Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[Cap Mandrake]

I have to admit. This Scenario 2 in AE is seriously more challenging for the Allies.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I have to admit. This Scenario 2 in AE is seriously more challenging for the Allies.

Um...yes? [&:] This comes as a surprise-how giving the Japs several divisions and a bunch of other goodies would make the game more challenging?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: sprior

As far as I'm concerned this whole game pivots on capturing the Marianas so we can put the Japanese homeland in B29 range. To do that we have to take the Marshalls.

After the Marianas we can do the Palau and Peleliu from Guam and use them to jump into the PI. Everything we're doing now should be aimed at chewing up JJs forces to make the above easier.

Several other players have testified that it is harder to strat bomb JJ's cities with B-29s in this game versus IRL. There seems to be some dissatisfaction re: B-29's ability to keep up the fight and dish out the hurt in the face of high maintenance requirements, high OPS losses and low replacement numbers.

Tinian may not be the lynchpin you expect....

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: sprior

As far as I'm concerned this whole game pivots on capturing the Marianas so we can put the Japanese homeland in B29 range. To do that we have to take the Marshalls.

After the Marianas we can do the Palau and Peleliu from Guam and use them to jump into the PI. Everything we're doing now should be aimed at chewing up JJs forces to make the above easier.

Several other players have testified that it is harder to strat bomb JJ's cities with B-29s in this game versus IRL. There seems to be some dissatisfaction re: B-29's ability to keep up the fight and dish out the hurt in the face of high maintenance requirements, high OPS losses and low replacement numbers.

Tinian may not be the lynchpin you expect....

And yet there's an effort underway in another thread to tone down Allied 4EB's... [8|]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: sprior

As far as I'm concerned this whole game pivots on capturing the Marianas so we can put the Japanese homeland in B29 range. To do that we have to take the Marshalls.

After the Marianas we can do the Palau and Peleliu from Guam and use them to jump into the PI. Everything we're doing now should be aimed at chewing up JJs forces to make the above easier.

Several other players have testified that it is harder to strat bomb JJ's cities with B-29s in this game versus IRL. There seems to be some dissatisfaction re: B-29's ability to keep up the fight and dish out the hurt in the face of high maintenance requirements, high OPS losses and low replacement numbers.

Tinian may not be the lynchpin you expect....

And yet there's an effort underway in another thread to tone down Allied 4EB's... [8|]

Different focus, I'm afraid-my Argletonian colleague...[:-]

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy



Several other players have testified that it is harder to strat bomb JJ's cities with B-29s in this game versus IRL. There seems to be some dissatisfaction re: B-29's ability to keep up the fight and dish out the hurt in the face of high maintenance requirements, high OPS losses and low replacement numbers.

Tinian may not be the lynchpin you expect....

And yet there's an effort underway in another thread to tone down Allied 4EB's... [8|]

Different focus, I'm afraid-my Argletonian colleague...[:-]

You mean increasing their Service Rating above the current 4 would not impact those things? [:(]

[Cap Mandrake]

We don't get no steenking B-29's until April, 1944. [X(]

Either I will be running a banana plantation here is Southern California or be buried under several 100 ft. of glacial ice by the time we get there. [:)]

I concur with Admiral Lord Sprior's plan to bring the enemy to battle and defeat him. It is quite manly...in an impetuous, laughing at danger sort of manner. The Emperor's troops in Australia seem an obvious target. They have gone one continent too far. They will perish in flame or taste Sheffield steel (or maybe Cleveland steel).

[Cap Mandrake]

By ra way, the idea of using P-39's to sweep over Darwin from Wyndham wont work...too far. Maybe we can scrounge up some P-38's from an authroized reseller.

[erstad]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: witpqs



And yet there's an effort underway in another thread to tone down Allied 4EB's... [8|]

Different focus, I'm afraid-my Argletonian colleague...[:-]

You mean increasing their Service Rating above the current 4 would not impact those things? [:(]

B-29s are service rating 5

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: witpqs



And yet there's an effort underway in another thread to tone down Allied 4EB's... [8|]

Different focus, I'm afraid-my Argletonian colleague...[:-]

You mean increasing their Service Rating above the current 4 would not impact those things? [:(]

No. What I meant was that the argument in the other thread involves multiple seemingly parallel discussions about all the things wrong with heavy bombers. The OP originally opined that perhaps accuracy of defensive firepower from Allied 4EBs may be a bit high. He's probably right. He was quickly deluged with the usual litany of how this is the 'only good weapons platform for the Allies' and blah de blah.

