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WARNING! Reports are coming in that Japanese forces are attacking Pearl Harbor for the third time! Complete surprise has been achieved and our forces are taking casualties. Newly (re)installed PACOM - Grey Hunter, is apparently flabbergasted that this can happen three times. The War In the Pacific has started. Day by day again? ARE YOU INSANE?!! I think that question no longer needs answering. Wibble. Do we need to stage in intervention here? Nope! My wife just shook her head, and my son who was not born when the last playthrough started and three by the time it ended has no idea what I’m taking about. (he’s four and a half now, unless I burn out, he’ll be eight by the time I get done. (And will probably have his own channel with 10x the subscribers I do.) Though I will link my patreon page here, as someone may ask in the next few years. Def no obligation though! So how is this different. To the last two bloody times you have done this? Well, this time, I’m playing as the Allies (As the Allied AI falls over and cries about early 1942) - but on the hardest possible difficulty mode. Also, I’m doing it as a video LP, as hat way you can get a real feel for my hatred of Betties and MKXIV Torpedoes. (plus its just quicker for me to do.) I’m new here, and at this point I’m afraid to ask What I’m doing here is playing Matrix Games’ War in the Pacific, Admirals Edition. A game that covers the entire pacific theater in WWII, with every plane, ship and formation tracked. It has daily turns, and I shall be posting one a turn. For the next three to four years. This is the third time I will be doing this. Shame I don’t like video LP’s This is a hard one for me, but I felt that doing another SS LP of the game would send me madd(er) - this keeps it a bit fresher for me and allows me to vent a bit more when the game’s arcane black box throws out some stupid result. Sorry to those who were hoping for a SS, but I have to do what interests me. So! Without further ado! Here is the first in a long, long stream of videos! Heavy losses, but I’ve had worse. But let’s see how we go from there!
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 19:16 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 18:58 |
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Of course the Repulse is down on Day 1 this time. Now, who is madder, you for doing this for the third time, or me watching this in real time for the third time? Is entiewetok ready for the sudden influx of j-rations?
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 19:25 |
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godspeed you insane bastard
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 19:25 |
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You absolute madman. Are we doing lucky ships again? If so, I claim the USS Lexington
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 19:26 |
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You absolute madman.
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 19:27 |
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Grey Hunter posted:
Wasn't the Shaw in a drydock (that was flooded) during the attack? Funny that it took at torpedo.
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 19:32 |
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Shine on you crazy diamond. Read the first 2 threads, in on the ground floor for the third.
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 19:34 |
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You beautiful bastard, I READ YOUR THREADS! Claiming the BB North Carolina so Grey can sink her around Midway or something like that. You absolute madman.
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 19:37 |
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I had plenty of warning that this was coming, but I am still completely shocked.
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 19:40 |
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Grey, watching the video... Is the decision to leave your subs' "max react" at zero deliberate? If so, what's the reasoning?
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 19:47 |
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Start calling your lucky boats, folks. CA Chokai for me Spreadsheet below: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1w7-ve4QXtgiy1uf012NqsA9OF757jxPHBZtNg7jTnno/edit?usp=sharing Jobbo_Fett fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Dec 7, 2020 |
# ? Dec 7, 2020 20:03 |
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And it begins again!! Well, let's reward the ship who was one of the few things that went well when I tried to command Guadalcanal... Claiming USS Washington! (BB) (Mainly because the HMS Valiant basically did sod all in Allies 1 ...) (PS Spreadsheet is view only currently.) Serpentis fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Dec 7, 2020 |
# ? Dec 7, 2020 20:15 |
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In honor of ol' Brooklyn Bruiser, wherever he is now, I'll be claiming the one, the only... Acebuckeye13 fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Dec 7, 2020 |
# ? Dec 7, 2020 20:18 |
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I would like to claim the USS Hornet Excited to see this back.
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 20:31 |
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Just like the last game I'm claiming the IJN Katsuragi (CV) because I really want to believe that this game will go all the way to 1945
zetamind2000 fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Dec 7, 2020 |
# ? Dec 7, 2020 20:33 |
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Serpentis posted:And it begins again!! Spreadsheet is always view only.
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 20:34 |
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You are a madman, Grey. Also I'd like to claim the Akagi.
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 20:37 |
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USS Yorktown please!
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 20:52 |
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I can't help but feel that all of Grey's experience with the game will just lead to its flaws being exposed earlier. 100 IJN DDs stuck at Ceylon and who knows what's going on in China.
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 20:53 |
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Spreadsheet is always view only. Ah right - my apologies, got a bit too eager Back on topic - how bad was the Prince of Wales? Saw a lot of red damage numbers but she was at least making some headway from what I saw.
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 20:54 |
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I will be taking my traditional choice of the USS IOWA May the war be still going by the time she arrives.
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 20:55 |
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Serpentis posted:Ah right - my apologies, got a bit too eager No need to apologize, no offense was taken
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 21:05 |
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I'm claiming USS Boise -- death or glory!
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 21:06 |
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USS Tang!
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 21:29 |
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This is madness. I'm in all the way. I'll claim USS Seawolf.
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 21:33 |
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I'll take HMAS Canberra as my lucky ship
V for Vegas fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Dec 7, 2020 |
# ? Dec 7, 2020 21:37 |
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I'll be adopting CV Taiho. Surely it can't end worse than how it went in real life, right????(he says, in 2020)
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 22:00 |
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Gewehr 43 posted:Wasn't the Shaw in a drydock (that was flooded) during the attack? Funny that it took at torpedo. And an unflooded one at that, originally. Perhaps the IJN air arm have already discovered skip-torpedo technology.
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 22:04 |
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I'm claiming the destroyer USS Johnston.
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 22:05 |
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I'll take MV British Motorist as my lucky ship.
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 22:17 |
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 22:19 |
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I’ll take the IJN Musashi (BB)
Comrade Koba fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Dec 7, 2020 |
# ? Dec 7, 2020 22:43 |
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In these terrible times, I'm glad there is the ever reliable WiTP Day by Day! Always something to look forward to after a hard day. Good to see Admiral Hunter once again. Lucky ship? HMS Dragon please!
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 23:02 |
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Robert Deadford posted:In these terrible times, I'm glad there is the ever reliable WiTP Day by Day! Always something to look forward to after a hard day. I feel the same way. I'll take the USS Farragut (DD) as my lucky ship. drat the torpedoes (both the IJN's and our Mk. XIVs), full speed ahead!
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# ? Dec 8, 2020 00:38 |
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I'll take the first USS Wasp.
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# ? Dec 8, 2020 01:58 |
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I'll take the Queen Elizabeth! No, not that one, the xAP Queen Elizabeth. Such a bother my nice cruise got interrupted by this kerfuffle. Let's get this over with so I can get back to my shuffleboard and alcoholism!
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# ? Dec 8, 2020 03:18 |
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It's a long way out but I had USS Intrepid as my lucky ship in the first game, here's for round two
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# ? Dec 8, 2020 04:26 |
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Robert Deadford posted:In these terrible times, I'm glad there is the ever reliable WiTP Day by Day! Always something to look forward to after a hard day. 2020 sucks, lets make 2021 better, one sunken Royal Navy ship at a time!
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# ? Dec 8, 2020 04:27 |
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Good God man. You are going to have mental break. I bought this game because of the original thread. I have never made it past June 1943. I look forward to the tense aerial combat. I'll take the CA Portland as my lucky ship.
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# ? Dec 8, 2020 05:12 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 18:58 |
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I claim CA Northampton! I don't know why I have such a fascination with the ship, I just do.
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# ? Dec 8, 2020 06:30 |