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Looks fun so far! The alternate ship lists are interesting. I’ve claimed Lyon as a lucky ship—does it give anything away if you hint at when she might appear?
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No sign of Force Z that day?
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Dec 22, 2020 06:00
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I-26 wouldn’t be a bad pick for lucky ship, it seems.
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Dec 23, 2020 11:14
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Alchenar posted:If anyone is thinking about following Alikchi's Twitter LP of this game I highly recommend it. I checked and it looks like he’s jumping ahead from here so I didn’t want to “spoil” myself on certain things. It’s worth following for those who don’t mind that though!
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If as believed one of Lex/Sara has been sunk, what are his current carrier assets in theater? The one that was sunk (probably Sara) was NE of Hawaii so wasn’t one of the ones operating near the Marshalls earlier, so we can figure that those were the other one (let’s say Lex) and Enterprise. For the UK, Ark Royal is believed to be somewhere near Singapore with Force Z. Has the mod added any carriers save for Ark so far?
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Dec 29, 2020 03:54
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Aww  That’s rough. Hope you can bag Ark though!
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Dec 30, 2020 10:08
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Those Scythes are interesting. Does he get a lot of those or is it just an early war surprise kind of thing?
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drat, that Kuantan bombardment hurt. How long does it take for damaged planes to be repaired?
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Jan 3, 2021 16:09
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Hot drat! Hopefully at least one of those RN carriers is done for.
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Jan 4, 2021 04:05
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I take it the obnoxious Scythes are too short-ranged to do long escort missions? Will he have to wait for the P-38 later this year or is there a modded-in fighter that has the range?
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Jan 6, 2021 10:36
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Playing whack-a-mole with the British carriers like this seems frustrating. And did you figure out where New Zealand got itself to?
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Jan 7, 2021 10:21
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Affi posted:How are you doing compared to vanilla Japan? Two-three sunk carriers this early along with what seemed to be a very good Pearl attack should mean you’re doing great right? If I read the first-page post right then Japan starts with the same carriers as historically. For the Allies, Lexington is still out there, while Yorktown should have arrived in theater by now, but that still means poor odds for the Allies even if the two British carriers get away from this encounter.
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Jan 7, 2021 15:40
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Could be fantastic to be in a position where so many carriers are potentially within reach! Also, would not want to be one of the Dutch guys going into the air above the DEI in those Fokkers and Martins.
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Jan 8, 2021 04:02
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Does Japan get more cargo ships in the mod? I wince when I see Alikchi’s cruisers put holes in a bunch of your xAKs.
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Jan 10, 2021 06:03
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Wiki thinks the Lily IIa is supposed to have a bomb load of 800kg rather than 400kg. Is that wrong or does the game dial down its abilities?
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Pharnakes posted:
Interesting. The historical Sealion was a Sargo-class submarine, along with Seadragon and others. This pic identifies her as a Seadragon-class. Is that just something with the way WITP portrays submarine classes, or has the mod changed around US submarines?
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Jan 13, 2021 03:31
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Cool, that would do it. Are there big differences in stats between the two in-game?
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Jan 13, 2021 08:00
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Have you started pushing into Burma at all, or are you saving that for after Singapore?
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Jan 15, 2021 03:37
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Are you losing more airframes than him, or does he just have a greater diversity of airframes? I see that his aircraft loss points are higher, but then I look at the aircraft loss numbers and see 250 Zeroes, 100 Betties, etc. without any Allied aircraft having such big numbers.
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I think the issue Grey had was a bug with a unit that was supposed to be recalled but wouldn’t go away no matter what he did.
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orangelex44 posted:Just caught up, interesting going so far. Seems like the navy side is well into the "quiet" phase after the initial flurry of fuckery when the Allies' stuff is spread out all haphazardly. What do we think made it out from Force Z? I don't play the game myself, but it seems likely that at least one of Repulse and Ark Royal sunk. It’s possible the mod may have added more BBs or BCs for the Allies at this stage, though one of the extras (the ahistorical Dutch BC Kortenaer) is already at the bottom of the ocean near Sumatra. I think you’re right on carriers unless the mod has added some. As far as small carriers go I don’t think the US has any right now and HMS Hermes may also be dead—if memory serves she was badly damaged last time we saw her.
