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Grumio posted:Ground Combat at Paddock (420,69) 
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Excuse me there's no such thing as a terrain (-) modifier 
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Apr 21, 2021 08:17
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Pharnakes posted:Excuse me there's no such thing as a terrain (-) modifier i dunno mate i've been stuck in poo poo in a cattle run, felt pretty (-) to me.
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Apr 21, 2021 08:23
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SHIP'S SIDE PENETRATED e: not really penetrated I hope 
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Apr 21, 2021 08:43
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Clearly the Navy is behind this.
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Apr 21, 2021 08:55
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Alternate history where Allied forces were the ones creatimg Wünderwaffen. In this cased, trained cow
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Apr 21, 2021 12:39
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  Off the coast of Perth.  This is interesting an a bit confusing. Warspite starts the game in Seattle, has she come all the way around the other side of the globe to get here?  We find a minesweeper or something at Cochin.  Splat.  Distractions out the way, here they go.  Somewhat underwhelming, we should really have done recon in advance here. Oh well. Interesting tidbit that the 70th division is here though.  Clear in both senses at Daly Waters. I’m not quite sure why we are still sweeping here, we probably shouldn’t be really.  He’s back at Trincomalee, and we are finally going to see the combat debut of the A6M3 Zero.  Oh yes that’s the good stuff alright.    We can probably switch back to tactical bombing here tomorrow.  Flak is of course still very much active, although they don’t have all that many heavy guns I think.  Clear skies and a clear hex.  Some Airacobras sneak past the radar and bully the Oscars before the Zeros can intervene.  The Dutch Havocs are back to missing tanks at Batavia.  Won’t be long until we have a level two strip at Gasmata and can shut this poo poo down with LRCAP.  What is it about the Scythe that makes it such an ungodly terror, where the Skyrocket that should be equal if not better seems kind of mediocre? Presumably there’s some bias in the black box that is WitP’s resolution that really favours some stat the Scythe has more of than the Skyrocket, but god knows what it is.  After the last battle of Trincomalee we have a temporary house rule that Scythes won’t sweep until May, when the Billy is hopefully resurrected.  Airacobras seem to be doing rather well today.  Equal is apparently a good result.  Maybe resting helped, but not very much.  Stay and play with us a little.  We take Bima, ready incase Umikaze needs it.   Looks like we came out ahead at Trincomalee.  But with our losses elsewhere it’s almost even.  I’m not sure we really sunk the eternity of Cochin, but it’s a nice idea intel. Thanks.  And thanks to the wonders of a level nine port, we are ready to do it all again straight away.  The first wave of reinforcements for Palembang has arrived at Praboemoelih. Looks like the rest still need one more day to pack.  Rabaul expands the port to size five. We are going to push on for six, which enables rearmament of 8” guns without reliance on tenders.  That’s a lot of shipping we have heading out into the Bay of Bengal. And he can’t see any of it anymore. This turn over half of our xAKs are at sea, and 3/4s of our xAPs and tankers. We are stretching ourselves to the absolute limit here, but once this operation is done and we have pumped enough supplies into the SRA to repair the oil, it should calm down a little.   We move up our second sentai of Nicks to Kalidjati to put an end to these Havocs. Not that they are really causing much havoc, but I’m all about grubbing kills.  Actually can you run LRCAP from a level one base? According to this you can, but I'm not sure they are actually going to fly. Only one way to find out though.  Incase they do, we need to provide them some top cover.  Umikaze hasn’t gotten any worse today, but all the same we’ll play it safe and stop off at Bima.  Ardmore Maru is doing fine too in her journey to Colombo.
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Apr 21, 2021 20:12
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There's something poetic about how the Billy is a 'what if this lemon worked' plane but it turned out to be a lemon.
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Apr 21, 2021 20:41
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Does the game rate the Scythe’s 12x.303 armament higher than the Skyrocket’s 2x.50 2x20mm armament?
