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We now have an independent brigade here, with a couple of levels of forts I'm confident they can hold off anything he has available, which can’t be much.  The Liberators vist Diamond Harbour today, and through some fuckup make it past the CAP. Thankfully we have no ships here so the worst they can do is hit some supplies.  But we catch them on the way out.  One Zero and one bomb hit is a good trade for a Liberator.  Not such favourable weather for us at Milne today   But only one runway hit. Thus far.  Manageable.  Still sweeping every day at Broome, but no sign of bombers.  What is this, world’s crappiest planes exhibition?  Still sweeping at Chittagong also, but at least we know the Liberators can’t be coming here today.  Less dramatic than yesterday.  Too late, we’ll be in Darjeeling today.  Once again the weather clears in the afternoon, but hopefully the heavies have already flown for today.  This is the Lightnings who were maybe doing LRCAP at Milne Bay yesterday, I suppose.  Should have stuck to unopposed missions.  Skyrockets, he’s serious about sweeping Chittagong then.  Owie   San Juan has another go at I-3, and this time fucks her up rather.  Surrender already you fucks.  A big fat nothing.  Oh dear, Raipur it turns out isn’t undefended at all.  That could have been a lot worse, thank god we are armoured units. And I bet that regiment isn’t unpacked yet.  No further signs of a breakout yet.   Any day we torpedo the USNs newest and shiniest ship is a good day.  Six Liberators? That should teach him a lesson. Fortresses these things ain’t.  Looking at the stats it’s not immediately obvious why Fortresses are invincible and Liberators are Zero bait, but those slight advantages in speed, durability and armament must just cross the threshold of what the air resolution thinks a Zero can and can’t handle.  Where’s my North Carolina???  I-3 has paid rather a price from that second run by San Juan, but she’s going to be OK as long as she doesn’t take a third.  The tanks have arrived at Asansol, combined with air support and the forts the engineers have managed to throw up, I’m sure we can hold for long enough. There’s 101 heavy industry here that I’d really like to protect.  Just a few more supplies to unload at Pegu, then the ships can return to Singapore, to load for attempt two on Port Blair.  And they’re back again. Does he really have them just on patrol between Ndeni and Tabiteuea? If so he’s just making it too easy for us   The guards tank division is crossing the river into Tezpur.  With the two infantry divisions already at Tezpur bombarding in support.  I know I said we were going to wait at Darjeeling, but let’s have one try and see what happens.  We need to try and get the tanks out of Raipur. This certainly explains why he was comfortable with the tanks getting ahead of his retreat, presumably the plan is to now seal the hex behind us.  Obviously we can’t have that, but since he just got all his Liberators mulched, we can use the Nicks for CAS again to slow his infantry to a crawl. Once our infantry arrives we will have enough to if not attack Raipur, at least hold our ground here and prevent any kind of attack towards Vizagapatnam or Cuttack.  I’m not anticipating much more than militia here, but at one point he probably intended to defend Rangoon, so there might be high level forts. Let’s play it safe.  Somehow we seem to have wasted 90% of the supplies we landed with at Pegu, so we’ll send more to Tavoy.  The Kido Butai forms up at Truk - two divisions, the first Akagai and the Shokakus escorted by Kongo, Amagi and with Hyuga standing in for the damaged Kirishima. The 1kt loss of speed here isn’t relevant because we are also bringing along the seaplane tender Chitose, who can only do 29kts anyway.  And the second division, the Tairyus, Hiryu and Soryu, escorted by Haruna, Hiei and Atago. Commanded by the brilliant Captain Matsuo we will surel - wait what who let this pencil pushing moron in the navy never mind in command of half the loving Kido Butai   Now that’s more like it.  Leadership issues ironed out, we are departing to lurk in the vicinity of Ocean Island, with Yamaguchi Tamon aboard Donryu taking overall command. Incidentally this is the man who probably should have been in charge at Midway, instead of the over promoted and hidebound Nagumo. Pharnakes fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Aug 13, 2021 |
