Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki

[FeurerKrieg]

Very impressive. That had to be quite a surprising turn for your opponent to run.

[Cuttlefish]

ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg

Very impressive. That had to be quite a surprising turn for your opponent to run.

Wolffpack's email about the turn: "Now that was a sneaky one. Thought I had enough tripwires out to detect it though. I thought wrong."

[paullus99]

Now, how does he get back?

[Shark7]

Talk about a nice present from your opponant. Finding an unescorted tanker group that late in the game is a real gem. [:D]

I'm sure your opponant scrambled to get revenge.

[Shark7]

ORIGINAL: Cuttlefish

ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg

Very impressive. That had to be quite a surprising turn for your opponent to run.

Wolffpack's email about the turn: "Now that was a sneaky one. Thought I had enough tripwires out to detect it though. I thought wrong."

That is similar to the situation where DivePac88 managed to sneak Repulse and the Dutch cruisers into Kendari on me. Sometimes you just get lucky. [:D]

[mdiehl]

Neat wor again, CF! Nailing AOs is probably one of the only ways left that you could reduce US strategic capability. Unescorted no less!

[EUBanana]

ORIGINAL: Shark7
I'm sure your opponant scrambled to get revenge.

[:D]

The Allies are gonna be pi$$ed now.

Run, Hibiki, run!

[Capt. Harlock]

“Enemy ships closing with us from the east, sir,” responds Miharu.

Inefficiency in the face of the enemy! They were actually coming from the west, going east.

And Sugiyara must be ashamed that one tanker took four torpedoes, while he was only able to hit with two.[;)]

[Marc gto]

beware of allied air power

[Droop21]

Well done [&o]. Let's hope the Hibiki can make it back North safely

[Cuttlefish]

May 6, 1945

Location: 225 miles south-southwest of Marcus Island
Course: North
Attached to: TF 21
Mission: Surface combat
System Damage: 2
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 386

Orders: Return to Ominato

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No one aboard Hibiki knows the phrase “it’s time to get the hell out of Dodge.” Even Lieutenant Miharu, whose English is excellent, would be puzzled if heard it. This is perhaps understandable; though a variation of the phrase was used in the Errol Flynn movie “Dodge City” in 1939 it will not really enter common American idiom for more than ten years, spurred by its use (minus the expletive) in the radio and later the television versions of “Gunsmoke.”

But that is exactly what the Japanese are doing: getting the hell out of Dodge. During the previous day Ikoma’s aircraft had located and sunk most or all of the remaining tankers. Now, with their grim work completed, it is time for the Japanese to head for home.

And swiftly, because the posse is coming. The posse in this case consists of four Essex-class carriers that happened to be at Guam when the attack occurred. The enemy is angry and the carriers are now racing northeast with all their considerable speed.

The Japanese do not know this, not yet, but they have to assume something is coming. Long wakes trail southward as they make all possible speed north. It is a long way towards home across a hostile ocean.

[NormS3]

Please sir, can I have some more?

[&o][&o][&o][&o][&o][&o]

Thanks again for all of your hard and fantastic work, CF!

[Capt. Harlock]

And swiftly, because the posse is coming. The posse in this case consists of four Essex-class carriers that happened to be at Guam when the attack occurred. The enemy is angry and the carriers are now racing northeast with all their considerable speed.

Saddle up, boys! We'll head 'em off at Iwo Jima![:D]

[Marc gto]

Looks like they may have stirred up a hornets nest..

[AcePylut]

Magic 8-Ball says "doom" for the fleet.

[Canoerebel]

I bet most of the Japanese combat TF escapes - sometimes there's nothing harder to do than bring to justice a fast-moving raiding TF.  You know where they are, you think you know where they're going, but it's like swatting at flies:  to often you miss.

[DW]

I know in the past you had said that your AAR was a couple months behind the game.

Are you current with the game now?

[Cuttlefish]

ORIGINAL: DW

I know in the past you had said that your AAR was a couple months behind the game.

Are you current with the game now?

I had at one point fallen eight months behind the game but with my opponent in Iraq the pace of the game has really slowed. I'm now only about a month and a half behind.

[Droop21]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I bet most of the Japanese combat TF escapes - sometimes there's nothing harder to do than bring to justice a fast-moving raiding TF.  You know where they are, you think you know where they're going, but it's like swatting at flies:  to often you miss.

When you're the fly, its more like too often you get hit [;)] However I have good hope for the Hibiki, thoose ignorant American pilots wouldn't see it as a high priority target [:D]

[John 3rd]

Just caught up from my enforced departure CF.  Absolutely delightful Sir.
 
BANZAI!