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Apr 22, 2021 03:38
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  The downside of sending out unescorted xAKLs is sometimes they get caught.  Apparently the crew of S-43 haven’t been filtering their torpedo juice properly.  KVIII uses her torpedoes though.  Namikaze gives her a thorough rattling but fails to inflict meaningful damage.  It seems he’s drawn more Warhawks out of the pools into Palemabng. Since Palembang produces 1k supplies a day there isn’t really anything we can do to stop this, other than keep the airfield so suppressed they can’t be assembled quick enough.  So far they haven’t engaged though.  We continue to inflict heavy damage at Daly Waters.  The sweep arrives at Palembang. Somehow they are up higher than our Zeros though.  Dealing with one or two last stragglers is remarkably difficult for some reason.  LRCAP does work from a level one airfield it seems. Even with twin engine fighters.  They don’t manage to get any though.  Cheeky, he’s going for Rabaul itself.  No kills again, but between flak and the Zeros a lot of battle damage.  The Marauders have come in very low.  Or maybe not. I could have sworn it said 1k feet. They turn away before making any bombing runs anyway v0v.  I try not to take the aircombat text snippets too seriously since down that road lies madness, but if those B17s actually shot down 8 Nicks before the Nicks could even get a shot off in return I’m going to bitch about it for weeks. Weeks.  Seven airbase hits is nice, that should make it much harder for them to keep the Warhawks airworthy.  Poor Katsuragisan Maru, she just can’t catch a break.    We roll well at Palembang for a change.  And “well” at Bandoeng too.  I like to imagine the paratroopers are launching nets at the enemy, not shells.  WitP’s ground combat continues to find new lows of sense. (we didn’t lose anything)   Not the most exciting day.  Only one Nick, fair enough. It would have been nice to get one E model Fortress though. The D is a much less scary proposition, and they lose half the sortie despite there being no Nicks at Rabaul today.  As cripplingly short of sea lift as we are, even I have a hard time getting too upset at this. And you know how good I am at getting upset.  This must either be the same ships hanging out on patrol for some reason, or more likely a second wave of evacuations. They should be in for a rude surprise tomorrow.  Daily report on Umikaze, the pumps have gained in the last 24 hours.   The 33rd is still one day out, so two for them to attack, but I am concerned that if we leave it that long they will be able to retreat in good order here. I’m hoping if we can force them back in a combat again they would retreat towards their friends out in the bush.
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Apr 22, 2021 17:24
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What's the upper limit of what a Japanese player can accomplish in Australia? I don't usually follow these games outside of SA.
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Apr 22, 2021 18:43
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Grammarchist posted:What's the upper limit of what a Japanese player can accomplish in Australia? I don't usually follow these games outside of SA. Brisbane is the southernmost city he can take without triggering bonus reinforcements.
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Apr 22, 2021 20:01
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Other than Darwin I think the big prize would be taking Perth but the allied player has to gently caress up somehow for that to be feasible.
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Apr 23, 2021 17:20
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  Plunger starts the night with a bang. A rather dull bang, really, more of a thump I suppose.  Predictably we are unable to effectively retaliate.  At 52% moonlight it’s a little early for these tactics I feel. We are going to have to put up night CAP soon though.  Wait what?? How the gently caress did they get that kind of accuracy in these conditions. Shouldn’t be anything fatal but extremely loving annoying.  Subsequent waves are performing more as expected at least.  The Anns don’t do all that much at Daly Waters today. Let’s hope the Sallies perform better, we need a good one to help the paratroopers along.  Here they come.  Let’s hope the fact no combat squads got hit means there aren’t many to get hit.  Dambulla is the target for the sweep today it seems.  We have the dive bonus, but despite that they utterly butcher us. Those ships ought to be in for a bad time though I hope.  Wave two clears us out. There’s nothing here but a handful of recon planes if he does bomb.  Daily visit from the Forts. I doubt we’ll see them at Rabaul today though.  The Betties are onto something. Hot torpedo tip: aim at the big side.  Like that. Even hotter tip: Aim for the big side of the big thing.  I’d prefer it to be Exeter rather than City of Exeter, but we’ll take what we can get.  “A” division launches at I think the same convoy.  