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Ground coral and succulents - 12/1/2006 9:01:58 AM   
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One of the reasons I love this game is that, if you can resist the 'replay-the-turn' urge, little snafus like this can give you that weird sensation I get from reading history books and saying "wtf were the odds of that happening?"


Fortunately, only the AI will allow the use of the "replay the turn" button.




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RE: $20 buy-in - 12/3/2006 7:20:41 PM   
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Kai Island - 12/3/2006 7:58:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		*****Kai Island, about 600 km NE of Darwin, March 14, 1942******

Lt. Christopher, USAAF, peered out from a small bunker to the North. What he saw made him begin to question his decision to stay with his damaged C-47. He could see from Lt. Smith's expression, crouching in the bunker to his right, that he had tumbled to the same conclusion. They were the only two Allied personnel left on the island. Perhaps a thousand yards offshore, a dozen ships disgorged Japanese troops and even further offshore at least two enemy cruisers lobbed shells at the small airfield. Lt. Smith's plane had disintigrated on one of the first volleys. The Japanese landing seemed entirely disproportional. After all, some 800 Dutch ground support and engineering troops had been evacuated 2 days earlier and he and Lt. Smith wouldn't even be here had their planes not suffered mechanical problems before their ferry hop to Roxas, in the Philippines. The Allies weren't even that interested in Kai Island. As the Japanese response demonstrated, it wasn't really defensible. It had only been occupied to serve as a ferry hop for C-47's flying from Australia to the PI and thence to China and Burma. He thought about that great watering hole they had frequented in Darwin with the midget and his golf clubs and those crazy DAB's that had ordered. Five or six was it? Who knows? He had lost count.

He was jolted back to the present with the sound of metal grinding on coral. One of the landing barges had grounded right where they had placed mines. Lt. Christopher twisted a small hand detonator and the stern of the barge was lifted out of the water, sending bodies flying in staisfying arcs. But there were dozens of barges. Some grounded on the coral, causing severe abrasions on the soldiers' legs as they debarked. Some soldiers succumbed to the Southern Hemisphere Summer sun. Others were murderously attacked by swarms of sand fleas as they hit the beach, causing them to tear off their uniforms as they convulsed in parosysms of scratching, ripping at their own flesh. Still others struck their heads on low-lying tree branches as they advanced off the beach or were hit by falling cocconuts dislodged by the concussions of the cruisers' guns. Before long, half a thousand wounded or otherwise incapacitiated men covered the beach. But still, they kept coming.

Lt. Smith lept to the top of the trench and began firing a BAR from the hip, shouting, "Come and get us you dirty yellow bastards!" Lt. Christopher yelled back, a broad smile on his face, "Steady there Smithy, no sense making them mad". He lobbed a grenade toward the approaching mass of men.............

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RE: $20 buy-in - 12/3/2006 9:12:34 PM   
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So, Mandrake, have you actually tried a DAB, or are you going to stick to a recommneded drink of "rainwater and pure grain alcohol"?


In my experience rainwater and pure grain alcohol has this siginificant advantage over cocktails of the "Boilermaker" family; the imbiber is less likely to find himself ralphing on the host's front lawn or getting up close and personal with a porcelain fixture 2 hrs later. I went to my sister's birthday party last Friday. Her husband rented a nice motor coach to take us from place to place, a fun idea, but it is just an invitation to drink. At the second place, a sometimes ring of 5 or 6 (including one woman ) were "drinking" Irish Car Bombs. The safest thing to do when you see an Irish Car Bomb is RUN, because there is a 100% guarantee there will be a casualty. In this case it was a 6 ft 3 orthodontist, who, once deprived of his normal vestibular response, required an engine hoist to move. He had a beeper on. I asked him why he was drinking if he was on call. He replied, "Oh, I NEVER get beeped."

"Good thing", I thought.

