge. What exactly do they get again? The Hakko Ichiu scenario adds something like 4 brigade-sized land units, about 200-300 more planes in the starting pool, 3 more light cruisers, 20 more destroyers, the Shinano as a Taiho-class carrier, all Japanese CVLs coming with their own organic air groups, 1500 more pilots in the pool and twice as many monthly pilot replacements, larger resource stockpiles, more shipyards, factories and R&D It basically frontloads Japan: you have more stuff to fight with right off the bat, but everything costs more so any delays in actually grabbing the DEI will have more dire consequences. And then if you can last that long you have enough shipbuilding capacity to finish most of your capital ships by 1944. There's also an Ironman scenario that then gives Japan all sorts of unrealistic bullshit, like enough carriers to fight the Allied flood of Essexes to a standstill.
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Dec 9, 2014 02:24
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Can I get CA Mogami?
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There's only one choice--the real-life lucky ship, BB Nevada. Survived six bomb hits at Pearl Harbor, four theaters of war, two atomic bomb hits, and then even the Iowa couldn't sink her. A ship that wanted to live.
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Grey Hunter- Unlike the IRL Imperial Navy, do you have an actual PLAN to win the war? Invade Australia? New Zealand? Hawaii? The US? Russia? Please tell us now so we can see where you are 1-4 years from now. I claim HMAS Hobart (D63) if it's available. 
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Dec 9, 2014 02:58
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Already taken poo poo, they're going fast. I'm pretty sure there's not a single Japanese ship bigger than a light cruiser that isn't taken. So I'll take the light cruiser Yura.
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Dec 9, 2014 04:50
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Jonad posted:poo poo, they're going fast. I'm pretty sure there's not a single Japanese ship bigger than a light cruiser that isn't taken. So I'll take the light cruiser Yura. If memory serves me correctly, there should still be some Heavy Cruisers available, along with a few other capital ships. I'll do up a tally later tonight for some random statistical fun.
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Caconym posted:And for shits and giggles, here's the american roster... How do you access this screen? I'm trying to find out what bullshit the Japanese get in the ironman scenario.
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Dreamsicle posted:How do you access this screen? I'm trying to find out what bullshit the Japanese get in the ironman scenario. Intelligence Reports -> Ship Availability According to my game (Forget what version), Ironman Japan has 14 CVs, 9 CVLs, 8 CVEs, 8 BBs (Which include the GNEISENAU and SCHARNHORST), 2 BCs (Admiral Scheer and Lutzow), 3 CAs (Admiral Hipper, Seydlitz and Prinz Eugen) either being built or set to arrive in convoys/task forces. They also have 8 CVs, 6 CVLs, 7, CVEs, 13 BBs (Which include the Yamato and Musashi), and plenty of CA/CL/DDs currently in the water. Edit: Version 1.0.6.1108r9
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I think the only way Ironman could be more funny is if Japan were also sent the never actually completed German CV Graf Zeppelin along with most of the Italian Regia Marina. Basically the Axis realizes that the only way this naval thing is going to work is if they put all their eggs in one basket.
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Dec 9, 2014 06:33
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Grey is going to leave? Shouldn't he stay and bomb the port facilities some more?
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RZApublican posted:I think the only way Ironman could be more funny is if Japan were also sent the never actually completed German CV Graf Zeppelin along with most of the Italian Regia Marina. Basically the Axis realizes that the only way this naval thing is going to work is if they put all their eggs in one basket. The Graf Zeppelin has to stay behind in Germany along with the Bismarck in case those upstart Brits try anything funny again. The RM sending the Aquila or Sparviero along with some Conte Di Cavour/Andrea Doria Battleships as an Italian Force Z would've been pretty neat.
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Dec 9, 2014 06:45
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Might as well take the IJN DD Ayanami.
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Dec 9, 2014 07:14
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HMS (CVL) Unicorn for me! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Unicorn_(I72)  Thank You for being insane Grey Hunter.
