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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/6/2012 7:18:59 PM   
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NoPac:  Full KB sighted south of Anchorage.  Annette Island falls. BBs Mutsu and Yamashiro are in a TF that sinks an xAK near Kodiak.  My best guess is that Steve was caught by surprise at the lack of opposition and how deep he was able to penetrate into the Gulf of Alaska.  He wants to expand on this, but it's taking time to bring up reinforcements from Japan proper.  Just a guess on this, but it would account for the massive fleet power employed here and his failure to take Coal Harbor when it was there for the plucking.  The USA has roughly 300 fighters in the Seattle area.  Perhaps 100 are schedule to withdraw in the next 30 days, but I'm building a PP reserve so that I can pay to keep them if needed.

CenPac:  One USN combat TF is parked and stationary off the northwestern side of New Guinea.  The second, which at one point was between Yap and Babeldaob, has retired uneventfully to the NE and will rendezvous with an oiler tomorrow (this oiler is between Truk and Saipan).  Steve has lots of holes in his patrol arcs.  He may catch and punish my ships, but I'm looking at options about where to try to use the two TFs.  After refueling, the second might even raid towards southern Japan or Okinawa.  :)

SoPac/SWPac: Steve doesn't seem to be making any push in this region.  A USN oiler TF was sighted by a patrol plane south of Suva with 3/3 detection reported.  Otherwise, no push yet out from Rabaul.

Oz/India:  18th UK Division will be deployed from Colombo to Oz.  9th Oz Division, newly arrived at Aden, will deploy to Karachi.

Eastern DEI:  Betties from Ambon put a torp in CL DeRuyter, which was patroling near Koepang.  I think one of the USN carriers will retire to Perth to replenish.  The second will join the RN CV and CVL near Cocos.  Steve doesn't have enough on Java to break through yet.  This is another instance of that window after Japan's first breakout moves, then having to send the ships back to get second waves.

Burma:  The Japanese take Pegu, but not in overwhelming strength.  I may make a small stand at Rangoon and Toungoo.

China:  Steve is using bombers to slow the Chinese army that roughed up his troops outside Nanking (spelling?), but they'll make the base before his army can arrive and do any mischief.  The Chinese have 1800 AV at the base with 2300 AV forward one hex.  More are in the woods to the west, guarding the road to Sian.

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/6/2012 10:38:08 PM   
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NoPac:  The KB remains posted south of Anchorage.  Her strike aircraft even flew a mission against Kodiak's airfield, which seems a profligate and unnecessary use of that asset.  Steve is very carfully attending to things in the Anchorage area, but I don't have anything to strike back with in the area.  Warspite flags the closest combat TF, which is moving north from the San Fran area to be available "just in case."

CenPac:  Steve's patrols have now sighted both Allied combat TFs (one north of western New Guinea, the other northwest of Truk).  This should now have his full attention, which is the best I can hope for at this point:  get him to watching the back and side doors while my ships begin to retire.

Elsewhere:  Nothing major happening at the moment.

Strategic Analysis:  Steve pushed forward hard and made good progress in the DEI and the Gulf of Alaska, but has recently slowed.  The Allies continue to hold Koepang.  More importantly, western Sumatra and Port Blair are in Allied hands.  India isn't really threatened at all right now.  Oz is threatened on the western coast, but the east side is presently safe as Steve hasn't moved forward from Rabaul.  SoPac and CenPac are quiet.  He's making progress in Burma, but not rapidly.  He really hasn't accomplished anything in China and has gotten his nose bloodied a couple of times there.  That leaves NoPac as his signal accomplishment to this point...but NoPac means nothing unless he actually comes for the West Coast (unlikely) or is preparing to take the bases needed to engage in a prolonged and major strategic bombing campaign of West Coast industry from the bases he has or will take in Canada.  That's the only thing that makes sense at this point.

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/8/2012 3:34:13 PM   
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Reading the Tea Leaves:  Steve is mired in the mud of getting his "second wave" troops forward, I think.  But I am having a heckuva time trying to figure out where he's going to hit.  All indications are that he's concentrating in NoPac, but that doesn't make sense, because too many of his divisions are committed at Luzon and in Singapore.  He can't be aiming to invade the West Coast (the notion of which is crazy, but hey, it's a crazy game). Since the KB has been committed for weeks up north, far from a variety of major strategic targets, perhaps he's preparing to hit Hawaii.  I do know that he isn't setting himself up to strike India, at least any time soon.  Oz is still a possibility.  I dunno.

