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Fire Ships? - 6/2/2007 11:57:07 PM   
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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/3/2007 12:00:43 AM   
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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/3/2007 12:10:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		It's a burning and/or sunk fleet! Sigint told me, correctly, that there was only 1 IJ base force defending Gasmata. So I decided to take it on the cheap with essentially no pre-invasion bombing.

I did take it on the first assault but that d@mn base force scored a ton of hits against my shipping. Lesson learned...

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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/3/2007 2:53:09 AM   
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Thats a nice fleet you got there


Now that's funny!!!


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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/3/2007 3:01:25 AM   
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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/3/2007 4:38:03 AM   
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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/3/2007 4:50:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		Looks like that while it is impossible to start a fire storm in a city, it is possible to do it on a ship!

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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/3/2007 6:28:28 AM   
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Sinking candles. Who would've thought.

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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/3/2007 6:30:00 AM   
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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/3/2007 7:57:56 PM   
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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/3/2007 9:13:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		I wouldn't like to be a member of the 3 NZ Cav Bde on AP Koolama - 100% fire has got to be bad for one's health. That ship is anything but 'Kool'

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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/4/2007 2:35:44 AM   
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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/4/2007 6:20:40 AM   
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It's a burning and/or sunk fleet! Sigint told me, correctly, that there was only 1 IJ base force defending Gasmata. So I decided to take it on the cheap with essentially no pre-invasion bombing.

I did take it on the first assault but that d@mn base force scored a ton of hits against my shipping. Lesson learned...


Your flaw was not taking a PT boat along. That one PT boat would of absorbed 85 shell hits

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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/4/2007 9:56:15 AM   
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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/4/2007 12:40:38 PM   
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< Message edited by Arkady -- 6/4/2007 12:41:57 PM >

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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/4/2007 4:05:51 PM   
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That column is not a percentage like the others. It is an actual count of how many fires are currently burning on the ship.


if so (and i am not convinced it isn't a glitch) - it is a clear departure from predecessor games where fires could actually INCREASE - to 100. This is the first time i've seen or heard about a ship with fires >100, which makes me suspect a glitch.

Has anyone alse ever seen fires >100 on a ship (no, cities do NOT count... )

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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/4/2007 5:43:47 PM   
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I didn't know until recently that WITP modeled Spanish-Armada era fire ships:





Don't worry. The fires on SC-705 and SC-704 will probably all go out next turn.........when the ships sink.

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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/4/2007 7:30:26 PM   
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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/4/2007 7:54:43 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Monter_Trismegistos

I saw it too, one of my hasty K... (semothing in north Borneo) invasion gunboat after meeting with Coast Defernce Guns turned 99/99/101.


Did it survive??

PS - thanks for the info...

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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/4/2007 7:56:58 PM   
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Don't think it was changed. Looks like a glitch of some sort.

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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/4/2007 10:23:58 PM   
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the fire range has always been 0-49

Don't think it was changed. Looks like a glitch of some sort.

Big one then, 'cause besides the two ships with fire in the thousands he's got at least three other ships with fire levels over 49.

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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/5/2007 2:19:24 AM   
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the fire range has always been 0-49

Don't think it was changed. Looks like a glitch of some sort.

Big one then, 'cause besides the two ships with fire in the thousands he's got at least three other ships with fire levels over 49.


You should change that to "he had". Deep ocean water put those fires out quickly...

Probably is a glitch, but one I found amusing. I'm glad I wasn't aboard one of those subchasers.

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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/5/2007 4:58:49 AM   
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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/5/2007 5:26:19 AM   
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Forty-one ships in one TF?


The other 59 burnt up and sank.

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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/23/2007 3:57:42 AM   
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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/23/2007 4:04:05 AM   
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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/23/2007 4:10:32 AM   
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Dang - happened again. I think I'm learning I need to spend some more time suppressing the CD guns of anywhere I invade.






Well, you know they used fire ships up through the Napoleonic era. Maybe you are getting some of those

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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/23/2007 4:27:42 AM   
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Well, you know they used fire ships up through the Napoleonic era. Maybe you are getting some of those


Yea, if the Combined Fleet decides to come visit it'd be nice to see a combat report:

Night Time Surface Combat
Japanese Ships
BB Yamato, LCM hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
LCM No. 493

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RE: Fire Ships? - 6/23/2007 6:23:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		Fires can grow beyond 99, the display is supposed to be capped at 99, or 49 or whatever. It's a glitch/bug/oopsie.

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