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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/19/2013 3:16:59 AM   
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Just noticed that something with Petes was probably sunk last turn (judging from ground losses). Does Kuma have seaplanes?

What makes you think that's not Kirishima?



It didn't seem like one like one lousy 500 lb bomb from a TBF would finish her off if she were making something like 20 kts. Her system/Flotation damage could not have been that high it seems.

Maybe the egg hit the Petes on her deck.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/19/2013 3:32:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		Kuma class has a capacity of 1 measly floatplane (scenario 1, right?). Kirishima 3.

I've seen BBs sunk by heavy fires resulting in loss of floatation. Heavy topside fires can be induced by naval gunfire + aerial bombs. Your combat report indicated 'heavy fires, heavy damage' and 'smoke obscuring Kirishima', right?

It's not beyond the realm of possibility. At the very least, I don't expect that big burry will be bothering your Yankee dogs anytime soon, what with its new corn chute and all.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/19/2013 2:47:51 PM   
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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/19/2013 2:50:37 PM   
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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/19/2013 2:54:47 PM   
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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/19/2013 2:57:06 PM   
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Kuma class has a capacity of 1 measly floatplane (scenario 1, right?). Kirishima 3.

I've seen BBs sunk by heavy fires resulting in loss of floatation. Heavy topside fires can be induced by naval gunfire + aerial bombs. Your combat report indicated 'heavy fires, heavy damage' and 'smoke obscuring Kirishima', right?

It's not beyond the realm of possibility. At the very least, I don't expect that big burry will be bothering your Yankee dogs anytime soon, what with its new corn chute and all.



Kirisihima does not show up on the sunk list. I think the Petes were either destroyed on her deck or they were ashore somewhere. She will definitely be in dock for a while.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/19/2013 3:02:11 PM   
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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/19/2013 3:06:23 PM   
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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/19/2013 3:34:33 PM   
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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/19/2013 4:18:11 PM   
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The movement arrow for the "three powerful" IJ units on that dot hex is due West. Had they moved SW on the ROADS instead of cross country through a jungle hex, they may move more than 3 miles / day. It'll take 'em a while to get there by going cross country, Cap'n.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 6:00:11 AM   
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On Ruzon...

The movement arrow for the "three powerful" IJ units on that dot hex is due West. Had they moved SW on the ROADS instead of cross country through a jungle hex, they may move more than 3 miles / day. It'll take 'em a while to get there by going cross country, Cap'n.



Right, so this brings up an interesting point. In the illustration below, note that a funicular line runs from downtown Lingayen (near the Walmart) eastward toward the head shop town of Buyabong but appears to stop right at the border of the hex.

Does this then mean that you can hop on the funicular by the Walmart and head uphill toward Buyabong to get your ganja but when you get to the hexside you are somehow flung magically into "downtown" Buyabong which must be something like 20 miles away.

Conversely, when you head back to Lingayen, you have to walk the whole 40 miles back to Lingayen even though there is a perfectly good funicular heading back to town when you reach the hexside border?

You would actually be lucky to make 3 miles a day with all that ganja abd your eyes are going to be really red too.

Pretend I didn't read the manual.




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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 6:01:58 AM   
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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 6:05:18 AM   
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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 6:13:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		Look at the thing. The funicular line stops right at the hexside border. Imagine you start in Buyabong. You walk the approximate 20 miles to the hexside..you step over the hexside and there is a funicular with nice cushioned seats and a lovely view as you head back down the hill to Lingayen. What idiot is going to walk the whole way?

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 7:11:25 AM   
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Look at the thing. The funicular line stops right at the hexside border. Imagine you start in Buyabong. You walk the approximate 20 miles to the hexside..you step over the hexside and there is a funicular with nice cushioned seats and a lovely view as you head back down the hill to Lingayen. What idiot is going to walk the whole way?


I believe that funicular terminates at the caldera of an active volcano, and any riders thereon are similarly terminated.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 1:14:11 PM   
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Look at the thing. The funicular line stops right at the hexside border. Imagine you start in Buyabong. You walk the approximate 20 miles to the hexside..you step over the hexside and there is a funicular with nice cushioned seats and a lovely view as you head back down the hill to Lingayen. What idiot is going to walk the whole way?


Ah so. I think I get your question. Here's my interpretation.