Anyways, it's an argument that we need not spam this thread with. After all, why taint this thread with such non-sequitors, half-baked opinions, hearsay, pointless banter and questionable internet hygeine?...

Wait one....this is Cap_N_Gown's AAR, right? [looks at AAR header]. Oh! Hahahahah.....never mind. Carry on![:D]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

By ra way, the idea of using P-39's to sweep over Darwin from Wyndham wont work...too far. Maybe we can scrounge up some P-38's from an authroized reseller.

Even with drop tanks?

[Itdepends]

ORIGINAL: witpqs
One of my neighbors has this sign at the end of his driveway:

Is that snow on the ground? It looks like the middle of a desert! What's the elevation (a big hill around my way is ......oh........400m above sea level [:D] )

[Cap Mandrake]

********Offices of D,C&H, Spring St., Los Angeles, July 4, 1942******


I. Dunn Cheatham, Esq.: <on the phone>...look, Carmine, it doesn't matter if it is your gig or not, 33rd Aviation Regt is going to San Diego by train and then on to Australia, they are NOT, repeat NOT to embark for Ceylon.

....damnit Carmine, it's for the good of the enterprise, don't argue with me.

....Carmine, this comes from the top.

....No, not the Pope, Mr. M, il capo di capos.

....Look, we sold some P-38's at high margin to the ETO. Your guys can have part of that but we need you to come through on this.

....Good. I will relay to Mr. M your enthusiasm, and good day to you, Carmine. <hangs up, then begins grousing to his sexretary>


Goddamn Dego bastards don't seem to understand Mr. Roosevelt's concept of shared sacrifice.

Angelica: <leans forward to deliver some papers on her desk, her amble brown-skinned bosom spilling out of her v-neck sweater> Yes, Mr. Cheatham.

I. Dunn Cheatham, Esq.: Oh, Angelica, see if they can take me for lunch at the Brown Derby....Nice sweater, by the way....

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Itdepends

Is that snow on the ground? It looks like the middle of a desert! What's the elevation (a big hill around my way is ......oh........400m above sea level [:D] )

About a mile ASL.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

After all, why taint this thread with such non-sequitors, half-baked opinions, hearsay, pointless banter and questionable internet hygeine?...

[:D] Oh golly, for a minute there I thought you were serious! [:D] [;)] [:'(]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

After all, why taint this thread with such non-sequitors, half-baked opinions, hearsay, pointless banter and questionable internet hygeine?...

[:D] Oh golly, for a minute there I thought you were serious! [:D] [;)] [:'(]

Well I was. For a minute. Only. It's hard for me to stay on task longer than one paragraph. [:D]

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

[:D] And the architecture...is it by any chance neuveau tar paper shack?

[:D] It looks like they re-used a realtor's sign. The post is for a chain that they can put across the driveway. Personally I would have Rustoleum'ed the post and spray painted the sign before putting on the letters, but then I have no artistic side.

To be fair, some of the finest estates in the US have a rusty chain across the gravel driveway to keep out Jehova's Witnesses and Federal Revenue Agents.

Here's a larger view of the neighborhood:

[witpqs]

Sorry about the size of that - I would have reduced the image if I had realized.

[Cap Mandrake]

I am somewhat surprised to hear the naked man has a wife.

Also of note, the entrances to the Zombie Apocolypse shelters are quite well hidden.


Arid...Junipers..1 mile ASL.....I am thinking Northern Ariz or Southwestern Colorado. Looks a bit like SW Utah too.

On balance, I am guessing the Jehova's Witnesses didn't have a very fruitful day.

[Cap Mandrake]

Jan 10, 2011


Indicators appear mixed. The Mayan housekeeper is asking for more shifts and complaining about her rent being too expensive. This remains Bearish.

On the other hand, an entrepenuer near me just opened a CUPCAKE STORE. That's it, just cupcakes. [X(] This is either an extremely Bullish indicator of improving retail spending or someone stopped taking their meds and slipped over into the manic phase of bipolar disorder.