Fear and Loathing in the Pacific (3x3 MPBEM)

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

If it were me, I'd go with option#4. Longer range is about the only advantage the Japs retain...

... and more LBA advantage closer to their bases than to yours.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Terminus

If it were me, I'd go with option#4. Longer range is about the only advantage the Japs retain...

... and more LBA advantage closer to their bases than to yours.

Right..that is why the title is "In Harm's Way..." [:)]

If there are 60 operable Bettys at Kendari AND the weather stays good AND the AI decides to attack the carriers without first attacking the ships that will unload at Koepang AND take all the zeroes along AND defeat the CAP AND get past the 3800-4200 AAA pts for each TF...then it could be a bad day for the Allies.

The Jap carriers are no triffle either. They sent 80+ Kates to sink the Oglala.

But the garrison at Koepang is just ready to crack. A bombing offensive (3 d maybe) on the ground units or perhaps one more big naval bombardment (the last one destroyed the morale of 251 Brig) may just win the day for the Japs..then we would have 30,000 troops rooting for grubs in the jungle.

It could go either way.

My prediction: The carriers go back to Kendari and the Jap LBA attacks the 10th Brig TF unloading at Koepang. De Ruyter and two Dutch DD's are with the TF as RTA (Royal Torpedo Attractors).

We shall see. [8D]

[Moondawggie]

Are you sure the Jap carriers aren't heading all the way back to Truk to deliver a load of tinned sea-urchin eggs they recently picked up in mid-ocean from some "missing allied AKs" currently under temporary contract to M&M enterprises? [;)]

If so, springing Milo out of jail a few turns ago may have been the best strategic move HQ could have made to relieve Koepang...

[Cap Mandrake]

No doubt about it. Milo is vital to the war effort.


Kendari launches a raid on the transports at Koepang...as predicted...but the RNN does not have to serve as Torpedo Attractors..the Japs send only 3 Sallys???? It seems they must be behind on repair jobs at Kendari Aerodrome. The carriers are back at Kendari for a drink. I dont think they saw us coming.

The telegrapher at Koepang apparently has dyslexia

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Never heard of the USS Shangri La? That's because it isn't a ship. Its the name FDR gave the new Presidential retreat (July '42)  in the Catoctins.  Ike late renamed it "Camp David"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David

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**************RNN Seaplane Base, Bali*****************************

Lt. Van Kooten: Sir, I have a report here from a village leader in SE Bali.

Capt. Block: Yes?

Lt. Van Kooten: He reports Professor Meade is living on the old Rhyland Plantation.

Capt Block: I thought she was in Flores. Is he sure?

Lt. Van Kooten: Yes, apparently so, they know her well from her previous work here. There is something else.

Capt. Block: I'm listening.

Lt. Van Kooten: Well, they report she is living with a tall white man who smokes a "funny" pipe. Even more odd....they feel the union must be cursed as they have six, hairy monkey children.

Capt Block: Bah. Sound slike too much rice beer to me. Still we had better bump this up to ABDA.

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Why the noyve of 'em!

Mid august '42 and we haven't had a carrier on carrier battle yet. [:)]. Before it was us who refused to give battle..now they are running around looking for seams in our coverage.

[Knavey]

Doesn't look like its shaping up to be a fair fight to me.  If they sail too close to that long range LBA, its going to look like the surface of the moon on thier flight decks.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Knavey

Doesn't look like its shaping up to be a fair fight to me.  If they sail too close to that long range LBA, its going to look like the surface of the moon on thier flight decks.

 
The surface of the moon is 200 feet underwater? [&:]

[Knavey]

You don't seriously believe those moon landings do you?  Of course everyone knows the moon is made out of CHEESE!  [:D]

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[Terminus]

TeeHee...

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Confidence is a good thing....right?

In a complex brew of chemicals, one gains ascendancy. A neuron fires, which excites a group of nearby neurons, which stimulate a whole network of cells. More chemicals pass back and forth until this activity becomes a conscious thought. The thought does battle with other thoughts until a course of action is chosen. Thousands of miles away, another brew of chemicals begins the same process. Decisions made independently, yet nearly simultneously, set in motion the greatest cataclysm of the War in the Pacific.