NoPac:  KB remains parked south of Anchorage flying silly missions against ports and airfields that don't matter.

CenPac:  One TF is retiring slowly east along the north coast of New Guinea.  The other is juking northwest towards Marcus, testing the waters to see if a raid towards southern Japan is a possibility.  Steve might have detailed a Mini KB or two to hunt down these guys, but they are expendable even though I haven't mentioned that to them in their orders.

DEI:  One USN carrier has retired towards Perth.  The other plus the RN CV and CVL are in the vicinity of Cocos Island.  I'm not sure I've ever had my carriers so dispersed (York and Sara are widely separated in CenPac waters).  But at the moment I like this arrangement.

Philippines:  SigInt that Imperial Guards is on marus bound for Lingayen.  What the heck?  I think this unit was in Malaya (I need to check back through my records).

Malaya:  Still no cross-channel move on Singers.

China:  An elaborate dance is going on around Nanking (or whatever the heck the city east of Sian might be named).  I'm trying to get a feel for the enemy's strength before I seek another isolated unit or two to attack.

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/8/2012 3:48:52 PM   
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That leaves NoPac as his signal accomplishment to this point...but NoPac means nothing unless he actually comes for the West Coast (unlikely) or is preparing to take the bases needed to engage in a prolonged and major strategic bombing campaign of West Coast industry from the bases he has or will take in Canada. That's the only thing that makes sense at this point.

Reading the Tea Leaves:  Steve is mired in the mud of getting his "second wave" troops forward, I think.  But I am having a heckuva time trying to figure out where he's going to hit.  All indications are that he's concentrating in NoPac, but that doesn't make sense, because too many of his divisions are committed at Luzon and in Singapore.  He can't be aiming to invade the West Coast (the notion of which is crazy, but hey, it's a crazy game). Since the KB has been committed for weeks up north, far from a variety of major strategic targets, perhaps he's preparing to hit Hawaii.  I do know that he isn't setting himself up to strike India, at least any time soon.  Oz is still a possibility.  I dunno.



I think you say it all right here. He's not showing any other intentions. He's keeping the KB there. He must be doing something up there, right?

Why not aim some of the 'expendables' up north a bit, see what you find en route and try to give some troops swimming lessons?

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/8/2012 3:55:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's a delicate balance.  Sending good stuff into the "teeth of the hurricane" sometimes makes sense, but usually it doesn't.  I know much of what he has in NoPac and where they are, so there's no need in committing valuable capital ships up that way right now.

Here's the thing:  He's taking an awfully long time if his objective is to engage the continental USA in strategic bombing.  If that was his objective, he should've taken Coal Harbor weeks ago and already been getting things under way.  He's taking long enough that the anemic Allied fighter situation won't be nearly as anemic by the time he can finally get things going.  An actual invasion of the West Coast, on the other hand, would be totally nuts...but I'm still preparing for the possibility.  Forts at Las Vegas just went to level one.  That's a first for me in AE (and accomplished because a Marine 'chutes battalion has been posted there against the slim chance of a paratroop assault at some point in the unlikely future).  How many players have ever built forts at Las Vegas?  But if he was going to invade West Coast, he'd need most of his divisions.  Posting them in Luzon and Malaya suggests no-go for this.

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/8/2012 5:56:19 PM   
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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/8/2012 6:26:29 PM   
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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/8/2012 6:29:09 PM   
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I once bet a grand on a pair of kings there. I don't need to tell you the result. Bout all I ever want to have to do with Los Vegas-ever again... If the Japanese invade it in my game, they can have it.


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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/8/2012 7:51:37 PM   
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I once bet a grand on a pair of kings there. I don't need to tell you the result. Bout all I ever want to have to do with Los Vegas-ever again... If the Japanese invade it in my game, they can have it.


Second Best Hand Syndrome, a distant cousin to Sudden Carrier Loss Syndrome.


