Apollo11
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Joined: 6/7/2001 From: Zagreb, Croatia Status: offline
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Hi all, quote:
ORIGINAL: crsutton Now, mind you, I am not saying that I have lost all of my American carriers.... But lets suppose I just did Lets suppose that I just attempted to invade Lunga on 9/1/42, and lets suppose that the invasion was going pretty well with most of my troops ashore. Then lets just suppose that KB shows up and the most lop sided battle in history takes place where the entire undetected KB launched every god damn plane and then some from 5 hexes away. Then lets suppose that the 80 or so zero escort blew my pitiful wildcats out of the sky and then I had to watch helplessly while 200 or more kates and vals rained bombs down of my pitiful carriers and let just imagine that in spite of my fast BB, plenty of CAs and CLAAs that I only manged to shoot down about 30 of the attacking bombers. And let just hypothisize that the IJN was pretty much able to duplicate that feat in the PM attack, where I then had no CAP and could only cry like a little girl as my precious babies took bomb after bomb and were turned into floating charnel houses. Did I forget to mention that none of my planes managed to fly an offensive mission and KB in all its glory lies two hexes off of Lunga with nary a scratch? Well, lets just supposed that happened too. So lets just visualize the resulting mayhem that will rain down upon my exposed transports and AKs who devoid of air protection will be caught next turn and beat on like a 10 dollar whore-resulting in the stranding and eventual elimination of my 1st marine division and all of the various support units that I have stuck on Lunga with nothing at all to eat...OMG! I SIMPLY WANT TO KILL MYSELF!!! Well, I am not saying that this actually happened, but for the purpose of intellectual discorse, lets just assume that it did. I know that these supposedly lost carriers will get replaced eventually. How long will that take? I think I need to go lie down for a while. Don't give up... you still have 99.99% chance of winning in 1944/1945 (if you don't abort earlier and/or end on points - BTW I never count points BTW)... Leo "Apollo11"
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Prior Preparation & Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance! A & B: WitW, WitE, WbtS, GGWaW, GGWaW2-AWD, HttR, CotA, BftB, CF P: UV, WitP, WitP-AE
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