There’s some big girls here.  Chasing down all these little individual TFs is going to be annoying, but then that’s why he did it.  A handful of Kates have found another large freighter.  *Two large freighters.  This must be most of what was hiding at Calcutta at sea now I should think.  Looks like that first wave escaping lulled him into a nice sense of false security. Let’s pretend that was the plan all along  It continues.  From Trincomalee with love.  Nirvana is indeed where you are going.  That makes twenty hits total she took.  This is the other problem with fragmented enemies like this. The raids are of course not aware of each other so you end up with multiple raids targeted at the same TF, with the result subsequent waves are wasted against dead targets, and smaller, less attractive TFs can get off without being attacked at all. This can be extremely frustrating against warships with the speed to capitalise on still being alive at the end of a turn, but merchant ships can’t realistically escape us anyway.  The CAP is a bit low today at Palembang.  Never be low.  We only got one, but that’s a lot better than none.  A rather disappointing dud.  We’re well into the afternoon now, I sincerely hope “S” Division is going to launch some strikes too.  And here they go.  A nice first victim.  Ideally they would have spread the love a bit more evenly.  There’s something at Port Blair itself, and of course there is CAP there. And something is obviously fucky with the Zero settings, since none of these strikes have had any escort at all.  We only lose ten or so to sink this thing   That one is probably almost worth it, we really don’t want supplies getting ashore here.  “A” is launching numerous PM strikes as well it seems.  I’ve kind of lost count now, but this is a significant chunk of shipping, even by Allied standards.  There goes another bunch.   Second wave from “S” Div.  More big juicy targets.  Even Palembang goes our way. A good day really, except for Shoho. Please don’t be too badly on fire when we get to you   And Bandoeng!  The 33rd has arrived, but are standing around with their hands in their pockets watching the SNLF attack.  Well we didn’t lose exactly.  Somehow we don’t even lose outright at Rennell.   Well that was a good day. Nearly 200 points up on ships.  Shame about the Vals but that's life when you are a Val.   You know it’s a very day when you need two pages to post the ships. Good or bad depends on your perspective of course.  I’m sure you’ve all been waiting for this with baited breath. Not ideal but I think we can live with that, and maybe even make it into a trap. With how many merchants we just sunk we could have lost one of these and still came out nicely in points, not that I would regard that as a good trade of course.  And there’s still plenty more easy kills to grub it looks like.  Umikaze has made it to Bima, but the pumps are still gaining and she will keep straight for Soerabaja.  Our precious carriers, fresh out of refit are immediately all banged up from the sprint. What abuse we do give these poor ladies, but it’s worth it for days like this.   Recon has finally decided to fly at Cochin, and informs us there are still targets worth hitting, so we will.  The Tone class are extremely fast and long legged, making Chikuma the only ship suitable to detach from “S” for independent hunting.  We will also detach our two torpedo cruisers with a brace of destroyers apiece to hunt independently around the battleships. The battleships themselves are going to double back and escort our cargo traffic just in case Exeter or anything else is around.  We also have these three coming from the east in case anything tries to call our bluff and turns east instead of south for Cape Town.  I doubt we are going to catch them here, but just incase the paratroopers are waiting in pursuit.  There’s apparently some stuff here at Trivandrum too, so we will bombard there as well. I’m hoping that all this bombarding will also help to persuade him the hammer is going to fall on Southern India, not Bengal. Given that most of the potential landing sites here reportedly have a division parked in them, I think it might actually be working.  The big question of the day is of course what to do at Colombo. Well first we will empty the harbour. Damage to the CVLs is minor, so they can be put in a TF to get a little sea room, and with the bombardment fleets out already that is the harbour empty.  That leaves just a couple of ships in drydock. Kumano can bounce 500lb (GP) bombs all day, and much as I’d rather not lose Natsushio, she is only a DD.  Since there aren’t really many targets left now, we don’t need to worry about defence too much. But we will put these Zeros on night CAP, both to try for some bomber kills and to protect them from what I anticipate will be numerous sweeps tomorrow.  Now if the CVLs are putting to sea, they might as well go and do something useful, for example bombing Trichinopoly airfield.  And if we are sending sweep and strike in anyway, it only makes sense to use our own land based air to hit them that much harder.