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  A quiet night  Tezpur still quiet, but we still need the bombers elsewhere.  We could do with a good result here please.  That should do it.  Strike before sweep at Gasmata   Most of the bombers get through, but we’ve got some rain to help us.  Bad day to be a Skyrocket.  The daily at Bezwada.  A rather uncomfortably good result for just a handful of Blenheims.  Stop slowing us down!  This shouldn’t interfere significantly with our attack.  He’s sent Mitchells to Colombo. I wonder if they were supposed to go to Madras?  Only two make it through.    The morning thunderstorms at Milne Bay.  Working for us so far.  But then some Fortresses arrive, and somehow get 2/3rd supply hits??  The medium bombers miss at least.  But of course by afternoon the storms cleared.    The first attack at Rangoon. Looks like it may well be the only one needed.  Not quite, they had level four forts here. Still, our regulars tear into them with minimal casualties, and tomorrow we should take it.  Looks like the tanks aren’t crossing to Tezpur today. Still, this shows us there’s really not that much here.  Somehow not much gets the better of us though.  But we get the most dramatic result we’ve had for months at Calcutta.  We might just make this I think.  OK Darjeeling isn’t going to work.  The usual attrition at Jamshedpur.  Ahahaha, he bombarded here when he should have shock attacked.   I’d say we won the airwar today, which is good because not much else happened.  Skyrockets and Mitchells, very nice.  Quiet at sea. There’s going to be carriers here soon!  The Kido Butai is on the way, currently unspotted and weathering a rough patch today.  This is further west and south than we’ve seen his carrier for several days, I think they must be going into Luganville for fuel, which is about perfect really.   Infact it’s so perfect we’re going for it. This is the optimal location for a strike on Luganville, range 7 from Ndeni means any strike the marines launch on us will have to be unescorted, and range 6 from Luganville means our Vals will carry a full load, whereas any Vindicators he might still be using won’t be able to join the fight at all. At range 34 from our current location it requires two days of flank speed, but that is exactly the distance our 29kt ships can cover in this time. His carriers are currently range 6 from Luganville, so they won’t arrive until tomorrow afternoon, they will then require at least another 24 hours to be fully refueled. I’m confident that we can catch them with their pants down.  Strike will be at base 15k, we don’t need the increased accuracy of 10k, and we can always use reduced losses for the airgroups.  Matched by the Kates of course for maximum coordination.  Escort will be provided exclusively by Akagi in group one, and Tairyu & Donryu in group two.  The rest can therefore provide CAP.  And we can customise the levels as we want, rather than being constrained by needing to match altitudes with the strike for escort purposes.  But Pharnakes, I hear you say, aren't you the one who told us that you should never have more than 30% CAP, and the rest escort? Well, I’m glad you are paying attention, but this is a slightly different situation than we were facing six weeks ago. For starters last time we were anticipating a fair fight instead of a seal clubbing, and secondly we are going into range of potentially a lot of land based air, and without an accompanying bombardment fleet to suppress them. And finally because we expect them to be in a base hex, that means we have the rare privilege in a carrier fight of being able to sweep over them, which is far more effective than escort. For tomorrow though the sweepers are kept back as CAP to prevent them sweeping Ndeni or something and giving the game away.  Oilers are leaving Truk to follow behind as usual. I’d have liked to do that yesterday really, but as you can see we only have a single destroyer available in Truk right now, which is woefully inadequate for such precious assets.  But today we have an inbound convoy we can strip two more destroyers from.  The Bismarck Sea currently seems to be clearish of submarines, so I bundle up some cripples that have been accumulating at Rabaul and send them home.  We’re going to gamble that he’ll follow his usual pattern of changing to sweep only at Gasmata, and send our fighters to LRCAP Milne.  It’s time we dealt with these raids on Bezwada.  I was waiting to see if he would try to hit Madras again, but since he apparently isn’t we have Zeroes available to provide top cover for the Nicks.  No idea what we are up against here, but gently caress it let’s find out bysmashing our face into it.  At Tezpur I think we will change the infantry to an attack, instead of just bombardment in support of the tanks crossing tomorrow.  It went so well at Rangoon today we will try a shock attack tomorrow.  And we’ve encountered our first resistance in the interior. I’m sure it’s just militia though.  Now that we’re finished with Java, the Southern Army HQ is being shipped off to take charge of the Indian situation. Pharnakes fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Aug 13, 2021 |
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:
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Cimber posted:Probably the 15th, the KB needs time to get down there, so he's likely to launch his strikes Sunday instead. In game they're a day behind  so yes, Sunday IRL
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mercenarynuker posted:This moment right here is the absolute worst part of being up to date with the most recent post in the LP Right? I want to know what the hell happens! I hope we don't get blued.
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mercenarynuker posted:This moment right here is the absolute worst part of being up to date with the most recent post in the LP Nah, the worst part is getting blue-balled when the US carriers leg it and vanish and nothing actually happens.
