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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/11/2015 1:09:19 AM   
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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/13/2015 5:18:48 PM   
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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/13/2015 6:39:26 PM   
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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/13/2015 7:48:01 PM   
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So the toerag's mother decides to update her FB profile pic. her in a pair of bright red knickers and 2 strategically placed St George's flags. It burns, it burns!


Stiff upper lip, mate. Stiff upper lip!

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/13/2015 9:16:55 PM   
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So the toerag's mother decides to update her FB profile pic. her in a pair of bright red knickers and 2 strategically placed St George's flags. It burns, it burns!


Stiff upper lip, mate. Stiff upper lip!


That's not that part that lost its stiffness ...

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/13/2015 9:29:30 PM   
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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/15/2015 2:26:21 PM   
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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/15/2015 2:41:00 PM   
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Samarinda has fallen. Balikpapan appears to be the next target. A foolish staff officer sent some B-17's to Balikpapan..now there are 7-8 disabled birds.
We lost track of the LYB carriers. I think Soryu and Hiryu transited the Java/Sumatra gap and are headed back for Bondo and plumbing repairs.

Australia forces at Rabaul hold another day. The two USN carriers are now South of New and Improved Britain having declined to pursue the retreating IJN toward Truk.

round combat at Rabaul (106,125)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3784 troops, 38 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 117

Defending force 2627 troops, 17 guns, 175 vehicles, Assault Value = 28

Japanese adjusted assault: 43

Allied adjusted defense: 45

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
49 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
47 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
Maizuru 1st SNLF
Maizuru 2nd SNLF

Defending units:
Lark Force
B Coy/NG Rifles
Rabaul Base Force

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/15/2015 2:48:18 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		PI: Still, no landing on Luzon or Mindanao. The last remaining damaged subs have put out to sea. Quite a few ships got out to the east North of Palau. Sending some supplies westward from Midway.


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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/19/2015 2:55:55 AM   
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We find the KB. They headed south along the "west" coast of Sumatra. Well-intentioned dyke diggers launch wave after wave of bombers from Batavia. It's pathetic.
The KB sinks a couple of 3 pt Dutch tankers trying to get out of Sumatra. Quite a waste of Japanese fuel if you ask me. Not only that, as we have all 6 IJN CV's marked in the last 2 days, the USN carriers can make trouble in the South Pacific.


The 2 SNLF units at Rabaul have stopped attacking. We roughed them up with carrier bombers again. The two unrestricted Aus Bn from Sydney are on there way to destroy them

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/20/2015 6:33:10 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		Rhetorical question:

What happens if a Japanese home island base is captured and then recaptured by Japan? Are the industry, oil and refineries destroyed?

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/20/2015 6:57:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		Not necessarily *destroyed*, but likely a number would be destroyed *or* damaged. Both outcomes provide Victory Points. Consult the manual for the breakdown.

There are quite a few HI bases with minimal or no CD guns or organic infantry defense at war's beginning. Check Hokkaido especially.

Thinking (rhetorically, of course) of a little sabotage run, Cap'n?

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/20/2015 7:41:55 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		Well, rhetorically speaking, if their carriers are looking for seashells in the Indian Ocean the Allies need not sit on their rhetorical thumbs.

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/20/2015 7:51:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes, it's occurred to me that their carriers are well out of position. Got somewhere you'd like to bomb?

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/20/2015 8:31:45 PM   
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Yes, it's occurred to me that their carriers are well out of position. Got somewhere you'd like to bomb?



Ummm....Emperor's beach house?

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/20/2015 8:56:02 PM   
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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/20/2015 9:30:56 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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I'd be up for getting bombed at a beach house, count me in.


Great idea! There's a dame named Rita you should meet. She's kinda got big shoulders but has a nice personality. Well, that's what I heard.


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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/21/2015 6:43:03 AM   
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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/22/2015 5:07:49 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Does she have a prominent adam's apple and large hands?


Like on Bugis Street, you mean? No, but her nose is pretty substantial. Face is thin, sort of like Seabiscuit.