Second only to "Bad Beat Syndrome"

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/8/2012 8:08:25 PM   
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Singapore and India:  The Japanese haven't crossed the causeway.  In my game vs. Q-Ball, where he came for India, he crossed around January 21 (but ahead of that he was already clearing out western Sumatra).  In my game with Chez, in which he didn't come for India, he crossed on January 11.  As stated earlier, I am pretty sure that Steve isn't coming for India given his current dispositions.  I've decided to try to keep this theater "safe" as long as possible.  An Indian CD unit about to arrive at Diego Garcia is being re-routed to Cocos Island.  Singapore, a the key to India, gets a new commander.  I spent 150 PP to replace Percival with Christion, who has good numbers.  I consolidated a few units and replaced at least two other sub-par commanders.  The Allied AV in the base increased from 937 to 1041.  Supply is good.  The Allies should be able to hold here for awhile, which helps me feel good about India in the short term. 

DEI:  Japanese are invading Wyndam with a tank unit.

NoPac:  Same old thing:  lots of ships, lots of SigInt about units coming to various bases here.  This is the focus of the activity in the game.

CenPac:  The combat TF sniffing near Marcus doesn't report being sighted, so she'll slide past and make for southern Japan or vicinity.

Subs:  USN subs have made quite a few hits the past three days - mainly around Luzon and off the Canadian coast.

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/9/2012 1:30:06 AM   
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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/9/2012 8:32:44 PM   
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Another good day for the Allies, though at this point in the war any day in which Japan doesn't score a knockout punch while the Allies do get a few licks in has to be deemed a success.

NoPac:  A USN sub west of Attu claims a troop-laden AK.  KB still parked near Anchorage flying missions against that base (???).  Warspite is leading a TF that will try to protect Coal Harbor as long as the KB is confirmed well to the north.  CH's AV up to 105.  Yorktown is stationed off the West Coast, where she can contribute her aircraft to defend West Coast bases in the event of an emergency.

CenPac:  One combat TF will be sliding between Iwo and Japan, testing enemy preparedness.  The other is still parked just of the New Guinea Coast.  Saratoga is near Christmas Island, steaming slowly NE.  Unless something changes my mind, she'll eventually team up with Yorktown, but right now she was acting as the hammer to protect any deep incursions agains the Line Islands.

Eastern DEI:  Lexington refueled at Perth and is steaming WNW.  Enterprise and the RN CVs are straddling Cocos Island to guard against a "smash and dash" incursion against that outpost, which currently has 78 AV.  Steve's efforts in Java have been stymied by small roadblocks at each good defensive positon.  The Allies are weak here, but he hasn't brought the means to punch through yet.

Philippines:  Quiet.  Steve stripped off one roughed-up division from Clark, leaving two to handle that siege.  SigInt continues to show multiple marus bringing in Imperial Guards from Malaya.  USN subs score some hits in this region.

Singapore:  Still no siege yet.

Burma:  A Japanese attack at Rangoon repulsed easily.  The Allies are weak here, too, but once again Steve doesn't have enough at hand to really take advantage.

China: The Chinese have roughly 5,000 AV at or adjacent to Nanyang.  Large enemy stacks (10 units and six units) are nearby.  I want to see what Steve has before I decide on my course of action.

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/10/2012 2:54:55 AM   
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Mis-using KB to bomb an impotent port?? Using his first seven weeks of precious landing bonus to take some far north bases and not be in position to begin strategic bombing from them?
Seems like he is totally focused on the VP for owning these small bases? Meanwhile the big strategic targets are not yet taken!
It may take you a while to boot them out from the North but you should be able to move elsewhere in the meantime.

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/10/2012 10:40:49 AM   
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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/10/2012 11:33:21 AM   
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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/10/2012 5:44:34 PM   
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Meybe he's read abook about the Yukon Gold run and wants to start diggin'?

Ah yes - gold - strategic material for Japanese dental work ...

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/10/2012 9:42:27 PM   
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PH is an experienced and very capable player.  I seriously doubt he's doing anything ridiculous, so what's going on in NoPac at the moment probably makes sense within his overall scheme.  I have just about decided that he's going to focus on NoPac (building bases and perhaps strat bombing of the USA) along with a major commitment to Oz (with stategic bombing given a key role there, too) or Hawaii (less likely, but not impossible).  I'm increasingly making little adjustments to my plans and dispositions on this hunch.  While he could switch off and take a stab for India, he'd to do alot of reconfigurng, which would take a great deal of time.

NoPac: Warspite TF will visit Coal Harbor tonight.  I lost sight of the KB this turn, so I might only have one day clear.  There are Japanese combat and transport vessels to the NW of CH, so perhaps something is up here.