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A part of me is expecting a giant pile of subs swimming all over the place, plus a lot of LBAs, I'm trying to find a reason for Alikchi's carriers to gently caress around there but I don't play the game so I have no idea.
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SIGSEGV posted:A part of me is expecting a giant pile of subs swimming all over the place, plus a lot of LBAs, I'm trying to find a reason for Alikchi's carriers to gently caress around there but I don't play the game so I have no idea. The place Alikchi is going is the big USN naval base for the south west pacific during this time period. It has a high level port which is good for fueling big ships like carriers.
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Well then it's port attack time. You know, thinking back on what I think I know about this game, apparently there's no distinction between being in a hex and being in port, and carriers eat penalties if they are in any coastal hex because it's assumed they are humping the coast. Also, entirely unrelated, ground units have operational modes that make it clear if a unit is all packed up in trains and / or on marching orders or if they are expecting a fight and or garrisoning.
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  Quiet at sea, quiet over Tezpur.  But the Hellens have run into trouble. We only bombed here once several days ago, has he had LRCAP waiting all that time?  We mostly get through.  But cause very little damage.  Then come the Sallies.  Only one lost this time, but even less damage done.  By the time the Anns show up the LRCAP is depleted, but being Anns they don’t do much.  He’s starting bombing again at Broome.  Two stray Hurricanes have wandered over Chittagong.  Alternatively they knew exactly what they were doing   The top cover at Bezwada isn’t doing its job  We knock out a chunk though, and in this weather they aren’t hitting poo poo anyway.  I’d really rather it hadn’t been the Nicks taking the brunt of their escort’s attacks.  Annoying as this is, we’re going to be in Jamshedpur soon anyway.  Not achieving much at Darjeeling either.  And a couple Liberators trying their luck at Diamond Harbour.  Nope, no luck for you here.  First wave over Milne Bay comes right in under the LRCAP.  This puts them nicely in range of the AAA though.  Skyrockets over Chittagong. Given what two Hurricanes just did to us this might not be nice.  Turns out they should have just sent more Hurricanes.  They aren’t totally done with Madras then.  The Lysanders make it through, but lol, Lysanders.  The escorts must have been much higher and thus attracted the attention of the CAP.  drat, despite yesterday he’s still sending bombers to Gasmata.  They don’t manage to hit any parked planes though, so it isn’t too bad.  Top cover is working over Milne Bay.  But they don’t even touch the bombers. Maybe the bombers are down low again?  We mulch the Airacobras anyway.  But then it’s Fortresses.  Forts’ are usually quite resistant to mulching.  And today is no exception.  Perhaps we could finish with a Marauder now?  Nope  This part of the plan worked at least.  Yes please   I-21 is paying a price though  Shame she was empty, but she’s still going down, I’m sure of it.  Here comes the finisher at Rangoon.  Amusingly the British HQ surrenders on the spot, but the local militia run off in more or less good order.  And now the Guards tank is crossing into Tezpur.  A very good result, the covering operation prevented the loss of even one tank on the crossing, and took down a level of the forts.  Nothing at Calcutta today.  And it turns out there wasn’t anything to be worried about in the south.  Easy enough.  Lots of attacks today.  Lot’s of victories today.  Technically they’re ahead here today, but I don’t think that really compensates.  And although they do get their act together and kick us in the pants as we leave Tezpur, we’re still massively ahead for today.   Look at that points jump from yesterday. Or rather, look at his points slump from yesterday.  That’s because Rangoon is worth 1200 points for him. Assuming we’re aiming to maintain a 2:1 lead over him, taking Rangoon from them is the same as us managing to earn 2400 VPs without losing anything, or equivalent to sinking ~5 carriers plus their airgroups.  Ouch, that’s a lot of Nicks. Still, we did decently overall.  Something good here at long last.  A shame Trinity is small and slow. I’d have liked a T3, but what can you do.  Kirishima had a bulkhead fail in the night, resulting in worse flooding than when she actually took the hit, but still nothing to worry about.  I-21 is going to need yard time for that hit.   Everything is lined up just as we wanted it to be, and although he has a tiny bit of detection on one of our groups, it’s much less than I’d expected. We’re pushing ahead, although I do give the strike groups secondary targets incase he retreats the carriers, and of course issue the sweep orders.  We’ve now got three infantry divisions here, plus the tanks, let’s go for the finisher. I want these guys freed up to start banging away at Jamshedpur asap.  I think we will go and send the bombers to harass these lost lambs in the jungle.  That should keep them out of trouble while we sweep up these new fighters.  The cavalry regiment isn’t too bad, but our recon regiment is all but wiped out. Hopefully we can manage to get out this hex before their infantry arrives, and meanwhile our infantry is turned around again, since they won’t be safe out here without armour to watch their flanks.  We’re going to need the Nicks back in CAS if there’s any hope for the tanks to escape.  Second to last hex before Trivandrum.  The tanks will push from Rangoon to Bassein.  And the infantry will march to Prome after leaving one regiment behind. No wait, why can’t I split the division?   OK, the infantry will march on Prome once these idiot stranglers arrive from Singapore  Inland things are more organised and we push on for Central Burma and the oil wells.  I’m sure there’ll be much indignant sweeping of Milne Bay tomorrow, so it’s back to CAPing Gasmata.
