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This is madness. I'm in all the way. I'll claim USS Seawolf.
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Grumio posted:You absolute madman. Reply #3, day #3, a coincidence? I think not!
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Dec 9, 2020 19:40
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The USS Seawolf would like to forward video of today's action to BuOrd. Six clunks! On the same ship! Fix the torpedoes, dammit! Had to freaking surface and finish her off with the deck guns. When seven torpedoes hit a merchant ship, that ship should be in itty bitty pieces all over the general vicinity, not steaming away at full speed. (I picked a sub knowing this would be a problem, but that's still an amazingly irritating thing to see!)
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Dec 14, 2020 19:45
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Now imagine what it was like for the actual submariners in the actual war! Oh, for sure. I almost put something about it being amusing, but the thought of actually being in a tin can whose primary protection is not being seen and tasked with doing your job using only weapons that just plain don't work isn't amusing at all. I've also played a fair amount of Silent Hunter on realistic settings (and a lot more on less realistic ones, to be fair), and the early part of the campaign is miserable if you're in any of the boats that load Mark 14s.
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Dec 14, 2020 21:02
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Yeah, the map takes some getting used to. My understanding is that it's done the way it is to make distances accurate without needing to distort the actual shape of the map, but I'm sure other people know a lot more about that than me.
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Dec 15, 2020 21:41
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Given Japanese damage control, it seems unlikely that the Ryujo will survive to make it back to port. She's practically unarmored, so all those shell hits should have done pretty serious damage. Shame about the Dutch TF, though.
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Jan 5, 2021 19:37
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Yeah, that's a totally reasonable tradeoff. The US alone had 377 destroyers in WW2, and while cruisers are harder to come by, two light cruisers and three destroyers is a trade you'll take every time for either destroying or long-term crippling one of the IJN's handful of carriers. It'll become a worse trade if the Kido Butai over there finds Marblehead's TF and savages it, but still probably worthwhile overall.
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Jan 5, 2021 22:27
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Alchenar posted:It would be but the mod changes to default pilot experience helps out Japan a bit here. Wrong WitP thread. Grey isn't using mods as far as I know.
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Jan 6, 2021 20:59
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Hot drat, that was brutal. That buys you a ton of breathing room, Japan doesn't have tons of excess troops thanks to being bogged down in China. And there's always a small chance those cruisers won't make it home, Japan doesn't do well with burning ships.
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Jan 26, 2021 19:34
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Man, the AI is falling to pieces with its transports. The ones suiciding into Singapore Fortress are especially egregious since it can't even be excused by a hard-coded "send transports on this date" thing. Singapore didn't fall in real life for another two weeks (2/15/1942), so there's no reason to assume it would be owned by Japan already.
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Feb 1, 2021 20:41
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Marblehead's TF is going to get all the medals when they get back into port. Carriers are sexy but it's the CLs and DDs that are carrying the war for the allies at the moment.
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Feb 2, 2021 19:26
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I think you posted the video for 2/22 and the summary for 2/23.
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Feb 23, 2021 07:09
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Grey Hunter posted:The date of the ops report is from the next day, the just how the game works, or I am really screwing up! Yeah, but the ops report you showed for the 2/23 video is dated 2/25.
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Feb 23, 2021 19:51
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Jobbo_Fett posted:If you played the 23rd, how could it report ships sunk on the 24th? You're posting a day in advance for the results, exemplified by ships sunk a day before we see them in the videos. You get the report for day X at the start of day X+1. Grey's giving us the reports dated day X+2, though.
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Feb 23, 2021 22:11
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A shame that your pilots couldn't confirm the Mogami, but the fact that they didn't spot it in that final attack wave is a good indication that it sunk. The other good indicators are the dozen or so 1000 pound semi-armor-piercing bombs that exploded inside its hull thousands of miles from anywhere it could fix that damage.
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Mar 1, 2021 20:36
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Well, it's good that Japan's still got some fight in them for now. With all the logistical and troop losses they've taken, it's hard to believe they'll have too left by mid 1943.
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Graaaaaay! You got my ship sunk! Now I need a new lucky ship.
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