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

[Cap Mandrake]

Quick...somebody who read the rules exprain this:

They achieved 3:1 but we were not forced to retreat, nor did they take down our forts. How did this happen...or perhaps was M.M. involved?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Quick...somebody who read the rules exprain this:

They achieved 3:1 but we were not forced to retreat, nor did they take down our forts. How did this happen...or perhaps was M.M. involved?

I should have thought you'd have been expelled too. Perhaps next turn (with a shock attack for flavor), Yankee dogs. .

I also noticed comparatively fewer infantry squad losses / disablements in your forces than the attackers, in spite of 3:1 headwinds against you. I can't explain that either...

[Crackaces]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Quick...somebody who read the rules exprain this:

They achieved 3:1 but we were not forced to retreat, nor did they take down our forts. How did this happen...or perhaps was M.M. involved?

I should have thought you'd have been expelled too. Perhaps next turn (with a shock attack for flavor), Yankee dogs. .

I also noticed comparatively fewer infantry squad losses / disablements in your forces than the attackers, in spite of 3:1 headwinds against you. I can't explain that either...

Cap Mandrake has been working hard on those die rolls ... [;)]

[Cap Mandrake]

Yes..here is what I do. I put the dice down on the felt and carefully turn them so the opposite side of the desired number of spots is pointing up and line them up, aiming at the middle of the Come line on the opposite side of the table. Then I press my open palm down deliberately on the dice..hard. I close my eyes and visualize the number as dots. If I see a seven, I scramble dice and start over. When all the liver nodules have lined up properly, I pick up the dice with my thumb and first two fingers and fling them with a quick 75 degree upward flick of the wrist with the aim of landing about 2/3 the way down the opposite Come line.

I find this strategy tends to work like crap...the real kind of crap I mean.

[Cap Mandrake]

Here are the resources we have to throw at this problem.

1) Air Forces at Meekathara, Geraldton and Carnarvon. A bunch of heavies and a goodly number of B-25's. We only have about 20-25 P-38's at best, a few Beaufighters and we could move some Hurricane IIc's to Exmouth, they could reach PH. Also a few F4F's that cant fit on the carriers could go in. The TBF's that cant fit on the carriers could fly from Exmouth.

2) The Carriers. Yorktown, Wasp and Irrustrious in three separate Air Combat TF with AAA at 2900 for Irrustrious and about 3600 for the USN carriers. The air groups are F4F and SBD-heavy. I think we could field about 100 F4F/Sea Hurricane, 19 Albacore, 18 TBF and the rest SBD.

3) 4 BB group 2 days out from PH

5) Repulse as escort for the carriers

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Quick...somebody who read the rules exprain this:

They achieved 3:1 but we were not forced to retreat, nor did they take down our forts. How did this happen...or perhaps was M.M. involved?

IIRC your guys (yah yah, little electronic guys, OK?) invaded from the sea. So, Emperor's minions hold all the hex sides. To quote Chaz Palmentarri's (I have no hope of spelling that name right) character in A Bronx Tale "Youz was ask to leave nicely. Now youz can't leave."

[witpqs]

Further, with all the guys they've brought in they are aiming for the total destruction of your forces there. You need to invite them to the mother of all sea battles and take control of the ocean in that area.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Yes..here is what I do. I put the dice down on the felt and carefully turn them so the opposite side of the desired number of spots is pointing up and line them up, aiming at the middle of the Come line on the opposite side of the table. Then I press my open palm down deliberately on the dice..hard. I close my eyes and visualize the number as dots. If I see a seven, I scramble dice and start over. When all the liver nodules have lined up properly, I pick up the dice with my thumb and first two fingers and fling them with a quick 75 degree upward flick of the wrist with the aim of landing about 2/3 the way down the opposite Come line.

I find this strategy tends to work like crap...the real kind of crap I mean.

I see the problem here. If the come line is on the opposite side of the table from you, you must be playing from the Pit Boss' / dealer's side of the table. They generally frown on that behavior, sir. [:-]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Here are the resources we have to throw at this problem.

1) Air Forces at Meekathara, Geraldton and Carnarvon. A bunch of heavies and a goodly number of B-25's. We only have about 20-25 P-38's at best, a few Beaufighters and we could move some Hurricane IIc's to Exmouth, they could reach PH. Also a few F4F's that cant fit on the carriers could go in. The TBF's that cant fit on the carriers could fly from Exmouth.

2) The Carriers. Yorktown, Wasp and Irrustrious in three separate Air Combat TF with AAA at 2900 for Irrustrious and about 3600 for the USN carriers. The air groups are F4F and SBD-heavy. I think we could field about 100 F4F/Sea Hurricane, 19 Albacore, 18 TBF and the rest SBD.

