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Play With Your Buddies / Re: War in the Pacific: AE PBEM - June 20th
« on: June 18, 2011, 04:45:38 am »
Quote from: Sheb on June 18, 2011, 04:23:29 am
Damn, he's attacking? Hopefully that'll end with loads of troopers starving in the Jungle.

Hopefully as many as possible go down with the unloading ships. We have 5 ships spotted, 2 confirmed transports. The force is ordered to go in and out at full speed, A6M2-Ns from Bougainville(Shortlands) provide air cover but Milne Bay itself is out of their range. 4 submarines are less than 24 hours away and are also ordered in.

Updating in 1 hour...

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: War in the Pacific: AE PBEM - June 20th
« on: June 17, 2011, 01:25:45 pm »
The Allies are unloading troops at Milne Bay(southern, southeastern most tip of the New Guinea)... Lets go check out the party. Taking part: cruisers Tone, Chikuma, Atago, Myoko and Mogami, escorted by 4 destroyers. Task Force commander is himself legendary Admiral Tanaka. Turn sent back now...

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: War in the Pacific: AE PBEM - June 20th
« on: June 17, 2011, 12:46:07 pm »
Quote from: OAMP on June 17, 2011, 12:30:18 pm
Not too shabby.  I'm a fan of B-17s, but then again can't exactly root for them against you  :P  Feels nice to finally get one I bet.  Hopefully some more will follow shortly.

At least until he brings fighter escorts, sufficient numbers of Ki-45s seem to be enough to make raids against major airfields counter-productive to him. We have destroyed 9 Liberators and 5 B-17s during the last 2 days - and possibly even more than that. I have no idea where his P-38s are, and I'm yet to see one... He must have had them for at least a month or so now. Possibly still training at the West Coast.  :P

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: War in the Pacific: AE PBEM - June 20th
« on: June 17, 2011, 12:12:18 pm »
June 28th

Air war news it is again. Against all expectations... B-17s fly! 37 of them visit Rabaul, and the CAP is puny 4 Zeroes and a single Ki-45. In a heroic act, a Zero from Tainan Ku S-1 shoots down a B-17 right from the first head-on, scoring also his 5th kill. The B-17s bomb 14 aircraft(1 bomber, 5 Zeroes and 6 Ki-45s), however there are no pilot losses on the ground, and many bombers are damaged.

17 P-39s strike Gasmata at low level, and meet the Japanese CAP: 5 P-39s are confirmed shot down, 4 more at least heavily damaged.

Other than the ones destroyed on the ground, Japanese losses are only 3 Zeroes and 1 Ki-45, all operational losses with no pilots hurt. Ki-45 debut in fighter combat, shooting down a P-39. The Zero A6M2 unit also makes its combat debut, shooting down a P-39.

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: War in the Pacific: AE PBEM - June 20th
« on: June 17, 2011, 10:57:42 am »
Quote from: OAMP on June 17, 2011, 10:38:31 am
Ooo, a surprise, interesting.  Overall I'd rate those two days as "meh", but they weren't too bad a I suppose.  You'll get em next time I bet though  ;)

Quote from: Zrk2 on June 16, 2011, 08:44:12 pm
Quote from: OAMP on June 16, 2011, 02:24:14 pm
Today was pretty routine though...

90% of war is marching.

Mhmm.  I remember WWII Online, a MMOFPS.  Thirty minutes just getting to the front, only to be shot by some enemy you never saw.  Die, start the whole process over again.

Yeah, at times, but usually the spawn was closer, 10 min or less to contact...

Flight sims online perhaps the "worst" or "best" in this regard, however you like your games.  :)


Day 1 was horrible, day 2 was slightly positive.. We'll see how day 3 works out. Depends on weather and if the Allies continue the ground support attacks or not.

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: War in the Pacific: AE PBEM - June 20th
« on: June 17, 2011, 05:08:06 am »
Depending on what my opponent will do, I will have a surprise for him tomorrow. He has again begun the close air support strikes to Gasmata, we will see how our new planes work against those raiders... I've also staggered the CAP so that the least experienced squad is lowest, hoping for the better pilots to get the bounce, supported by Ki-45s(possibly seeing combat against fighters for the first time).

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: War in the Pacific: AE PBEM - June 20th
« on: June 17, 2011, 04:00:54 am »
Quote from: Hyo on June 17, 2011, 03:49:03 am
... That was... satisfactory? It still seems very much like a string of failures from one to another, at least to me. While it was salvageable, the amount of damage that we could have caused just makes it depressing.

What pisses me off the most is losing the pilots. Lots of crack fighter and torpedo pilots lost for little gain... However today almost made up for it - we killed at least 14 heavy bombers and 2 B-26s for bonus points, losing just 2 ill-trained pilots(and some Zeroes and old bombers I no longer even produce). Think it this way: without that battle he could have used them to fly on average 20 sorties/day against easier targets. Now he wont be flying them for a week, at least, and his bomber force is not growing in size, as he lost approximately a month's replacements. I know he will get less than 300 heavy bombers before Spring of 1943, so he has lost 1/3 of them already - and its only mid 42. :)

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: War in the Pacific: AE PBEM - June 20th
« on: June 17, 2011, 03:28:09 am »
OK, the good news is, that we destroyed the 100th and 101st confirmed Allied heavy bomber today. Considering how good they are, hes depleting them at a pretty good rate, killing mostly old G3M2 bombers and an odd ill-trained Zero pilot.

