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Last year I read through the war diary of a coastal artilleryman on Corregidor from before the war through his first months of captivity and it was pretty interesting to read disgruntled rumblings about MacArthur, stealing alcohol from a wrecked barge that drifted on shore and the garrison hoping the Dutch Navy pulls out a miracle. Wonder what he's up to in this universe.
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Jan 4, 2021 19:12
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Yeah, these are a real treat to find after work.
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Jan 6, 2021 00:07
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A carrier(s) sighting is such a good cliffhanger.
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Jan 8, 2021 03:06
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aphid_licker posted:KB getting a lil light on fuel there. 
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Feb 21, 2021 22:06
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How fast could a response to Midway be mustered, assuming surprise has been achieved?
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Mar 2, 2021 20:26
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Where could those forces in Java have been drawn from?
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Mar 25, 2021 01:55
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Some of Alikchi's more recent moves have a very [[CHURCHILL HAS LOGGED INTO THE SESSION]] vibe. All that's missing is a wildly over-ambitious amphibious counter-attack somewhere... Hokkaido invaded in Spring of 1942 by simply hurling ships onto the beach to serve as landing craft/prefab fortresses. 
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Apr 6, 2021 03:42
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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.
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Apr 15, 2021 19:40
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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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Holy hell, this is getting exciting.
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May 3, 2021 18:56
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It's like the sub commanders have a challenge going to see who can torpedo the most destroyers.
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May 24, 2021 21:36
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Is this another case of Alikchi going for a hard forward defense like he did early on?
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May 25, 2021 21:57
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At this point Musashi could blunder into the middle of an attempted surprise attack on Kyushu and sink a carrier and I wouldn't bat an eyelash.
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May 28, 2021 20:11
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"Tojo Blunders into Bengal!" "Cunning Allied plot leaves Japanese Army in India with nothing to show for it but the administrative costs of the subcontinent!" "We didn't want it anyway" - Churchill
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May 29, 2021 00:20
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That's a lot of damaged B-17's. Hell, that's a lot of dead B-17's too.
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Jun 3, 2021 18:34
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uPen posted:Imagine being one of those Japanese marines. You've trained for years for amphibious assaults, working with the fleet. You've been assigned to one of the most powerful SNLF formations. Just proof that the Navy can do anything better than the IJA.
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Jun 6, 2021 17:33
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Tokyo Rose just started putting an anachronistic rendition of "It's Raining Men" out on the radio for no particular reason. Nothing for the guys on the transport planes to worry about.
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Jun 9, 2021 18:39
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For some reason I thought the Constitution literally referred to Old Ironsides herself heading out into the Pacific to kick rear end. She did see some combat of sorts in 1938 when she broke loose from her moorings during a big hurricane and rammed the destroyer, RalphTalbot. She was fine.
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Jun 10, 2021 00:27
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A stunning development when a Japanese strike breaks through to enemy carriers, but proceeds to sink every destroyer escort instead.
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Jun 14, 2021 21:20
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I know Japanese subs historically preferred combat targets, but this destroyer obsession seems weird. Is there some kink in the mod causing that prioritization?
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Jun 17, 2021 19:10
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Velius posted:I don’t know why, but I’m always a huge IJN fanboy in these games. As horrible as imperial Japan was the ridiculous odds and hopelessness make it hard to not root for them in games. So I guess I’m going to be frantically F5ing the next few days! That seems common with a lot of strategy games. Confederates/Axis are the instigators and underdogs, which makes them more interesting to follow in strategy games like that. I think I remember hearing the latest Hearts of Iron has tried to address this in its depiction of the Axis, since they're basically the "protagonist" powers in that they incite the central conflicts of a standard game. I think there was even some mod that goes all in on making fun of Axis politicians to take the piss out of them and annoy the "ironic" Nazis in the fandom. My favorite was an event that about sex-crazed war criminal Kishi showing up and everyone groaning at his poo poo.
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Jun 25, 2021 23:57
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I don't have time to watch video LP's anymore and I've always preferred screenshots anyway. This is the best of all possible worlds, provided you're not a pixel person in India.
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Jun 27, 2021 21:12
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It'd be hilarious if the Enterprise somehow ran aground on an atoll during its escape attempt.
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Jun 29, 2021 18:36
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Is there anything cheeky that Alikchi could try to pull off in China? Like launch a surprise offensive on weakened garrisons to try to put the home islands in B-17 range?
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Jul 2, 2021 07:31
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Pirate Radar posted:In the background for this mod, Japan did ahistorically well in China, so it's already mostly occupied and the ROC isn't putting up significant resistance anymore. Alikchi would have to sent troops up there somehow in order to bring it back into play. Thanks, I must have forgotten about that. I guess Grey's "KIAfeng" became too ingrained in my head.
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Jul 2, 2021 14:37
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The surviving carrier pilots are going to instill in the fresh recruits the importance of sinking escorts so as to keep ahead of those cheeky sub captains.
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Jul 29, 2021 14:43
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I can't wait to meet the next crop of dashing Carrier Pilots.
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Jul 29, 2021 22:50
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How long would it take for those atolls to be developed to the point where they could provide some form of support for an invasion of Tabiteuea? Incidentally, the only thing I can ever remember about this general region is that Tabiteuea was the site of a Crusade led by a Hawaiian pastor to install a localized form of Christianity in the late 19th Century.
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Aug 2, 2021 22:30
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This thread brightens my day in my darkest hours. Never had a darker hour than the Prince of Wales is going through right now, but still.
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Aug 4, 2021 19:43
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Is the Repulse still afloat? I don't recall her sinking, but this has been a pretty eventful war.
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Aug 5, 2021 02:44
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Moulmein sounds like the set up for a period-piece horror movie in this timeline. An Allied Garrison is mysteriously absent, as are the partisans they were sent to pacify. The occupying Japanese inhabiting the ghost town start to here strange sounds from the jungle.
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Aug 10, 2021 18:55
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Alright, everyone, here comes the Definitive Kerfuffle.
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Aug 13, 2021 19:00
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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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Aug 15, 2021 21:24
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Randomcheese3 posted:There were two Canberras! The first was an Australian one, lost at the Battle of Savo Island in August 1942. She was one of the British 'County' class heavy cruisers, built at about the same time as Northampton and Chester. In 1943, the US Navy named one of the Baltimore-class heavy cruisers after her, to recognise her service. You're thinking of the second one, but Pharnakes has sunk the former. Cool! Didn't realize that's where the name came from.
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Aug 16, 2021 21:11
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One by one the carriers limp into port on fumes. The people of Japan look to the horizon for Akagi, but determine that it was just too far and she was just too low on fuel. Then, suddenly, a child cries "Look!" as the Akagi crests a wave with an improvised sail of Rising Sun flags. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHUnPfDvYu8
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Aug 17, 2021 18:43
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What can still be accomplished in Australia before the Allies become too strong to manage?
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Sep 17, 2021 02:57
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The sharks are eating well tonight.
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Sep 19, 2021 17:55
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aphid_licker posted:Can't believe that that ship was trundling about with four and a half thousand dudes aboard and a single corvette. Smug-rear end sub commanders smirking about the mysterious rash of Allied escort sinkings.
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The paratroopers land right in the middle of the enemy and both wind up flailing at random under one solid canopy of parachutes. From the air it looks like the world's biggest sleep-over wrestling match.
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