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Pharnakes posted:The Americans have Enterprise, Lex, Yorktown, the Hamilton explodey boxes and the Constellation explodey boxes. Right, I had forgotten that we saw Australia and New Zealand earlier. Didn’t know the Allies would already have pulled the old BCs and the funny half-carrier out. Did those start on the West Coast somewhere or do they get transferred from the Atlantic (if you know)?
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Jan 27, 2021 03:48
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When the combat report says a plane is damaged, is that at least a damaged plane that makes it back, or does the game model that damaged planes might not make it back to base? Is that counted as an ops loss? Really rough times in the air above SEA for you right now. I looked up those Ib Oscars to see what the issue was and dang, they are criminally undergunned for a 41/42 warbird.
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Jan 30, 2021 05:45
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Is it possible for you to tell the KB to turn around and haul rear end for Port Moresby now, or will the big targets have left by the time they’d get there?
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Feb 3, 2021 03:28
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Well, but at least the Skyrocket seems to be going down hard.
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Feb 5, 2021 03:09
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Great day for you, bad day for Warhawk pilots. Did you and Alikchi change something about the way you're handling planes again, or was this just the WITPAE dice falling your way after taking a toll on you last week?
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On the bright side I see you’re getting more of the Ic Oscars instead of the Ib models. That’s a whole one more .50 cal!
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Feb 17, 2021 03:22
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Does Japan get a lot of aircraft that are good for ASW? Spare Betties or Nells I guess? Does the mod add any more?
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Feb 22, 2021 10:55
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Going to be on the edge of my seat for your Midway attempt and Java to boot.
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Feb 24, 2021 05:04
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Insofar as you can tell, has he paid a price for his forward defense strategy that you can exploit? Is he weaker in the second line now that you’ve gotten through at least part of the first?
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Feb 24, 2021 14:35
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Is including the G5Ns paying off, so far? Will there come a time when they can’t operate over Allied bases for fear of interception?
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Tiger Crazy posted:Having never played a War in the Pacific multiplayer game, is this usually how they go? Alikchi seems like he is being super cautious and isn't really using his carriers contest you or even raid. He also seems to be using a minimal amount of his surface fleet. (Mainly using the old ships to doing surface raiding) Alikchi isn’t being as cautious as he could be—in some multiplayer games the Allied player just gives up a lot of places to the opponent and falls back to a defensible line somewhere around the historical extent of Japan’s conquests and waits for the Japanese player to overstretch themselves, for the landing bonus to expire, and for more ships to come into the theater, before starting to push back. I would guess that the players agreed not to do that though since it’s kind of unsporting.
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Excited to see how this round of gambles plays out! Losing G5Ns in such numbers seems like it hurts, though. Is there a safer way to employ them? Are they better saved up for mass raids? What will they do later in the war when the Allies have even more and even better fighters?
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Mar 12, 2021 02:56
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Are you also going to get Ritas in any numbers or is that a secret?
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Hey, it’s my lucky ship! I didn’t expect to see her yet. Really exciting stuff around Ceylon, despite... everything.
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HMS Habakkuk will appear at Cape Town shortly as well
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Is there anything else you can rush to where the American carriers appear to be, or will you have to let them off the hook this time? Would the KB make it in time or are you holding them back to cover the Darwin landing? What are you putting into the Midway attempt this time, given that he’s had the chance to reinforce and fortify it by now?
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Mar 22, 2021 03:40
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If the US Army built its own carriers and landing vessels and so on like the IJA did, they would still call the crew of those vessels soldiers and not sailors.
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Affi posted:Is tomorrow the day we find out what the billies are? FW190s or BF109s are what discord is betting for. Not as sure about that for the simple reason that the 109 and 190 already have reporting names (Mike and Fred respectively).
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Woodchip posted:Twin engine, Germanish nickname, bf-110? The 110 was the Doc but as someone said on Discord maybe the 210 or 410?
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