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Is it sunday yet? Assuming you do well and disable or even sink a carrier or two, those troops he landed in the Gilberts better start tightening their belts, as supplying them safely is going to be a real challenge.
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Congrats on taking Rangoon! Did you take the facilities/industry there relatively intact or it not really worth using as a base for you beyond VP's?
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So did you sink the BB NC or not? Was there not a jump in points? She wasn't on the sunk list on the day she ate the torpedoes, but showed up a day later. IRL she ate a torp on the same torp spread that also sank the CV Wasp. On September 15th 1942 the IJN sub I-19 sent 6 torps at CV Wasp, three hit, and two went 5 nautical miles to hit BB NC and the destroyer O'Brien which were in a different TF. It tore a bigass hole in the side but the NC counter flooded the other side so she didn't tip over, and then limped to Pearl for repairs and bonus AA emplacements. The Wasp was scuttled after a day, and the O'Brien was evacuated and eventually fell apart. Here's the end of the Wasp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wasp_(CV-7)#Loss quote:After consulting with Rear Admiral Leigh Noyes, Captain Sherman ordered "abandon ship" at 15:20. All badly injured men were lowered into rafts or rubber boats. Many unwounded men had to abandon ship from aft because the forward fires were burning with such intensity. The departure, as Sherman observed it, looked "orderly", and there was no panic. The only delays occurred when many men showed reluctance to leave until all the wounded had been taken off. The abandonment took nearly 40 minutes, and at 16:00 Sherman abandoned the ship once he was satisfied that no survivors were left on board. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Aug 15, 2021 |
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That sub captain had perhaps the single greatest torpedo salvo in the entire war. Dead aircraft carrier, badly damaged modern battleship, dead destroyer.
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wedgekree posted:That sub captain had perhaps the single greatest torpedo salvo in the entire war. Dead aircraft carrier, badly damaged modern battleship, dead destroyer. *by the way, the Wasp was a bit of a paper tiger because she was built under the Washington Treaty and was limited by the tonnage rules. She was slow and lightly armored and when the torps hit she went up real fast. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Aug 15, 2021 |
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Specifically, the overall tonnage cap. Technically the US had a CV tonnage allotment high enough to build five hulls of 27k tons (effectively 5 Yorktowns), which was their single hull cap, but they really wanted their two Lexington conversions and so wrangled to get those accepted. And to be fair those were good, but it meant that additional tonnage had to be cut from somewhere, and USS Wasp's compromised design at only ~14k tons was the result of that. Also the US was using some, uh, creative number accounting to say the Lexingtons fit under the revised treaty allowance for them, but then again basically everyone was either doing that, plain lying, or else just inserting exploitable loopholes into the original treaty.
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Welcome to a game where the VP values for hexes are asymmetric despite the fact that the difference in VP totals between sides is what is counted for victory.
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Jonesing for some hot carrier on carrier action today!