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Apr 23, 2021 17:51
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Apr 23, 2021 17:55
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Grammarchist posted:What's the upper limit of what a Japanese player can accomplish in Australia? I don't usually follow these games outside of SA. That is really an impossibly open ended question. Obviously if the Japanese player goes all in on Australia while the allies player ignores it they will take it all easily, or anything in between down to the historical result of Japan not even attempting landings. Pirate Radar posted:Other than Darwin I think the big prize would be taking Perth but the allied player has to gently caress up somehow for that to be feasible. The big prize in this timeline is actually the coast around Townsville and Cairns. Alikchi has way over invested in Port Moresby, there's 4 divisions worth of troops reported there and even if we assume half of them are support troops that still leaves two. If we can cut Port Moresby off and isolate those men, he doesn't have anything to plug the resultant gap, and then the USMC troops that are supposed to be available in the autumn for his first offensive are instead going to have to be used to contain our threat to Brisbane and Sydney.
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Apr 23, 2021 17:59
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Ay chihuahua  Love that xAK that took 20 fuckin bombs
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Apr 23, 2021 18:11
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Sweet Prima that's a lot of Allied shipping. W ell, British shipping.
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Apr 23, 2021 23:10
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Grammarchist posted:What's the upper limit of what a Japanese player can accomplish in Australia? I don't usually follow these games outside of SA. It's entirely possible to take the whole thing. Realistically you'll take Darwin, Perth, and the east coast to Brisbane, and leave the Sydney/Melbourne/Adelaide area out to hang. But defending that from a counterattack later is extremely exposed so if you're going for autovictory you may as well gamble for the whole thing. Chances are the reinforcements the allies can ship in will stop you though.
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Apr 24, 2021 00:59
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  Lots of reacting going on, but this is the first contact.  The second xAP from yesterday is still nicely ablaze, and Chikuma has no issues finding her.  And even less sinking her.  She’s the only one of our hunting TFs to have managed a contact in the night phase though it seems, since here come the bombardments.  Very disappointing again at Cochin, they don’t even try to shoot at the airfield and inflict minimal damage on what they do shoot at.  Will we do better at Trivandrum?  Not exactly. Trivandrum sees a return to the war crimes doctrine that plagued us at Cagayan so many months ago. Quite the inferno they’ve managed to create there.  Coquina had a good run but this is the end I think.   Chikuma has found some more victims.  More big freighters, big enough she uses her torpedoes.  Jasmine is left to drift off, crippled and alone.  Apparently Chikuma likes to play with her food and wanted them to have some false hope.  But the Captain decides to preserve what ammo they have left in case they find something worth shooting at.  No CAP at Palembang today.  Only one Floatfire airbourne at Port Blair today.  And he manages to dive away. I should probably have done LRCAP instead of sweep here, oh well.  The first sweep arrives at Trichinopoly. Resistance is stiff to put it mildly.  A very promising opener. I hope some of the land based sweeps have time to arrive before the CLV’s strike does though.  So far we have done a pretty good job of dancing around his sweeps in this theater while still claiming bomber kills.  The next sweep comes in at Trichinopoly.  Smarting from yesterday’s humiliation, the Zero pilots are determined to show what their new toys can do. Quite a lot it turns out.  Here comes the CVL’s revenge for yesterday. There is still at least one more sweep queued I think but all the same the CAP is much reduced.  And they are getting hits.  That was well worth the loss of one Zero.  Next up is the Army at Palembang.  They hit quite well, but I would have liked to see them splash a Warhawk.  Even the smaller waves are doing OK today.  Yes thank you guys your contribution is appreciated. Gold star.  Why the gently caress is he bombing here? I suppose it’s unexpected at least.  We still have one small infantry unit here plodding away to close the final hex side to Bandoeng.  I wish we had heavy AA here, but that’s going to have to wait until we have carrier cover.  Here comes the main strike at Trichinopoly. Not much CAP left here and a strong escort.  Could we even shoot a Scythe down??  We could! The Betties don’t do quite as well as the Kates did though.  