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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/19/2011 5:53:44 AM

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a quick jaunt to drop off a regiment of Marines, coastal guns and engineers at Ndeni

Why?

Why, to overawe the wee Jap dobbers with our awesome supply of bulldozers, build a level 5 airfield in a week and then blacken the sky with the pride of Seattle

Fleas?

Coffee!!

Rock Musicians addicted to Heroin?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/19/2011 3:27:30 PM

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a quick jaunt to drop off a regiment of Marines, coastal guns and engineers at Ndeni

Why?

Why, to overawe the wee Jap dobbers with our awesome supply of bulldozers, build a level 5 airfield in a week and then blacken the sky with the pride of Seattle

Fleas?

Coffee!!

Rock Musicians addicted to Heroin?

Nope...you're all wrong. I was thinking of this bad boy

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Tojos in New Scotland - 2/19/2011 4:20:19 PM

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********Japanase Airfield Noumea, 09;20, July 20, 1942********

Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō inspects a line of pilots, followed 4 steps behind by his wife Katsuko. Katsuko has a very small bosom.... no really, you would go like "Hory Crap!" if you saw her. And that is after breast feeding the three little Tojos. I know what you are saying, the guy is no catch himself. This is true. He looks like the kind of guy who waited inside the classroom for 20 minutes after school so he didn't get the "Hory Crap" beat out of him, but still, he is the Prime Minister, and if this war thingy works out OK he will be set for life. Even if it doesn't, he can still get 3 squares and clean socks. I'm just saying, it's the whole power thing, like honey to the bees, baby.

Anyway, so he is inspecting the line of pirots with his little girlie steps and....hold on.....what have we here? Getting out of the command car is this hot Ukranian blonde nurse in high heels and a starched white uniform that is injudiciously cut low to real a serious, gavity-defying bosom that would make you say "Hory Crap!". As she leans forward to exit the command car a hundred pairs of eyes turn in her direction. Can you blame them? After all, you don't see many hot Ukranian nurses in Noumea with a rack that would make Jane Russel blush.

Hory Crap! It's an air raid siren! Everyone to the slit trenches. What you want to bet the Ukranian gets in the trench with Hideki, the lucky bastard?

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RE: Tojos in New Scotland - 2/19/2011 4:33:14 PM

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Yes, I can envision everyone racing for the slit. Trenches.

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RE: Tojos in New Scotland - 2/19/2011 4:36:38 PM

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I didn't want to say that.

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RE: Tojos in New Scotland - 2/19/2011 4:37:01 PM

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Turn went out btw

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RE: Tojos in New Scotland - 2/19/2011 4:37:21 PM

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I didn't want to say that.

Oh yeah, right.

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Tojos in New Scotland - 2/19/2011 4:38:44 PM

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****************July 21, 1942******************

South Pacific: The B-17's from Suva raided Noumea harbor today and were met with 5 Tojos, 2 Oscars and 12 Nicks. None of the B-17's were lost but the WJD fighters broke up the attack on the port, which still has 2 CV's at anchor. One Oscar was shot down by the 17's and a stray bomb almost killed the Prime Minister of Japan and a Ukranian national. This was good because as a citizen of an allied country (Soviet Union), somebody would have had to fill out a friendly fire incident report. The B-17's were ordered to the naval attack role to scare the WJD cruisers lolling about West of Fiji out of SBD range. They probably won't hit warships making circles in the water at 30 kts but it might knock some of the bushido out of them. The B-26's and B-24's at Suva are hitting the WJD troops at Nadi every day but aren't doing much damage. I hope they are at least using up WJD supplies.

Vincennes and Devonshire left Auckland to cover the AP's when the come back to Suva to unload the rest of South Pac HQ, the reconstituted I Amphib Corps HQ and some more armor.

Oz: More AK's coming and going at Darwin. I think now more coming as Jap troop strength at Katherine is now confirmed to be nearly 40,000. No planes oeprating from Katherine. Jap 38th Div North of Daly is getting pummeled by the heavies from Alice.

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RE: Tojos in New Scotland - 2/19/2011 4:40:36 PM

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I didn't want to say that.

Neither did I. We just have more class.

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RE: Tojos in New Scotland - 2/19/2011 4:45:43 PM

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By ra way, in contrast to the Tojos, the Nicks are a really nice family, Mr. Nick-san, his lovely wife and the 10 kids. All of them were in Noumea during the raid. Fortunately, none were hurt. They, are by anyone's defintion, a "nuclear" family. They will be heading back to Nagasaki when the tranpsort plane arrives.

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RE: Tojos in New Scotland - 2/19/2011 4:48:05 PM

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I didn't want to say that.

