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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/10/2013 11:41:14 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		American Engrish is easy. It's Engrish Engrish that is stupefyingly arcane. That's why they did not need Navajo code talkers. They could just say things like "have a skeg" and the wee Jap dobbers wouldn't have a clue.

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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/10/2013 11:52:37 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		Battle of the titans (cont)

We send some PT boats to Ishigaki which is evidently being reinforced by LYB troops coming ashore. Just to show off, they don't use their torps.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Ishigaki at 90,66, Range 1,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
xAKL Shoryu Maru, Shell hits 2
SC CHa-52, Shell hits 18, and is sunk
SC CHa-55, Shell hits 5, and is sunk

Allied Ships
PT-65
PT-103
PT-231
PT-236

How fun would it be to sink something with a .50 cal? Or maybe they have something bigger in June 43?

Now the big stuff. The impudent LYB's send the CVL and Soryu after our retreating carriers. And they flew in new air groups too. No CAP from Wasp. Some CAP flies over from nearby Batan Is.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Batan Island at 86,70

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 34 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2
A6M3a Zero x 10
B5N2 Kate x 23

Allied aircraft
Boomerang C-12 x 2
P-38G Lightning x 1
F4F-4 Wildcat x 29
F4U-1 Corsair x 2
F6F-3 Hellcat x 10

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 3 destroyed
B5N2 Kate: 16 destroyed

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
CV Yorktown
BB Washington

The DD's at Horycrappo-jima attract some vals. They have no CAP. They just have AAA and tr\wisting and turning.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Miyako-jima at 91,66

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
D3A1 Val x 2

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 1 damaged
D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
DD Cony

More Vals

Morning Air attack on TF, near Miyako-jima at 91,66

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
D3A1 Val x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 3 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Cony

Even Marys go after the DD's. And then some Herens in a daytime raid on the "port" which is really 5 empty oil drums tied together.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Miyako-jima at 91,66

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 39 NM, estimated altitude 2,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-32 Mary x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-32 Mary: 3 damaged
Ki-32 Mary: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
DD O'Bannon
DD Cony



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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/10/2013 11:57:20 PM   
Disco Duck


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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Battle of the titans (cont)

We send some PT boats to Ishigaki which is evidently being reinforced by LYB troops coming ashore. Just to show off, they don't use their torps.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Ishigaki at 90,66, Range 1,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
xAKL Shoryu Maru, Shell hits 2
SC CHa-52, Shell hits 18, and is sunk
SC CHa-55, Shell hits 5, and is sunk

Allied Ships
PT-65
PT-103
PT-231
PT-236

How fun would it be to sink something with a .50 cal? Or maybe they have something bigger in June 43?

Now the big stuff. The impudent LYB's send the CVL and Soryu after our retreating carriers. And they flew in new air groups too. No CAP from Wasp. Some CAP flies over from nearby Batan Is.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Batan Island at 86,70

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 34 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2
A6M3a Zero x 10
B5N2 Kate x 23

Allied aircraft
Boomerang C-12 x 2
P-38G Lightning x 1
F4F-4 Wildcat x 29
F4U-1 Corsair x 2
F6F-3 Hellcat x 10

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 3 destroyed
B5N2 Kate: 16 destroyed

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
CV Yorktown
BB Washington



Here you go Cap'n, because I know you don't read the manual.
http://www.ptboats.org/20-01-05-ptboat-009.html

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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/11/2013 12:29:55 AM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		And then our "counterattack". Yorktown was stacked with disabled airframes and 2 squadrons of F4F's flown in the provide CAP. I put some TBF's on Batan Is with no torps and set them at 15K feet. They were suppsoed to attack with some nice USMC Corsairs. Gaaak.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Batan Island at 89,71

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 19 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4
A6M3a Zero x 11

Allied aircraft
TBF-1 Avenger x 14

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
TBF-1 Avenger: 7 destroyed

And this equally inept attack from the remainder of Yorktown's TBF's.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Batan Island at 89,71

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 58 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 27 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2
A6M3a Zero x 8

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 1
TBF-1 Avenger x 6

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
TBF-1 Avenger: 2 destroyed, 4 damaged

Japanese Ships
CVL Ryuho

Then, in the afternoon, we manage to find some escorts but have no TBF's left.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Batan Island at 89,71

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 41 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 19 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2
A6M3a Zero x 10

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 3
F6F-3 Hellcat x 4
TBF-1 Avenger x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed
F6F-3 Hellcat: 1 destroyed
TBF-1 Avenger: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
CV Soryu