I think a DAB would work, although Fosters doesn't have the same luxurious head as Guiness. Wierd thing is..it is sort of like the "Irish Mist", which I had never heard of unitl Wikipedia "One does have to make certain accomodations to the war" (20 WITP bonus points to the first person to identify the quote)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_car_bomb

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"ABLE" Line, Bataan - 12/3/2006 10:32:17 PM   
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RE: $20 buy-in - 12/4/2006 4:24:31 AM   
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"One does have to make certain accomodations to the war" (20 WITP bonus points to the first person to identify the quote)


Arghh - this sounds very familiar, and i hear it with a British accent... Monty Python???

EDIT: in MASH (the 1970 movie), Hawkeye Pierce said something similar: "We have had to make certain concessions for the war; we ARE three miles from the front line."

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RE: $20 buy-in - 12/4/2006 5:56:30 PM   
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"One does have to make certain accomodations to the war" (20 WITP bonus points to the first person to identify the quote)


Arghh - this sounds very familiar, and i hear it with a British accent... Monty Python???

EDIT: in MASH (the 1970 movie), Hawkeye Pierce said something similar: "We have had to make certain concessions for the war; we ARE three miles from the front line."


20 WITP Bonus points to the winner. I trust your transcription is more accurate. Mine was recollected.

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RE: $20 buy-in - 12/4/2006 5:59:12 PM   
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"One does have to make certain accomodations to the war" (20 WITP bonus points to the first person to identify the quote)


Arghh - this sounds very familiar, and i hear it with a British accent... Monty Python???

EDIT: in MASH (the 1970 movie), Hawkeye Pierce said something similar: "We have had to make certain concessions for the war; we ARE three miles from the front line."


20 WITP Bonus points to the winner. I trust your transcription is more accurate. Mine was recollected.


Woo-hoo!!! i plan to use the 20 extra points for a virtual DAB once i get a victory in WITP... i may be waiting a while...

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RE: $20 buy-in - 12/4/2006 6:00:14 PM   
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Sounds like something he might have said...

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RE: $20 buy-in - 12/4/2006 6:04:13 PM   
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When Robert said "British" and "MASH" I thought of David Ogden Stiers' character in the TV show, Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, of Boston, dontyerknow...

Sounds like something he might have said...




i think i may have been crossing characters in my faulty memory...

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RE: $20 buy-in - 12/4/2006 9:57:35 PM   
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Woo-hoo!!! i plan to use the 20 extra points for a virtual DAB once i get a victory in WITP... i may be waiting a while...



The rules for the recent "Name That Famous Drinking Quote" competition contained an error in the prize section. The figure of "20 WITP Bonus Points" should have been more clearly identified as being based on the Hobbitean base 3 / lunar phase numerology system. This would represent 6 bonus points by the accepted Western system, or, on average, 2 2/3 bonus point under a waning gibous moon (the exact value can only be determined by consulting the "Wall of Numerology", an ancient inscription in the "Cave of Doom" in Northeastern Flores, which, unfortuantely, is under the control of the Empire of Japan at this time. Redemption will not be possible until such time as the Hobbitean Time Guardian can regain access to the cave and, of course, slay the "Beast of Great Indigestion". The management regrets any inconvenience this may have caused.

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RE: $20 buy-in - 12/4/2006 10:04:59 PM   
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Woo-hoo!!! i plan to use the 20 extra points for a virtual DAB once i get a victory in WITP... i may be waiting a while...



The rules for the recent "Name That Famous Drinking Quote" competition contained an error in the prize section. The figure of "20 WITP Bonus Points" should have been more clearly identified as being based on the Hobbitean base 3 / lunar phase numerology system. This would represent 6 bonus points by the accepted Western system, or, on average, 2 2/3 bonus point under a waning gibous moon (the exact value can only be determined by consulting the "Wall of Numerology", an ancient inscription in the "Cave of Doom" in Northeastern Flores, which, unfortuantely, is under the control of the Empire of Japan at this time. Redemption will not be possible until such time as the Hobbitean Time Guardian can regain access to the cave and, of course, slay the "Beast of Great Indigestion". The management regrets any inconvenience this may have caused.


uh... a really long time...

