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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/24/2013 11:50:16 PM   
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Marital advice (whether you want it or not):

Never EVER interrupt (or even look askance) when women are doing a victory dance to celebrate a punitive divorce settlement. This, I now realize, is a mystical and highly symbolic exorcism (and public flaying of the skin, drawing and quartering and Bobbitism of the offending male). It is best to slink away and go watch a baseball game or something, even if you don't like baseball.

Your opinion will not be welcome. It's like bringing barbecue sauce to a papua New Guinea eating of the brain ceremony.


I had to go an look up what "spike the football" meant- expecting some obscure reference to a bodily function, piercing of tender parts or surgical technique.

Regarding a PNG brain eating ceremony- to avoid a faux pas what is the acceptable range of condiments that one should bring- or is it strictly au naturale?


For non-Americans (or Danes who know a lot about American football) "spinking the ball" refers to the act of throwing it forcefully to the ground. This can be done as a means to get a free "time out" when a team is out of official time-outs. This is essentially an incomplete pass, costing a down but stopping the clock so the pampered millionaires on the field can go over to the sidelines and be told what to do...even though there are only about 4-5 practical choices and everyone already knows what they are.


OR


It can be a victory display after scoring a touchdown. This is basically what SG and PG were doing. In fact, they were throwing the ball directly at the feet of the defeated opponent, which will get you a fine, even in the NFL.


As for the papua New Guinea brain eating ceremony...seeing as this is the ritual eating of the brain of your recently dead relative as a means of releasing the spirit and ensuring a happy afterlife among the living there is probably NO condiment that would be kosher. MAYBE you could get away with a spritz of lemon or a little wasabi but I doubt it.

Also, as Dr Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for demostrating that kuru, a human prion disease that causes progressive dementia and early death is transmitted by eating the brains of your relatives, if you EVER get invited to one of these things I would strongly recommend you beg off, especially if grandpa Ongopongo started to make barking sounds or smear feces on himself before he died.

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/24/2013 11:56:45 PM   
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Carleton_Gajdusek

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/24/2013 11:57:01 PM   
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"spinking the ball"


sounds kinky

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/24/2013 11:58:51 PM   
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"spinking the ball"


sounds kinky


Typing Nazi.

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RE: Anna Mae Wong - 5/25/2013 5:25:04 AM   
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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/25/2013 5:36:58 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake


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"spinking the ball"


sounds kinky


Typing Nazi.


He just wrote what we were all thinking.

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/25/2013 2:29:31 PM   
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It's not in Urban Dictionary or the Fourth Rotor.

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/25/2013 2:50:39 PM   
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Ah..yes..


PI: How is this for a CAP? CAP over Lucena and Batangas combined...and I think even some F4F's from teh CVE's. Transports with SCTF unloading at Lucena.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Lucena at 79,79

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 74 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 26 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 7
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 7

Allied aircraft
Martlet II x 4
Spitfire Vc Trop x 5
Hurricane XIIb x 6
P-39D Airacobra x 29
P-40B Warhawk x 8
P-40K Warhawk x 14
F4F-4 Wildcat x 16
F4U-1 Corsair x 10

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 5 destroyed
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed

No Allied losses

And more. Tough group of Betty drivers. They did not turn back.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Lucena at 79,79

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 95 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 33 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 10
Ki-61-Ia Tony x 4

Allied aircraft
Martlet II x 3
Spitfire Vc Trop x 4
Hurricane XIIb x 4
P-39D Airacobra x 25
P-40B Warhawk x 8
P-40K Warhawk x 10
F4F-4 Wildcat x 11
F4U-1 Corsair x 9

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 4 destroyed, 3 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed by flak
Ki-61-Ia Tony: 1 destroyed

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
CL St. Louis
DD LaVallette

And some Kates

Morning Air attack on TF, near Lucena at 79,79

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 48 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 20 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 5
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 8

Allied aircraft
Martlet II x 2
Spitfire Vc Trop x 2
Hurricane XIIb x 2
P-39D Airacobra x 20
P-40B Warhawk x 7
P-40K Warhawk x 7
F4F-4 Wildcat x 17
F4U-1 Corsair x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 4 destroyed
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 3 destroyed

No Allied losses

Splendid work by the RAAF, RCAF, USAAF, USMC

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/25/2013 2:57:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		Pretty effective raid over Altimonan after a small P-38 sweep. Raids over Clark and Manira were disorganized. There wasn't even supposed to be a raid over Clark. I blame the staff.

