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Grey Hunter posted:I keep wondering if I should just run a Call of Cthulhu/Trail of Cthulhu PBP game to answer the mysteries of Eniwetok and TBF once and for all..... Once ran a CoC game that ended at the Bikini Atoll tests. The ships that were a part of the "test" were actually manned by a mix of volunteer sailors and religious fanatics and were used as a way to draw Cthulhu into the lagoon to keep him busy while he got nuked. Meanwhile, the PCs and Dr. Robert Oppenheimer were desperately fighting their way across R'lyeh to reach a point where another atomic blast would shift the geography of the island enough to put it out of alignment with the stars and cause the city to once again sink under the waves.
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vyelkin posted:An unsupported Royal New Zealand Air Force base force. An NZ higher up was especially peeved that he did not receive his box of cigars.
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A White Guy posted:An NZ higher up was especially peeved that he did not receive his box of cigars.
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Grey, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Ise got in some hits on a fleet carrier, it is more than I hoped.
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Still nice conclusion to the Battle of Milne Bay campaign! A brutal slugfest that leaves most of the Allied Carrier fleet sank to the depths, possibly an entire task force obliterated - it will be interesting to see over th enext couple of weeks as reports trickle in and sinkings are confirmd, and we see if any of the CV's got away or not. It worth it to increase some patrols at Pearl harbor with subs to see if you catch anything on teh way back in?
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Zeroisanumber posted:Once ran a CoC game that ended at the Bikini Atoll tests. The ships that were a part of the "test" were actually manned by a mix of volunteer sailors and religious fanatics and were used as a way to draw Cthulhu into the lagoon to keep him busy while he got nuked. Meanwhile, the PCs and Dr. Robert Oppenheimer were desperately fighting their way across R'lyeh to reach a point where another atomic blast would shift the geography of the island enough to put it out of alignment with the stars and cause the city to once again sink under the waves. So that sounds pretty drat fantastic.
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   Phew. Destroyers protect your ships!  Milne Bay will be listed in so many war histories.  The harbour here must be mostly wreaked ships.   I despise these bombers.   The Chinese generals are getting more and more desperate. This is a massive loss of squads.   A nice day of kills with minimal losses.  We get a few legacy kills.
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Ouch. Now that you've opened a supply route to Chunking the Chinese can't really do anything but throw human waves at you and hope for the best. And considering that their numerical advantage is less than 2:1 while their adjusted assault value craters to one-thirty-seventh of it's starting value while yours increases to nearly four times it's own I don't think that's gonna work very well for them in the long run.
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quote:The Chinese generals are getting more and more desperate. This is a massive loss of squads. Your men must be getting close to their pre-set kill limit.
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Mycroft Holmes posted:in this timeline, its space battleship north carolina. SUCK IT OHIO 
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Shame he had to go back. Apparently there's something about Ohio that makes its residents want to fling themselves off the planet.
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Crazycryodude posted:Shame he had to go back. Apparently there's something about Ohio that makes its residents want to fling themselves off the planet. I'm from Ohio and I'm trying to get a job building the things to fling people off the planet. It's some unnamed force really.
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CannonFodder posted:First in Flight: TO SPACE THIS TIME His only mistake was coming back.
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3 December 1942 RN escort destroyer Penylan, torpedoed by an E-boat in the Channel.
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Zeroisanumber posted:His only mistake was coming back. Oh, I thought it was the spelling.
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  A Air HQ is on the way to get these guys torps, but its a long way across the ocean.  We take down a Lightning.  Not much of interest today, but I'm sallying the big ships once more! 
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Grey Hunter posted:Not much of interest today, but I'm sallying the big ships once more! Hornet_sinks_the_entire_Japanese_line.jpg
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Triggerhappypilot posted:Hornet_sinks_the_entire_Japanese_line.jpg Those are BBs, so it's more like Pearl_Harbor_but_done_PROPERLY_THIS_TIME_MY_GOD_NAGUMO.jpg
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If there's anything left in that bay.. Good luck Grey!
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wedgekree posted:If there's anything left in that bay.. Good luck Grey! There's plenty left. On the bottom.
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bunnyofdoom posted:There's plenty left. On the bottom. So is the goal to send the rest of the things that aren't on the bottom down to it for completion?
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No but really, shouldn't they have more air support? I'm scared Grey. Tell me it's gunna be ok.
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Ron Jeremy posted:No but really, shouldn't they have more air support? Relax! IJN AA is excellent! 
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Not to mention the finest damage control on the 7 seas! 
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  Every day a bit more of my luck is used up.  The Age of the Battleship continues!  A least we're continuing to cause operational losses.  The battleships score two more kills. We also see another carriers worth of planes lost “destroyed on field”  We confirm two kills, but gain 703 points this turn, some of this (200) is from base point fluctuations, 90 from killed planes, this leaves roughly a carrier worth of points! Lets see how long the papers take to report this.
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Grey Hunter posted:We also see another carriers worth of planes lost “destroyed on field” 
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For all its grogginess, the game lacks non-English characters and for some reason labels Norwegian vessels as Commonwealth: http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/3200.html
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Grey Hunter posted:
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Arbite posted:How's the Mutsu doing? Knowing IJN damage control, someone probably tried to plug a leaking fuel oil tank by wedging a 41cm shell into the hole and pounding on the back of it with a sledgehammer.
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4 December 1942 Italian cruiser Muzio Attendolo, sunk by aircraft while undergoing repair at Naples.
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So how many carriers worth of planes have the Allies had as 'operational losses'?
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wedgekree posted:So how many carriers worth of planes have the Allies had as 'operational losses'? All of them. The ones that matter, at least, they've probably got some garbage CVE's and such left.
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Crazycryodude posted:All of them. The ones that matter, at least, they've probably got some garbage CVE's and such left. Battle off Samar says gently caress YOU, CVEs TOTALLY MATTER! 
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Crazycryodude posted:All of them. The ones that matter, at least, they've probably got some garbage CVE's and such left. So theoretical best possible circumstances Enterprise and Lexington are alive but burning wrecks so will spend months being refitted and have all thier air groups dead so they'll be facing us if they do again with completely green air crews, and maybe Hornet is out there (I think someone said on an earlier page she was still alive). So best possible possibilities for the Allies is they have one intact CV with airgroup, two badly mauled ones that will spend months being repaired, and a bunch of light ships that they'll probably feed to us one by one. Well, plus all thier non blown up BB's.
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wedgekree posted:So theoretical best possible circumstances Enterprise and Lexington are alive but burning wrecks so will spend months being refitted and have all thier air groups dead so they'll be facing us if they do again with completely green air crews, and maybe Hornet is out there (I think someone said on an earlier page she was still alive). I don't think that any of those ships that we hit made it back to Sydney.
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Judging by the point jumps Big E and Lexington are more than just hulked, they're sunk for good. There are literally no American CV's (can't remember if the rest of the Allies have any) left (besides Hornet?), and when fresh ones show up they'll have to start with green pilots. The Battle of Milne Bay tilted the carrier war firmly in Grey's favor for quite a while. God, I wish I could read this universe's version of Shattered Sword/Eagle. Crazycryodude fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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Zeroisanumber posted:I don't think that any of those ships that we hit made it back to Sydney. Wasn't one of them basically stranded out in the ocean after the first battle with no oilers left to refuel it? It must have racked up enough system damage to sink by now. zetamind2000 fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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great carrier reef
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Tiler Kiwi posted:great carrier reef This pun...mwah 
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Tiler Kiwi posted:great carrier reef 
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