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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 1/13/2010 4:11:22 AM   
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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 1/13/2010 5:07:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		Just an update guys since I haven't been on the AAR for over a week. My wife took ill suddenly a week ago and has been in the hospital until late this past weekend. She is out, but still ill, so I am very limited in my time. I am still trying to work during the day and tend to her in the evening. Since we moved to the town that we are in about a year and a half ago for my job, we don't have any family up here so it is mostly me taking care of her right now. I sent the first turn in a week to my opponent Monday night and it just came back to me tonight. I will try to do it Wednesday, but he has informed me that he is taking his family to Disneyworld from the 15th to the 25th so we will continue to have a very slow period in the game.

****rest assured that the game will continue.*****
I've been married for 20 years, and dealing with my wife's illness is part of the "in sickness and in health." We are BOTH dedicated longtime wargamers, but when it comes to our health, we will both do what we need to do to take care of each other. The games just have to wait. That said I am glad that I was able to bring her home from the hospital because sleeping on a cot in the hospital room really sucked, especially when all I could look forward to was going to work, then rinse and repeat. The onset of her illness was very sudden last Tuesday and took me straight from work to the emergency room. Pretty scary, especially for my wife. Some of my forum friends know, but others do not. I relocated to this town 450 miles from our family for a Job in early fall of 2008. I brought my wife and kid up for start of school and bought a house. On the same week that we started to move in to the new house (our dream house btw), she was diagnosed with cancer. Since then it has been surgery, treatment, complications, hope that she is getting better, then unexpected complications, etc. I am resolved to see us through this and to be the strength that she needs, even if it disrupts my hobby activities. During thanksgiving and then christmas I took her home to see our families since it is tough to be away from your relatives for so long and be in poor health.

So, rest assured that the game is going to continue even though it is interrupted by real life right now. I know that most of the readers of this AAR understand and I appreciate that.

Seydlitz

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 1/13/2010 5:14:41 AM   
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Stay strong for her and know that we are all thinking about you and your wife and are hoping/praying for the best.

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 1/13/2010 5:22:05 AM   
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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 1/13/2010 12:03:44 PM   
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RL priority!

My best wishes for the health of your wife ... take your time....

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 1/13/2010 12:05:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		seydlitz, good luck to you and your family and I wish your wife the strenght to fight and beat the cancer.

You know we will be here waiting when you are able to return.




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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 1/14/2010 9:55:18 AM   
comte


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Status: offline 		Seydlitz I would like to wish you and your family all the best.

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 1/14/2010 10:46:28 AM   
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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 1/14/2010 10:50:02 AM   
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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 1/14/2010 12:23:18 PM   
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Hang on....we know what it is.

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 1/14/2010 5:43:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is my second favorite AAR to read, and will definitely miss seeing the daily updates, but I too wish you and your family a speedy and healthy recovery. My mother-in-law recently was diagnosed with brain cancer with a poor prognosis, so I know first-hand how scary that is, and I can't even imagine how torn up I'd be if it was my wife instead. Our prayers are with you.

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 1/17/2010 6:34:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		Seydlitz: We are with you and your wife 100%. You have your priorities in order and we can certainly handle the minor inconvenience of a hiatus. I hope she recovers soon.

Cheers,
CC

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 1/17/2010 6:10:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		Very best of luck with your family. and i hope your wife recovers soon.

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 2/11/2010 11:29:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Anyone hear how things are going for The Seydlitz's?

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 3/10/2010 2:33:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'd like to add my well wishes also Seyditz. Take care.

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 3/29/2010 1:53:53 PM   
Dili

 

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 4/4/2010 1:37:01 PM   
seydlitz_slith


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Status: offline 		Thanks for the notes. My wife is finally doing better and life is returning to normal.

The game has continued, although for a while it was taking me a few days to do a turn. We are now in mid-April 1942 and still dancing around Vladivostok.

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 4/4/2010 1:53:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		Great to hear such news ! Happy Orthodox Easter ! Let the God help you and your family !

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 4/4/2010 4:26:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		The best news is that your wife is doing better!   Excellent!

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 4/4/2010 7:07:43 PM   
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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 4/4/2010 11:36:40 PM   
rader


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Status: offline 		Excellent, happy Easter and I'm happy to hear your wife is feeling better.

I'm extremely eager to hear more about how your game is going. In fact, your AAR inspired me to also attack the Soviets (May 1942). I've just started an AAR about it now (Taming the Bear).


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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 4/5/2010 12:34:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		That is great on so many levels. Glad to hear your wife is getting better.

