Q-Ball
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ORIGINAL: Q-Ball We know Hermes is at Aden, and probably all the other RN CVs as well. They have paid the PP penalties to keep them, so we know they are there. Huh? I'm not sure I understand. British ships don't need to be in Aden for you to forfeit PP by refusing to send them home. They can be anywhere. IE, if the Brit player has all RN carriers in Australia, and gets notice he must send a CVL home or pay 2,000 political points, he can just ignore the demand, keep all those carriers in Australia, and forfeit the 2k PP at month's end. We had search aircraft based at Trivandrum no later than 5/1/42, and we had search aircraft at Exmouth about 2/15/42. So, there is a good chance we would have seen any RN ships in transit from India to Australia after those dates. I don't have the dates in front of me, but 1 RN CV comes in before 2/1, and 2 come in after. We haven't seen them in transit. So, they either have to be a) in the Indian Ocean, or b) sent home. But we know from PP penalties they weren't sent home. So they are somewhere in the IO. Only safe place is Aden. So they are there.
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