CenPac:  The USN TF clears the line of islands between Iwo and Japan proper.  I haven't selected a target yet, but it could range from Luzon to Formosa to Okinawa to southern Japan.  An oiler is trailing to help with refueling.  The other USN combat TF remains stationary north of New Guinea.  No signs of detection for either.

SoPac:  Japan is landing at Shortlands.  A mixed Aussie/US combat TF will arrive there tonight.

Oz/DEI:  Did I mention that Japan landed two tank units at Wyndham, taking the base yesterday?  Another landing today at a dot hex to the NE (true) of Darwin.  Allied combat TFs have picked off an xAK and two PBs in the past two days, with one American DD going under.  18th UK Div. is enroute to Oz.  If I continue to develop my hunch that India is safe but Oz isn't, the Aussie Div. enroute from Aden to Karachi will be re-routed to Oz.

Singapore:  No move across the causeway yet.


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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/10/2012 10:58:34 PM   
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PH is an experienced and very capable player.  I seriously doubt he's doing anything ridiculous, so what's going on in NoPac at the moment probably makes sense within his overall scheme.  I have just about decided that he's going to focus on NoPac (building bases and perhaps strat bombing of the USA) along with a major commitment to Oz (with stategic bombing given a key role there, too) or Hawaii (less likely, but not impossible).  I'm increasingly making little adjustments to my plans and dispositions on this hunch.  While he could switch off and take a stab for India, he'd to do alot of reconfigurng, which would take a great deal of time.

NoPac: Warspite TF will visit Coal Harbor tonight.  I lost sight of the KB this turn, so I might only have one day clear.  There are Japanese combat and transport vessels to the NW of CH, so perhaps something is up here.

CenPac:  The USN TF clears the line of islands between Iwo and Japan proper.  I haven't selected a target yet, but it could range from Luzon to Formosa to Okinawa to southern Japan.  An oiler is trailing to help with refueling.  The other USN combat TF remains stationary north of New Guinea.  No signs of detection for either.

SoPac:  Japan is landing at Shortlands.  A mixed Aussie/US combat TF will arrive there tonight.

Oz/DEI:  Did I mention that Japan landed two tank units at Wyndham, taking the base yesterday?  Another landing today at a dot hex to the NE (true) of Darwin.  Allied combat TFs have picked off an xAK and two PBs in the past two days, with one American DD going under.  18th UK Div. is enroute to Oz.  If I continue to develop my hunch that India is safe but Oz isn't, the Aussie Div. enroute from Aden to Karachi will be re-routed to Oz.

Singapore:  No move across the causeway yet.




Yep, you may be right about Oz. Too late for India now. Regardless of what else they do I think every Japanese player has to commit some force to occupy Northern Australia. It is just to close to their oil to leave it be. And I a beginning to think that the best Allied answer to Japan in scen #2 is to focus on the oil.


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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/11/2012 3:41:33 PM   
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It has been a while since I played Allies in this time frame. Is it possible he has his eye on a specific date in which you have a lot of air units withdraw before pushing further in NoPac? Is it possible an operational pause for this reason would have an advantage for him? I'm probably off base here, but just seeing this from your point of view I can't help but think something is missing. I can't wait to find out what it is!

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/11/2012 3:54:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		lomri....as one who plays the Allies exclusively, I can answer your question regarding the air withdrawal timing issue. No. The Allies do not have to withdraw significant AC units at this point in the game. LAte Spring/Early Summer, yes they do. However, I do not think this is why PJH is attacking in the northern Pacific.

As CR says, that reasoning is currently not clear. Like you, I an anxious to know why that is the chosen strategy or if it is merely a major feint.

Time will tell.

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/11/2012 4:01:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have four squadrons of West Coast P-39s (80 fighters) due for withdrawal in 15 days.  That's a large number of top-line defensive airacraft (yes, you read that right - in early 1942, the P-39 preforms very well in a defensive role).  I'm sort of hording political points so that I can try to keep some or all of these squadrons on the map.  I'll know better if I can afford to do so once I find out the PP penatly for failure to withdraw.

Right now, the Allies probably have 400 fighters on the West Coast, a number which can be supplemented immediately by Yorktown's squadron (and soon by Saratoga's).  If Steve waits much longer, I don't think he can win an air battle over the USA.  He'll do damage, but his losses would be very high.  I'm basing this on my experience with Q-Ball in which we had a very long, sustained air war campaign in India.  In that match, his bombers and fighters were flying at closer range than they will be in this game, so his losses might be even higher.