3) 4 BB group 2 days out from PH

5) Repulse as escort for the carriers

I'd hesitate to recommend using any of your carrier forces to support the PH ground troops, Cap'n. With JJ sitting offshore with carrier forces, he'd relish the opportunity to spring on any carrier forces that were solely attacking ground forces.

Sounds like the forces you have in "1)" above are the only immediately pertinent ones.

How are your little green dudes doing for supply in PH?

[Crackaces]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Yes..here is what I do. I put the dice down on the felt and carefully turn them so the opposite side of the desired number of spots is pointing up and line them up, aiming at the middle of the Come line on the opposite side of the table. Then I press my open palm down deliberately on the dice..hard. I close my eyes and visualize the number as dots. If I see a seven, I scramble dice and start over. When all the liver nodules have lined up properly, I pick up the dice with my thumb and first two fingers and fling them with a quick 75 degree upward flick of the wrist with the aim of landing about 2/3 the way down the opposite Come line.

I find this strategy tends to work like crap...the real kind of crap I mean.

I see the problem here. If the come line is on the opposite side of the table from you, you must be playing from the Pit Boss' / dealer's side of the table. They generally frown on that behavior, sir. [:-]

The come line curves around .. and I am thinking the humor here [correct me if I am wrong] is bouncing the dice off other players stacked bets on and behind the come line on the oposite side.....

I solve this problem by betting the "dark side" [:D] Nothing like don't bets to kill the party .. the only guy screaming when "7 out!"

[Cap Mandrake]

Don't Pass bettors are only slightly less annoying than Star Trek geeks....no wait...they are worse. [:'(]


Probably best not to engage with the carriers. If we lose an uneven exchange we would have most of our offensive options curtailed.

[BrucePowers]

But puppies are cute.

[BrucePowers]

oops, wrong thread[:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

Look, I imagine Admiral Lord SPrior may be a little bit surly when he finds out about the Jap 3:1 attack at Port Hedrand. You see, it was my job to keep the airfield shut down.

I would appreciate it if you chaps don't say anything about it, OK?

[zuluhour]

Perhaps a snap shot of some nice period puppies would do the trick?

[Cap Mandrake]

My tentative plan is to do the turn real quick when it comes in and then send it to him with combat.txt file (with the Port Hedrand attack scrubbed out).

Do you think he will fall for it?

[zuluhour]

Depends, send him the big bottle of Hendricks first.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Admiral Lord SPrior may be a little bit surly

Hmmm...how ever will we be able to tell? [:'(]

[BrucePowers]

That could be a little hard to do[:)][:'(]

[Moondawggie]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Crackaces

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Your "Doctor Grumpy" thought of the day to pull this AAR from Page 2 purgatory.

Some days a patient reminds me of the (dwindling) reasons why I still love this job.


Dr. Grumpy: "Have you had any neck pain?"

Mr. Awesome: "I have no idea."

Dr. Grumpy: "You don't know if you have neck pain?"

Mr. Awesome: "Look, doc, I'm 89. If you pay attention to every ache and pain at my age you become a f****ng hypochondriac."

That is why I ask the patient "how are your daily activites going along .. any pain?" "how is your sleep? any pain where do you usually sleep?" etc .. this gets the pain that interferes with life ..[;)]

Ok back to the war ...

Santa Maria! What were you thinking? Don't ask questions to which you will get an affirmative answer! You will never get out of the room and get home to turn an AE turn.

Better would be the strategy used by the only borderline hot female student in my medical school class. She was obsessive enough to really ask EVERY question on the review of systems but she couldn't tolerate "yes" answers, so she would say to the 82 year old veteran,

"I'm going to ask you a few questions. Just stop me if you think the answer is yes."

Then she would consult her written list and start reading faster than a hockey announcer, "Do you have cough, wheezing, shortness of breath, productive sputum, night sweats, weight loss, appetite change, excessive urination......blah, blah, blah".

The poor guy probably had half the symptoms but couldn't form a word fast enough to answer "yes" and before he could interrupt her, he had forgotten what the question was. It was simultaneously hilarious and sad to watch. She went into academic medicine. I doubt she's hot any more.

[:)] Reminds me of a resident I worked with with I was doing my 3rd year internal med rotation: this guy hated positive answers, too, but he had a different technique: He'd ask people, "Do you have headaches, seizures, weakness, numbness, balance problems, and do you beat your wife?"

"Do you have chest pain, shortness of breath lying down, rapid irregular heartbeat, and do you molest children?

He got nothing but "nos," went into academic medicine, too.