Ironically one of the times it would probably be appropriate for our bombers to push on unescorted, they mostly turn back instead.  A late sweep arrives to claim the last of the CAP.  PM, and no CAP at Bandoeng either.  Sieges are boring and suck hugely for everybody involved, really.  Slightly more for them than us today.  As I thought, they’ve slipped away by one day again at Daly Waters. Well, most of them.  And we wipe them out, so no pursuit can occur.   Almost up to double the Allied score. We would need quadruple to claim a victory in ‘43, which just isn’t going to happen. If we hadn’t specifically edited the scenario to make it essentially impossible, I think we would have otherwise been in for a shot though.  Not as many on the ground as I was hoping for, but any day we get three Scythes and comeout ahead is a good one.  I suppose every day can’t be like yesterday   If there’s anything left afloat here, it’s slipped away from us. This was a diverting interlude, but time to get back on mission now.  They are building up the airfield here in central Burma. I am very happy with how committed he seems to both southern India and Burma. Bengal must, surely, be lightly defended.  Your daily from Umikaze. Had temporary flotation repairs failing, but seems to have dealt with it.   He of course disbanded any survivors of the resupply mission at Port Blair. This protects them from naval attack, but it does mean he couldn’t get anything unloaded from them. We will use the Kates from “A” to clobber the port tomorrow.  Work at Lunga proceeds apace. I do decide to learn a lesson and halt the port building to have them build at least level two forts first.  We will go and try again at Cochin.  Since he is taking forever to attack us at Rennell we are going to start dropping more men there. Because this hikotai of Tina plus our tiny six plane Hikotai of Mavis - T are our only transports with the range to reach Rennell from Rabaul, we are going to have to move some men to Shortlands and base our shorter ranged transports there.  And we are going to go prep for a bombardment.  Shortlands, which has been occupied by half a dozen engineer squads since we took it all those months ago, is very nearly level two airfield, which will be extremely helpful for this to work.  It will need more aviation engineers now though.  The Taifu assault regiment will be moved down to Shortlands by fast transport to reduce aerial congestion.  Beyond Daly Waters the road is too poor for a full division. The 1/3rd fragment of the 38th will march on south, everyone else is turning back to Darwin.  The paratroopers we are air lifting back to Darwin to drop on Tennant Creek though.
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Pharnakes posted:I am very happy with how committed he seems to both southern India and Burma. Bengal must, surely, be lightly defended. I feel like this is foreshadowing.
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Apr 24, 2021 18:29
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orangelex44 posted:I feel like this is foreshadowing. lmbo
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Apr 24, 2021 19:17
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Very nice playing. No Allied shipping in the area (Well, British shipping, there seems to be a near total abscence of the US in the area). Still worried about the total lack of the USN in the last couple months beyond subs. Congrats ons laughtering your way through Ceylon! And hwat's the link to the discord to chat on this?
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Apr 24, 2021 22:26
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Can you imagine the briefing the paratroopers will get in Darwin about the importance of airdropping behind enemy lines to plant the flag in the Tanami Desert? They could have been going to Rennell , Addu, or maybe even Diego Garcia but instead it's the deep Outback for them.
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Apr 24, 2021 22:41
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The glorious empire needs red sand. When combined with the white sand of the tropical south Pacific beaches, we will be able to make a colossal Rising Sun sand flag! 
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Apr 24, 2021 22:45
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The sand from all over our Empire is red... red from being drenched with the blood of our enemies
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Apr 24, 2021 22:52
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orangelex44 posted:I feel like this is foreshadowing. Thus far I have managed to avoid any temptation to foreshadow, and this is no exception. Of course, I might be unintentionally foreshadowing. wedgekree posted:Very nice playing. No Allied shipping in the area (Well, British shipping, there seems to be a near total abscence of the US in the area). Well I mean obviously there's no US stuff here, because why would there be? There's plenty of commonwealth shipping for the area's needs. The real question is why there was more than a handful of cargo ships left at all, but I'm not complaining.