I'm about to begin shifting RAF fighters from India to Australia, based upon my current assessment that the danger posed to Oz is much great and much more proxmite than that to India.

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/11/2012 10:51:33 PM   
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While I would be concerned about the Japanese getting VPs up there, I just don't see them gaining air superiority over the Pac NW. I'm anxious to see if PH does it, but I am dubious myself. There are alot of restricted aircraft on the West Coast

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/11/2012 11:02:21 PM   
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I have four squadrons of West Coast P-39s (80 fighters) due for withdrawal in 15 days.  That's a large number of top-line defensive airacraft (yes, you read that right - in early 1942, the P-39 preforms very well in a defensive role).  I'm sort of hording political points so that I can try to keep some or all of these squadrons on the map.  I'll know better if I can afford to do so once I find out the PP penatly for failure to withdraw.

Right now, the Allies probably have 400 fighters on the West Coast, a number which can be supplemented immediately by Yorktown's squadron (and soon by Saratoga's).  If Steve waits much longer, I don't think he can win an air battle over the USA.  He'll do damage, but his losses would be very high.  I'm basing this on my experience with Q-Ball in which we had a very long, sustained air war campaign in India.  In that match, his bombers and fighters were flying at closer range than they will be in this game, so his losses might be even higher.

I'm about to begin shifting RAF fighters from India to Australia, based upon my current assessment that the danger posed to Oz is much great and much more proxmite than that to India.



15PP per squadron per day. So basically you will be running a negative PP flow until you remove them. The reality is that with heavy combat you will be short on planes not squadrons. Are the planes lost if you withdraw them?

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/11/2012 11:56:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		If Steve does engage in a strat bombing campaign against the West Coast, I'm sure it will be an all-out effort.

In that event, the "heat will be on" in that theater and is likely to be considerably reduced elsewhere.  So it might be worthwhile to spend PP to keep some of those "scheduled to be withdrawn" fighter squadrons on map until I can bring in fighters from other theaters.

I am considering pulling many of the fighter squadrons out of Hawaii to move them to the West Coast.  Hawaii isn't a game winner.  West Coast might be.

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/12/2012 8:32:45 PM   
Canoerebel


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Status: offline 		My opponent has totally vanished from sight since Saturday.  I'm assuming it's the usual culprit (work).  I'll just lay low until he returns.

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/13/2012 1:14:08 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

My opponent has totally vanished from sight since Saturday.  I'm assuming it's the usual culprit (work).  I'll just lay low until he returns.


Don't feel singled out; I'm in the same boat.

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/13/2012 2:33:17 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Q-Ball


quote:

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

My opponent has totally vanished from sight since Saturday.  I'm assuming it's the usual culprit (work).  I'll just lay low until he returns.


Don't feel singled out; I'm in the same boat.


No I havn't, still on deck, just been working-up my AAR today.


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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/13/2012 4:06:29 AM   
Q-Ball


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ORIGINAL: DivePac88


quote:

ORIGINAL: Q-Ball


quote:

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

My opponent has totally vanished from sight since Saturday.  I'm assuming it's the usual culprit (work).  I'll just lay low until he returns.


Don't feel singled out; I'm in the same boat.


No I havn't, still on deck, just been working-up my AAR today.



No Des, not talking about you....I have a game going vs. PH as well as Dan, and haven't heard from him since Saturday. I figure you're working on Dec 8 turn which takes awhile......particularly when your PH attack isn't the best

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/13/2012 3:33:26 PM   
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Edited to Strike This Post: After posting this, I returned to PHs "Member Profile" and it correctly lists his most recent posts. So whatever caused it to be out of date earlier today has now been rectified somehow....

Here's an oddity.  I went to Panzerjaeger's "Member Profile" page today to see when he last logged on.  Oddly, it shows that his most recent post was in...2009!  Now, that aint right!  After all, he started this new AAR just a couple of months ago.  So I figured there must be something weird with the way the "Member Profile" information is working, but when I checked my own it accurately listed my most recent posts through today.  So...why is it that PH's Member Profile doesn't go past 2009?

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RE: War and Peas - Hortlund (J) vs. Canoe (A) - 6/13/2012 3:43:48 PM   
adsoul64


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Status: offline 		I see his last post as 6/10/2012 2:39:20 PM. Could you have searched for a different forum? Just an idea

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