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sparkmaster
Apr 1, 2010
Going to be awfully painful when those bonks become booms.

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uPen
Jan 25, 2010

Zu Rodina!

sparkmaster posted:

Going to be awfully painful when those bonks become booms.

2 more months until the first reliability increase.

aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


Better sink some more allied subs til then!

Magni
Apr 29, 2009
At this point the captain of Hermes ought to be looking for an exorcist, because holy hell is she cursed to be a bomb magnet.

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009

wedgekree posted:

So, presuming you sink both RN CV's (Which seems likely as even the one that wasn't thought to be sunk isn't goign to get far if it has moderate damage), how many does Alikchi have left that you're aware of?

This will hurt his ability to raid you in India with hsi CV's like he's been doing, so one more area for a bit lower pressure for a bit.

Well, as we can see the RN still has Ark Royal and Hermes in theatre, the USN has Enterprise, Yorktown, Wasp, Hamilton and Scourge. In addition there are unknown numbers of CVEs, and maybe even a CVL or two now? Or maybe not quite yet.




Jobbo_Fett posted:

Could it be that the destroyer auto-bailed from the Task Force and got further away then everything else (that sunk)?

It shouldn't have, an of course surely he didn't escort two carriers and two cruisers with only a single destroyer. For my part I think this must have been the turn the game crashed, so that's why we didn't turn back, but to know what happened to them you'd have to ask Alikchi.




Jobbo_Fett posted:

Lots of Ops and Air-to-Air losses might've just wiped out all the planes anyways. The armoured carriers would have less than their US counterparts, and they already took part in at least one excursion...

It's possible that they went down with no aircraft at all on their decks, the biplanes have great reliability so they could have flown 100% of their inventory, but I think it kind of unlikely all the same. The massive OP losses do suggest there was a wave airborne that we never even saw, presumably due to weather, that on return were of course unable to land and had to ditch enmasse.




wedgekree posted:

Aww, think both carriers likely survived? And could they get to port? What you think the odds are of having hit them badly enough they went down? Since there were no signs of field losses for planes which would indicate they bubbled?

The odds of both surviving are pretty slim I'd say, but honestly I don't really care - either they're down which is great, or else they are so badly damaged we won't see them until probably '45, by which time the presence or absence of two rather small carriers isn't going to make very much difference to anything. They are out of the war for '43 and the first half of '44, which is when the game is really decided.




Rogue0071 posted:

Is there a reason I'm missing for why you're going after the heavy industry rather than one of the other options? In my experience playing the Allies, I usually have the HI in Australia turned off anyway because the supplies it produces are not worth the fuel it sucks up given how important maintaining fuel reserves for fleet actions around Australia is.

Not really :v:

You're quite right that the light industry would have been the best target, but at the same time the actual damage effect is quite negligible, I'm purely fishing for strat points, not actually trying to cripple Australia's industry, wince Australia's industry, is, as you point out, pretty irrelevant really.




wedgekree posted:

Huh, so that's.. All the RN CV's in the area. Hermes, Ark Royal in Perth, Formidable and Illustrious likely making for the northern ports (if they haven't gone down).. Think you have reasonable chances of sinking any of them if they're all in port or not super likely due to deck armor?

800kg bombs from the Kates are going to rip those girls to shreds. If I was him I'd send them on a sprint due south tonight, but if they aren't in a readiness state then of course that's not an option.




sparkmaster posted:

Going to be awfully painful when those bonks become booms.

Don't even talk about it!

wedgekree
Feb 20, 2013
Nice! Glad that things are looking messy! Looking forwards to the next few days to see how thinsg turn out! Good luck nd hope it makes for some fun turns!

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009



Bonk.




:gonk:




I don’t think another bonk is going to be enough to save her.




I thought she looked small, but if there’s DDs escorting maybe she's actually part of a big convoy passing through :stonk: :gonk:




This is horrible.




Go away!!! *sobs impotently*




This one went for an escort at least.




Come on, it’s now or never.




Yes!!




:rolleyes:




Average weather at Perth.




