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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/7/2012 6:36:49 PM

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Brigadier "Senescent" seems to be getting the most of his troops.

Also, the LYBs on the move to the SE of PH: Is that dot hex (connected by rail to PH-Corunna downs?) still held, or has it been abandoned? I assume that you're going to be bombing the ***** out of this unit, as it's likely in either move or strat movement?

Status of Corunna unkown. The Beauforts at Carnavon will bomb today and try to catch some wallets or secret papers thrown up into the air by the explosions. Some Hudsons are taksed with the Wee Jap Dobbers moving toward Port Headrand on the Wee Jap Dobber railroad.

It would be dishonest to descirbe this as "bombing the **** out of them"

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/7/2012 6:59:39 PM

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Brigadier "Senescent" seems to be getting the most of his troops.

Also, the LYBs on the move to the SE of PH: Is that dot hex (connected by rail to PH-Corunna downs?) still held, or has it been abandoned? I assume that you're going to be bombing the ***** out of this unit, as it's likely in either move or strat movement?

Status of Corunna unkown. The Beauforts at Carnavon will bomb today and try to catch some wallets or secret papers thrown up into the air by the explosions. Some Hudsons are taksed with the Wee Jap Dobbers moving toward Port Headrand on the Wee Jap Dobber railroad.

It would be dishonest to descirbe this as "bombing the **** out of them"

I imagine that depends what you mean by **** now, doesn't it?

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/7/2012 7:02:20 PM

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Wohoo! I found some B-17D's in under a snowdrift in Butte! Soon the sky over PH will be darkened by the awesome B-17D.

USAAF heavy bomber replacement pool.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/7/2012 8:18:01 PM

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That gets me thinking, rare in itself, take a 9 day to repair shot up squadron, withdraw'em, Voila! spanking new birds in the hanger for 30th BG...hmmmmm

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/8/2012 2:29:56 AM

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I am very encouraged by the advance and drawing the line at Daily Waters .. keeping it supplied ... I am much more willing to take this route watching some success ...

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/8/2012 3:28:53 PM

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Daly Waters is in the red but the units there are adequately supplied for now. I am not sure what will happen when they move North.

I don't think we will be able to operate aircraft from Daly but we should be able to put transports at Tennant.

No word from Admiral Lord Sprior. It may be another Norse raid or maybe he really did take that orange robe he got for Chirstmas and join a Budhist monestary with crappy wi fi.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/8/2012 3:44:09 PM

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******Bali Hai Club, Perth, Nov. 26, 1942(c)**********

Man in fine linen slacks: <on phone> Nope, I said Pearl Harbor day, Dec, 7. No sooner than that. You guys are a bunch of sissies.

...Of course they are bombing. All of the incentives are properly alligned. Just get in the slit trenches by 08:45 every morning and you should be fine.

...Yeah, smoked fish and rice, that's what they eat. They are Japs. You should have studied in geography class, pal..besides y'all could stand to lose a little weight.

...Catfish? Are you crazy? Where the hell do you expect me to get catfish? Look, I'll see if I can put some hush puppies in the next air drop. Now get out there and do your wizard schitck and don't call me back till the 6th. Capisce?

Hisute man: Hush puppies? You want me to risk my life for hush puppies?

Man in fine linen slacks: I thought you were immortal now?

Hisute man: That is just a theory I have....

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/8/2012 6:59:43 PM

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******Bali Hai Club, Perth, Nov. 26, 1942(c)**********

Man in fine linen slacks: <on phone> Nope, I said Pearl Harbor day, Dec, 7. No sooner than that. You guys are a bunch of sissies.

...Of course they are bombing. All of the incentives are properly alligned. Just get in the slit trenches by 08:45 every morning and you should be fine.

...Yeah, smoked fish and rice, that's what they eat. They are Japs. You should have studied in geography class, pal..besides y'all could stand to lose a little weight.

...Catfish? Are you crazy? Where the hell do you expect me to get catfish? Look, I'll see if I can put some hush puppies in the next air drop. Now get out there and do your wizard schitck and don't call me back till the 6th. Capisce?

Hisute man: Hush puppies? You want me to risk my life for hush puppies?