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/22/2015 5:13:37 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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It looked like the KB might transit the Java/Sumatra gap so we send out an all volunteer crew on a Dutch minelayer tragically misnamed after a celebrated volcanic explosion. The minefield draws a bust, and the poor minesweeper is finished off by the carrier bombers but the Dutch subs are ordered to concentrate at the Eastern exit of the strait.



Sub attack near Merak at 48,97

Japanese Ships
CV Kaga, Torpedo hits 1
CA Tone
DD Shiranui
DD Kasumi
DD Arare
DD Tanikaze
DD Hamakaze

Allied Ships
SS O19

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/22/2015 5:18:11 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		New and Improved Britain: The LYB's attack again at Rabaul but only after they get pounded with 8 inch guns from a USN crusier. They grow weaker, managing only a 1:2

Ground combat at Rabaul (106,125)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 3673 troops, 38 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 109

Defending force 2600 troops, 16 guns, 175 vehicles, Assault Value = 31

Japanese adjusted assault: 30

Allied adjusted defense: 49

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), fatigue(-)

Japanese ground losses:
115 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
150 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 17 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled)

Assaulting units:
Maizuru 1st SNLF
Maizuru 2nd SNLF

Defending units:
Lark Force
B Coy/NG Rifles
Rabaul Base Force

HMAS Australia will bombard tomorrow. The USN carriers retreat to get a drink and to add uncertainty. Maybe JJ will send another transport convoy to Rabaul and then we can pounce again.

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/22/2015 5:22:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Manado: KNIL holds another day. Pontianak falls and Studebaker not looking so good either.

JJ captures the little island with the unpronounceable name South of Singers.

Very heavy forces ashore at Balikpapan. Fortunately, we got all but one B-17 out.

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/22/2015 5:30:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is mildy diverting. Poor old Thracian, named after an obscure tribe who lived West of the Bosporus and whose chief accomplishment seems to be that they were perpetually getting their asses kicked, is just trying to make Midway, having "escaped" from Hong Kong.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Agrihan at 115,84, Range 17,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Shiratsuyu
DD Shigure
DD Yugure
DD Ariake
AV Kimikawa Maru
xAK Yamahuku Maru
xAK Nippo Maru, Shell hits 1
xAK Monji Maru, Shell hits 2
xAK Kosei Maru #2, Shell hits 1, on fire
xAK Ikoma Maru
xAP Dairen Maru
xAP Hoten Maru
xAP Tsingtao Maru
xAP Taizan Maru
xAP Keihuku Maru
xAP Ussuri Maru
xAP Shanghai Maru
xAP Ukishima Maru

Allied Ships
DM Thracian, Shell hits 2, on fire

Japanese ground losses:
51 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Revenge of the Thracians! That is a BIG convoy! Maybe headed to Rabaul? Hard to tell.

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/22/2015 5:34:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here is a Thracian. he seems to be oriented toward the West so he is probably about to get his ass kicked by the Greeks or the Celts.
I'm going to got out on a limb and predict the women weren't very attractive either.


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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/22/2015 5:36:59 PM   
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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/22/2015 6:28:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		JJ has not attacked Wake yet. We have an AK waiting to take out the F4F's and some President AP's about 3 days out coming to take out the Marines.

We also killed 2 IJN subs poking around Palmyra and Midway after they hit mines.

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/22/2015 6:30:08 PM   
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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/22/2015 6:47:31 PM   
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Here is a Thracian. he seems to be oriented toward the West so he is probably about to get his ass kicked by the Greeks or the Celts.
I'm going to got out on a limb and predict the women weren't very attractive either.




That IS one of the women.

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/22/2015 6:49:57 PM   
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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 1/22/2015 7:01:22 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Here is a Thracian. he seems to be oriented toward the West so he is probably about to get his ass kicked by the Greeks or the Celts.
I'm going to got out on a limb and predict the women weren't very attractive either.




That IS one of the women.


That is such a cheap joke but funnier than Hell.

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