Bounce these you fuckers!!!




Like butter.




Well where else would it explode?




:vince:




And one for Hermes.




:sickos:




Just casually sink four carriers in four days, nbd.




Jamshedpur’s turn.




Two supply hits!




And the next wave finally gets that Warhawk.




No CAP today opposing us in Australia.




I wonder if the infantry has moved, and the LRCAP with them.




The Anns might have missed the artillery, but the Hellens do good work.




Haven't seen Wapitas in a while.




Oh dear, now he knows how little we have here.




Broome.




Ranchi, where we have some random CAP from somewhere.




Who knows where, but they do bloody good work.




Nice.




But they were only passing through, apparently.




In rough terrain and with forts we scarcely need it anyway.




Or maybe we do need it :thunk:




Hitting Katherine.




I hope our flak gunners are feeling frisky!




They did good.




That’s not all though.




:sickos:




More Vals for Perth.




Well, it all helps I suppose.




Calcutta below 250!!




But quiet at Jamshedpur today.




On it goes.




Where’s my 40 destroyed?!




Benares not so quiet.




Two disabled today at Ranchi :vince:




Ridiculous.







Well. This battle of Western Australia has gone from a consolation prize to a smashing success.





A bunch of carrier planes as OP losses you day :thunk:




I’d actually forgotten about this tanker, and as it turns out frankly she was rather forgettable.




We lay down a new Standard B at Nagoya, due for completion on the 13th of April.




Not quite an already replaced meme, but we do start work in the next dock on a tanker, due the second of June.




Palembang regains peak oil production! :toot:

Refineries are still another month and more out from being fully repaired.




The mini KB is undergoing maintenance at Singapore to recover from their sprints.




It’s now getting worryingly close to 1943, and in anticipation of aerial mine dropping I’m starting to convert spare small freighters into minesweepers. Every port in Liberator range (20 hexes or more) will require minesweepers on permanent duty.

I’m not sure exactly how it works in WitP, never having played a game into ‘43, but I know it was devastating in real life, and I’m not taking chances.







The 22nd is almost here, and so we are moving the Corps HQ back down to Howrah, to ensure they are in range for proper leadership bonus stacking when we attack Calcutta.




The only unit immediately available to reinforce Salem is the 2nd recon Battalion. Not my first pick by any means, but if that’s what we have then that’s what we have.




And the 14th guard regiment, who have been resting at Asansol after I think heavy fighting on the outskirts of Jamshedpur, will be packing to join them. Hopefully they can get there in time to be able to take the short cut, and not have to go all the way around via Trichinopoly.




We’re going to establish a presence at Bangalore, to discourage moving troops out for a thrust towards Salem.




And in that case we might as well start trying to claim more hex sides. I don’t think we’ll ever really take Bangalore, but let’s put some pressure on at least.




We did lose a whole bunch of Vals, so it's time for home. We’re going to Soerabaja for overhauling, rather than back to Darwin directly.

What a difference it makes having the Vals on 10k rather than 15, I really wasn’t expecting it to be so dramatic.




So they have been moving after all.

We’re going to push on with those who are already at Daly Waters, but the lagging remnants of the 40th we will send out west.




And we need to step up the intensity of the bombing to make absolutely sure both enemy divisions get slowed everyday.

Kylaer
Aug 4, 2007
I'm SURE walking around in a respirator at all times in an (even more) OPEN BIDENing society is definitely not a recipe for disaster and anyone that's not cool with getting harassed by CHUDs are cave dwellers. I've got good brain!
How do you say "Scratch two flattops" in Japanese :sickos:

Or do you think they'll be repairable, since it happened in port? I guess regardless they'll be unusable for a long time.