Man in fine linen slacks: I thought you were immortal now?

Hisute man: That is just a theory I have....

Oy! Idn't Pearl Harbor day in Oz December 8? If they bleedin' celebrated on bleedin' December 7 their time, it would be bleedin' December 6 in bleedin' Hawai'i, mate, idn't?

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/8/2012 9:53:14 PM

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No word from Admiral Lord Sprior.

Things have been busy at Kandy House but currently relaxing with a 12 yo sinle malt scotch.

The capital units at Exmouth will move back 90 miles or so and wait for the transports so we can push supplies into Ph while ombarding JJ there.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/8/2012 10:21:10 PM

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HUZZAH!

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/8/2012 10:42:10 PM

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No word from Admiral Lord Sprior.

Things have been busy at Kandy House but currently relaxing with a 12 yo sinle malt scotch.

The capital units at Exmouth will move back 90 miles or so and wait for the transports so we can push supplies into Ph while ombarding JJ there.

Ah yes .. I am rather partial to The Macallan 18 but I am a speyside bigot ..

I like the 18 even better than the 25 or the 30 for that matter, which are quite overpriced and pretentions ..anyway in what endevor can one have the pleasure of 4 18 year olds for the price of a 25?

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/8/2012 11:20:21 PM

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*****************Nov 26, 1942(c)*****************

Oz: Adequate flying weather. Airfield and ground troops hit again at PH. Jap CAP is down to 11 Tojos, a few of which were destroyed on the ground or in the air from the P-40K's. The TBF's at Exmouth got frisky and went after some sub chasers near PH, losing three planes to the Tojo CAP. Some SBD's (I think from the carriers) attacked, sinking all three SC's. No Jap attack at PH today.

An SNLF is found to be still at Corunna.
They were hit successfully by the Beauforts.

New Guinea: Diversion air attacks at Port Moresby continue.

CBI: More Tojo sweeps over Ledo. They are handing the Hurricanes their lunch. JJ gound attack at Sining fails at 1:3.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/9/2012 12:42:50 AM

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CBI: More Tojo sweeps over Ledo. They are handing the Hurricanes their lunch.

Curious. Didn't the Admiral Lord Sprior recently communicate that they (Tojos) had not been spotted in theatre in Burma? Is the arrival of the Ki-44s a new development there too?

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/9/2012 3:28:50 AM

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******Bali Hai Club, Perth, Nov. 26, 1942(c)**********

Man in fine linen slacks: <on phone> Nope, I said Pearl Harbor day, Dec, 7. No sooner than that. You guys are a bunch of sissies.

...Of course they are bombing. All of the incentives are properly alligned. Just get in the slit trenches by 08:45 every morning and you should be fine.

...Yeah, smoked fish and rice, that's what they eat. They are Japs. You should have studied in geography class, pal..besides y'all could stand to lose a little weight.

...Catfish? Are you crazy? Where the hell do you expect me to get catfish? Look, I'll see if I can put some hush puppies in the next air drop. Now get out there and do your wizard schitck and don't call me back till the 6th. Capisce?

Hisute man: Hush puppies? You want me to risk my life for hush puppies?

Man in fine linen slacks: I thought you were immortal now?

Hisute man: That is just a theory I have....

Oy! Idn't Pearl Harbor day in Oz December 8? If they bleedin' celebrated on bleedin' December 7 their time, it would be bleedin' December 6 in bleedin' Hawai'i, mate, idn't?

With a far-flung, globe-encompassing multinational corporation to run like M&M Enterprises, I'm pretty sure Milo barks out instructions to his employees using Universal (Zulu) time. It's up to his minions to figure out how to translate that into their local time. I believe Pearl Harbor got hit about 1855 hours on Dec 7 (Zulu). The Aussies will just have to live with it...

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/9/2012 6:31:40 AM

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LOL we are stilll 1942 been damn near 1 year and a half.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/9/2012 3:23:21 PM

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Well...**** happens.

