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

[Chickenboy]

You sank CMs Kyosai and Wakataka and CA Furataka twice during these battles? Big burries.

[princep01]

Well, Mandrake, anyway you count it, the LYB's took a boot in the posterior. Just don't drink the captured saki....it saps essential bodily fluids, you know.

[Cap Mandrake]

********************Jan. 1 , 1943(c)********************


Darwin/Bathurst: Largely uneventful day. Air attacks are gounded again except for a small raid of Bettys over Bathurst which are driven off. Bathurst runway was at 67% yesterday. May be ready today. That will free up the carriers. The tranpsorts at Gove have been drained of their fuel. The Royal Navy SCTF had to go back to Horn Is.


Port Headrand: Hihgly effective ground attack raids. No Jap counterattack.


Changsha: The place has been bombarded 3x daily for 2 mos. I guess there are lots of rodents and shoe leather to eat because the defenders are not ready to give up.

Ground combat at Changsha (82,52)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 79263 troops, 723 guns, 360 vehicles, Assault Value = 2740

Defending force 75216 troops, 468 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2759

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 4

Japanese adjusted assault: 1717

Allied adjusted defense: 5343

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 3 (fort level 4)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
10456 casualties reported
Squads: 159 destroyed, 952 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 44 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 73 disabled
Guns lost 76 (5 destroyed, 71 disabled)
Vehicles lost 68 (2 destroyed, 66 disabled) [X(]


Allied ground losses:
1126 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 195 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 51 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 16 disabled
Guns lost 27 (2 destroyed, 25 disabled)


Assaulting units:
2nd Ind.Mixed Regiment
23rd Tank Regiment
27th Division
58th Infantry Regiment
28th Division
3rd Division
9th Armored Car Co
102nd Infantry Regiment
41st Division
40th Division
51st Recon Regiment
11th Indpt Infantry Regiment
1st Army
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
11th Army
5th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
26th Chinese Corps
73rd Chinese Corps
20th Chinese Corps
37th Chinese Corps
74th Chinese Corps
87th Chinese Corps
53rd Chinese Corps
56th Chinese Corps
5th Construction Regiment
27th Group Army
9th War Area
30th Group Army
1st Artillery Regiment
19th Group Army
57th AT Gun Regiment
7th Artillery Regiment
29th Group Army
17th Chinese Base Force
56th AT Gun Regiment

[sprior]

leaders(+),

Seriously?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

leaders(+),

Seriously?

I think they brought in some imported talent.

[Cap Mandrake]

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[Cap Mandrake]

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[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

You sank CMs Kyosai and Wakataka and CA Furataka twice during these battles? Big burries.

That is a bias toward over-reporting that always creeps in when you start handing out medals...or, as in this case, annual bonuses are based on sinkings.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: princep01

Well, Mandrake, anyway you count it, the LYB's took a boot in the posterior. Just don't drink the captured saki....it saps essential bodily fluids, you know.

Techincally, we haven't captured anything yet...just closed a contract for Bathurst. Well, Dobo, I guess, but that is problematic as JJ took it back. oh wait, there was Saumlaki but there weren't any LYB's there either..just some Anglicans.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

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Good point. Thank you for taking the high ground in this AAR, Cap'n. I've always felt it was beneath you to use the clearly offensive tone of much of the [BRAAACK!!!]...oh bugger. 'Scuse. [:(]

[Cap Mandrake]

Should I be doing something useful? Nah.

[BBfanboy]

Great picture of the area. I especially like how well it shows the big oil slick from sunken ships just off red beach.
Bathurst Island looks pretty rugged - you sure you can squeeze in a golf course there? If you put it between the runways I am cancelling my order for a condo with a golf course view!

[Cap Mandrake]

***************Bathurst Marina Resort Plenary Planning Committee Meeting, Jan 1, 1943(c)**************


Fr. O'Brien: Chief, I'm thinking eco-tourism with cultural atractions thrown in.


Chief Nb*a@chtw*(: What cultural attractions mean?


Fr. O'Brien: Ah, that means unique and interesting traditions held by the Tawi Tawi. Like the dance of the seven virgins, for example.


Chief Nb*a@chtw*(: Ah, we no have 7 virgins any more.


Fr. O'Brien: Darn it Chief! Haven't I warned you folks about pre-marital sex?


Chief Nb*a@chtw*(: That what you call Tawi Tawi cultural attraction.

[sprior]

DU just got offered a part time at the local supermarket. No more pocket money from me!

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: sprior

DU just got offered a part time at the local supermarket. No more pocket money from me!

Good show. Jolly good show!

[princep01]

That, sir, is no oil slick in the water south of Bathurst Island. It is, without doubt, the "mysterious object spotted underwater" so often reported by search pilots, and ridiculed, in turn, by the intel gnomes and geeks that never venture out in daylight. As can be seen, it shows clear characteristics of Flash Gordon's starship.

We want one.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Fr. O'Brien: Darn it Chief! Haven't I warned you folks about pre-marital sex?


Chief Nb*a@chtw*(: That what you call Tawi Tawi cultural attraction.

My God! Your mind is almost as warped as mine -- I love it!
You should consider putting your writing talent and unfettered imagination to work writing a book - something along the line of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", but maybe set in SOPAC in the early 1940s ...

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: sprior

DU just got offered a part time at the local supermarket. No more pocket money from me!

I hope her employment contract specifies that she NOT be paid in Euros ...

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: sprior

DU just got offered a part time at the local supermarket. No more pocket money from me!

I hope her employment contract specifies that she NOT be paid in Euros ...

Nah. It's going to be in ND-New Drachmas. [X(]

[Moondawggie]

ORIGINAL: princep01

That, sir, is no oil slick in the water south of Bathurst Island. It is, without doubt, the "mysterious object spotted underwater" so often reported by search pilots, and ridiculed, in turn, by the intel gnomes and geeks that never venture out in daylight. As can be seen, it shows clear characteristics of Flash Gordon's starship.

We want one.

I agree---but maybe it's a really big Alienware Logo that fell off Mandrake's new computer?