http://www.pacificwar.org.au/JapWarCrim ... rimes.html

What a Japanese player could do with so much supply...[&o]

I believe the Allies can repair, but only 1 point per day at a cost of 1,000 supply.

Let's say you damage oil, refinery capacity and HI in Los Angeles by 75%. That is 1500 oil, 1875 refinery and 615 HI to repair. That would cost almost 4 million in foregone supply to repair!

Hehehehe: "Captured Aircraft Factories convert to Vehicle Factories."

<t> The Allies start with refinery capacity totalling production of 47025 fuel points per day.<br/>
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The usual Japanese conquest removes 20430 of these, leaving the Allied player with 26685 daily production.<br/>
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Of this, Los Angeles constitutes 22500 daily production. The Allied ...

Au contraire. It is potentially a massive amount of supply and fuel the Allied player will lose out on.

<t> Right - so what you do is right at the start you land simultaneously at Port Hueneme (blocking reinforcements from San Luis Obispo), Santa Ana (blocking reinforcements from San Diego) and Los Angeles (which has 0 AV at the start), under cover of KB support.<br/>
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You could use some of the ...

CONUS reinforcements mostly appear at Salt Lake City.

<t> The same holds for Japanese raids on Allied bases with HI. <br/>
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Imagine a surprise invasion of a relatively undefended Los Angeles. 2000 oil centres, 2500 refinery, and 860 HI - that's a lot of Allied production capacity seriously hurt. It will probably be worth triggering CONUS ...

Talk about a suicide mission [:D]

Hang on...so are you telling me that, since we know the distance across a hex is 40 nautical miles, this means the perimeter of a hex in AE is 138.56 nautical miles and the area of a hexagon is 1,385.64 square nautical miles?

Quite right - 5 by 5 referring to the signal strength and the signal clarity, respectively. "Loud and clear" is the better-known equivalent.

<t> The events during and after the meat grinder at Turkey Knob would have been chaotic, to say the least.<br/>
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Not very conducive to conducting accurate and meaningful individual assessments, in my opinion.<br/>
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Suffice it to say that Private Steel, probably still barely 18, made ...

Clearly my source got the ratings ranges wrong, unless the USMC IRAM changed the ranges from those used in WWII.

<t> Hi Canoerebel,<br/>
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I think your initial thesis is probably correct (re the "symbolic and very nice gesture"). Private Steele would not have qualified for the Good Conduct Medal, anyway - he died too soon (I believe it required four years' service back then). I merely used the criteria ...

<t> 1. The ratings are from 1 to 5, with 1 being poorest and 5 being best.<br/>
2. IIRC 1 is "poor", "2" is "below-average", 3 is "average", 4 is "good" and 5 is "excellent".<br/>
3. Pvt Steele maintained perfect ratings for Obedience and Sobriety throughout his service record, which means he had ...

<r> strafe (v.), 1915, "punish, attack, bomb heavily", picked up by British soldiers from German <I><s>[i]</s>strafen<e>[/i]</e></I> "to punish", in slogan <I><s>[i]</s>Gott strafe England<e>[/i]</e></I> "May God punish England," current in Germany c. 1914-16 at the start of the Great War. The word ...

<r> I believe the rounded, streamlined bridge was introduced on the <I><s>[i]</s>Sims<e>[/i]</e></I> class, since it reduced wind resistance and turbulence. <br/>
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However, it did make the destroyers more top-heavy, another reason I believe they changed the <I><s>[i]</s>Fletcher<e>[/i]</e></I ...

<t> As already indicated, the B5N2 Kate had a crew of three - pilot/torpedo operator, observor/navigator/bombardier, and radio-operator/gunner.<br/>
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The pilot aimed and released the torpedo. There was a torpedo-launching sight inside the cockpit, with a further aiming sight on the front ...

That photo is of Admiral Edouard Guillaud, the French Chief of the Defense Staff.