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Apr 25, 2021 15:32
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  One advantage of using xAKLs for cargo missions.  A rather heart stopping moment but she is too fast for KX.  Also crammed full of extremely vital paratroopers.  KX is given a second chance which is highly unusual but thankfully she misses again.  Trout might be above this but Dolphin will grub any kill going. Or try to.  The escorts do their best, but their best isn’t even close to good enough.  The Marshalls are teeming with submarines at the moment it would seem.  As is the Solomon Sea.  Still too fast for them, but the crew must be sweating buckets.  No CAP at Port Blair today.  Trichinopoly is another matter.  We are still coming out ahead though.  I had forgotten I ordered this sweep of Trivandrum, as much to keep the Oscars out of trouble at Colombo as anything.  They chase the lone Hurricane down but don’t secure a kill.  If he’s really sweeping at 14k maybe we should put up LRCAP.  And here come the new Zeros at Trichinopoly.  Apparently the M3’s gimmick is to alternate excellent and piss poor performance.  A few stragglers trickle in.  No kills are claimed but it will all be depleting the CAP’s ammo and fuel which is great.  There’s still quite a bit airbourne as the carrier strike arrives though.  The escort performs superbly again, but the weather prevents us from doing much damage. Of course, he may well also have evacuated the bombers to a different airfield in anticipation of this.  The first wave of Fortresses is a flop today.  By the time the Betties arrive at Trichinopoly today they are totally unopposed. Let’s see what they can do with that.  Not much  “A” is hitting Port Blair.  Two 800kg hits on a tiny little freighter, and a supply hit for good measure.  The Anns can only carry 100kg bombs this far, although it’s more about hitting them at all than how hard we hit.  The main wave does a good job of spreading the love.  After those initial blips Palembang has settled down to steadily if negligibly in our favour.  Bandoeng is much the same.  Ironically he choses now to try again to kick us off Rennell. This is actually great news because it confirms he hasn’t reinforced, and has in fact removed one of the paratrooper units.   Not as good as yesterday.  We’ve made our point at Trichinopoly, and have to back off now.  Hardly the most exciting kill, but it’s nice not to see a big AMC of ours here.   Recon confirms he has done his usual trick of evacuating then putting up LRCAP at Trichinopoly. But it seems like he maybe chose Cochin as the fall back base for the bombers at least? A poor choice if so, we are going to loving flatten that place tonight. Third time lucky!  In case the ships don’t do a good enough job we are now up to 80% moonlight, and the Betties will also hit Cochin airfield tonight.  And we are resuming the campaign against Port Blair.  With our decision to commit at Rennell, the LRCAP is restarted.  We can’t land troops anymore without planning, but we can land supplies.  Let’s see if we can catch us some Kittyhawks at Milne Bay.  And if we’re doing that we might as well try again with the Nicks.
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Pardon my ignorance, but why can't you attack now at Palembang? It looks like there's about a 6:1 assault value advantage. Are you waiting for additional forces to make it even better? Are the defense bonuses there good enough that the advantage isn't as large as it seems, so you need to run down supplies or something?
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Apr 25, 2021 20:30
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Guper posted:Pardon my ignorance, but why can't you attack now at Palembang? It looks like there's about a 6:1 assault value advantage. Are you waiting for additional forces to make it even better? Are the defense bonuses there good enough that the advantage isn't as large as it seems, so you need to run down supplies or something? I'd have to reload the turn to be sure, but I expect we are waiting for the last of the reinforcements to arrive. Exhausting Palembang of supplies when it can manufacture 1k/turn is simply not feasible.
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Apr 25, 2021 23:27
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It needs no inputs for that? That's a bit unfortunate as a game mechanic.
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Apr 26, 2021 11:51
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Well it does need input in the form of oil, it's just that there's also oil in the hex. WitP's economy has three inputs; oil, resources and manpower, three processing centres; refineries, heavy and light industry, and six fabrication sites; armaments, vehicles, naval construction, merchant construction, engine manufacture and aircraft assembly All three intermediate steps produce supplies, refineries take 10 oil to produce 9 fuel and 1 supply, heavy industry takes 20 resources and 2 fuel to make 2 supplies, and light industry takes 15 resources to make 1 supply. Fuel is reused in industry and of course to power ships, but noticeably it is not consumed by any other units. Tanks, trucks, air planes ect all use supply, hence the 10% of refineries' output being supply to represent POL for non naval uses. Now when we look at Palembang, it is one of the largest oil complexes in the world at this time, and ingame it has 900 oil points and 1100 refinery points. So yes you can park a division or more there who will quite happily eat and shoot petrol indefinitely, and even use petrol to clone themselves and build new aircraft This is the only hex in the game where it breaks down this ridiculously, and I would not wish for a more complex system within WitPs UI. Given a decent UI to manage a more complex economy, the game could be significantly improved by distinguishing between petrol, ammo, food and spare parts at the least, but obviously that is never going to happen.
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Apr 26, 2021 13:18
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Okay that is pretty funny. Can you capture supplies when you take bases?