MrYenko
Jun 18, 2012

#2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

Those Val’s are just getting roughed up every time you engage with them. Any timeline on Judy’s?

sniper4625
Sep 26, 2009

Loyal to the hEnd
Dang, that's a successful carrier sortie.

aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


Ooooof that's gotta smart

How does it work in WitP, is there a list of ship types you can convert other ship types, say AKL can turn into x y and z etc? Or is it by characteristics, speed and tonnage eg?

uPen
Jan 25, 2010

Zu Rodina!

aphid_licker posted:

Ooooof that's gotta smart

How does it work in WitP, is there a list of ship types you can convert other ship types, say AKL can turn into x y and z etc? Or is it by characteristics, speed and tonnage eg?

It's by specific ship class. For example, To'su class xAKLs can become patrol boats or minetenders while Miyati class xAKLs become small ship tenders and Kiso class xAKLs can become patrol boats or minetenders or ship tenders. Generally speaking, small freighters turn into patrol boats/tenders/mine tenders while (some) larger freighters can become more useful utility ships like ammo handlers, tankers and seaplane tenders.

aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


uPen posted:

It's by specific ship class. For example, To'su class xAKLs can become patrol boats or minetenders while Miyati class xAKLs become small ship tenders and Kiso class xAKLs can become patrol boats or minetenders or ship tenders. Generally speaking, small freighters turn into patrol boats/tenders/mine tenders while (some) larger freighters can become more useful utility ships like ammo handlers, tankers and seaplane tenders.

Holy cow that feature must've been a pain to implement

Caconym
Feb 12, 2013

aphid_licker posted:

Holy cow that feature must've been a pain to implement

In the database it looks quite similar straight ship class refits and land unit TOE upgrades. It's a field on the ship class where you can specify what other ship classes it can convert to, what kind of shipyard is required and how long it takes.

The real PITA is defining all the ship classes, because devices have no affinities whatsoever, so you have to hunt down the device-IDs of every device on the ship, or scroll through the entire device table in a drop down. Everything from naval rifles or malayan milita squads to engineer vehicles is in one giant "devices" list, and the game happily lets you mix and match freely, the device just wont do anything if it's of the wrong type for the unit container you put it in.

So a ship is an instance of a ship class, and a land unit is an instance of a TOE, and those are just containers for a set of devices.

wedgekree
Feb 20, 2013
Wow, nice raid! Very nice raid

Four carriers that are mission kills even if none go down.

Congratulations on some very good sucess!

aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


Caconym posted:

In the database it looks quite similar straight ship class refits and land unit TOE upgrades. It's a field on the ship class where you can specify what other ship classes it can convert to, what kind of shipyard is required and how long it takes.

The real PITA is defining all the ship classes, because devices have no affinities whatsoever, so you have to hunt down the device-IDs of every device on the ship, or scroll through the entire device table in a drop down. Everything from naval rifles or malayan milita squads to engineer vehicles is in one giant "devices" list, and the game happily lets you mix and match freely, the device just wont do anything if it's of the wrong type for the unit container you put it in.

So a ship is an instance of a ship class, and a land unit is an instance of a TOE, and those are just containers for a set of devices.

Yeah I meant in terms of researching and making an upgrade path call on every fuckin ship class in the Pacific theatre

Randomcheese3
Sep 6, 2011

"It's like no cheese I've ever tasted."

aphid_licker posted:

Yeah I meant in terms of researching and making an upgrade path call on every fuckin ship class in the Pacific theatre

The devs take a lot of shortcuts here - the USN and IJN ships are usually pretty detailed in their upgrade paths, but the British and Dutch ones often just have a single upgrade. Merchant ships also just have one upgrade, and a lot of the classes here are abstracted.

aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


Can't blame em :v:

E: I mean MY IMMERSION, I JUST LOST MY ABILITY TO FEEL HUMAN etc

MrYenko
Jun 18, 2012

#2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

Randomcheese3 posted:

The devs take a lot of shortcuts here - the USN and IJN ships are usually pretty detailed in their upgrade paths, but the British and Dutch ones often just have a single upgrade. Merchant ships also just have one upgrade, and a lot of the classes here are abstracted.

Heh.

Ya’ll should try DaBigBabes scenario files. Adds a gently caress-ton of smaller ship classes and upgrade paths. The one that halves cargo capacities is fun too.