The primo, hot shot, torp-trained RAAF Beauforts takes off from Vigan but get lost and attack a coupel of crappy PB's at Takao which were probably jsut there to bait us in.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Takao at 84,65

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2-N Rufe x 1
Ki-61-Ia Tony x 15

Allied aircraft
Beaufort VIII x 9

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort VIII: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
PB Karimo Maru

A hotshot B-25 squadron from Alitmonan has a go.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Batan Island at 89,71

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 52 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2
A6M3a Zero x 4

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 4

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
CVL Ryuho

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 7000 feet *
Naval Attack: 3 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

More opportunities missed

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Batan Island at 89,71

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 46 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 3

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 3 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Chikuma

< Message edited by Cap Mandrake -- 9/11/2013 1:14:04 AM >

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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/11/2013 1:20:56 AM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		Enemy afternoon air attacks: I don't know where all these fighters are coming from. Fortunately, the Bettys are in short supply on Formosa after the attacks yesterday. Wild, mixed CAP

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Batan Island at 86,70

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 77 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 26 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 17
A6M3 Zero x 8
A6M5 Zero x 17
G4M1 Betty x 6
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 16
Ki-61-Ia Tony x 10

Allied aircraft
Boomerang C-12 x 2
Hurricane XIIb x 13
P-38G Lightning x 1
P-39D Airacobra x 8
F4F-4 Wildcat x 24
F4U-1 Corsair x 6
F6F-3 Hellcat x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed
A6M3 Zero: 1 destroyed
A6M5 Zero: 3 destroyed
G4M1 Betty: 3 destroyed
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed by flak
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 destroyed
Ki-61-Ia Tony: 4 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane XIIb: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
CV Wasp

If all the Bettys had been in one raid it might have worked.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Batan Island at 86,70

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 44 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3 Zero x 3
G4M1 Betty x 8

Allied aircraft
Boomerang C-12 x 2
Hurricane XIIb x 8
P-38G Lightning x 1
P-39D Airacobra x 6
F4F-4 Wildcat x 19
F4U-1 Corsair x 4
F6F-3 Hellcat x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3 Zero: 1 destroyed
G4M1 Betty: 4 destroyed
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed by flak

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
CV Wasp, heavy damage

5 more Netties destroyed attacking less important shipping on its way to Batan or Formosa.

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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/11/2013 1:27:18 AM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		"Oh, I do tire of those D+mn Para's" (Admirar Rord Fabertong,1943(c)):
We own a base on Formosa

Ground combat at Karenko (87,64)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 228 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 17

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Allied adjusted assault: 8

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Karenko !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-)

Assaulting units:
1st Australian Para Bn /1

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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/11/2013 1:33:31 AM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		Aparri: I have no idea what the 5th Makapili Regt is or where they came from. Let's hope they wear funny hats and have been recruited from a prsion somewhere. Maybe we should just attack now instead of waiting for the difficult river crossing.

Ground combat at Aparri (82,73)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 2002 troops, 74 guns, 26 vehicles, Assault Value = 252

Defending force 5616 troops, 87 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 114

Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
II Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
3rd Marine Rgt /1
2nd British Div /9
2/10th Armoured Rgt /1
637th TD Bn /1
640th TD Bn /1

Defending units:
Kure 7th SNLF
5th Makapili Regiment
22nd JNAF AF Unit
40th JAAF AF Bn
4th JNAF AF Unit
178th JAAF AF Bn

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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/11/2013 1:37:09 AM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		Summary (excluding Burma and Bay of Bengal, which was pretty fun): Neither side scores any hits on important ships. JJ loses way more aircraft. We gain a lodgement on Formosa. Horycrappo-jima is protected from a counter landing another day. Our transports reach safety at Batan and Vigan.

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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/11/2013 1:51:20 AM   
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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/11/2013 2:49:48 AM   
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Cap'n mandrake: evevahree day he make-ah me raff! He funny man! Hai!

