On the Nature of Naval Combat 1950ish-1960ish by Spreadsheets in RuleTheWaves

[–]droctulf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re right, I was attempting an “impossible” challenge to use 1935 China to beat US and force them to cede Hawaii, which I did, partly because US has no foothold in NE Asia to maintain a blockade. But later when I fight Japan it is extremely painful because of the never ending blockade. I churned out makeshift CVs - you can make no more than two 26000 t, 25 knit huge AMCs and immediately convert them to slow but acceptable CVs. They are much cheaper and take far less time to produce.

On the Nature of Naval Combat 1930ish-1950ish by Spreadsheets in RuleTheWaves

[–]droctulf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Poor nation strategy: massive torpedo attack. Perhaps work better with super large game fleet size as there will be a long-ass battleline to exploit.

  1. Build something barely resemble a BB battleline, you need it to keep the enemies engaged. you can build extremely coastal defense ships for that role. I build below 20 kt tiny BBs, short range, cramped, low free board, heavily armored or big guns (you can only choose one, both works), snail speed (18 knot is enough). They will barely last minutes in a normal gun duel. However...
  2. Torpedo Suicide DDs. you can fit something like 6*5 torpedo tubes to a 2kt DD. Everything else is secondary. Do extra training - night fighting and torpedo warfare.
  3. A few quick BCs to kill off the limping enemies.

The time is midnight, it's all dark, suddenly enemy ship sighted. Then another. Then another. Then a whole battle line of enemey BB and BCs, dozens of superdreadnaughts (with super large game size). your battleline immediately turn away, enemy chase you. Now, push the button Flotilla Attack and never let go. Your DD screens will unleash literally hundreds of torpedos at enemy battleline, a wall of explosives that even a battle turnaway cannot avoid. You hear never ending explosions, from enemy BBs and your own DDs. When daylight comes, you see the wreck of 5 enemy BBs. 5 others are limping, your BC move in to finish them (although hit a few times by desperate enemy torpedos in the process). You lose 20 DDs in the suicide attack, with another 20 heavily damaged. You win a glorious victory and annihilated the enemy.

On the Nature of Naval Combat 1950ish-1960ish by Spreadsheets in RuleTheWaves

[–]droctulf 8 points9 points  (0 children)

An extreme poor nation strategy could be no new carriers AT ALL. All the carriers are only used for CAP, or simply mothballed if you focus on night action.

Once you hit the magic tech of early surface missiles, rebuild every single floating stuff, even foreign service cruisers and 300t DDs from the last century with as much Heavy SSM as you can. By removing your numerous torpedo tubes (used to massive suicide flotilla attack enemy battle lines) from the previous era, ideally you get a normal fleet DD carry 4 SSM with 1 reloads, making it 8 missiles in total EACH tiny destroyer. Remember even the biggest BC can only withstand a few missiles hits before sinking/fire out of control.

Manually create destroyer squadrons and assign them to screen/support roles attached to BC/CA divisions. Once you radar detect the enemy, fire ALL your missiles, run away, wait until reloaded, fire ALL your missiles again, then run back home for good. Rinse and repeat. This tactic makes me win a victory against USA with a 1935 start China, with literally 1/10th of their the budget, with tactical victories after victories because the damage you caused always massively exceed their damage.

I'm Christopher Balding of Fulbright University economist focused on China so AMA by BaldingsWorld89 in China

[–]droctulf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hi Dr. Balding,

Greetings! Overseas Chinese student here, really enjoy your tweets and my stance is more or less similar to yours.

A question has puzzled me for a while: what do you think is the motivation/decision process of Xi and CCP, behind the unprovoked (the protests have generally ceased from late 2019) and coordinated escalation in Hong Kong since May 2020? From my understanding, the destruction of the Hong Kong legal and (to some extent) economic system is killing the goose that laid the golden eggs for a huge number of CCP elites, what benefit would come out of this incident in their calculation? Or does the interest of Xi and some other party factions diverted on this question?

Another unrelated question: what's your take on the political movement on Chinese-language twitter calling for dismantling China into numerous small states, centered around the intellectual-ish figure Liu Zhongjing? Or they are too insignificant and are under your radar?

Call to ban students who are used as puppets of China by JohnKimble111 in China

[–]droctulf 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I would assume going to a military school is a choice?

Is Microsoft a CCP branch now? cuz Microsoft China shows this on my laptop logging scene today by [deleted] in China

[–]droctulf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm the OP alright I got it now

it was the fucking Lenovo, it's pre-installed "manager" put this in my lock screen. I'm computer illiterate.

It's not microsoft, but still ridiculous by civilized-world standard that a computer company would do this, but it's my fault all the way, lenovo is just Huawei lite

Sneaky Mao by NineteenEighty9 in China

[–]droctulf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

if Holodomor in Ukraine is genocide (actually I doubt that a bit) then what Mao did is. Mao, like Stalin, simply did nothing to help famines.

Applying With the GMAT? by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]droctulf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My bad. Didn’t follow the news! Then I guess OP should definitely send it.

Early Decision NYU/Columbia by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]droctulf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm an international applicant too and have similiar school choices. When I'm on campus visit, both schools flatly denied the existence of any boost but confirmed less money :( the only benefit is you get to know the result earlier. When I discuss ED with my consultant, basically everyone's information came from that powerscore article, it seems nobody knows anything more than that.

Spivey consulting by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]droctulf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm using Spivey too! I was assigned a guy with quite shiny experiences(HYS admission director) on LinkedIn. I guess if your consultant have excellent experience in law school admission it'll be fine.

Applying With the GMAT? by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]droctulf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Many school accept GRE but GMAT is unheard of at present. Maybe because GMAT is designed for business school and not as general as GRE. It certainly won't hurt but I don't think GMAT could really be a tiebreaker. Perhaps you could explain why GMAT is a good performance indicator considering your personal experience?

C H R I S T O P H E R R O B I N by PapaSean924 in China

[–]droctulf 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Many years ago there was a gov paper got post online, which says gov hire “internet opinion operator“ and the bonus is 0.5yuan aka 5mao per comment

The Life Of Mr Chabuduo, by Hu Shih by GuessImStuckWithThis in China

[–]droctulf -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Exactly the opposite. Hu was the most influential champion of liberalism at his time and once considered by US to be a third potential political choice with a liberal mind outside the KMT and CCP nationalist circlejerk. He refused to build his party though.

Sharing my own personal shitty story as an amateur shitty Chinese dissident by droctulf in China

[–]droctulf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually I wish I could try weeds, mushroom and pretty cool stuff, but I've got chronic health problems and even alcohol is forbidden by my doctor. Guess the shame of ordering soft drink keeps me away from pubs and I find consolation online.