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  Ouch. Wait a minute, she was already on fire?  The only explanation can be that she hit a mine here. Ironic given we are here to lay mines tonight, although in fact Hamakaze was running supplies by herself.  They're landing at Nauru.  And that’s it for the night, opening the day with a sweep over Calcutta.  A solid result with Scythes around.  He mean while is sweeping Bezwada, but we aren’t here anymore.  And now our sweep of Luganville finds nothing. Unless the carriers disbanded into port (and surely he wouldn’t do that with no CAP at all up?) that must mean they’ve left  The Hellens are successfully keeping out of trouble today.  But not hitting much.  The second sweep at Calcutta.  And we get a Scythe.  The carriers haven’t landed quite where we wanted them, they are still in escort range of Ndeni.  But we needn’t have worried. What a slaughter  He’s not showing any signs of being mad about Milne as I expected, but he does seem bothered at Bezwada.  Bad weather over Broome.  Glad to waste his time I suppose.  The usual here, but it changes nothing.  Ditto Darjeeling.  This is a pretty lacklustre strike.  We have some heavy cruisers anyway, that’s nice.  And the RAN is present as well.  That better be just the starting wave.  We have wave two at least, who immediately get to work.  And on Chester too.  The Vals are also doing good work.  Which isn’t to say we don’t make mistakes, but we aren’t seeing the morbid fascination with destroyers we usually do.  And sometimes we’re hitting them besides.  In general practice is excellent today, especially considering the Vals are dropping from maximum height.  Shame she didn’t blow, but a very good sign all the same.  Only Canberra outright sunk so far, but the other two will be very lucky to make it out of this.  And we’re back with a fresh wave, but they’re dropping bombs for some reason??  They must have just failed their torpedo roll I suppose, we’ve certainly got plenty available.  The Lysdaners are under the Madras CAP again.  Thank god he doesn’t have any Wildebeest left.  Wait, why is he attacking the airfield here?  Revenge for Hamakaze perhaps?  Not quite, but maybe she’ll hit a mine on the way out.  Miss, of course.  At least we know where the testicles are.  The full attack at Tezpur.  That’s the way to do it.  Another nice chunk of prisoners, in particular he must be feeling the squeeze on airfield units now.  Just give up already.  Nothing to see here.  And they formalise Nauru.  But we come out fractionally ahead at Jamshedpur.   Well, we didn’t get what we wanted, but it looks like we got the guys from Ndeni good, and another big chunk of army points.  Yes I would say that qualifies as getting them good, and we only lost one Val and one Kate, that’s pretty nice.  For two heavy cruisers sunk, and a third to probably follow, I think that’s a good trade.  A new DMS at Tokyo.  Yes, there are mines at Milne Bay, but at least we have our own here now as well. Pilots posted:PO1 Kamihira N. of Zuikaku-1 is credited with kill number 12  This is presumably the US carriers, I don’t get how he managed to refuel in one day without oilers, which we would surely have spotted. Or perhaps he saw us coming and left without fully refueling.   We have enough fuel to stay for one more day of strikes, which will also give the tankers enough time to catch up.  In preparation for retaking Tarawa, Nauru and presumably Ocean, we are building up the airfield at Mili. With no time to make amphibious plans this will be exclusively a paratroop operation, relying on total sea dominance in the area to pound these sandbanks upside down before we drop men on whatever’s left.  We seem to have run out of DMSes in theatre, so we will send these two new ones down from Tokyo to make Milne Bay safe.  They are trying to make a push for Dimapur, probably hoping they can make it up the road ahead of us to cause some final trouble at the Ledu oil wells. This could actually work out very well for us if the motorised infantry can get out in front of them, which there’s at least a reasonable chance they can I think.  Across the river at Tezpur, we now have 1500AV freed up. We can rail them as far as Jessore, but unfortunately not all the way to Asansol. That minor rail crossing of the Ganges is a lie that doesn’t actually exist, so we will have to march on foot from Jessore to Jamshedpur. To secure a rail crossing we must either take Calcutta or else go all the way up to Benares.  We can begin probing what he has on the Howrah - Jessore road, and you can see that next door he’s somehow managed to get a unit there to reopen the road into Jamshedpur from that direction.  But it doesn't really matter because the 4th Guards are ready to start marching up the road to Jamshedpur.
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Pharnakes posted:we only lost one Val and one Kate holy poo poo!
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aphid_licker posted:Yeah that's a great catch, much more sustainable than our last carrier engagement. Frankly its a consolidation prize. I was hoping to see CVs going down instead.