:q:

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

aphid_licker posted:

Sweet Jesus

Apart from the obvious, those bonks have got to be intensely frustrating for him, and I whooped at the freighter getting in a gun battle with the sub
Yeah, a sub getting tired of poo poo torps and surfacing to try with deck guns is always fun, but the frieghter shot back??? That's the really good stuff.



Oh and Pharnakes finding the British CVs in Perth is going to be a lot of fun. How long can the Mini KB stay in the area?

Lakedaimon
Jan 11, 2007

What kind of ships are hanging out at Port Hedlund in Australia just west of your base in Broome? I'm assuming he wouldnt put anything too important there in such close proximity to your airfields and well within striking range of carrier aviation.

Magni
Apr 29, 2009

CannonFodder posted:

Oh and Pharnakes finding the British CVs in Perth is going to be a lot of fun. How long can the Mini KB stay in the area?

Mini-KB is in Singapore. Half the big KB was what just dunked on the british carriers.

Alikchi is probably going to get them outta Perth after emergency repairs. Still, that's basically all british carriers crippled for like half a year+. This really isn't the Empire's war. :britain:

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
Think of all the fuel you’ll save by letting that part of the KB stay in port from now on

Kylaer
Aug 4, 2007
I'm SURE walking around in a respirator at all times in an (even more) OPEN BIDENing society is definitely not a recipe for disaster and anyone that's not cool with getting harassed by CHUDs are cave dwellers. I've got good brain!
If it's split up, isn't it no longer the Kido Butai :ohdear:

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Kylaer posted:

If it's split up, isn't it no longer the Kido Butai :ohdear:

Maybe there's a KiBu and a DoTai.

That's how the Japanese language works, right?

aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


Hope it's a spicy turn today :v:

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009



Still no CAP.




Sweeping over their 40th.




I like that.




The Anns are the tip of the spear today.




And they slow both divisions.




The Nells arrive next and go for some support columns.




Same old at Calcutta.




Wait, they got a supply ht :vince:




No amount of bombing is going to render them combat inefective, at least as far as the threshold of “effective” is kicking the rear end of what’s left of the 40th, but as long as we slow them we can escape.



Wapitas!




Not the most important theatre.




Broome.




Blenheims at Ranchi.




lol Blenheims.




Is he serious about Ranchi now I wonder?




He’s certainly putting in the effort.




Even with this there’s no realistic prospect of a breakout without external rescue.




Lots of bombing though.




Katherine getting it too.




We messed up the Mitchells.




Survived wave one, but how many more to come?




There’s more :ohdear:




Six Zeros against fifteen Fortresses was never going to work.




But they’re too late to block construction of the fortifications, we’re at level five already.




More Nells over their advance.




Solid.




I think that’s the largest 24 hour drop we’ve seen at Calcutta.




Jamshedpur looks promising too.




You know the drill.




Oh, and the British surrender :sickos:




Benares sees the usual.




And so does Ranchi.




Just you wait :argh:







Much quieter today.




Two Liberators and two Mitchells, that’s nice.




We finally make a claim from Perth.




A new submarine at Kobe.




And her sister at Sasebo, also commissioning on the same day.




We finish a new freighter at Fukuoka today, who we will immediately send to Shimonoseki for conversion to a tanker.




Gasmata reaches a level five airfield, where we will be stopping. In theory we could push it to six, but with Rabaul, Milne Bay and soon Umboi Island all having much greater potential I really don’t see the need to invest those kind of resources.




It’s going to be uncomfortably tight to squeeze past them and get back to Katherine, but I think we can do it.

Thank god these artillery batteries are motorised, we really want those heavy guns at Katherine, and they’d never make it in time with mule trains.




The convoy carrying the 22nd has arrived at Diamond Harbour, but no one has yet set foot ashore. It’ll be two or three days to unload, then 2 days to march into Calcutta.

We probably won’t manage an attack before the end of the month, but I sincerely hope we’ll have Calcutta by Christmas.







I kind of doubt he’ll fly the same mission twice in a row to Ranchi, but it’s well worth a shot all the same.




