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Broken Box posted:Don't need to take the Suez just park a sufficiently large ship in it Ah, MV Ever Given jokes. Now there is one crew who will never live it down. 
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Abongination posted:Now I'm picturing Kongo wedged across the canal with guns blazing in every direction. Operation Kon-go
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  It’s the season for RN destroyers to eat torpedoes apparently.  Off the top of my head I don’t know the ASW rating of the “P” class, but whatever it is it isn’t enough. Panther was launched December 12, 1941, btw.  Apparently names beginning with P are unlucky also.  One torpedo is unlikely to finish her though.  Two on the other hand…  Three  I-172 just casually waltzing in to snipe the kill with a couple of torpedoes. By the lack of retaliation, it looks like Perth got hit by the same detached escort bollocks that did for Ryujo.  Madras again.  Not bad for cruisers, and nice to know he has Vildebeest here.  We open the airphase at Palembang.  Blank combat result accompanied by blank map bug.   We are sweeping with Osars today, so the Zeros can do LRCAP of the airfield at Daly Waters, just incase he is trying some airlift shenanigans.  Somehow there’s two stray Oscars in the air at Jaffna.  The claim a Buffalo apiece then peace out. My god Buffaloes suck.  Rather conveniently, this means when the actual good fighters arrive there’s nothing left for them to shoot.  Palembang again.  Good weather, but no hits on parked aircraft. To be fair there can’t be much left to hit.  The Sallies find something though.  We probably don’t need all of these Sallies for Port Blair.  Now he’s using the Wellies for tactical support. Or trying to. No sweep or escort either   Speaking of sweeps, here we come over Bandoeng. Will they actually fight today?  Nope.  They sweep at Milne Bay. We have level one forts here at least now, so the bombing we are presumably about to get shouldn’t hurt quite so much.  That’s a very big airport we seem to have built here.   Forts or no forts they still flatten the place. But each of those supply hits should now have done less damage at least.  This is what I had been hesitating over attacking   Hopefully most of those 10 should be 6” coastal guns.  They bombard at Bandoeng, but it seems our artillery arrived overnight. What a shame.    At least we know what we are dealing with now.   We cement our control of Ceylon, and although Rennell Island is likely to turn into a major thorn in our side, that aside, a pretty good day today.  I think we might have actually come out ahead at Milne Bay with those Op losses  We are definitely ahead here. Panther as a war emergency class is not as nice as the “N”s, but that’s still another ASW 8 escort out the way.  Likewise Perth is distinctly less exciting than Glasgow, but losing two modern CLs in two days shouldn’t do good things to his morale.  A new submarine for us today at Kure.   Let’s see if I-172 can build a kill streak.  The next wave for Madras. Once we’ve chased all the fighters out of the airfield then we can port bomb.  Since we seem to have unquestioned air superiority here, we can bring in some Anns to add to our numbers.  We have arrived again at Sibolga.  Just incase he does bomb here again.  Since we have the artillery at Bandoeng now, we can start bombarding. This is going to take many months though, especially since we can’t shoot those loving Warhakws down to let us bring bombers in.  We load up most of the armour at Batavia to ship to Ceylon.  We could try LRCAP of Rennell island with the Rufes, since he is obviously using transport planes of some sort here.
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I'm somewhat afraid it might be a case of the infamous all SIGINT prepared invasion of the Kuriles and Hokaido. Which would fit right into this game which so far has been rich in wild and painful stabs.
