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ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

You guys have some good ones. I've done some doozies myself (having Marines land on a dot hex on the way to the invasion hex was good, plus all manner of retirement allowed errors, you name it). The old Flying magazine had a good column "I Learned About Flying From That," and they probably still do. It was a collection of mishaps and near mishaps told in the first person.

One thing I'd like to see is WITP 2 be a bit more idiot proof, more along the lines of "I'd like TF A to run interference for these aphib TFs, you, Mr. Game, figure out the details," with popups once in a while in the form of a paper clip you want to twist into a pretzel: "Are you sure you want to run that DD TF on full speed from Pearl to Cape Town?"; "yes, dammit, and don't ask me again."
Cheers,
CC

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Yet another GreyJoy georgraphical gem today: Mollucches.

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ORIGINAL: Fallschirmjager

I know someone who put 12 brand new shiny late 1930s model USN DD's into a TF and was going to sail them to Sydney from PH to aid in convoy protection. His plan is pretty good as he knows that they will have enough fuel if he puts them on cruise speed. Well this idiot puts them on full speed instead. They burn up all their fuel about 25 hexes NE of Suva and begin to collect system damage. He routes them to Suva and loads up a AO and two more DD at PH to meet the TF and refuel it. 9 hexes out of PH (two turns) the tanker takes 3 torpedoes and promptly sinks. He returns the DD's to PH and loads up another tanker and adds six more DD's to protect this one ship. He is hell bent of saving his TF no matter the cost. He then sends this to meet the TF in mid ocean.
The game goes several more turns. Later he checks out the situation and to his horror sees that his oiler TF was set to retirement allowed. It meet the out of fuel TF but did not refuel them and then sailed away. So he spends two more turns getting the two to finally meet and refueled. Only trouble is he has put so many DD's into the oiler TF that they have sucked away almost half of the precious fuel. The 12 DD's in the damaged TF cannot fully refuel and won't be able to make it back to PH. So he races the oiler TF back to PH only to have this TF run out of fuel too. It limps back the final two hexes and takes slight damage to all ships. He then loads up two oilers this time with fuel and 5 DD's
The damaged DD TF meanwhile is about 12 hexes out of PH but only has one more turn of fuel left. He stops it dead in the water and puts it on remain on station. Brilliant he thinks. He then moves the oiler TF out to meet the damaged TF. Unfortunatly 12 damaged DDs this close to PH attract the attention of IJN submarines. Two I-Boats attack and because of the damaged and low speed managed to sink three of the DDs
Finally the two TFs link up and refuel and as one big TF crawl back to PH.
So he is down three good DDs, has 17 damaged ones and 1 damaged oiler and 1 sunk oiler. The entire operation takes almost 5 weeks.
This brilliant Admiral received a swift promotion to a weather station in Nova Scotia.

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ORIGINAL: DOCUP

Fresh off the presses for this one guys. I just told my GFU that AE was more important than her needing to get on facebook. I know its not a game playing mistake but glad she had to go to work.

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