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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/11/2013 3:45:56 AM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		Port Blair: After the aborted landing yesterday, the amphibious group (minus 2 damaged AP's from Nellie attacks) turn around and headed back to Port Blair. They arrived ahead of the surface group also ordered back. JJ had evidently detached a few DD's from the Atago TF. Fortunately a daylight fight. Akikaze sunk. Tawakaze wrecked. Lardner wrecked and one AP hurt pretty good. The landing force does not give up.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Port Blair at 46,58, Range 6,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Akikaze, Shell hits 9, and is sunk
DD Urukaze, Shell hits 1
DD Tawakaze, Shell hits 15, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied Ships
CA Shropshire
CL Ceres, Shell hits 2
CLAA Van Heemskerck
DD Buchanan
DD Lardner, Shell hits 20, heavy fires, heavy damage
AP Barnett
AP President Adams, Shell hits 10, on fire
xAP Durenda
xAP Gandara
xAP Gogra
xAP Hosang
xAK Ikauna
xAP Jalaratna
xAK Karoa
xAK Maldive
xAK Matiana
xAK Pellicula
xAK Shirina, Shell hits 4, on fire
xAK Tanda
xAK Yoma
xAP Jacalope
xAK City of Hankow
xAP Clan Macpherson
xAP Governor
xAP Hadleigh
xAP Varela
xAP Jalakrishna
LSI(L) Empire Battleaxe
xAP Kedah
xAP Slemmestad
xAP Merkur
xAP Taroona
xAP Michael Embiricos

Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Then a big force of Nells. Not sure of the casualties? Maybe rescued troops aboard Shropshire, which is torpedoed.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Port Blair at 46,58

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 30 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M3 Nell x 23

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M3 Nell: 8 damaged

Allied Ships
CL Ceres
CA Sussex
xAP Slemmestad
CA Shropshire, Torpedo hits 1
CLAA Van Heemskerck

Allied ground losses:
26 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

In the afternoon, Shropshire takes another and a Dutch CLAA as well.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Port Blair at 46,58

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 30 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M3 Nell x 18

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M3 Nell: 5 damaged
G3M3 Nell: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
CA Shropshire, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CLAA Van Heemskerck, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage


Elements of 29 Brigade make a big difference although the damage to our combatants is fairly large.

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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/11/2013 3:25:39 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/11/2013 3:58:30 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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quote:

ORIGINAL: zuluhour

I want to hear JJ's reaction when he reads this


Wait, do you think we are being discourteous or something? I don't think they would be offended? Sometimes it seems like they ARE reading it.

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A pox upon Burma - 9/11/2013 4:07:49 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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RE: A pox upon Burma - 9/11/2013 4:12:48 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		Now, some might think a cheap gag about Indian troops and a "call center" to be racist. Not so. Only if we use offensive accents. This was actually the signals company of 50th Indian Para Br.

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RE: A pox upon Burma - 9/11/2013 4:16:01 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		Another FOW question (the concept not the person).

When you get intel on a TF movement direction by mouseover, it pertains to the last air or submarine report and NOT to the orders entered by the WJD player with the last turn, correct?

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RE: A pox upon Burma - 9/11/2013 4:16:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		It looks like he is building a defensive line exactly as the Cap' expected. Now I wonder the state of these forces. Are these defeated forces or has the IJ brought in fresh reinforcements.

I am somewhat surprised that the IJ did not abandon Mandalay sooner and establish this line. Thus I am still suspect the state of these troops.

Although bombing does not produce a lot of casualties in the jungle hexes .. it will produce disruption ... and disruption adjusts AV downward leading to odds that cause retreat.

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RE: A pox upon Burma - 9/11/2013 4:21:57 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Cpl. Jugdish "Sparks" Agarwhal: Roger, Agincourt, theees ees Flodden, Cpl. Agarwhal..oh good golly, Cpl. O'Brien I mean, over..."

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RE: A pox upon Burma - 9/11/2013 4:28:12 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Another FOW question (the concept not the person).

When you get intel on a TF movement direction by mouseover, it pertains to the last air or submarine report and NOT to the orders entered by the WJD player with the last turn, correct?

AFAIK. Often times the mouse-over shows no movement direction.

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RE: A pox upon Burma - 9/11/2013 7:29:38 PM   
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RE: A pox upon Burma - 9/11/2013 8:12:55 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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ORIGINAL: sprior

So, who is middle-aged?





11. You can recall exactly what you were doing when you first heard of the Battle of Flodden

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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/11/2013 11:54:25 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/12/2013 4:13:56 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		***********Near Karenko, Formosa, May 12, 1943(c)*************

Well-tanned IJN officer: Sushi? Miro, you crazy son of bitch. Japan people on Formosa not-ah have-ah money.

Man in fine linen slacks: No, no Ito-san. It's for the Americans. They are the ones with the money. Can you get me the fish?

Well-tanned IJN officer: Miro, you crazy son of bitch, there war on.

Man in fine linen slacks: Look, Ito-san. I'll get you the nets and an ice maker. Tell the crew it's for the Emperor. Besides, those DE's are murder now.

Well-tanned IJN officer: What kind want?