At the strategic level I'm satisfied with the last 2 days even if I hate losing pilots. We traded very little strategically important assets(and hardware is always replaceable) to more than month's reinforcements of heavy bombers. The AAA did horribly, again, but that detail will be fixed possibly even before the next attack, as the hundreds of 88mm and 2 dozen 100mm guns arrive to Rabaul and Kavieng.

EDIT: + that Liberator squadron is now trashed, they lost 9 out of 11 that flew(their "paper strength" or TOE is probably 12) and at least 6 pilots dead/missing. Probably more. Effectively, that unit is out of action for some time even if it still has aircraft left, and replacement pilots(aircrew) are likely to less experienced.

EDIT2: this turn the rest of the 13th Sentai arrived to Rabaul, so instead of 9, we had 36 Ki-45s ready. Each of them seems to be about 4 times more effective than Zero when it comes to shooting down bombers, even if the pilots arent experienced and only moderately trained. I also moved a 12-strong unit of Ki-43s to New Hanover Island next to Kavieng... I would have had Zeroes too, but I want to bring the Army units into action as they have vast pilot reserves, unlike the Navy.

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: War in the Pacific: AE PBEM - June 20th
« on: June 17, 2011, 02:23:58 am »
June 27th

And then comes the expected heavy bomber attack to Rabaul. There are over 150 fighters ready. Attacking force is 11 x LB-30(=B-24), 18+15+9 x B-17E and 3 x B-26.

Japanese fighters shoot down at least 6 x LB-30, 2 x B-26 and SURPRISE SURPRISE, zero B-17s. We lose 5 Zeros in the air, right away, as well as a Ki-45. 2 more Ki-45s and 1 Zero are written off. Despite the AAA fire and every single bomber damaged in every wave, they stil destroy 6 Zeros, 10 G3M bombers (I moved the G4Ms out to Truk to refit) and 3 Ki-45s. 2 pilots die and 1 is wounded.

HQ staff estimated enemy losses higher, though. 9 LB-30s(very possible, Ki-45s went mostly after these, and shot down 6 over Rabaul, probably damaging them all multiple times) and 4 B-17Es(better have been at least 4!!!!)

More later.... Possibly.

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: War in the Pacific: AE PBEM - June 20th
« on: June 17, 2011, 01:04:00 am »
June 26th

I'm not sure what goes wrong. 2 of the 3 sweep Groups dont fly - only Tainan Ku S-1, the "All Stars" does, but does so uncoordinated, and appears over target piecemeal. This was possibly user-induced, though I'm not sure how. Orders were all given, drop tanks and targets assigned, and weather was good - no abortions were reported. We have flown both sweeps and LRCAP from those fields before.

Over the target we meet a collection of just about every type of Allied fighters, including 2 models of Wildcats - either Marine, or Navy units operating from a land base.

Despite the numerical odds being nice at least 1:1, the low-fatigue über-As Zero pilots dont seem to achieve anything, and then all hell breaks loose as a unit of P-40s and F4Fs breaks the dive loop. We only score 10 confirmed kills, and 3 aces dont return, including Ensign Doikawa.

Bombers go in well coordinated with their escort of all 45 Zeroes. This Zero unit of course loses even more, but when there are 35 Zeroes still present, the Allies penetrate the fighter screen and start shooting down bombers... Yet, of the 50 bombers, 28 get through to bomb: they score 8 air field hits and destroy a single A-20 bomber.

Over Darwin, 72 (!!!) Japanese G4Ms bomb at 15,000, scoring, despite the good weather, just pathetic 8 hits, and 2 destroyed aircraft(a Wirraway and a Banshee, an Army SBD dive bomber).

Japanese losses for today are 44 aircraft(including 18 Zeroes, 1 Ki-43 over Burma), 14 pilots dead, 14 missing, and 2 wounded.

EDIT: Allied losses are estimated 26-28, with approximately 12 P-40s and 10 Wildcats. Other fighter types go down in ones, and 3 were ground kills.


Boys and girls, moral of the story is, never be the stereotypical bad guys, their stuff is shit and they always lose. Japanese bombers' gunners failed to score a single hit on fighters... Compare that to B-17s that probably have positive kill ratio against my Zeroes. ;D

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Weaponizing a dragon?
« on: June 16, 2011, 04:49:19 pm »
First operational test done.

"Pull the lever!", and my smile stayed for about half a second as I saw over 100 Goblins catch fire and panic. Meanwhile, the Dragon was re-caged as I had allowed passing through the floor hatch, and she moved out, without bothering to breath fire a second time. She only breathed fire right after the floor hatch was allowed.