Neither did I. We just have more class.

This could get complicated if you start using "crass".

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RE: Tojos in New Scotland - 2/19/2011 5:00:42 PM

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I didn't want to say that.

Neither did I. We just have more class.

This could get complicated if you start using "crass".

I don't know about you but I have more "crass" too.

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RE: Tojos in New Scotland - 2/19/2011 5:01:58 PM

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I can do crass

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RE: Tojos in New Scotland - 2/19/2011 5:03:22 PM

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Yes, we've noticed.

You got that turn back yet?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/19/2011 5:19:57 PM

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a quick jaunt to drop off a regiment of Marines, coastal guns and engineers at Ndeni

Why?

Why, to overawe the wee Jap dobbers with our awesome supply of bulldozers, build a level 5 airfield in a week and then blacken the sky with the pride of Seattle

Fleas?

Coffee!!

Rock Musicians addicted to Heroin?

Nope...you're all wrong. I was thinking of this bad boy

When does that arrive in game ? I think I could really use it.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/19/2011 5:24:34 PM

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Feb 29th 1945

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/19/2011 5:55:31 PM

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Feb 29th 1945

Hmm, I sense a problem with that delivery date.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/19/2011 5:55:35 PM

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Nope...you're all wrong. I was thinking of this bad boy

When does that arrive in game ? I think I could really use it.

They are awesome but you pretty much use them once then spend the rest of the war repairing them. The salt water aquariums alone are a maint. nightmare. You have to wait until the Air HQ's have added the organic AMC(S), Aquarium Maint. Coy(Salt).

Also, if you want to use them on your carriers you have to saw off the control islands on the carriers or it doesn't work out so well on landing.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/19/2011 7:03:34 PM

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I want to know why there's a German 88 sticking out of the nose. How'd you work out that supplier relationship? (thinks about M&M enterprises for a minute) On second thought, never mind...

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/20/2011 12:42:25 AM

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I want to know why there's a German 88 sticking out of the nose. How'd you work out that supplier relationship? (thinks about M&M enterprises for a minute) On second thought, never mind...

Well...there was...I mean will be a time in '43 when production of the 8.8 cm KwK 36 L/56 at Krupp gets ahead of the chasis guys...and..well, a surfeit of something WILL find a buyer..somewhere.

Just like the color of scarcity is green, the color of excess is also green, except not for the one holding the excess.*

I am guessing Krupp employee to middleman in Vichy France to Spain to D,C &H.

* This rule never applied to the Ford Pinto as even the buyers who thought they were getting a good deal also got screwed.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/20/2011 2:42:02 AM

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Well to an LYB, a gravity-fed bosom looks an awful lot like a gravity-fed 500kg bomb, which they are much familiar with. I'd bet they were heading for the trenches as soon as she dipped and rolled out of that car.

LYB officer: What are you doing in the trench, private?

Bushido-free grunt: She has bombs!

LYB officer: Those aren't bombs.

Bushido-free grunt: Huh?

LYB officer: They have surgeries to do that in the barbaric west.

Bushido-free grunt: They attach bombs to their women with surgery?

LYB officer: They aren't bombs.

Bushido-free grunt: Why would they do that with perfectry good bags of rice?

LYB officer: You are an idiot.

Bushido-free grunt: The attractive bombs are distracting me.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/20/2011 10:13:29 AM

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Bushido-free grunt: The attractive bombs are distracting me.

Does that make them weapons of mass distraction?

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/20/2011 10:21:34 AM

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I wake up this morning, put on the cricket, flash up the old lappie, open email hoping for a turn and see this from Cap:

Simon;

Cant do my part tonight ..too tired. Clearly we have cucarachas in the Indian Ocean (at least 2 carriers).

I nearly soiled my armour thinking about all those lovely R Class battelships and the support units of 6th and 7th Aus Divs. Argh!

Turns out JJ has 2 CVs, provinence unknown, about 900 miles west of Perth and they'd found one of the Cape Town convoys on ther way into Perth. Looks like we lost half a dozen AKs and about twice as many damaged to varying degrees. The convoy has been ordered to scatter. It will be interesting to see how long they hang around in such an exposed position.

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RE: Hearts, Minds & Ample bosoms - 2/20/2011 10:24:08 AM

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Bushido-free grunt: The attractive bombs are distracting me.

Does that make them weapons of mass distraction?

ETA: Fixed a typo in the subject.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/20/2011 3:19:52 PM

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I wake up this morning, put on the cricket, flash up the old lappie, open email hoping for a turn and see this from Cap:

Simon;

Cant do my part tonight ..too tired. Clearly we have cucarachas in the Indian Ocean (at least 2 carriers).

