<r> Derfel-san has returned from shore leave, and we're back at it.<br/>
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As KB continues to withdraw to the west (under the watchful eyes of USN Catalinas), the IJA continues its drive into Malaya. Meanwhile, most of my shipping has now made it to semi-sensible positions, so I can begin to ...

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Flashback, 1941...<br/>
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I think we should've left the Germans alone after they bombed Pearl Harbor...
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Well, some people did entertain the idea that the planes ...

I'm glad they raised the age. I'm facing the prospect of being called up and deployed by the reserves, and if that happens I'll look forward to telling some of the local blowhards to sign up and come with me if they want to "support the troops".

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I think they're making VERY LONG-TERM plans for the day that Matrix/2by3 decides to make the code open-source. If that day ever comes.
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<r> KB heads west, licking its wounds and counting the empty bunks in flight quarters. Its ships are pretty much untouched but the bomber crews that bought it yesterday won't be easily replaced. Meanwhile the Enterprise and Saratoga will soon be joined by the Yorktown. We're a far way from being ...

<r> The Second Battle of Pearl Harbor plays out very differently than the first one. Part of KB attempts another port attack against Pearl, but the Zeros don't come along for escort. My P-40s prove that they're not entirely useless by taking a heavy toll on KB's bomber pilots. "Great Hawaiian Turkey ...

<r> The 12th finds me still reeling under Derfel's world-wide attack. I'm trying to scrape together some combat forces that will allow me at least to slow him down here and there, but there just isn't much on the shelf at the moment, and he has advanced so rapidly through the SRA that those forces I ...

<r> December 11 is a relatively slower turn, although the slaughter of merchantment continues in the Philippine Sea. <br/>

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<r> More of the same on December 10th.<br/>
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(For the sake of space and something like brevity, I'm omitting things like the ongoing slaughter of merchantmen fleeing from Manila, but don't think that means that it hasn't been happening.)<br/>

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<r> Incredibly, the Lexington remained afloat after getting pounded on the 8th. That wasn't to last, unfortunately, but at least she soaked up a few more of KB's sortie points. Elsewhere, Derfel's assault raged on.<br/>

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<r> Day 2 of the war was also a bad one for me, as Lexington blunders into KB's path and pays for it. Ah well; from now on when I play the Allies in unhistorical starts, I'm going to insist on the right to move my CV TFs to some out of the way location on turn 1. Meanwhile in the United States ...

<r> Admiral Derfel-san is on R&R at the moment, so I'll post a few updates on the first week of the war. The interesting thing about the Pearl Harbor raid I posted above is the way that the damage control efforts played out. The WeeVee, reported hit by 9 torpedoes, suffered some severe floatation ...

I have some minor league programming skills (C, C++) that I'd be happy to throw in to the mix on a project like this. I doubt I'd be up to any heavy lifting, but I could probably find the occasional bug and perhaps submit a useful patch or two.

Aircraftmen Bruce, Bruce, Bruce (squatting) and Leading Aircraftman Bruce (wearing shirt), working on a Hurri.

Hey, the lying and the insults are what make this AAR so much fun to read! And they post the combat reports accurately enough (I think), so anyone who needs to gather data should be OK.

Milne Bay / Gili Gili.

Wow.

My new mantra, which I will chant for 10 minutes before each turn of my PBEM game: I will wait for Corsairs. I will wait for Corsairs. I will wait for Corsairs. I will wait for Corsairs.

<r> CHS with the extended map and version 1.60. Let the games begin!<br/>
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After reading all sorts of posts by Japanese players whose Kates refused to use torpedoes at Pearl Harbor (and seeing much the same myself, in my AI games), my PBEM experience gets off to a very different start ...

Oh, this is where we go to pad our post count -- thanks, everyone!

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Well also the military did play with concentrated microwaves to destroy targets. Don't think it worked out too well though. IIRC targeting was spotty and range was short.<br/>
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Of course this all happened in the 60's so ingore all this ...