I have actually never played a campaign game in WITP or WITP/AE that even had Corsairs, let alone P-51's.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/9/2012 3:54:10 PM

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Admiral Lord SPrior
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My Dearest SPri;

A few of us were wondering, is this the day we go "gob in"? If so, we will need to coordinate air and naval efforts. Here are my observations:

1) JJ has his carriers about 200 mi NE of PH. This is likely not an accidental placement as it takes them just out of range of our B-25's at Carnavon. I believe they wisely mean to lay off and avoid our land based air. If they remain there, we will invite a Jap carrier strike when we get about 4 hexes W of PH.

2) JJ has 32 bombers at Broome. These will need to be dealt with.

3) There are several Jap surface groups positioned so they might sprint in at night and hit any forces we send to PH.

4) Intel shows the Jap carriers with with about 160 planes. We can field 186-190 on our carriers but we may encounter Betties from Broome. We might win a carrier exchange. We might not.

5) Our ground forces are OK on supply for now but the big threat is another Jap attack. It therefore seems to me the greatest need is to disrupt the Jap ground troops. This means air attacks and perhaps naval bombardment.

I suggest we push out some AK's 4 hexes W of PH and cover them with P-40K's from Exmouth +/- any spillover CAP from the carriers which could be stationed near Exmoouth. This would perhaps invite a carrier strike and consume Jap torps and cause them some casualties. We could have the slow BB's about 5 hexes W of PH so they could be in a position to bombard at night the subsequent night. We might also want to consider Repulse or a pure CA force for bombardment owing to the speed advantage.

We would probably have to hit Broome with some of the B-17's.

With a generous soupcon of sincerity;

Fleet Admiral Mandrake
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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/11/2012 6:12:42 PM

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Youre obviously not Bear Grylls.

He's never been to Orkney

Wiki says he grew up on the Isle of Wight. I dont think thats at all similar.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/11/2012 6:14:58 PM

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So Mary Ann was a pot head? Wow, just wow.

Its a confounding factor in the whole "MaryAnn vs Ginger Question."

Lemme guess, Ginger was the goody two-shoes?

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/11/2012 7:00:01 PM

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So Mary Ann was a pot head? Wow, just wow.

Its a confounding factor in the whole "MaryAnn vs Ginger Question."

Lemme guess, Ginger was the goody two-shoes?

That is NOT what I heard.

You know what...pretend I didn't mention it.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/11/2012 7:19:10 PM

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********Aboard HMIS Cornwallis, near Exmouth, 07:40, Nov. 26, 1942(c)******

Jugdish: <looking over rail as ship pulls away from Exmouth> Abhimoda, why do not the battleships leave before us?

Abhimoda I am sure there is a bery good reason. The admirals would not risk such a fine ship as thees without good reason. I am proud to be the vanguard. Do not worry my friend, the battleships will catch us. They are faster.

Jugdish: Perhaps you are right, my friend, but still, I would like you to hold this for me and give it to my mother should I not return. <hands over money>

Abhimoda <looks at money> Three rupees? What is she to do with three rupees? Come, let us teach the others how to play craps....

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/11/2012 8:58:53 PM

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Hope they know that you cant take it with you.

Then again, with their ideas on reincarnation....

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/11/2012 9:05:44 PM

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**********Nov. 27, 1942(c)**********

Oz: A B-17 raid on Broome airfield gets scrubbed for reasons not clear as of yet. The B-24's hit Port Headrand pretty hard but NONE of the medium bombers deign to attack. 11 Tojos again in the air over PH. Yamato pays another vist and bombards at night. I think they may be rearming Yamato now at Broome. When the sun comes up there are NO anti-shipping attacks.

JJ attacks at PH again, just managing a 2:1 this time with subsantial casualties in our favor.

Burma: 29 Tojos sweep over Ledo again.

China: The Japs have found Mark McGwire's leftover "vitamin" pills and are attacking all over like hungry pit bulls.

Aleutians: Snowman making restrictions were lifted on Adak as morale was beginning to suffer.