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  Despite being the dark of the moon they are bombing again at Trincomalee.  Wherever they are flying from isn’t even a large enough airfield judging by the half load.  drat, that would have been a nice kill   Maybe if you tried firing more than two torpedoes? ???????  Madras again.  Well that went pretty nicely.  I swear if it turns out you only used two torpedoes.   That was a loving AP you morons, not even an xAP. Carriers aside perhaps the juiciest kill there is.  Opening at Palembang again.  I would have liked more than one Warhawk downed, but I suppose I can concede that if there was only one Warhawk, one is as good as it gets.  A hopeless march through the outback mud in this weather with 20k angry men out for your blood can’t be much fun.  As usual the Nells get nothing at Palembang.  The Army still has it though. All the same there can’t be much left.  The Nells bomb some support squads. That’s a kind of alarming amount of flak though, the Anns might be in for a rough time since I think I set them to 5k feet.  Bombing below 10k feet is obviously not going to be safe.  Effectiveness of the flak in subsequent waves falls off fast though, and the Sallies not only take little damage, they put out some serious punishment. I think what is happening here is the supplies are inadequate for the AAA to engage multiple waves.  No more CAP at Jaffna. He’s welcome to air superiority here. We might have to bombard Cochin though.  These Wellingtons are intent on making themselves into a giant pain in the rear end it would appear.  And they hit Milne Bay too. Milne Bay is just too far for the Nicks to provide LRCAP from Rabaul, otherwise we would.  I wasn’t expecting him to bother bombing us at Rennell.  I would have preferred him not to know we put LRCAP here, but oh well.  Anyone going to kill each other at Bandoeng today? Not that I am in favour of that, generally, but this is a war.  We hit all of them, causing them to “abort due to damage” No kills of course.  More Hudsons come in the afternoon, and the Rufes manage to catch one.  This should be easy but probably won’t be.  It might drag on for quite a while I suspect. At least there are no forts.  This is definitely going to take quite a while, but it’s nice to have confirmed we do have superiority in firepower.   We better cause 8, and only 8 army loss points for them tomorrow.  Evens. Trading a Rufe for a Hudson ain’t great, but maybe it will be enough to persuade him not to do that.  There’s supposed to be another 50 points of transports here!   Well this is unfortunate. I tried to convert a cargo ship to a repair ship, which is supposed to take 21 days but is instead going to take a year apparently.  I-169 is going to need repairs. Maybe next time you will shoot more torpedoes.   We now have an entire division at Tandjoengbalai, surely this is enough along with the two regiments we have already.  Palembang is probably pretty well exhausted of planes by now, so let’s provide some tactical support at Sibolga instead. It’s jungle rough though, so we can’t expect miracles.  Soon they will be needed for tactical support at Palembang anyway, as we are now moving to secure a crossing.  As Japan we have a few option to help us the Allies simply don’t, usually to reflect our desperation One of these is the ability to load troops onto warships if we put them in “fast transport” TFs, so we can trickle some construction engineers into Lunga to start building an airfield to counter Rennell without having to find APDs. APDs would still be very much better if we had any available, but the ones we have in the area are currently busy reinforcing Tulagi. This will be a vital and much used technique throughout our Solomons campaign.  I know I said there wasn’t any point LRCAPing Milne Bay if the Nicks can’t reach, but he didn’t even sweep there today so let’s try it on.
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  A quiet day at sea, the first action is the Nells arriving at Sibolga.  For a jungle rough hex, any result at all is good.  A large raid by the Army does even better.  The Scythes are back     I’m going to lose the war to Scythes.  This is an interesting use for his Mitchells.  I wonder if he got his Mitchells and Havocs the wrong way round. I’m actually quite happy for him to be doing this - in a mountainous hex it won’t do much to us and will massively increase the rate of supply burn for him.  I know I had a layered CAP, so I can only assume they all climbed up to die to Scythes, allowing the bombers to come in under.  We catch wave two at least.  Most die on the way in, and the rest on the way out.  The Hudsons come in over our Rufes today.  The next wave of sweep at Trincomalee.  It’s not a Scythe, so it gets chewed up.  Running away is OP  Another sweep.  And another.  The next one swings back our way.  Now some Airacobras. We have managed to keep Trincomalee safe so far, but we are paying a horrific price for it I fear.  More superfighters I wish we had a super fighter.  OK maybe the Skyrocket isn’t as super as all that.  After all that will we see any bloodshed at Bandoeng today?  We got one!  I can hardly believe it.  More Airacobras.  Hopefully not too many more bombers, because that was the first sweep wave to break through.  And we are into the afternoon, where our CAP should be renewed.  Nobody in the southern hemisphere gets out of bed before noon apparently.  Same old same old at Port Blair.  Not out of ammo yet it would seem. This is a situation where raid fragmentation is actually desirable.  Sibolga is a dramatic reversal from yesterday.  So is Bandoeng, but that’s an exchange we can well afford.  If this doesn’t work I am going to be even angrier than I am about the Scythes.  It works.   What’s the damage then.   loving ouch. With the failure of the Billy experiment to give us some kind of chances against these things I’m going to have to whinge at Alikchi again. We lose a nine kill ace in the furball, and a seven is wounded, but we gain three new Aces on five each.  No changes here.  It would have been very nice if these guys had engaged too, at least they wouldn’t have taken such a stiff dive penalty. Why they didn’t do so is anyone's guess, they certainly should have with these settings.  The big advantage of fighting defensively is your pilots can parachute to safety. Some of our sentais are all but wiped out, but we only lost a handful of pilots, like this one with one killed and one wounded today.  It’s a little disappointing the Betties didn’t go after these, but so long as they are just fleeing deeper into the Bay they can run but not hide.  We get a new AirHQ today at Yokosuka. You can never have too many airhqs.   We really need to plant the flag around here a bit more, to prevent anymore Rennell Island shenanigans. I really should have done this months ago but I was being lazy  I feel like we might actually catch them here this time, so we can set a unit to pursuit.  Currently we aren’t bombing Palembang, so let's take those Zeros from sweep to LRCAP over Bandoeng.  Actually maybe we will bomb Palembang a little - in tactical support of the anticipated crossing of the river.  Akebono & Asagiri need to go to Truk for repairs after the fracas, everyone else can be repaired at Rabaul.