Then both lowered drawbridges were destroyed, and then the raised one, that separated my entire military from the air-lock. And then they assaulted the Goblins.

I lost at least 15 out of my 30 strong infantry pretty much right away(starting from mere seconds after they had finished off the last Goblin), and someone stepped on the grass, resulting in my whole inner yard, including the pasture, nest boxes and bee hives, catching fire. And all the animals. And possibly half the fort had I not savescummed... Lets call it consulting the Mountainhomes. Luckily I lost "only" half a year.

A) either diorite or iron(for mechanisms) cant sustain dragon fire
B) Dwarves are too stupid to go around magma/dragonfire, burning grass or burning goblin corpses, and when they hack off body parts off Goblins, the body parts and blood spread fire

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: War in the Pacific: AE PBEM - June 20th
« on: June 16, 2011, 04:56:47 am »
June 25th

Burma: Heavy fighting next to Chiang Mai, both sides suffer... Also Japanese bombers manage to destroy some tanks and disable about 20. P-400s sweep, shooting down a lone Ki-43, and recce says the Allies just moved in a bomber squadron to Rangoon. We will see what they're up to.

New Guinea: For the 3rd day in streak, B-17s sortie against an easy target, this time its Medang. I'm expecting a pause tomorrow so everything we have in the area sweeps and bombs Buna: over 200 Allied fighters, bombers, transports and patrol planes reported.

Timor Sea: All of Koepang's air units also ordered to attack Darwin tomorrow. 150 planes reported there of only 20 are fighters. If he doesnt like fighting Zeroes in the air, he needs to prepare losing his planes on the ground, or pull them back...

Other news: The 300+ AAA guns are now a week away from Rabaul, and another force with an air HQ and base force engineers are bound for Port Blair - in 7 or 8 days I can move in a G4M or G3M2 unit that can hit anything moving in the Bay of Bengal.

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: War in the Pacific: AE PBEM - June 20th
« on: June 15, 2011, 02:54:49 pm »
Quote from: OAMP on June 15, 2011, 02:05:25 pm
Quote from: Erkki on June 15, 2011, 12:25:20 pm
Quote from: OAMP on June 15, 2011, 12:19:49 pm
Thanks.  Also that's kind of ironic, just played a turn and popped out to look up what exactly a CS was (I sank one).

I dont think the Allies have an equivalent... Basically a cruiser with multiple catapults and cranes and hangars for the float planes. There are 4 of them (Nisshin, Chitose, Mizuho, Chiyoda) and I have found them extremely useful. They can also later be converted into light carriers.

OK, Liutenant Yamashita, J, arrived today aboard CV Kaga, the largest aircraft carrier in the world(now leading by even larger margin as both Lexington and Saratoga have been made into reefs), now on the northern coast of Borneo, bound for Truk, together with CVLs Shoho and Zuiho, escorted by 12 destroyers.

Yeah, I gathered from your post, and a quick look in the manual, though in combat it was the CS Chiyoda and a DD vs 4 of my CLs, so I didn't have any indication then, and it did score hits with it's guns.  I've noticed that the Japanese have a lot bigger variety then the Allies.  The Allies don't have E ships either.

Thanks again for the add.  J is my real first initial, so I see that as a sign of good luck  :D

Not sure if theres more variety for the Japanese... Both sides have the handful special vessels. Japanese E class is just equivalent of Allied DE, KV, PG, PF and PG but the E class has wild variation within class, from ships that are nearly modern destroyer equivalents, to very small <700 ton vessels that might not even have depth charges, despite the "E for escort" designation...

Have you played for long? I might want to give some of them shorter scenarios a try, either side.

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: War in the Pacific: AE PBEM - June 20th
« on: June 15, 2011, 12:25:20 pm »
Quote from: OAMP on June 15, 2011, 12:19:49 pm
Thanks.  Also that's kind of ironic, just played a turn and popped out to look up what exactly a CS was (I sank one).

I dont think the Allies have an equivalent... Basically a cruiser with multiple catapults and cranes and hangars for the float planes. There are 4 of them (Nisshin, Chitose, Mizuho, Chiyoda) and I have found them extremely useful. They can also later be converted into light carriers.

OK, Liutenant Yamashita, J, arrived today aboard CV Kaga, the largest aircraft carrier in the world(now leading by even larger margin as both Lexington and Saratoga have been made into reefs), now on the northern coast of Borneo, bound for Truk, together with CVLs Shoho and Zuiho, escorted by 12 destroyers.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: An idea to combat dwarven obesity.
« on: June 15, 2011, 12:13:30 pm »
Also make them do that pumping in a mist generator room... I have 4 dwarves out of 160 24/7 pumping, every single dwarf with pumping labor enabled. Each season some third of the non-military population visits the room(in my dining hall actually) - so while admiring masterpiece stuff, enjoying the mist and chit-chatting with friends they also boost their strength. Its a win-win! (and also makes sure that dwarves even further living dwarves, as its not my only dining hall, visit the mist generator at least couple of times a year).

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