New and Improved New Hebrides: I am trying to repair Tanna airfield but the supply offload is painfully slow. Bombing over Efate just for fun.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/11/2012 9:08:05 PM

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Ground combat at Port Hedrand (57,129)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 44279 troops, 458 guns, 207 vehicles, Assault Value = 1138

Defending force 20442 troops, 555 guns, 408 vehicles, Assault Value = 454

Japanese adjusted assault: 708

Allied adjusted defense: 321

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender:
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
2591 casualties reported
Squads: 51 destroyed, 54 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 30 disabled
Engineers: 19 destroyed, 13 disabled
Guns lost 33 (1 destroyed, 32 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1185 casualties reported
Squads: 12 destroyed, 27 disabled
Non Combat: 24 destroyed, 19 disabled
Engineers: 42 destroyed, 52 disabled
Guns lost 23 (11 destroyed, 12 disabled)
Vehicles lost 17 (10 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
4th Infantry Regiment
56th Engineer Regiment
6th Guards Division
77th Infantry Regiment
65th Brigade
5th Division
24th Infantry Regiment
56th Recon Regiment
66th Infantry Group
4th Ind. Engineer Regiment
Yokosuka Assault SNLF /2
22nd Air Flotilla
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
16th Army
9th Field AF Construction Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
30th Fld AA Gun Co
51st JNAF AF Unit

Defending units:
102nd Combat Engineer Regiment
22nd (East African) Brigade
32nd Infantry Division
2nd British Division
7th RAN Base Force
34th Aviation Base Force
10th USN Naval Construction Battalion
14th USN Naval Construction Battalion
2nd Medium Regiment

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/11/2012 10:33:46 PM

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And that was just a friendly soccer game. Imagine if these guys got into a shooting war.

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/12/2012 2:18:15 PM

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So Mary Ann was a pot head? Wow, just wow.

Its a confounding factor in the whole "MaryAnn vs Ginger Question."

Lemme guess, Ginger was the goody two-shoes?

That is NOT what I heard.

You know what...pretend I didn't mention it.

Althoght evidence shows that Mary Ann had a liking for the" wacky weed" -- something M&M enterprises was more than willing to provide the castaways -- in my professional opinion Cap Mandrake, I might propose the Ginger had a propensity for benzodiazepines and secobarbital with possible Quaalude abuse. That sultry actress look might have just been more than an act. These drugs were quite popular at the time. with 40 million prescriptions of vallium alone I could see M&M Enterprises turning a handsome profit supporting Ginger's habit on this remote island. Really zero competition from organized crime.

Then there was the whole problem with Tina Louise's irretractable delusional thinking that her role was the main focus of the show -- despite the name being "Gilligan's Island," and the whole thing of Bob Denver and his dopey role from Dobie Gillis being extended into a new situational comedy. Ginger very well might have been deprived of her real med's since I understand M&M enterprise was not into distributing the phenothiazines due to the bad rap on side effects as a "party" pharmaceutical and lack of compliance from patients.

Thus my contention that really we have lots of confonding factors, and this MaryAnn/Ginger question could even be a test of Decision Making Capacity? maybe even The "Rorschach" standard for assessing DMC?

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/12/2012 3:37:47 PM

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JJ attacks at PH again, just managing a 2:1 this time with subsantial casualties in our favor.

Interesting casualties. Japanese infantry suffered comparatively, but you lost a bushel of engineer squads. Why?

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/12/2012 3:53:29 PM

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I think, with all the spare rifles lying about, our construction engineers have been pressed into service.

102nd Eng. Bn. is wrecked and I imagine the aviation support and construction boys account for the bulk of the casualties.

These chaps:

7th RAN Base Force
34th Aviation Base Force
10th USN Naval Construction Battalion
14th USN Naval Construction Battalion

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/12/2012 4:13:34 PM

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With 4 guys and only two women under 65, the greatest need of the castaways was an androgen blocker.

I have always wondered why the Professor, with his obvious chemistry skills, did not brew up a coconut IPA or something.

Lastly, I have also wondered where the Isrand was. It has to be about 3 hrs from some "tropic port" but that is pretty wide open. Probably, the headhunters narrow it down a bit....maybe near New Guinea or New Britain?

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RE: With the Wren Detachment - 2/12/2012 4:21:56 PM

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Admiral Lord SPrior;

I watched the replay for the first time in months. I think those Jap Tojos and and Zeroes sweeping over Ledo are coming from that level 4 airfield about 6 hexes WSW of Ledo...Hell, can't remember the name of the place.

I suggest we confirm this with recon and then give them a taste of their own medicine.

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