Lingayen to Buyabong (dot hex with three Jap units in it): "Rail walking" movement speed for troops taking this route. They will complete the movement not at rail speeds, but as though they were walking on an improved rail bedding / along a track hewn through the jungle. They will use these speeds (faster than jungle walking) until they manifest suddenly in Buyabong.

Buyabong to Lingayen (direct): 46 miles of jungle slog. No road benefits. No way. No how.


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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 1:59:23 PM   
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Look at the thing. The funicular line stops right at the hexside border. Imagine you start in Buyabong. You walk the approximate 20 miles to the hexside..you step over the hexside and there is a funicular with nice cushioned seats and a lovely view as you head back down the hill to Lingayen. What idiot is going to walk the whole way?


Ah so. I think I get your question. Here's my interpretation.

Lingayen to Buyabong (dot hex with three Jap units in it): "Rail walking" movement speed for troops taking this route. They will complete the movement not at rail speeds, but as though they were walking on an improved rail bedding / along a track hewn through the jungle. They will use these speeds (faster than jungle walking) until they manifest suddenly in Buyabong.

Buyabong to Lingayen (direct): 46 miles of jungle slog. No road benefits. No way. No how.




Yes, exactly, it is both a one way train AND a one way trail. Whenever visiting Buyabong I like to stop in and see how Schroedinger and his cat are doing.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 2:51:54 PM   
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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 3:01:33 PM   
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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 3:09:09 PM   
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War Patrol #4, USS SUNFISH

APRIL 21: No enemy activity again but we made some good friends during port call at Alexandrovsk. Men are tyring to catch some halibut today on long lines. No sea ice today but foggy. Able Seaman Putin got word he is a father. OK, gotta go.





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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 3:10:27 PM   
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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 6:10:07 PM   
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Look at the thing. The funicular line stops right at the hexside border. Imagine you start in Buyabong. You walk the approximate 20 miles to the hexside..you step over the hexside and there is a funicular with nice cushioned seats and a lovely view as you head back down the hill to Lingayen. What idiot is going to walk the whole way?


Ah so. I think I get your question. Here's my interpretation.

Lingayen to Buyabong (dot hex with three Jap units in it): "Rail walking" movement speed for troops taking this route. They will complete the movement not at rail speeds, but as though they were walking on an improved rail bedding / along a track hewn through the jungle. They will use these speeds (faster than jungle walking) until they manifest suddenly in Buyabong.

Buyabong to Lingayen (direct): 46 miles of jungle slog. No road benefits. No way. No how.




Yes, exactly, it is both a one way train AND a one way trail. Whenever visiting Buyabong I like to stop in and see how Schroedinger and his cat are doing.







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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 6:45:02 PM   
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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 8:07:14 PM   
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That's a fantastic sub funicular patrol area


Hands to bathe is going to be a tackle shrinker.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 8:21:40 PM   
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That's a fantastic sub funicular patrol area


Hands to bathe is going to be a tackle shrinker.



I don't have access to the 4th Rotor right now but I'm guessing this involves group nudity and the Sea of Okhotsk?

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 8:51:54 PM   
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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/20/2013 10:05:07 PM   
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The Arctic patrols have their secret tales
That would make your blood run like phlegm;

The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the boat off Sakhalin
When A.S. Putin's girl became a mommy.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/21/2013 12:58:57 AM   
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That's a fantastic sub funicular patrol area


Hands to bathe is going to be a tackle shrinker.



I don't have access to the 4th Rotor right now but I'm guessing this involves group nudity and the Sea of Okhotsk?


Hmm, somehow reminds me of a Seinfeld episode...

I think the commander of the Sunfish is just using some foresight, practicing for Cold War patrols a decade early.

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/21/2013 11:03:24 AM   
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There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who toil for M & M;
The Arctic patrols have their secret tales
That would make your blood run like phlegm;

The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the boat off Sakhalin
When A.S. Putin's girl became a mommy.


Is that to the tune of Eskimo Nell? (Rather good by the way).

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RE: Wound my heart with a monotonous languor - 6/21/2013 2:18:06 PM   
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There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who toil for M & M;
The Arctic patrols have their secret tales
That would make your blood run like phlegm;

The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the boat off Sakhalin
When A.S. Putin's girl became a mommy.


Is that to the tune of Eskimo Nell? (Rather good by the way).


It is from a poem "The Cremation of Sam Mcgee" by Robert W. Service, who wrote several humourous poems about the Yukon gold rush. See the poem here http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174348

The only time I have seen the word "moil" used!

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