Nothing bad happened in the South China Sea.

An S boat gets the jump on a LYB sub running on the surface...but misses.

Sub vs Sub: SS S-40 attacking SS RO-64 at 77,81 - near Busuanga

Japanese Ships
SS RO-64

Allied Ships
SS S-40

SS S-40 launches 4 torpedoes at 4,000 yards

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/25/2013 3:03:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Bay of Bengal: A Jap sub tries to square up on New and Improved New Mexico. RNN Van Galen spots the sub, drops her tow lines and nearly sinks the vermin. Good sailoring!

ASW attack near Little Andaman at 44,60

Japanese Ships
SS I-153, hits 7, heavy damage

Allied Ships
DD Van Galen

But...2 d after her 7 torpedo hits, with flooding controlled....there is this..

Morning Air attack on TF, near Little Andaman at 42,59

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-51 Sonia x 19

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-51 Sonia: 7 damaged
Ki-51 Sonia: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
BB New Mexico, Bomb hits 7, and is sunk

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 3000 feet
Naval Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb

50 kg GP bombs. At least they splashed one of the baaahstards.

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/25/2013 3:10:03 PM   
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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/25/2013 3:27:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have some ideas for Port Blair that might work better than the P-38 sweep over Rangoon.

Rangoon is the problem it is dangerous to land relief at Port Blair.

We continue the B-24 night raids, which are at least damaging air frames. We build up P-38's in Burma from replacement aircraft (there are only 10 operable P-38's left in the PI).

Corsairs can reach China (and thence Burma) from Northern Luzon. After we are ashore in Northern Luzon, we can ship a squadron or two of Corsairs to Burma to assemble enough P-38's and Corsairs to win an A2A battle over Rangoon.

In the meantime, we task some of the B-24's to shut down the airfield at Port Blair and then go over to ground and port attack on the IJA on Andaman.

We might also be able to get some engineers and a small combat unit ashore by landing craft (unload in one turn) on Little Andaman to build up to level 2 in order to provide LRCAP on the run in to Andaman.

Other options would include attacking deeper bases in China perhaps or Formosa (once we get to level 5 in Northern Luzon) to draw off his fighters.


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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/25/2013 3:30:54 PM   
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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/25/2013 3:38:37 PM   
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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/25/2013 3:41:12 PM   
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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/25/2013 3:48:29 PM   
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You lost a battleship to Sonias? Ouch, that's rough, even if it was already crippled. That's probably a first in AE history.



She may have also set a record for most torpedo hits survived while at sea. There was no way to protect her. Too far from Arried bases.

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/25/2013 6:54:08 PM   
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Let's see if he knows.







I would have thought from the description of your neighbors' prodigious incomes and ostentatious lifestyle that your zipcode was 90210, Cap'n?

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/25/2013 6:56:52 PM   
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She may have also set a record for most torpedo hits survived while at sea.



But she didn't survive, did she? Either she survived the torpedoes and was sunk by Sonias (ignominy and shame) or she didn't survive the torpedoes and succumbed to finishing touches by the gnats (honorable way to go out fighting). I'd recommend you assume the latter narrative.

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/25/2013 9:46:39 PM   
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She may have also set a record for most torpedo hits survived while at sea.



But she didn't survive, did she? Either she survived the torpedoes and was sunk by Sonias (ignominy and shame) or she didn't survive the torpedoes and succumbed to finishing touches by the gnats (honorable way to go out fighting). I'd recommend you assume the latter narrative.

Personally, I think she just sank when the weight of 7 X 100 lb bombs was added to her barely floating deck.

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/25/2013 11:25:50 PM   
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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/26/2013 3:52:26 AM   
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Let's see if he knows.






Most likely he'll surmise that you're a Tea Party operative and make lewd suggestions.

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/26/2013 8:51:48 AM   
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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/26/2013 3:16:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ohhhh...THAT'S why the guards at Kandy House have to wear ear muffs. I thought that was odd.



I despair of capturing Manira now in the short run with 51K crazy Emperor Brand Kool-aide-drinking LYB's buttoned up in an urban hex.

This leaves us wanting for a good port. Manado is our current best port until you get to Darwin but will max out at 5 soon. There are ports buildable to 6 in the PI ( Busuanga, Naga) but that will take a while.

There is Beazelbob (currently level 5) but there are 12K LYB's there and they will be dug in. That will require a full 50 day prep.

Takao (Formosa)..defended for sure but maybe one of the Formosa coastal cities is lightly garrisoned and we could get ashore there and march on Takao.