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Connections - 12/5/2006 7:13:53 PM   
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Army Lt. Buckley.: (on the phone to a counterpart in New York): Look, damnit, I am not given to obfuscation! Don't send me any more of those God Damned M3, 37mm antitank guns. I've got well over a thousand of the damned things sitting outside because the warehouses are full. I've enough here for 20 divisions! You know, this Arsenal of Democracy thing is all well and good, but if you want me to properly employ them, I shall require about 300,000 more troops. I don't suppose there are any more 75 mm pack howitzers? THOSE I can move. The M3's, its a no go. Can you not send them to the ETO?

Supplier: No go on the ETO, L T. They are like pop guns against the newer German armor. They are getting the 57's.

Lt. Buckley: Oh, great, well that is #$%@%@^% great! Well, I can tell you very succintly. The next shipment, I'm not signing for them. Its like that.

Supplier: Can't do that L T, they are bought and paid for by the US Army, courtesy of the US taxpayer. I have 24 passing through Sacramento right about now.

Lt. Buckley: Damn it all! <slams down phone, turns to his aid> This damnable beuraucracy. If I didn't think it might further the career of that cretin Truman, I might report this to the Senate Committee.

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RE: Connections - 12/5/2006 7:22:31 PM   
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(*true fact, btw, although i think they might have used a different model of 37 mm gun - they were practically unusuable, but it's the thought that counts...)

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RE: Connections - 12/5/2006 8:14:16 PM   
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RE: Connections - 12/5/2006 8:15:56 PM   
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They used the ones they stripped out of P-39's... As well as Jap 25mm AA, among many others...



pretty much anything they could get their stick-lil' hands on, iirc...

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RE: Connections - 12/5/2006 8:20:08 PM   
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"Kennedy's PT-109 was also fitted with a 37 mm single shot anti-tank cannon that the crew had commandeered and bolted to the foredeck."

EDIT: i think we're back to Lt. Buckley's surplus M3s...

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RE: Connections - 12/5/2006 10:44:17 PM   
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They used the ones they stripped out of P-39's... As well as Jap 25mm AA, among many others...



pretty much anything they could get their stick-lil' hands on, iirc...


Which is part of what's so fascinating about the Mosquito Navy...

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RE: Connections - 12/8/2006 9:51:03 PM   
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<a portly gentleman, but still evidently thickly muscled through his finely tailored suit, enters the room confidently. He is Congressman Carmine Gamboa, Democrat, from New York's 21st district, which hugs the Hudson River and includes Albany, site of the armory which manufactures the gun for the M3 37mm AT gun. Two even more thickly muscled men follow the Congresman, precisley 2 steps behind and to his flanks, like wingmen. Though their expressions are blank, there is something about the odd deviation and flatness of their noses that suggests a barely controlled malevolence.

Sec. Stimson: <rises solicitously to greet the Congressman> Carmine! How good to see you. What can I help you with today?

Gamboa: Its about the M3, Henry.

Sec. Stimson: Ah..I see. <his expression sours almost imperceptibly. He motions towards the wingmen with his eyes>

Gamboa: Wait outside boys. <the wingmen scurry to the anteroom in practiced choreography, closing the door behind them>

Sec. Stimson: Carmine, honestly, I can't order any more. We will never use the ones we have. There is a great deal of pressure from Truman's committee...

Gamboa: <Gamboa cuts him of with a wave of his hand> Henry, Henry, Henry. Relax, my friend. I know such things. I would not ask it of you.

Sec. Stimson: Oh, thank you, Carmine. I'm sorry if I presumed.

Gamboa: Not to worry, my friend. There is one small matter, however.

Sec. Stimson: Name it, Carmine.

Gamboa: It concerns a young Lt. at the Oakland Army Terminal....a certain..<pulls out note from his pocket>...W.F. Buckley. He is quite insolent and is questioning our agreement. I would like him taken care of by your means or I will have to speak to other friends.

Sec. Stimson: Understood, Carmine. I'll see to it immediately. <now relieved> May I offer you a fine Cuban? Tell me, how is the harbor sounding project in Sicily going?