With top cover incase he tries to get cute with Scythe sweeps.




Let’s step this up and finish it.




More mopup.




The 57th JNAF is loading at Singapore for Christmas Island.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench
15 B-17 Fortresses in late 1942. Yeah, it's only going to get worse.

Until it gets ever worser with the B-26.

Woodchip
Mar 28, 2010
Is the Calcutta airfield still getting repaired? If not their supply situation may be getting worse.

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009



Not bonk :(




When the RNG decides to favour him it doesn’t go for half measures. Hopefully that means he’s used up all his mk14 luck for the next few turns.




Liberators at Colombo.




Poor Oscars.




:rip:




A dawn sweep of Jamshedpur.




Action at Beanres today.




Nicely done.




A very well coordinated raid on Jamshedpur.




And they reap the reward in the form of supply hits.




:ohdear:




Uhh what :vince: :sickos:




Broome.




We’ve caught the Havocs over our retreat from Daly Waters.

Thank god for LRCAP, we should be able to handle this and keep moving so long as Mitchells don’t show up.




Uhh, not even one??




:cripes:

That’s bad, and it’s slowed the artillery too, which is Bad.




Sweeping over their advance.




A free Lightning is a good Lightning.




Anns are the first again.




But today they only hit the 32nd.




As does the next wave.




Good conditions at Calcutta, let’s hope we can repeat the supply hit.




Not with only five planes anyway.




Whew, we hit the 40th too.




No supply hit with twelve either :(




:ughh:




Calcutta is really dropping now.




Jamshedpur sees the usual.




Maybe this time?




Haha, it was!




Then maybe these guys will surrender too?




lol nope.




Rather violent at Benares today.




And a squad is outright destroyed at Ranchi, rather than the usual disablement.




He’s noticed us at Bangalore.

As I strongly suspected, he’s got way more stuff than we could possibly assault Bangalore with, but not nearly enough to throw us back either.

Welcome to the next six month stalemate.




:(







Well, we avenged Takao, and now we’ve avenged the 40th Division.




A wild day over Beanres. I’ve no idea what he did wrong, but it must have been something.




A large freighter to lose.




We’re having a well earned rest after wrapping up the 25th Indian.




We get a trial run of the new armed Dinah model at Rabaul - this is very nice since as you can see we have only managed to produce three examples so far.




It’s very weird, these tanks were definitely attacked today, but they didn’t get knocked into combat mode. I mean I’m not complaining, but it’s very strange.




What’s all this then?

It’s pretty unlikely they keep going in a straight line, but if they do we could raid them from the Marshalls in a few days.







The 22nd division has unloaded way faster than I was anticipating, and are 99% ashore already. By the time they reach Calcutta they will be ready to fight, but the first assault will be delayed until the arrival of the Corps HQ, which won’t be until nearly the end of the month.




They’ve retreated into Mangalore before we could attack them, so time to go and see what’s waiting for us.




We can’t take Bangalore, but we can at least limit his manoeuvre options by taking hexsides.




I’m taking the safe option with the artillery and turning them west. It’s disappointing, but if he’s going to bomb us too, we can’t be nearly as sure as I’d like to be about wining the race to Katherine.

Kylaer
Aug 4, 2007
I'm SURE walking around in a respirator at all times in an (even more) OPEN BIDENing society is definitely not a recipe for disaster and anyone that's not cool with getting harassed by CHUDs are cave dwellers. I've got good brain!
Finishing off that pocket looks like it freed up a lot of units. After they've rested, it looks like you could send them to Benares, Ranchi(?), Jamshedpur, or Calcutta. Are they enough force to significantly influence any of those battles? Are you thinking it's possible to domino your way through resolving all those ongoing fights?

aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


Can you just starve out Calcutta? It srsly looks like they're about to evaporate over the next quarter, half year

How does being out of supply work, random squads get disabled and then eventually destroyed?