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Apr 26, 2021 13:28
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  I-165 has found a convoy. Inbound or outbound though?  It’s Warspite again. What is he doing with so many heavy surface combatants out here? If he keeps doing it we might have to bring the KB down.  He’s back to night bombing at Colombo. This is expected and we are at least (partly) prepared.  The Oscars aren’t ideal at, well, much of anything really, but they do throw the bombers aim off at least. Note: Flying from Cochin  There is nothing super critical at Trincomalee now, so we didn’t bother with night CAP. The game is nice enough to give us thunderstorms though, which honestly are probably more effective than anything we could do.  Cochin also has thunderstorms though. That shouldn’t bother the battleships too much however.  Leander wanders into I-175’s path.  From previous encounters I think this is either a carrier TF or a surface TF that hangs out near the carriers. We haven’t had a confirmation of a carrier with these ships though, so we don’t know which one.  Not too much on the fortress please. Spare some for the airfield.  They spared some. And there should be another bombardment incoming.  And here they are.  Oh well, I suppose the first was good enough. The variance on bombardments is one of the more frustrating parts of trying to make plans in WitP. They are potentially super powerful, but they are super unreliable. Best suited for opportunity targets than anything you are relying on.  Eventually they were going to get lucky I suppose.  Two hits out of four is very lucky though. Or did I forget to put her on full speed?  A smallish tanker, but a bonk is very much appreciated here.  We really need that fuel to get to the Marshalls. Almost as much as we need to not lose the tanker.  “A” launches a heavy strike at the trops at Port Blair in average conditions. Not the most spectacular result, for sure.  Harassment bombing on the road south from Daly Waters continues.  To good effect today.  The Sallies don’t manage to spread the damage, but since I’m pretty sure every unit already got hit it doesn’t matter.  Ugh, if they are back with bombers here we are going to have to start cap over Djambi and Bengkalis again. Ugh.   Joke’s on you bitch, the oil is already destroyed here!  No sign of the Kittyhawks yet, but the Fortresses have arrived at Milne Bay.  gently caress me these things are well loving named.  The remaining Kates from “A” arrive. Can they do better than the Vals?  Very slightly.  And now the Army’s turn.  Six supply hits is good anyway.  CAP is back up at Palembang too.  Not for long I hope.  If we don’t get a couple of good rolls on the ground Palembang is going to be a nightmare.  I think that should be the last of the reinforcements in hex now.  Bandoeng isn’t going to be at all easy either, but at least here they only get 20 supplies a day rather than 1000.   12 on the field, not too bad.  Shame it was half Fulmar IIs, but at least it puts us ahead on points.  No Hokoku Maru here yet. Could she be ok?  Decidedly not  This is a major disaster with her precious cargo.  Ardmore Maru has reached Colombo. Let’s see if we can hold Ceylon long enough for her to finish repairs I did eventually work out the damage was a grounding. She must have ripped her entire bottom out pretty much.  Everyone’s favourite destroyer is doing fine and is four days from Soerabaja.   We do at least have one option with Hokoku Maru. We have this convoy by coincidence right beside her, we can merge them in and they should rescue a decent chunk of the SNLF when she inevitably goes down.  There’s something here, but to have any chance of catching it before they get off map, we need to detach our fastest and most fueled, and have them sprint. They will run out of fuel but the other two cruisers who will proceed at normal speed will be able to transfer them enough to get to Colombo.  We are going to activate the bombardment group. Sometimes these can be devastatingly effective against dot hexes because there is nothing to draw the guns away from the troops.  I didn’t notice, but one of our Liz Squadrons got a size increase to 45, so we now have over 60 available at Soerabaja. No wonder Soerabaja keeps running out of supplies. Well we’ll try really bringing the hammer down on Bandoeng though. Which will burn far more supplies of course, but there’s convoy a day or two out.  Actually it seems the wells at Tjepoe aren’t too badly damaged, let’s see if we can keep it that way. I’d base the Nicks at Soerabaja, but it’s already horribly overcrowded with Liz We are expanding the airfield but we don’t have huge numbers of engineers available for that.  Planning for Chittagong has finished. This is a rather momentous development, I can’t quite believe we are actually going to do this. But with the troops we have confirmed to be in Southern India over the last few days, he can’t have enough there to resist us landing in this kind of strength. We cannot afford to gently caress this up though.  Diamond Harbour is ready also. Rather than simultaneous landings we are going for staggered though. Partly because I want to use all the good landing ships at Chittagong, partly because I want to throw every single battleship we have at them, partly because I’m hoping he will try to defend the crossings of the Bhramaputra, which might draw troops out of Diamond Harbour.  Loading begins. Nagato, Mutsu, Fuso and Settsu will provide direct cover, with Mustu taking the flag. Along with them we have a crowd of older Kamikaze and Minekaze destroyers, with a handful of Kageros. And of course every DMS we can get our hands on (none ). There are two at Trincomalee we can pickup on the way past at least.Speaking of mines there’s still the full complement left by our friends at Colombo, if we can load all this up without hitting any of them it will be a minor miracle.