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14th Patriotic Air Ground Support Bn. - 12/9/2006 9:28:25 PM   
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A pensive Lt. Col. Mednick, CO of the 14th Patriotic Air Ground Support Bn, leans back in an ancient leather chair in his office, which is nothing more than an 8 x10 ft wooden clapboard building with drafty windows and a small stove in one corner. He was an unhappy man, a cavalry officer by training, now posted in Mongolia, ordered to build a gravel "runway"...whatever that was..in the middle of nowhere. He might still have a cavalry command had it not been for that fateful Christmas party last December at 2nd Cossack Cavalry Corps HQ in Orel. He balled his fist and drove it into his thigh...hard. "Oh, why did I let them talk me into doing my Stalin imitation in front of the Political Comissar"?, he thought to himself. "Damnit!, he shouted out loud, then quickly scanned the room and windows to make sure nobody had heard him. "Damn vodka", he said more quietly. He poured himself another shot. He drank it down then cast the glass against the stove in disgust. "Pull yourself together...there are rocks to be broken and gravel to be moved and it is not yet 10 AM". The truth was Mednick was a piker compared to the enlisted men. They were mostly anesthetized by 8:30 every morning and the crews hadn't laid more than 10 feet of runway in the three months he had been here.
"Not my fault", he said. "I told them I didn't know ^%&* about airplanes", now thinking to himself again. In fact, the Col. had never even seen an airplane in person. He had seen a picture of one once in that American magaznine. "National Geography Sciences" or something like that. "What was it called...a very strange name...'enthusiasm of St Louis' perhaps?" Most of the snow had melted on the runway. They really should get working again. maybe just one more for fortification to the cold. He grabbed the bottle......




This is the poor chap's real air rating

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Orders - 12/9/2006 10:04:14 PM   
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Lt. Buckley tossed neatly pressed trousers into a small valise. He glanced out the window just long enough to see another 24 37 mm AT guns joing the immense row of surplus guns. The exact figure was 1,192, but that seemed immaterial.

"Bloody beauraucrats", he said, though none could here.

He tossed a dog-eared copy of The Fountainhead into the valise and picked up the telegram on the nightstand........




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RE: Orders - 12/9/2006 11:25:02 PM   
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your updates are hilarious as always...

Still looking for the Blockwart? I've got a tip: if one of your neighbors has this in his frontyard, you've found your man/woman, it's a definite sign of the German Blockwart-gene:





How is the war going? Can you post a map of the Japanese advance?

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RE: Orders - 12/10/2006 12:37:04 AM   
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******Oakland Army Depot, Oakland, Calif., March 13, 1942******

Lt. Buckley tossed neatly pressed trousers into a small valise. He glanced out the window just long enough to see another 24 37 mm AT guns joing the immense row of surplus guns. The exact figure was 1,192, but that seemed immaterial.

"Bloody beauraucrats", he said, though none could here.

He tossed a dog-eared copy of The Fountainhead into the valise and picked up the telegram on the nightstand........





He'll be able to get his revenge in print... later...

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Border Dispute - 12/10/2006 1:35:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Apparently, there is some confusion over where the Greater Co-Prosperity Sphere is supposed to end. New Caledonia and the New Hebrides are in Jap control...which means their ships can go back to Noumea for a round of golf and some Mai Tais.




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RE: Border Dispute - 12/10/2006 1:49:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		Stuation Summary: March 18, 1942

Philippines: Main body on Luzon fell back in good order to Bataan. San Marcelino is still holding out with 2 x PA Divisions. 5 full Jap divisions and at least 3 combat brigades are on Luzon. Isolated troops remain on Cebu and Iolio

Dutch East Indies: All under Jap control save Soerabaja which has resisted all frontal assaults but is being depleted by air attack.

Burma: Invasion of Akyab was thwarted by the RN. Mandalay is solidly in Commonwealth control for now. After being evacuated for a short while, Rangoon airfield has been repaired by the Japs, now 80+ Zeroes fly CAP there every day. Instead of suicidal attacks at Rangoon, the RAF and USAAF are concentrating on Jap troops in Burma.

Alaska: Kiska in Jap hands

Hawaii: Midway in Jap hands. Johnston and Palmyra are US redoubts. Oahu is covered with aluminum from one side to the other.

New Guinea: Red

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Please Remit - 12/10/2006 6:37:26 PM   
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RE: Please Remit - 12/10/2006 6:40:59 PM   
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