Cheers,
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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 4/10/2010 3:26:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks everybody.

On the game front, I just had a rough pair of turns. I sent a task force to land at Sovetska Gavin, a seemingly insignificant Russian port. Figuring that there would be some minor shore batteries, I sent Nagato, Mutsu, Takao, Chokai, 8 DDs and some PBs in the same TF as the transports.
I ran into a shore battery apocalypse. The shore guns, which were no larger than 130mm (7.5") sank Nagato, Takao, Chokai, and 6 DDs on the first turn. They also did 90 sys, flt, 90 fires to Mutsu. I did get all the troops landed during the turn and pulled out.
However, the troops only reduced the fort to 0 and the next turn turned 1:2 odds. A Soviet sub also torpedoed and sank Mutsu with one torpedo in the Sea of Japan before I could get her to port.

War is hell. My intell in no way predicted that the forts were there or that they could destroy Japan's two best battleships. Good thing Yamato is only a month away.

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 4/10/2010 12:24:06 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: seydlitz

Thanks everybody.

On the game front, I just had a rough pair of turns. I sent a task force to land at Sovetska Gavin, a seemingly insignificant Russian port. Figuring that there would be some minor shore batteries, I sent Nagato, Mutsu, Takao, Chokai, 8 DDs and some PBs in the same TF as the transports.
I ran into a shore battery apocalypse. The shore guns, which were no larger than 130mm (7.5") sank Nagato, Takao, Chokai, and 6 DDs on the first turn. They also did 90 sys, flt, 90 fires to Mutsu. I did get all the troops landed during the turn and pulled out.
However, the troops only reduced the fort to 0 and the next turn turned 1:2 odds. A Soviet sub also torpedoed and sank Mutsu with one torpedo in the Sea of Japan before I could get her to port.

War is hell. My intell in no way predicted that the forts were there or that they could destroy Japan's two best battleships. Good thing Yamato is only a month away.


Thats garbage those 130mm are 5" not 7.5" , guns those pre WWI guns cant do that. Those guns are inferior to those on your DDs.

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 4/10/2010 2:49:09 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: bklooste


quote:

ORIGINAL: seydlitz

Thanks everybody.

On the game front, I just had a rough pair of turns. I sent a task force to land at Sovetska Gavin, a seemingly insignificant Russian port. Figuring that there would be some minor shore batteries, I sent Nagato, Mutsu, Takao, Chokai, 8 DDs and some PBs in the same TF as the transports.
I ran into a shore battery apocalypse. The shore guns, which were no larger than 130mm (7.5") sank Nagato, Takao, Chokai, and 6 DDs on the first turn. They also did 90 sys, flt, 90 fires to Mutsu. I did get all the troops landed during the turn and pulled out.
However, the troops only reduced the fort to 0 and the next turn turned 1:2 odds. A Soviet sub also torpedoed and sank Mutsu with one torpedo in the Sea of Japan before I could get her to port.

War is hell. My intell in no way predicted that the forts were there or that they could destroy Japan's two best battleships. Good thing Yamato is only a month away.


Thats garbage those 130mm are 5" not 7.5" , guns those pre WWI guns cant do that. Those guns are inferior to those on your DDs.



yeah, sounds very strange to me too. Don´t know what else is there at that fort and perhaps the 5" are only those that are listed to be the reason for the sinkings, as seen often when the real reason isn´t shown in the loss list.

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 4/10/2010 3:18:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		There should be 2 Naval forts present at the base, both have 4x 182mm guns as their largest tubes.

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 4/10/2010 5:09:48 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Smeulders

There should be 2 Naval forts present at the base, both have 4x 182mm guns as their largest tubes.


That'll leave a mark...

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 4/10/2010 10:01:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		In a battleship designed to be proof against 14" guns those guns will not do much if any float or engine. Those are also pre WWi eara guns with a 300 or so barrel live and a penetration of about 1.5" at 10K yards.
They would hurt the cruisers a bit ( esp if they got real close) but you would expect the huge amount of guns  (10*16" , 10*14" 20*8" + ~10* 6") present to surpress the 4 bigger guns.

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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 4/10/2010 10:13:02 PM   
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RE: Nomonhan Redux: Seydlitz (Japan) vs. MBatch729 (All... - 4/10/2010 10:14:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		I had the same thing happen at Magadan (Check out "Taming the Bear" AAR). CD guns have been beefed up a lot, probably to the point of silliness. 5" guns are going to regularly sink BBs because they get hundreds of shots, and all it takes is 100 sys damage to sink a ship. Especially the intrinsic CD guns are crazy - like the Soviet ones.

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