Kylaer
Aug 4, 2007
I'm SURE walking around in a respirator at all times in an (even more) OPEN BIDENing society is definitely not a recipe for disaster and anyone that's not cool with getting harassed by CHUDs are cave dwellers. I've got good brain!

aphid_licker posted:

Can you just starve out Calcutta? It srsly looks like they're about to evaporate over the next quarter, half year

How does being out of supply work, random squads get disabled and then eventually destroyed?

IIRC there was some magical supply source at the siege of Bandoeng that kept producing supplies despite the city being entirely cut off, I'm assuming Calcutta can do the same. But I've never played the game and freely admit that I don't understand supplies, or what supply hits translate to.

aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


Kylaer posted:

IIRC there was some magical supply source at the siege of Bandoeng that kept producing supplies despite the city being entirely cut off, I'm assuming Calcutta can do the same. But I've never played the game and freely admit that I don't understand supplies, or what supply hits translate to.

That was some Bandoeng-specific thing, in principle you can indeed starve units out.

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009

Kylaer posted:

How do you say "Scratch two flattops" in Japanese :sickos:

Or do you think they'll be repairable, since it happened in port? I guess regardless they'll be unusable for a long time.

They are almost certainly repairable (well possibly not Hermes, being so small, but being so small Hermes is pretty irrelevant).




MrYenko posted:

Those Val’s are just getting roughed up every time you engage with them. Any timeline on Judy’s?

The Judy is in full production, and nearing sufficient in the pool to outfit one carrier.




CannonFodder posted:

Yeah, a sub getting tired of poo poo torps and surfacing to try with deck guns is always fun, but the frieghter shot back??? That's the really good stuff.



Oh and Pharnakes finding the British CVs in Perth is going to be a lot of fun. How long can the Mini KB stay in the area?

I don't think I've ever seen an xAKL fight off a submarine before, the captain of Gunnel must be a massive coward.




Lakedaimon posted:

What kind of ships are hanging out at Port Hedlund in Australia just west of your base in Broome? I'm assuming he wouldnt put anything too important there in such close proximity to your airfields and well within striking range of carrier aviation.

According to recon just barges and PT boats, and as you say it surely can't be much more.




Magni posted:

Mini-KB is in Singapore. Half the big KB was what just dunked on the british carriers.

Alikchi is probably going to get them outta Perth after emergency repairs. Still, that's basically all british carriers crippled for like half a year+. This really isn't the Empire's war. :britain:

Yeah, the RN's capability to influence the outcome of the war is basically removed now. They'll be back, but only once the game has entered the "get dunked on by Essexes" phase, during which the RN will be pretty irrelevant. The mod does have a few nice things for them yet to come, but without the rest of the fleet to support them they will have to just sit in port.




CannonFodder posted:

Maybe there's a KiBu and a DoTai.

That's how the Japanese language works, right?

This is now cannon.




CannonFodder posted:

15 B-17 Fortresses in late 1942. Yeah, it's only going to get worse.

Until it gets ever worser with the B-26.

Oh, the superfort isn't even the half of it in this mod.




Woodchip posted:

Is the Calcutta airfield still getting repaired? If not their supply situation may be getting worse.

It's impossible to tell with the bombing, but there's no doubt their supply situation is getting worse, the only question is how worse exactly has it got. The rate of AV drop compared to the actual direct casualties we inflict suggest pretty loving dire, but we can only really confirm that by launching a ground attack, which isn't something we want to half rear end, since there isn't any kind of way to do a probing attack/recon by fire in WitP. Well, other than bombardments, which we are already doing. And which really take recon by fire entirely too literally :v:




Kylaer posted:

Finishing off that pocket looks like it freed up a lot of units. After they've rested, it looks like you could send them to Benares, Ranchi(?), Jamshedpur, or Calcutta. Are they enough force to significantly influence any of those battles? Are you thinking it's possible to domino your way through resolving all those ongoing fights?

It frees up a good chunk yes, but like the men we have at Benares this is the tip of our spear, and we don't want to use them for slugfests like Calcutta or Jamshedpur. If and when we take Calcutta we will be using that stack to hit Jamshedpur, and then yes I absolutely hope we can finally punish Alikchi for his strategy of static point defences by just waltzing around smashing them one at a time with our full strength.

