The great commander Colonel Angus commands the area just north of Baffins Bridge. His HQ is at Shady Thicket.

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Welcome to the madness. If you've read this entire thing may I suggest you consult a local mental health professional?
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Aye. What would that say about ...

<t> Chicken Boy is wise in the ways of the JFB. Listen to his advice. You smacked the Arries around a bit, let's hope you can run away without losing your hide. You have made him pay a high price to get started and kept him at bay longer than history. Hopefully you have a good fall back line because ...

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What is the learning that one can draw from the AE's and AD's trying to vacate Noumea? [;)]
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You think they were vacating? I think they were just entering ...

To get an idea of home big this explosion was. We heard the rumble which sounded like thunder 70 miles away. Some in the DFW metroplex reported their houses shaking 60 to 70 miles away. West is a nice place to stop on your way to Waco or Austin.

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But I have parts older than that. Kidney is going on 53 and liver is somewhere between 56-58, so it would take some high order math to get my true age!<br/>
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I discovered WW II history when I found a book about the battle of Midway when I was 8 or 9. I was ...

<t> I really like wdolson's comments. The US military planners just did not take seriously an air attack at the time. Many were war gaming and preparing for an amphibious landing at Hawaii. The fact that they did not understand the possibility and the stated scenario of an attack in the PI would ...

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So, I decide to read the manual and figure out why all my task forces are going places I don't want them to go and on the first freakin' page it tells me I am going to catch epilepsy becasue I am already doing everything it says not to ...

<t> I will let you know once I have learned it! I got it last summer, read the manual and jumped right in with the Scen 1 as Allies against AI. Wanted to figure out the basics before taking on the Japan economy. First game I played at too high of difficulty and didn't know anything, so I got soundly ...

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OK, what the Hell is this? A Yellow Fever outbreak?


Yikes! I was that color once. It was all over instead of little dots. That makes it better, right?

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You are going to have a very warped Monday.
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My initial thought was Monday wouldn't be different than any other day because ...

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"I can't believe I ate the WHOLE thing!"<br/>
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Well, I can't berieve I read the WHOLE thing! For some odd reason, I stumbled across this AAR and (even more strange) I read all 375 pages. I spent precious hours of my ...