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 Can't wait for Umikaze to rejoin the fleet
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Good luck! So about how long it take before you get the first landings in? And good luck saving as much of your marine force as you can.
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Very excited to see how that goes.
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  Argh!  Pretty sure she has Rufes in her cargo too  Well that was a waste.  There goes Hokoku Maru, but our plan to rescue the SNLF seems to have worked. Equipment will be lost of course but thankfully paratroopers don’t have much.  Kakao opens up on Rennell Island.  Port hits is interesting. There is no port here.  gently caress off! How can there be so many submarines around Rabaul but our search doesn’t report them?  Port Blair, with thunderstorms again.  We hit something anyway.  Palembang. There is CAP here but as usual it doesn't engage.  We miss the bombers, if there are any, but do reasonable damage to the facilities.  CAP finally shows up as the third wave leaves.  The bombers only hit two of the retreating Aussie units today, which is a bit disappointing.  The Warhawk engaged, but ran out of ammo  The Havocs are back, but the Oscars have caught them.  Why you would bomb these idiots lost in the jungle instead of oil wells I do not know.  The Liz are back in action! Let’s see what kind of a pathetic flop they produce for us today.  I’ve seen worse I suppose.  I’m pretty sure Sallies could actually get about the same hits per aircraft, but with about 1/5th the supply burden.  The Hudsons are back.  But the Rufes are on fire today and get two of them.  Perch is harassing our APDs as they come into Rennell.  Despite the steep penalties Perch gets for being in a coastal hex, they can’t find her.  No seriously,  Look at all those dirty little fuckers. It seems like Kinryu Maru might just maybe make it though?  S-34 lines up on a destroyer from the bombardment fleet.  The water is too deep for the escorts to hit her though.  We are landing the supplies at Rennell.  Palembang goes well. Today we can order the attack.  Bandoeng, not so much.   Not such a great day  At least we didn’t lose a sentai of Rufes with Kirishima Maru. She had unloaded yesterday but I forgot to tell her not to go back home.   That poo poo is expensive. Not to mention irreplaceable.  The supply run to Rennell was a success, that should let them hold on for quite a bit longer.  Kinryu Maru is made of some tough stuff it seems. I’ve seen battleships take more damage than that from two torpedoes.   We have to do something about this submarine swarm around Rabaul. I had heavily skewed our escort allocation to Singapore anticipating with the invasion of Ceylon he would fill the Bay of Bengal with submarines, but has other ideas apparently  And we will split off two destroyers from the bombardment group to chase loving S-37 out of Shortlands. This will leave the cruisers dangerously short on escort for such infested waters, so we will have to kick them up to full speed for their own safety.  We are going to drop on Tennant Creek. Absolutely no idea what is waiting for us there, but we’ll find out I suppose. The idea is to take Tennant Creek, so that if we then hit them again, they will try to retreat towards the coastal settlements to the west of Darwin, rather than running further south.  Time to restart sweeps at Port Blair, now the carriers have moved off. Landing at Port Blair is our cover story for Chittagong, so we need to keep the pressure on here.  And here we go with the first proper attack at Palembang.  The 66th IR had been planning for a landing at Cox’s Bazar, down the coast from Chittagong. Ideally we would have done this simultaneously as a roadblock for any attempt at a counter attack out of Burma, but they’ve been delayed until now on Sumatra and I’m not putting the whole thing back by a week for them to catch up.
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wedgekree posted:Good luck! So about how long it take before you get the first landings in? It'll probably take us about a week to load up and get to Chittagong.
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Those torpedoes seem to be exploding. What happened? Did BuOrd get yelled at by an admiral sooner in this timeline?
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