Fear and Loathing in the Pacific (3x3 MPBEM)

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

OK - to keep this straight: Halsey has Saratoga, Lexington, Indomitable, Illustrious, and Furious vs. Zuikaku, Shokaku, and Kaga (in Banda Sea)

Almost right..its Formidable..not Furious

Whoops - had it in my notes correctly, but mistyped it!! [8|]

[Cap Mandrake]

Ok..I need to go water the grass..now that I am slaved to it's needs. I will try to post more from work..if Matrix isn't blocked again by the filter (it was last week) [:)]

[veji1]

god,this game is a nightmare for the japanese... You will be in Tokyo by christmas 1943...

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Ok..I need to go water the grass..now that I am slaved to it's needs. I will try to post more from work..if Matrix isn't blocked again by the filter (it was last week) [:)]

So did you actually finish the turf??? (Last we heard, everyone had run out of steam...)

[Cap Mandrake]

So did you actually finish the turf??? (Last we heard, everyone had run out of steam...)

Yes..I hosed everything down, went to bed..got up at dawn and went out to get another crew in the morning. The first lot were nowhere to be found, even though I bought lunch.[:)] Took us about 5 hrs the second day..and it had "cooled" down to 93. [:'(]

If I can get my daughter to show me how to upload a pic to the comp...I will post a pic.

[Nemo121]

Major victory for the Allies then. This AAR is like a Japanese player's worst nightmare.

[Moondawggie]

Wow---the after action report for today should be a lulu! [X(]

Multicarrier coodinated strikes like that didn't become routine for the USN until 1944 in the real world. It take guts to launch SBDs 220 miles out from the target.

I wonder what the white stuff from the B-25 was? [;)]

[BrucePowers]

Can't wait to here what the final tally is on the IJN carriers.  Midway in the Coral Sea.  Are the RN carriers going to make it?

[veji1]

Thing is in this game things go so fast that if you get a Midway like battle in 42 ( august here ), well then the war will go very fast.... With BB and CV losses like these that early I would have seppuku'd my self already...

[Wellard]

Just found this thread last night and want to say that it really grabbed me.The LYBs are certainly taking a pounding and must surely be near breaking point( and that's without any appearance from the much vaunted USMC)

[Cap Mandrake]

"LYB"'s ?? Lybians ??[:)]

[rtrapasso]

Looking like confirmed sunk: Akagi
Probable: Zuikaku, Kaga, Ryujo
Damaged (possible): Shokaku, Shoho
[X(] [X(] [X(]

[Grotius]

Oh man. So what's the current tally? It sounds like you've sunk several IJN carriers, and you haven't lost any.

[Cap Mandrake]

Estimates.

[Cap Mandrake]

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[Cap Mandrake]

******Home of Sec. Hull, Georgetown, Aug. 17, 07:45**********


<phone rings>

Sec Hull: Yes?

3rd Undersecretary for Latin America, E Jameson, Duty Officer: Sir, its Jameson at State. I am sorry to bother you on a Sunday morning, but I have a very odd situation here.

Sec Hull: Ah..perhaps the noises in my office? I shouldn't worry about that, its my parakeet, Noodles, she always does that if I am late coming in.

Jameson: No sir. Its not that. The Swiss Ambassador is here with two aides. He asks if he could please meet with you immediately on an urgent matter of historic import.

Sec Hull: .....I'll be right down.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

******Home of Sec. Hull, Georgetown, Aug. 17, 07:45**********


<phone rings>

Sec Hull: Yes?

3rd Undersecretary for Latin America, E Jameson, Duty Officer: Sir, its Jameson at State. I am sorry to bother you on a Sunday morning, but I have a very odd situation here.

Sec Hull: Ah..perhaps the noises in my office? I shouldn't worry about that, its my parakeet, Noodles, she always does that if I am late coming in.

Jameson: No sir. Its not that. The Swiss Ambassador is here with two aides. He asks if he could please meet with you immediately on an urgent matter of historic import.

Sec Hull: .....I'll be right down.

Sounds like surrender negotiations!![X(] [X(] [X(]

[Wellard]

LYBs= Little Yellow B***ards(Can also be SLYBees for Sneaky etc)
And no,no say it aint so that they want to surrender just as I find the thread.[X(]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Wellard

LYBs= Little Yellow B***ards(Can also be SLYBees for Sneaky etc)
And no,no say it aint so that they want to surrender just as I find the thread.[X(]

Time will tell. Perhaps this is just high level negotiations through a 3rd party regarding sea urchin roe! [:'(]

[Wellard]

Well it is very possible that Milo will negotiate something for himself out of this but the historical implications of a Pacific War ending this early are immense
Think about it the majority of the USN as well as many of the troops that would have been commited to the campaign would now be available for deployment to the ETO. D-Day could be brought forward to 1943(I can just see the USMC leading the charge at Omaha)and the whole thing could be over in the West by early '44.We grab Berlin long before the Russians and move East(because FDRs Yalta rollover for Uncle Joe doesn't happen).Cold War boundaries are drawn between East and West Poland and we have the bomb as well as all those Nazi Rocket scientists(Guess that means we win)
Britain/Australia and our gallant Dutch allies having borne the brunt of the fighting till now can claim to have won the war in the Pacific by sheer bloody mindedness so no giving up the Empire in '48