Man in fine linen slacks: Whatever you can get. And we need attractive female sushi chefs.

Well-tanned IJN officer: Japan womans not-ah sushi chefs!

Man in fine linen slacks: They are now. And they need to have big breasts too.

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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/12/2013 4:21:18 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		I looked up the armament on our PT boats. A fully upgraded 77ft Elko has this. Oddly, a 78ft Higgins model has two twin .50's but one less mount for the same total armament. It would still be fun to sink a IJN patrol boat with a 20mm Orelikon.




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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/12/2013 7:45:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		The notations on the maps are killing me :). How about some British accented interpretations of American ship names?

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RE: A pox upon Burma - 9/12/2013 9:36:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		Re: the mouseover of enemy TFs:
The direction of movement is the last move detected last turn, and does not indicate the next hex they are going to this turn unless the path is a straight horizontal or diagonal route. Most movement involving vertical direction change is zig-zag, so if they went horizontal last time they will go diagonal up or down next time.

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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/13/2013 1:24:36 AM   
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ORIGINAL: leehunt27@bloomberg.net

The notations on the maps are killing me :). How about some British accented interpretations of American ship names?


How much trouble do you think I would be in if I did that?

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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/13/2013 1:29:43 AM   
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" Never have so few had so much fun killing so many."

C'mon Capt'n, It's going to have to sting a little. The multi national Yankee Tommy team is putting on a clinic worthy of Monty Python.

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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/13/2013 1:43:34 AM   
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ORIGINAL: sprior


quote:

ORIGINAL: leehunt27@bloomberg.net

The notations on the maps are killing me :). How about some British accented interpretations of American ship names?


How much trouble do you think I would be in if I did that?


Couldn't be any worse than the names US sailors make up on their own......like "Queerbarge"

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RE: Odin, up close and personal - 9/13/2013 9:26:10 PM   
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The full list of 2013 Ig Nobel winners:

Medicine Prize: Masateru Uchiyama, Gi Zhang, Toshihito Hirai, Atsushi Amano, Hisashi Hashuda (Japan), Xiangyuan Jin (China/Japan) and Masanori Niimi (Japan/UK) for assessing the effect of listening to opera on mice heart transplant patients.

Psychology Prize: Laurent Bègue, Oulmann Zerhouni, Baptiste Subra, and Medhi Ourabah, (France), Brad Bushman (USA/UK/, the Netherlands/Poland) for confirming that people who think they are drunk also think they are more attractive.

Joint Prize in Biology and Astronomy: Marie Dacke (Sweden/Australia), Emily Baird, Eric Warrant (Sweden/Australia/Germany], Marcus Byrne (South Africa/UK) and Clarke Scholtz (South Africa), for discovering that when dung beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the milky way.

Safety Engineering Prize: The late Gustano Pizzo (US), for inventing an electro-mechanical system to trap airplane hijackers. The system drops a hijacker through trap doors, seals him into a package, then drops the hijacker through the airplane's specially-installed bomb bay doors through which he is parachuted to the ground where police, having been alerted by radio, await his arrival.

Physics Prize: Alberto Minetti (Italy/UK/Denmark/Switzerland), Yuri Ivanenko (Italy/Russia/France), Germana Cappellini, Francesco lacquaniti (Italy) and Nadia Dominici (Italy/Switzerland), for discovering that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond - if those people and that pond were on the Moon.

Chemistry Prize: Shinsuke Imai, Nobuaki Tsuge, Muneaki Tomotake, Yoshiaki Nagatome, Hidehiko Kumgai (Japan) and Toshiyuki Nagata (Japan/Germany), for discovering that the biochemical process by which onions make people cry is even more complicated than scientists previously realised.

Archaeology Prize: Brian Crandall (US) and Peter Stahl (Canada/US), for observing how the bones of a swallowed dead shrew dissolve inside the human digestive system.

Peace Prize: Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus, for making it illegal to applaud in public, and to the Belarus State Police, for arresting a one-armed man for applauding.

Probability Prize: Bert Tolkamp (UK/the Netherlands), Marie Haskell, Fritha Langford. David Roberts, and Colin Morgan (UK), for making two related discoveries: First, that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely that cow will soon stand up; and second, that once a cow stands up, you cannot easily predict how soon that cow will lie down again.

Public Health Prize: Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana, Chumporn Pongnumkul, Anunt Tonmukayakul, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Krit Komaratal, and Henry Wilde (Thailand), for the medical techniques of penile re-attachment after amputations (often by jealous wives). Techniques which they recommend, except in cases where the amputated penis had been partially eaten by a duck.


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