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Cimber posted:The place Alikchi is going is the big USN naval base for the south west pacific during this time period. It has a high level port which is good for fueling big ships like carriers. Not quite, that's Noumea, which is a: out of range of a surprise attack by being too far behind his search bases and b: full of angry LBA if he has any sense. We might raid it one day, but it will have to be a more considered and better supported action. The whole principal of this raid was that Luganville isn't a high level port, and since we know there's no oilers based there, if he was going to refuel it wold take more than one day. Apparently though he wasn't going to refuel/the sighting he got yesterday was enough to spook him. KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:In game they're a day behind Uhh, good catch there were two 12ths apparently. The actual turns were all correct though, just not the dates. aphid_licker posted:
I mean 7 Airacobras for 10 Nicks is a pretty loving good deal for him I'd say. Cimber posted:Is it sunday yet? Yes, but this doesn't change anything. I wouldn't say I'm glad we missed, but it was in my mind if we wipe him here (which we surely would have had we succeeded in forcing the engagement) he would be likely to throw the towel in, which would be a bit lame. All the same we still have overwhelming numerical dominance now, and baring a true midway or some extremely lucky subs we're going to enjoy that for a year +. Hell if we fight and lose a Midway at 4:1 that would still leave us with 4 fleet carriers, 2 baby fleet carriers and 4 CVLs to his 2 fleet, 2 RN fleet and 2 Baby RN fleet. So there's no way the Gilberts are getting resupplied any time soon, other than a trickle from fast transports with APDs and the like. wedgekree posted:Congrats on taking Rangoon! Did you take the facilities/industry there relatively intact or it not really worth using as a base for you beyond VP's? We took the refineries with only minor damage that will be fixed in ~6 weeks yes, which is very nice. Once we take the wells inland and fix everything up Burma will be responsible for 5000 oil/day, just under 10% of our total production. So a nice boost but nothing huge. CannonFodder posted:So did you sink the BB NC or not? Was there not a jump in points? She wasn't on the sunk list on the day she ate the torpedoes, but showed up a day later. Is this absolute buffoon taking intel seriously? Someone sell this man a bridge. CannonFodder posted:There's no "perhaps" about it. It was helped by the fact that the Long Lance goes a long way. IJN SS I-19 put three torpedoes into CV Wasp* and then 5 miles later two more hit the NC and O'Brien. If they had a range of 3 miles then it would just be a really deadly strike instead of an extra deadly strike. She was a paper tiger yes, but then aren't all carriers? She had very impressive capabilities for 14k tons, but they did probably try too hard to fit a full sized carrier wing on her all the same. Alchenar posted:Welcome to a game where the VP values for hexes are asymmetric despite the fact that the difference in VP totals between sides is what is counted for victory. Some of the VP choices are absolutely  I mean I kind of see why say Sydney is worth far more VP to the Japanese than the Allies, obviously for the Allies to continue to hold Sydney is really not an accomplishment, but then Noumea which the Japanese really can't plausibly take very often is 10:1 Allied:Japan favour like Rangoon, but Fiji which is of equal importance/difficulty to take is 1:75 the other way. I'm 90% convinced the devs never finished a play through of witp tbh, so none of these numbers are balanced beyond whatever insane forumla the devs came up with.aphid_licker posted:Yeah that's a great catch, much more sustainable than our last carrier engagement. It's not carriers but yeah three CA for free is pretty nice. That's almost a Savo Island but for no damage at all on our side. aphid_licker posted:Do we have any units with the Type 3 Ka-Chi Tonkbote? Sadly no, adding land devices is much more awkward than planes or ships, since unlike air units I have no control over our land units ToEs ingame. In order to add a new vehicle it's 2 minutes in the editor to add the stat block, but then you have to comb through all the possible land units you might want to have use it, and tweak their ToEs. So Alikchi didn't do much of that, things like the type 1 is easy because it's just bringing the availability forward, not actually adding anything new.
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If memory serves, the Canberra entered service during the war itself while Northampton and Chester were both built in the interwar period. Canberra seems like a good raider to remove from the equation if that's the case.
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aphid_licker posted:Do we have any units with the Type 3 Ka-Chi Tonkbote? Could be launched from a submarine! Definitely would not volunteer to be part of those acceptance trials.
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Lakedaimon posted:Could be launched from a submarine! Definitely would not volunteer to be part of those acceptance trials. Afaik it worked pretty well. The Japanese had already adopted the earlier Type 2 Ka-Mi after a series of prototypes during the 30's, and by the early 40's were probably the most experienced people around when it came to designing amphib vehicles.
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I think it'd be quite hard to argue that all WW2 carriers were paper tigers. Do you mean glass cannons or something to that effect?
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Pharnakes posted:Is this absolute buffoon taking intel seriously? Someone sell this man a bridge.
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Alikchi must be pretty short of capital ships right now, a combination of bad luck and some very good aggressive play by you. I confess I'd actually like to see him get some big wins to keep this a little more even and ensure the game keeps going
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