I nearly soiled my armour thinking about all those lovely R Class battelships and the support units of 6th and 7th Aus Divs. Argh!

Good to hear nobody needs to do extra laundry. The problem with cucarachas is they can sueeze through any little hole. They can gain access anywhere from the Malacca Strait to a dozen passages in the Lesser Sundas and there isn't much we can do about it. We have 4 Cats at Carnavan and subs in the Timor Sea, off Koepang, off Palembang and near Kendari but unless they run across one of these or we pick up radio transmissions we are "sunk". The only real early warning system would be surface pickets. It could have been worse and will get worse this turn when JJ finds the tankers but the R Class convoy would have made us cry. It might also have been the entire Aussie I Corps a few weeks ago

This is a fascinating game. The subs make us group ships into bigger convoys because of the shortage of escorts and that makes the payoff for a carrier raid greater.

I counted 8 sunk including the Flower Class Corvette, HMS Cyclamen and 5 AK's damaged.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/20/2011 3:30:54 PM

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By ra way, Stalker Girl was up in Napa "wine tasting"

so I was single last night. I was reading 1776, which is quite good.

One of Washington's Colonels, a bookseller by the name of Henry Knox (later a General and Sec. of War) married the daughter of a Torey from Boston by the name of Lucy Flucker

Knox was a kind of chubby guy and he was not rich but she was probably in a hurry to change her name.

I nearly aspirated a cream-cheese filled won ton when I read that. Anyway, back to the WWII(c)

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/20/2011 4:03:50 PM

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By ra way, Stalker Girl was up in Napa "wine tasting" so I was single last night.

So she was probably doing paired wines with last night's menu at the French Laundry and you are at home reading 1776? You would definitely get the "Geeky Gamer" look from my wife...

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/20/2011 5:44:18 PM

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By ra way, Stalker Girl was up in Napa "wine tasting" so I was single last night.

So she was probably doing paired wines with last night's menu at the French Laundry and you are at home reading 1776? You would definitely get the "Geeky Gamer" look from my wife...

Hey, I would rather be in Napa too (although the weather is lousy right now) but I wasn't invited. It was "girl's trip".

I have to go in to work today too.

As for dining at French Laundry, I think not unless the BUS stopped there.

They might have gone to the Top of the Mark, though, as they were staying in SF.

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/20/2011 5:46:32 PM

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....The only real early warning system would be surface pickets.... It could have been worse and will get worse this turn when JJ finds the tankers but the R Class convoy would have made us cry. It might also have been the entire Aussie I Corps a few weeks ago

This is a fascinating game. The subs make us group ships into bigger convoys because of the shortage of escorts and that makes the payoff for a carrier raid greater.

I counted 8 sunk including the Flower Class Corvette, HMS Cyclamen and 5 AK's damaged.

Surface Pickets, one of my favorite tactics [irony]! Often devolves from use of combat ships to AKLs to screen convoy routes when players realize that AKLs are really cheap and easy to order out on patrol.
Must go something like this:
USN Officer: Captain Nelson, are you the commander of the good ship Tasmania Dawn?
Cap Nelson: Bloody well am sir. Who says I aint?
USN Officer: No one is saying you are not. We are looking for merchant Captains of skill and daring to help us defeat the Japs. Are you such a man?
Cap Nelson: Wazz it pay?
USN Officer: We would pay your normal cargo rate as if you wazz [thinking he is skillfully picking up the accent here] three-quarters full, but you will not actually be carrying anything.
Cap Nelson: Well [scratches head], if I am not carrying any bloody cargo, what am I going to be doing--circling the bloody ocean?
USN Officer: Exactly, hmmm,[getting the hang of this] bloody right! We want you to station your coastal freighter 10 hexes, hmmm, 400 nautical miles west/northwest of Carnavron and look for these [holds up a picture of a Kate and then a Val]. Radio us if you see any.
Cap Nelson: Are you daft?
USN Officer: [ignoring the question as he continues with his own thought] Oh, and you may want to pack, hmmm, extra lifeboats�

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RE: Hearts and Minds - 2/20/2011 6:03:44 PM

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Hey, a dozen guys on a 2 pt 1500 ton AK is not much different from one white guy in a bush hat and 6 headhunters trying to dodge Jap patrols and call in sightings from New Guina or the Solomons.

Think of them as Coastwatchers without a coast.

Still, it does have a gamey feel to it.

"Welcome to His majesty's service son, your gear will include binoculars, an airplane identification chart, a big ass radio AND a brand new Mae West vest and 3 canisters of shark repellent."

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