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Dreamsicle posted:I'm trying to find out what bullshit the Japanese get in the ironman scenario. On Dec 7, the Japanese have: * The big 6 Kido Butai, plus another Junyo-class CV (1 more than historical) * The Ryujo and 3 other Chitose-class CVLs (2 more than historical) * 7 CVEs (5 more than historical) * 12 BBs, including the Yamato and Musashi already built (2 more than historical) * 28 CAs and 40 CLs (10 more CAs and 21 more CLs than historical) * 5955 land-based planes (3345 more than historical) * 1868 naval planes (1159 more than historical) * 1745 planes in pool (867 more than historical) * 3200 IJN pilots in pool, 3802 IJA pilots in pool, 640 additional pilots per month, starting with 55 experience (historical: 1700 IJN, 2202 IJA, 345 replacements per month with 35 experience) They're slated to receive or build: * 15 CVs, with 12 of them arriving before 1945 (5 more than historical) * 11 CVLs, all before May 1943 (8 more than historical) * 8 CVEs (same as historical, but Ironman has them built sooner) * 9 BBs, all before Oct 1943, and 2 (German) Battlecruisers (9 more than historical) * 3 CAs and 14 CLs (no additional CAs historically, 9 more CLs than historical) * 164 DDs, 173 subs (47 more DDs and 9 more subs than historical, most new subs are Operation Taifun German U-boats * 563 tranports/merchantmen, 192 oilers/tankers (30 more transports/merchantmen, 12 more oilers/tankers) * 140 landing craft/landing ships (87 more than historical) On top of all that, R&D is sped up such that they can get the better Zeroes, Jills and Judys much faster, you can produce the knock-off Me-262s by 1944, and most island bases produce their own supplies so that the Allies cannot starve them out without engaging in strategic bombing even for places like Truk or the Marshall islands.
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You're insane. I'll take USS Augusta: CA-31
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Lucky Ship stats end of Dec 08 Participants: 99 Participants by nation: Japan: 46 USA: 33 United Kingdom: 11 Australia: 3 New Zealand: 2 Dutch: 1 French: 1 N/A: 2 Participants by ship type: CV: 22 CVL: 2 CVE: 2 BB: 28 BC: 2 CA: 20 CL: 10 DD: 8 SS: 3 Island: 2 Participant deaths so far: 1
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Participant deaths so far: 1 Whoever has the Prince of Wales. We are sorry. Please have your second post the video of your ritual suicide. Please attempt to make all three cuts to satisfy honour. Wait a sec, my assistant is whispering something in my ear.......what, we're not doing that?..... Illegal?..... Oh Ok then. Disregard my last. Readingaccount posted:Grey is going to leave? Shouldn't he stay and bomb the port facilities some more? I should, but I want to keep some of the experienced carrier fighters, and the losses are to high for my taste. I don't want to burn the fighters then run into the returning American carriers!
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Grey Hunter posted:Whoever has the Prince of Wales. We are sorry. Please have your second post the video of your ritual suicide. Please attempt to make all three cuts to satisfy honour. I'm tempted to make a video of the Prince of Wales being sunk, only I'd have to substitute the G3Ms for G4Ms.
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Grey Hunter posted:I should, but I want to keep some of the experienced carrier fighters, and the losses are to high for my taste. I don't want to burn the fighters then run into the returning American carriers! But now post war forum posters will argue endlessly that a 3rd day attacking port facilities and oil tanks would have won you the war.
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Comstar posted:But now post war forum posters will argue endlessly that a 3rd day attacking port facilities and oil tanks would have won you the war. Not invading Vancouver will be his greatest mistake
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Dec 9, 2014 09:48
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If we're still open for lucky ships, I'll take the old tub o' bolts, the HMAS Adelaide.wikipedia posted:Laid down: 20 November 1915 
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Dec 9, 2014 09:53
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Thanks to Caconym's list I'll take the USS Ticonderoga, and I'll see you all in three years!
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I will take the USS BB California although I'm pretty sure she is already doomed, drat you Grey Hunter! (Failing that, I will take the USS CA San Francisco) Zip! fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Dec 9, 2014 |
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Jobbo_Fett posted:The RM sending the Aquila or Sparviero along with some Conte Di Cavour/Andrea Doria Battleships as an Italian Force Z would've been pretty neat. Might have to conquer slices of Africa for use as fueling stations on the way.
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The Merry Marauder posted:Might have to conquer slices of Africa for use as fueling stations on the way. Hey, they had Abyssinia/Ethiopia!
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