World of Warships

[Craig0320]

Hope all is going well!

It is. Thanks brother.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

77 years ago today...

 

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I remember in Battle Stations Pacific one of the first missions on the Japanese Campaign is the attack at Pearl and sinking Arizona is one of your main objectives while doing the attack on Battle Ship Row stage of the mission.

 

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I have been learning a painful lesson in this game this week.

Stay away from Japanese ships unless you like dying uselessly. I basically paid out 12K free XP to mostly skip the worthless Myogi BB and get to the Hosho. Now I have to re-learn my plane tactics because Japanese planes are made of rice paper.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

And that says something when the AA on the ships of that time is basically guys with slingshots.

 

[Craig0320]

I will have to get on this week sometime. I have been playing farming sim 19. Now I am starting on a carport.

 

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And that says something when the AA on the ships of that time is basically guys with slingshots.

AA loses in terms of total planes is similar, but when you have wings of four planes with Japanese ships, vs 6 or 7 with American ships that loss of one or two means a lot more.

Also, with the plane HP being so low, and there only being 4 vs the 6 or 7 US planes if I get paired my Hosho vs a US Bouge and they are the only carriers I am useless. The Bouge's fighters have time to take out my fighters, catch up to the bombers, and kill them before they drop their torpedoes.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I will have to get on this week sometime. I have been playing farming sim 19. Now I am starting on a carport.

I hope you are not to the part where it rained all fall until it snowed and you can't pick all your soybeans... 'cause that is where I am at.

AA loses in terms of total planes is similar, but when you have wings of four planes with Japanese ships, vs 6 or 7 with American ships that loss of one or two means a lot more.

Also, with the plane HP being so low, and there only being 4 vs the 6 or 7 US planes if I get paired my Hosho vs a US Bouge and they are the only carriers I am useless. The Bouge's fighters have time to take out my fighters, catch up to the bombers, and kill them before they drop their torpedoes.

Real world the Bogue carried more planes than the Hosho (10 vs 24). It is a little shorter but almost twice the beam, that is going to be a tough fight.

To be fair though, the Lexington class carriers are about the same age as the Hosho so it could have been worse:

 

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I hope you are not to the part where it rained all fall until it snowed and you can't pick all your soybeans... 'cause that is where I am at.

Wouldn't that be Farm Sim 18, or are they numbered by the year they came out for, not the year they simulate?

Real world the Bogue carried more planes than the Hosho (10 vs 24). It is a little shorter but almost twice the beam, that is going to be a tough fight.

To be fair though, the Lexington class carriers are about the same age as the Hosho so it could have been worse:

Yeah, I get that the US carriers were bigger, especially early on, its just a really mismatched set for the entry level carriers. It bad enough that really the only way it should be done is mixed doubles, or a one to one. One Bouge and one Hosho on each team, or match against the same ship.

The really frustrating thing is that then two tiers later the issue is reversed with the Ryujo and Indy, so I am stuck on the losing end with both my carriers.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Wouldn't that be Farm Sim 18, or are they numbered by the year they came out for, not the year they simulate?

Not sure how the computer games work out, I am in 2018's season yet though. Combine was sliding down the hill sideways trying to finish up. Couple more good rains and now it is standing in 4" of snow. Which is supposed to melt today and make more mud. Hopefully it gets cold enough to freeze the ground after this (it is still muddy under the snow)



If harvest ever gets over with then I can drag my truck to work and finish the floorpan.

Yeah, I get that the US carriers were bigger, especially early on, its just a really mismatched set for the entry level carriers. It bad enough that really the only way it should be done is mixed doubles, or a one to one. One Bouge and one Hosho on each team, or match against the same ship.

The really frustrating thing is that then two tiers later the issue is reversed with the Ryujo and Indy, so I am stuck on the losing end with both my carriers.

Their tier thing doesn't always work out.

Like the Colorado is a nice battleship... so lets pit it against Scharnhorsts and Bismarcks.

They are slightly more accurate at distance and the secondaries will shred you close range... for even more fun some of them have torps to end the suffering faster. And you can't even run away because they are faster.

 

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Not sure how the computer games work out, I am in 2018's season yet though. Combine was sliding down the hill sideways trying to finish up. Couple more good rains and now it is standing in 4" of snow. Which is supposed to melt to day and make more mud. Hopefully it gets cold enough to freeze the ground after this (it is still muddy under the snow)

It could always be worse. PA lost almost all of it's soy crop this year to the weather. It was so wet the beans got moldy on the plant.

I am having my own botanical issues. More arboreal really. I know I am going to run out of wood so I started cutting up a locust tree that has been down at the edge of my yard for at least the three years I have been here. It looked good at the ends when I cut into it, so I threw a chunk in the stove, and it didn't burn. It's still green inside, it was just frozen.

I'm still going to cut it up, I'll just have to wait until next year to use it.

I also dropped a big piece on my big toe yesterday, while wearing slippers (why do these things never happen when I am wearing something with a safety toe?), stupid thing was stuck to the piece I wanted and I didn't know it until fell. I didn't break it, but it hurts and is turning the same colors as a mysti-chrome Mustang.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

My beans were like 11.5% which is pretty dry. The pods were breaking open when the combine got close to them. Just the ground was so darn wet.

I have heard stories about beans north of here being so wet/warm they sprouting in the pods

And I hate locust trees, burning is too nice of an end for them.

 

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My beans were like 11.5% which is pretty dry. The pods were breaking open when the combine got close to them. Just the ground was so darn wet.

I have heard stories about beans north of here being so wet/warm they sprouting in the pods

And I hate locust trees, burning is too nice of an end for them.

They are all over the place here by me. I don't mind them much, especially if I can cut them up and burn them.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

They are all over the place here by me. I don't mind them much, especially if I can cut them up and burn them.

Thorns are hard on tires, pods are a mess, overall ugly and they are tough to kill/get rid of.

I am glad to not have one on my place.

If you want to come clean out my windbreaks you can have all the wood you want

 

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Thorns are hard on tires, pods are a mess, overall ugly and they are tough to kill/get rid of.

I am glad to not have one on my place.

If you want to come clean out my windbreaks you can have all the wood you want

Ideally that would be great. But I'm pretty sure I'd spend more in fuel to come get it than I would just using the electric heat.