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

[Cap Mandrake]

Pretend I didn't read the Army Field Manual, either. [:)]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I wonder what the corporate culture of PUS industries is like?

Purulent, I'd reckon. Akin to the UAW?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
What model of the Tojo SHOULD JJ have by this point?

IIa gives way to IIb somewhere in mid-late 1943. Few players will produce the IIb, as its strap-on 40mm aerial cannon is...well, let's just say they achieved the low cost contract production.

IIc nominally is available early 1944, but may be pulled forward somewhat depending on your opponent's research commitment to the airframe. It's maybe a slightly better plane than the FM-2 Wildcat, but that's a near analogy.

[Cap Mandrake]

*****************Flag Raising Ceremony, New Edinburgh, Feb 11, 1943(c)**************


Sumburnt man in kilt: In the name of William Wallace and Mary Queen of Scots, I proclaim the reconquest of this fair land, New Scotland!

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
What model of the Tojo SHOULD JJ have by this point?

IIa gives way to IIb somewhere in mid-late 1943. Few players will produce the IIb, as its strap-on 40mm aerial cannon is...well, let's just say they achieved the low cost contract production.

IIc nominally is available early 1944, but may be pulled forward somewhat depending on your opponent's research commitment to the airframe. It's maybe a slightly better plane than the FM-2 Wildcat, but that's a near analogy.

So the IIa is appropriate. What should begin to replace it?

[Cap Mandrake]

Burma: JJ is ready for us over Paoshan.

Morning Air attack on 55th Engineer Regiment, at 65,45 (Paoshan)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3 Zero x 8
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 7



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 7
B-24D Liberator x 9
B-25C Mitchell x 9


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIc Trop: 3 destroyed
B-24D Liberator: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 5 damaged

Then the Hurricane sweep comes in...after the raid. Shit happens.


Morning Air attack on 55th Engineer Regiment, at 65,45 (Paoshan)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 5 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 1 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3 Zero x 7
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 1



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 3


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3 Zero: 1 destroyed
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed

[Cap Mandrake]

Is 55th Engineer Regt at Paoshan composed of combat engineers or are these Koreans in diapers?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
What model of the Tojo SHOULD JJ have by this point?

IIa gives way to IIb somewhere in mid-late 1943. Few players will produce the IIb, as its strap-on 40mm aerial cannon is...well, let's just say they achieved the low cost contract production.

IIc nominally is available early 1944, but may be pulled forward somewhat depending on your opponent's research commitment to the airframe. It's maybe a slightly better plane than the FM-2 Wildcat, but that's a near analogy.

So the IIa is appropriate. What should begin to replace it?

From the Tojo line? Probably the IIc, but not for some time from now in WWII(c). They could, of course, upgrade away from the Tojo pathway to other 1e fighter airframes. But until the deployment of the Frank, the IJAAF doesn't have much choice in the matter.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Oops...yes..knew that. What is the guy in the back called? [:D]


No Brokeback Mountain jokes either.

That would be rear guard (or rearguard); or campaign manager; or even attorney.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Oops...yes..knew that. What is the guy in the back called? [:D]


No Brokeback Mountain jokes either.

That would be rear guard (or rearguard); or campaign manager; or even attorney.

Attorney, Yes! That is the word I was looking for.

[Gridley380]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Oh, goodness no. The Japanese Empire can produce resources via its unicorn-powered factories on gumdrop lane. Fairy princesses (alright, so they're in kabuki) help convert fuel from oil.

Ah, that's how our glorious leader intends to make us oil independent! I thought the unicorns only printed free money and allowed healthcare without doctors.

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Oops...yes..knew that. What is the guy in the back called? [:D]

If he's far enough back, he's called a REMF.

Congrats on liberating New Scotland from the French. Er... LYB's.

This post may be offensive to some readers. They are welcome to verbally harass me, though normally they won't say anything worth responding to.

[Argos]

Point - First - your snake spotter
Slack - second - your screamers
Tail End Charlie - lion bait

I got a good laugh confirming I didn't have my terms screwed up - apparently the Special Warfare Training School at Fort Bragg, NC is referred to by some as John Wayne High School...

[sprior]

Fairy princesses

Oh my God, they're using RAF PoWs?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Fairy princesses

Oh my God, they're using RAF PoWs?

Damn! Incoming message and I left the rotor at home.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Oops...yes..knew that. What is the guy in the back called? [:D]


No Brokeback Mountain jokes either.

That would be rear guard (or rearguard); or campaign manager; or even attorney.

Really? I thought since vanguard means at the front, sternguard would be at the aft end of the line. Y'know - like the doorman at the popular club you tried to get into. [;)]

[CaptDave]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

So I take SG and the little girls out to Creverand National Forest, "The Land of Many Uses" (..mostly pot growing) for a hike. The sign on the trailhead warns of rattlers and mountian lions. I happen to know they aren't bluffing so SG is assigned point and I will bring up the van. 300 yds in SG and the littlest one barely miss stepping on a coiled up rattler. So much for point duties, eh?

There is much screaming and wailing but we decide to push on. I take point and SG is assinged the job of scanning the bushes for mountian lion ambushes. We make it without further attack and manage to skirt about 40 acres of poison oak. It was a blast. [:D]

Didn't you give them any sticks to hit together to scare the mountain lions away? [Old movie reference, for the benefit of you youngsters on the forum -- although it was remade in 1998.]

[Cap Mandrake]

****************New Edinburgh Flag Raising Ceremony, New Edinburgh, Feb. 11, 1943(c)**********************


Monsier Montchamp: Bon jour , monsier, I am Monsier Montchamp, Governor General of French Caledonia. I have been governor general du Chad for 28 years.


Sunburnt man in kilt: Sod off!*




* Is this what an angry man in a kilt would say?

[Cap Mandrake]

..

[Cap Mandrake]

My herb garden is finally thriving. I now have about 400 kg of mint leaves.

I have two major options. Moroccan cooking or Mojitos. SG made the deicsion. What do you think happend?


NOTE: I already took 300 kg to the office and the Hispanic chicas went nuts for the Hierba Buena.

[BBfanboy]

I can see it all now - you have a large clear bag of green leaves and an overeager vice cop spots you taking it out of your vehicle. Surveillance, wiretaps and computer tracking follows. They are trying to find out more about the WITP-AE Cartel ... [:D]

BTW - SE Asian cuisine uses a lot of fresh mint - you could probably sell to the local Vietnamese market and become an agricultural entrepreneur.