It will be the role of our elite units to be mobile and foil any counter attacks that might try to force us to split up our doom stack.




aphid_licker posted:

Can you just starve out Calcutta? It srsly looks like they're about to evaporate over the next quarter, half year

How does being out of supply work, random squads get disabled and then eventually destroyed?

We could, eventually. At current progress it would take another 4-6 months, which I don't feel like waiting for.




Kylaer posted:

IIRC there was some magical supply source at the siege of Bandoeng that kept producing supplies despite the city being entirely cut off, I'm assuming Calcutta can do the same. But I've never played the game and freely admit that I don't understand supplies, or what supply hits translate to.

In fact I'm pretty sure there wasn't. Literal interpretation of the manual would suggest there was, but observation since in how industry on our side behaves in contested hexes would counter that. There must have just been an absolute poo poo ton of supply to start with, and likewise Calcutta I#'m 99% sure isn't producing supplies.

Triggerhappypilot
Nov 8, 2009

SVMS-01 UNION FLAG GREATEST MOBILE SUIT

ENACT = CHEAP EUROTRASH COPY




What's your plan for Australia? Hold the line as long as possible before evacuating?

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009



:argh:




First time we’ve seen a target in ages, and you gently caress it up.




Not the first time we’ve seen Liberators over Colombo.




At least we have storms.




Jesus wept, poor Oscars.




:argh:




I’m not happy with this reversal of submarine fortunes.




Free Lightning!




Speaking of reversals :v:




One is still there, but he isn’t engaging.




The Anns slow the 32nd, which probably has a higher DB number than the 40th.




Still bashing Calcutta.




And we do at least know it’s still possible to get the odd supply hit.




But not today.




We slow the 40th too.




The LRCAP has wandered away from Daly Waters.




I mean that’s great, but we really need the artillery protected.




The Fortresses have not changed their targeting.




Did we get one?!?




We did!




And now the Havocs have a clear run at our artillery in Daly Waters.




No casualties, but it probably slowed us.




Vindicators don’t cause any direct damage either.




Mitchells come for our 40th.




Dead Mitchells are worth more than dead Hudsons, at least.




They are direct attacking at Broome?




Could he be thinking of an assault here? Surely not.




The Nells have waited until the afternoon, and their LRCAP is renewed.




And sure enough, they got caught on the way out :(




Gar is back for the coup de grace.




:(




Calcutta though is enough to cheer anyone up.




And Jamshedpur.




They’re going to need a lot more guns to crack us here. Unfortunately they have a lot more guns, and I’m confused why we haven’t seen any of them yet.




But not at Ranchi they don’t.




Expect a lot of this in the future.




And this :(

But hopefully not this for too long.







I am reasonably certain that both Calcutta and Jamshedpur are now totally out of supplies, and taking heavy losses to starvation independent of anything we’re doing.




A heavy day in the air for both sides.




This is unsustainable.







The only effective form of ASW we possess is aerial patrols, so we need more air bases.




Chiyoda is heading home for conversion.




It seems like Gove isn’t going to autoflip without some combat capable troops present, so we will paradrop on it.




We’re loading up the 2nd Amphibious brigade for Wake.

Pharnakes fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Jan 14, 2022

Akratic Method
Mar 9, 2013

It's going to pay off eventually--I'm sure of it.

Any day now.

Pharnakes posted:

The paratroopers plant the flag at Gove, a task for which you need a gun, apparently.

I mean, if people parachute into your town and say they've conquered it, but none of them have guns, you just kinda tell them to gently caress off.

Kylaer
Aug 4, 2007
I'm SURE walking around in a respirator at all times in an (even more) OPEN BIDENing society is definitely not a recipe for disaster and anyone that's not cool with getting harassed by CHUDs are cave dwellers. I've got good brain!
Gove is right next door to Grooyt Eyland, isn't it just asking to get flattened?

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aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


Dumb question, do you get points for squads that starve (I assume they can starve)?

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