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

[modrow]

Gentlemen,

Shouldn't the subject rather be something like

"Allied TF misbehaviour ?"

anyway ?

Just my 2cts

Hartwig

[sprior]

In an attempt to cheer myself up here are the IJNs major unit losses so far:

[sprior]

And ours:

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

"Kab" Calloway is in command of the North Carolina taffy. He may need the witness protection program too.

In fairness, the DD's in the force are virtually out of ammo.

Dude...Cab needs some serious inspirational lift. May I inquire why you have an SCTF commander with a 35 rating here? What's his aggression and naval ratings? "Naught"?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Alfred

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

"Kab" Calloway is in command of the North Carolina taffy. He may need the witness protection program too.

In fairness, the DD's in the force are virtually out of ammo.

Good thing you didn't not commence any action against the North Carolina skipper.

Section 6.3.5 of the manual comments on what causes a TF to retreat from combat. They retreat when a single ship in the TF is down to less than 1/3 of normal main gun ammo left. Almost certainly, one of the DDs is the culprit.

Alfred

Yes, but were they out of ammo before engaging in the previous action or after engaging more recently. In any case, Alfred, it's a bad idea-IMO-to leave an underskilled Captain in a place of such import.

[Alfred]

Ah, but think of the dramatic possibilities in the forthcoming film currently being scripted by Cap Mandrake. For example, the skipper of the North Carolina wakes up in the morning and notices a white feather on his forehead.

• who placed the white feather
• how did they gain access
• will the officer entrusted with the investigation into who is the culprit, suffer a conflict of interest

Alfred

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior
In an attempt to cheer myself up here are the IJNs major unit losses so far:

Here are the problems with that....Kongo I think still lives because a sub took a shot at her North of the Lesser Sundas and Kaga was identified in the carrier group that attacked on the 12th. Soryu is quite possible. Kirishima was hit pretty badly so I doubt she would have been sent back on the 12th...but it might be Hyuga.

[Cap Mandrake]

I think Kab Calloway was chosen for his dancing ability.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Alfred

Ah, but think of the dramatic possibilities in the forthcoming film currently being scripted by Cap Mandrake. For example, the skipper of the North Carolina wakes up in the morning and notices a white feather on his forehead.

• who placed the white feather
• how did they gain access
• will the officer entrusted with the investigation into who is the culprit, suffer a conflict of interest

Alfred

And is it the same rascal that has been breaking into the ship's store and stealing all the strawberries?

[Cap Mandrake]

Ever wonder what an 18 inch round does to an AK with rusting rivets?

[Cap Mandrake]

Yorktown and Illustrious were able to escape owing to their superior speed over Kirishima which was likely further slowed by a torp from an Albacore yesterday.


Cleverly, we have steered JJ into an asymmetrical conflict.[:)] There are no naval air attacks except for some Hudsons from Geraldton which go after Atago but miss.

[Cap Mandrake]

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[Cap Mandrake]

At times like these it is well to remember the sagacity of that T-shirt.

We don't have a drinking problem.

We drink. We fall down. No problem.


Now...we need to fix up Yorktown, get all 3 fast USN BB's to Geraldton, repopulate the air groups, (which are mostly intact), bomb the stuffing out of the Japs at PH, continue to suppress Broome and Wyndham, rest the troops at PH and somehow try to prevent Jap resupply of PH.

We will go back to PH in about two weeks with Wasp, Yorktown and Illustrious, a new vanilla patch and a bunch of supply and we will WIN, damnit, as God is our witness.

[sprior]

Cleverly, we have steered JJ into an asymmetrical conflict

It was deliberate, right?

[Cap Mandrake]

How do we prevent the resupply/reinforcement of PH in the interim?

Until we have the carriers ready, I can see these options.

1) Land based air from Meekathara, Carnavon and (possibly) Exmouth. Exmouth will reach level 2 before the return of the carriers. Carnavon should be 3-4. There is already a naval attack-trained B-25 squadron at Meekathara. There is also a B-17 squadron with moderate naval attack skill. We can call in USAAF pilots from across the realm with naval attack skill.

2) Submarines.

3) Mines..ehh

4) PT boats opearting from Exmouth. That will piss them off.

5) The threat of carriers.

6) The threat of surface groups sprinting in from the West.

7) Port Headland airfield will NOT be rebuilt, Morelia boys or not.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Cleverly, we have steered JJ into an asymmetrical conflict

It was deliberate, right?

Why..yes...now that I think about it...of course! Think of their hubris. They will have terminal victory disease. We can't lose!

[sprior]

I think Exmouth would be a good base for some torpedo bombers, force them to escort everything in.

Boats we got. Perth is a good base for them too.

Mines, schmines

I like pissing them off, it must be our turn to do that by now.

Got any thing we can make look like carriers whilst we patch up the ones we do have?

Sprinting but only with shiny new ships in harm's way.

Let's see how they react. They obviously knew we were coming, which is fine, but now we have them reacting to us - which is a Good Thing. I think we hurt them pretty bad.

[Cap Mandrake]

What do you think about assaulting Corruna Downs by air. We can't get substantial supply in that way but we may be able to take the hex next to PH as an emergency "tactical redeployment" route. Also, if we were able to drive the Japs off the road to Corruna, we could redeploy the engineers to Corruna from PH and build up a level one airfield.

As for carrier subterfuge, we do have Long Island and Copahee. Put soem F4F's and TBF's aboard and they start to look like carriers. They could putt around near Carnavon and allow themselves to be spotted.

[Cap Mandrake]

Exmouth would indeed be a good spot for Beauforts but it needs to be level 2 and have an air HQ.

Here are USAAF naval attack trained pilots. It will take a week or so to get them to the groups in Oz.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Cleverly, we have steered JJ into an asymmetrical conflict.[:)]

Damn brilliant, man! Good on you! Clearly your brilliant gameplay is on display here. From my uneducated perspective, it looked like a real dog's breakfast at work here. Shows you what I know, eh? Again, Jolly good work, mate. Jolly, jolly good.