Amoy? Might be able to take it but then there would be untold tens of thousands of angry LYB's on your doorstep in a couple of weeks.

Hong Kong? Kind of going the wrong way and likely defended.

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/26/2013 3:39:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		Strictly out of prurient interest, if the LYB's suddenly were possesed of a strong desire to move large numbers of ground troops to Korea, could they use their Manchurian garrison without consequences?

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/26/2013 3:50:38 PM   
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Ohhhh...THAT'S why the guards at Kandy House have to wear ear muffs. I thought that was odd.



I despair of capturing Manira now in the short run with 51K crazy Emperor Brand Kool-aide-drinking LYB's buttoned up in an urban hex.

This leaves us wanting for a good port. Manado is our current best port until you get to Darwin but will max out at 5 soon. There are ports buildable to 6 in the PI ( Busuanga, Naga) but that will take a while.

There is Beazelbob (currently level 5) but there are 12K LYB's there and they will be dug in. That will require a full 50 day prep.

Takao (Formosa)..defended for sure but maybe one of the Formosa coastal cities is lightly garrisoned and we could get ashore there and march on Takao.

Amoy? Might be able to take it but then there would be untold tens of thousands of angry LYB's on your doorstep in a couple of weeks.

Hong Kong? Kind of going the wrong way and likely defended.


What about Hainan island (in the South China Sea just east of Vietn...erm..."Indochina")? There's two good bases there that could be significantly expanded that are also away from land routes of reinforcement. The bases are connected by nice roads too. This location, combined with DB placement at Basuanga should cut off any fuel / oil from the DEI entirely. Just capturing the southern perimeter may allow some tanker movement back to the HI by skirting the SE Asian coastline.

I would wager dollars to donuts that Hainan is less heavily garrisoned than Formosa. The latter would be a stern test.

Warning: This would make the LYBs angry and they would respond accordingly.


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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/26/2013 3:54:51 PM   
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Strictly out of prurient interest, if the LYB's suddenly were possesed of a strong desire to move large numbers of ground troops to Korea, could they use their Manchurian garrison without consequences?


They don't have to 'buy' the PPs to rail move Manchurian garrison troops to Korea, if that's what you're asking. Since it's not ship or air transport away from the Asian landmass, they should be able to, by the mechanics of the game, move their troops accordingly.

Do you guys have any HR on 'buying' Manchuko garrison troops before they can be moved out of theatre? Because the IJ army in Korea is in, get this, Korea-technically a different command (like China is a different command). So, it's a bit of a gray zone in the gameplay rules, IMO-you should probably clarify.

Plus, it'll cause the biggest 'pucker' that you can imagine-an aggressive Allied player inquiring about Japanese defensive rules on Korea...Hory crap!

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/26/2013 4:29:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		Most likely asking the Emperor's Boys about rules against moving troops to Korea would constitute a breech of operational security.

I can't remember about HR at this point. Maybe the staff at Kandy House knows.

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/26/2013 4:35:28 PM   
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The recycle collection guy for the Mandrake estate left a note on my recycle can saying I had too much "trash" in my recycle can.

This hurt my feelings really badly. I was trying to be a good citizen....plus my trash can was full.

Should I write an apology letter? Greet him in person? Wash and bleach the recycle can?

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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/26/2013 6:29:17 PM   
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Most likely asking the Emperor's Boys about rules against moving troops to Korea would constitute a breech of operational security.

I can't remember about HR at this point. Maybe the staff at Kandy House knows.


It would be a breach of OPSEC, if you were actually planning to invade Korea. If you aren't actually planning to invade (and it is strictly prurient interest), then it is no OPSEC violation, as there is no OP to Secure.

The enemy may react wildly to speculation of your interest in Korea, however, which might be to your advantage. However, they may also rationally analyze your question, and realize you would never give away surprise on such a critical operation with such a question, and therefore assume it was a PSYOP.

Which would then leave him perfectly vulnerable when you later decide that Korea IS in fact your next objective! ;)


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RE: Mars vs. Venus - 5/26/2013 7:16:45 PM   
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Most likely asking the Emperor's Boys about rules against moving troops to Korea would constitute a breech of operational security.

I can't remember about HR at this point. Maybe the staff at Kandy House knows.

I opened Scenario 2 and checked - Korea Army is a sub-command of Kwantung Army, therefore moving units from Manchukuo to Korea is within the same command. Question is - is he buying them out to go to the Philippines, loading at Fusan or Keijo? No other reason to move units down there at this time.

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