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Sorry for not responding to questions for a few days, quick Pharnakes IRL update. First calving started.  And then this happened. So it's been a long and highly stressful last few days, and I'm going to be working 7 12s for the next couple months, but I hope I can maintain posting schedule. The game is in early June now, which should see us through calving even if I can't find time to play at all. Affi posted:Your subs are on top of their game. At the start we had 666 wells, some from the historical Japanese production bust mostly from the oil Alikchi added to Manchuria. 315 of those however started damaged and need to be built up. We now have 1654 wells, of which 438 are damaged. 183 of that is in Manchuria, so will take another ~3 months for Manchurian production to peak, and at Miri where the is still 147 wells to repair to hit full production, the rest has been damaged by fighting in the SRA. Remaining to capture is 900 at Palembang, and 370 a 150 miles north at Djambi. Our submarines will get Radar in 44', but other than that they are the same classes through the war. The last emergency war types are infact a significant downgrade, at least in WitP terms. IRL they were rather advanced and like the last German designs intended to operate primarily submerged, but WitP doesn't bother to model any of that, so they kind of suck. wedgekree posted:Congrats! Dead DD's are lovely and even light cruisers are good to have out. I really don't know why he is being like this. I've gone through all the stages of being happy to have a free reign to extreme paranoia the hammer is about to drop to just deciding to grab what I can as fast as I can, and accepting that might result in me losing one invasion as he finally decides to respond. SIGSEGV posted:I'm somewhat afraid it might be a case of the infamous all SIGINT prepared invasion of the Kuriles and Hokaido. I have been steadily if unflashily reinforcing the Kuriles, if he invades based purely off what he expects to be there from the game start we should be fine, and even his signit isn't remotely reliable enough from him to guess exactly what I have there unless he gets even luckier than he already has been.
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Grammarchist posted:How much effort does one have to put into building bases from scratch on undeveloped islands? It'd be kinda funny if North Sentinel Island had some obscure attrition mechanic from Sentenilese raids. The first level of Port and Airfield is significantly longer than subsequent levels up to the island's air capacity. You can then build up to 2 levels beyond the hex's listed airfield capacity but it costs a lot of supply to exceed the limit and generally isn't worth it unless it's somewhere important. Most islands that were not historically important tend to have fairly low caps so in a sense you're encouraged but not required to build up bases at the historically interesting locations, like Lunga on Gudalcanal which gets a base air capacity that is slightly larger than any of the surrounding islands. All land units in jungle hexes accumulate fatigue more rapidly than anywhere else, and if you have no facilities there is a supply cap that causes landed supplies to spoil if you land too much. The hardest part about building up an unoccupied island is dealing with the long unloading times from normal transports, which means you've got to expose them to enemy action for days to get everything off.
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Wow, that is a heavy air day. What is he doing that is causing all those Catalina losses? It's kinda funny that this plane (the Scythes) that didn't actually exist irl is basically completely dominating / shaping air combat in this mod. Cute cows!
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Terrifying Effigies posted:So are you no longer flying the Billies? Haven't seen them show up in combat for a while since their lackluster intro. The Billy experiment was, uh, a failure. The tldr on a long saga is you can alter the properties of a plane in the editor, and it will apparently work fine, but the actual combat resolution doesn't respect the changes to weapons. Changes to speed, altitude, ect, yes, hence why the Billies survived well against Scythes, but couldn't kill any since they were still considered to have one 7m mg and one 12.7mm, since it was built of the KI-43 IB.
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Pharnakes posted:The Billy experiment was, uh, a failure. Man that sucks, the Billy pilots might as well be waving as they fly past.
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steinrokkan posted:So he gets to keep all his stupid uber fighters, and you get nothing? According to Alikchi's twitter, they banned the use of Scythes for sweeping after this.
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Pharnakes posted:The Billy experiment was, uh, a failure. Wild. Is there a way to resolve that or are you stuck with it? Why did that happen with the Billy but not other planes you've added for the mod?
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  Ro-67 takes a shot at a French destroyer south of Guadalcanal.  Fortunately French ASW is almost as bad as ours.  7% moonlight and they are still coming. One of them crashes into a barrage balloon though which is pretty funny. You don’t see that often.  Have you lot considered that shooting at things other than destroyers will probably work better?  Tankers, for example. No, no reason I suggested that.  Raining again in the outback.  A supply hit!  Here comes the main wave at Daly Waters.  Little casualties are inflicted, however, this is what we really wanted to see and haven’t been recently - attacks overspilling to hopefully all the units in the hex, thereby knocking all of them out of movement mode.  The Havocs come in under the CAP at Batavia today. However there isn’t much here for them to bomb, and if there is anything they miss it.  The Rufe pilots are snoozing today apparently.  gently caress, I really should have replaced Kiyokawa Maru last time she got damaged with ground based engineers, she probably isn’t going to survive this  As a military vessel Gekido will probably survive this, but they know she is here too now.  He’s still reinforcing Bandoeng it seems.  But the spell seems to be broken.  They seem to have found some supplies from somewhere, judging by the flak.  Tactical bombing continues at Palembang, to no great effect. Given the level four forts, this is only to be expected.  We took Tandjoenbalai back yesterday, denying him an airfield in northern Sumatra, and freeing up the fighters we had running CAP there. I used them to try and guess where the Wellys were coming next, and seem to have guessed right.  We only get three, but that should be plenty to persuade him to wind his neck in. It’s not like he has a definitive goal here, he’s just harassing.  He’s trying out the Marauders in the anti shipping role.  Next time try skip bombing, losers.  One wave manages to do a little damage at Palembang.  We are going to have to keep doing this. This is obviously costing us more supplies than it costs him, but it is still costing him supplies all the same.   Looks like we did quite nicely in the air.  Four Wellys infact, that should definitely get them to think again.  A nice big tanker here would have just rounded the day off  At least we seem to have a clear idea where they are going.  This must be about the most hosed I’ve seen a ship not actually die yet. We can crane the seaplanes ashore and scuttle her to save 10% of her VP though.  Gekido is going to be fine though. Kicking myself for not dealing with this last week  Good news, a new B2 submarine at Tokyo, I-28.   Gekido is going straight to Truk for repairs.  Why why why did I move the naval guard unit down before the aviation engineers Oh well, we’re doing it now. There will be some disruption to the search at Tulagi as there will be no AV support for a couple days, but there’s nothing we can do about it.  Combat damage will quickly render them unserviceable without aviation support, but they can put up a CAP tomorrow at least.  No idea where Truant is gone, but with no CAP at Palembang there’s no reason we can’t go after whoever this is.  Greenlight for the drop at Daly Waters. The 33rd has exceeded expectations to march 15 miles today as well, which, if they can keep it up, will put them on top of the enemy tomorrow, although of course they won’t be able to attack until the day after. Combined with the excellent airstrike today, this is looking pretty good.  A small unit like this will have a light enough logistical footprint we can march them overland to Wyndham. First they can get the train to Katherine though.  We are going to start trying direct ground attack at Port Blair. I kind of want him to get the impression we are gearing up to land here. Technically we are, but we are going for Bengal first.  I expect him to stand down the bombers so we can’t CAP trap them, but there’s plenty of detection on the TF, so if he forgets he should blunder straight into our Nicks. They might not be able to quite LRCAP Milne Bay, but they certainly can Gasmata.  Looking at the results from yesterday, there shouldn’t be much by way of artillery here, nothing to rival our heavy siege pieces anyway. They might be hopelessly obsolete per WW1 relics, but they can stll throw a loving heavy shell.  We also know there can be no troops at Djambi or Benkolelen, so we will be paradropping on them.
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Pirate Radar posted:Wild. Is there a way to resolve that or are you stuck with it? Why did that happen with the Billy but not other planes you've added for the mod? It happened because the Billy was a post game start attempt to balance out the Scythe. aphid_licker posted:Are you happy with how you're currently standing in terms of ship and plane losses? What's the ship you miss the most? That CVL? Happy enough. Ryujo obviously tings, but we are managing to sustain our offensive well and we aren't taking excessive losses in the process. Zurai posted:According to Alikchi's twitter, they banned the use of Scythes for sweeping after this. Scythes are indeed banned for offensive purposes now.
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I'm impressed that you and Alikchi can look at the game while it's playing out, agree that some things are over/underperforming and make those kinds of changes.
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Pharnakes posted:The Billy experiment was, uh, a failure. Ah, those dastardly Navy engineers somehow found out the paratroops were coming and replaced most of the armament with broomsticks, huh?
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I love how the screenshot for Kiyokawa Maru says "under repair". Now there's some optimism.
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The engineer surveying the ship that is somehow 99% fire. "We might be able to save her"
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Abongination posted:The engineer surveying the ship that is somehow 99% fire.  Except literally.
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