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

[Cap Mandrake]

Admiral Lord Sprior;

Take the turn first if you want. SG took her laptop to work as punishment because I went to sleep at 7 PM last night and wouldn't watch the 12-12-12 concert with her. I was tired as Hell and all the performers had turkey necks.

I actually got up and went to look in the mirror to see if I look that bad. Phew!

[Cap Mandrake]

Uggh. No time to try to be funny.

[Cap Mandrake]

[:(]

[Cap Mandrake]

**********Pranning***********


Mouseover recon shows a CVE at Beazelbob? Maybe that is Kaga? Either way, we can't wait forever so an amphbious taffy with 16-17Kt transports escorted by a CL-based SCTF is going to sprint across the Celebes Sea and make for Cotobato with a Kiwi Bn and a US Army Tank Bn. P-38's from Ternate and Corsairs from Sidate will try to cover.

Remainder of 1st bn/102nd heading for Jolo by APD and will be followed by some AK's and an LST with suppries.

[Cap Mandrake]

*************Feb. 26, The Empire Strikes Back (sort of)************

Jolo: Rooks rike we have to kick some Imperal booty to get help to Jolo. Jack of all trades Sendai shows up. Apparently, the APD's and their DD escort have finished unloading.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Jolo at 74,90, Range 10,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Sendai
DD Satsuki
DD Minazuki

Allied Ships
PT-176
PT-178
PT-179
PT-183
PT-186, Shell hits 1, and is sunk

Sendai stays around after the sun comes up. Maybe I should have left the SBD's there?


Day Time Surface Combat, near Jolo at 74,90, Range 15,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Sendai
DD Satsuki
DD Minazuki

Allied Ships
PT-176, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
PT-178
PT-179
PT-183

Remember what I said about the need for some top line fighters? Oops. Rooks rike we need some Corsairs.

Morning Air attack on Jolo , at 74,90

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 10 NM, estimated altitude 29,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 37



Allied aircraft
P-40K Warhawk x 42


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40K Warhawk: 13 destroyed

This lost left their Seikos at home

Morning Air attack on Jolo , at 74,90

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 77 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 21 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 4



Allied aircraft
P-40K Warhawk x 9


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

No Allied losses

They brought a boatload of Zeroes too

Morning Air attack on Jolo , at 74,90

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 42 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 33



Allied aircraft
P-40K Warhawk x 6


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40K Warhawk: 4 destroyed

[sprior]

Too sad for words. Back tomorrow.

[Cap Mandrake]

Agreed. Just saw the business in CT. What is wrong with people? Uggh.

[khyberbill]

Yes, I live about 15 miles from Sandy Hook so it hits home. Unfortunately, this sort of thing seems to be happening with increased regularity.

[Cap Mandrake]

Hope the community recovers khyber.

I'm not watching any coverage because I don't want to see the greiving relatives pictures. I don't think that is right.

Everyone hug their kids.

[Cap Mandrake]

Situation Eve. 26th (I imagine..as Rord Admiral Nerson appears to have been kidnapped by the Hopi again..or maybe it ws the Navajo):

The USN/RN (I was supposed to send the RN back to Ceylon but I missed Caradoc [:)]) should be in the Sulawese Sea and could likely make Jolo to drive off Sendai if she does not depart to rearm. I think Sendai was in the western Sulawese yesterday near Tarakan and moved North during the night.

There are many Jap combatants at Palau but they can't reah Jolo in one day.

I'm think of breaking off the CL and the 2 DD's with the Cotobato landing force into a second SCTF to cover the landings at Cotabato.

Jolo will need some replacement aircraft..probably USMC Corsairs.

[Cap Mandrake]

HMS Caradoc in her WWII configuration.

I hate to say it but she is not the most attractive warship to sail the seas.

[BBfanboy]

+1 on the TV news pestering the grieving families and co-workers. They get no comfort from people they don't know telling them how sorry they are.

I know Obama cares but his visit has the appearance of a photo-op because he does not know any of those people personally. He should stay in Washington and work on getting policy agreements on gun education and at least minimal control of access.
Key thing is to teach kids ways to resolve conflicts without using guns. Right now popular culture [TV/movies/games/internet] seems to teach that using a gun is the way to gain control of your life/difficult situation. Sorry to hijack and preach but this stuff needs to be dealt with!

[Cap Mandrake]

We should be careful. Racist stereotypes and juvenile generalizations are old hat for the AAR and are well tolerated but the 2nd Ammendment will get the juices flowing. [;)]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

We should be careful. Racist stereotypes and juvenile generalizations are old hat for the AAR and are well tolerated but the 2nd Ammendment will get the juices flowing. [;)]

Agreed. Don't you think you're riding the ragged edge of disaster by dissing on HMS Caradoc's "rugged" good looks too? [;)]

[BBfanboy]

Wasn't Caradoc one of the old cruisers converted to an AA cruiser? That would give her guns [4" IIR] much less punch against surface ships. Better check!

[khyberbill]

I know Obama cares but his visit has the appearance of a photo-op

I tend to not agree. After he first went to Aurora, CO, he was rather committed to visiting this tragedy. And someone for the sake of an argument could say that Obama felt staying in Washington was more important.

I agree with everyone on the TV. I only found out Obama was in CT while I was looking for Packers game on TV.

Sorry for kidnapping the AAR Cap. Wont happen again (or at least for a few weeks.)

[MightyPaladin]

Too much emotionally and politically charged subject matter. What happened is terrible, but talking about it here won't help and will get the mods angry

Since it doesn't seem that the actual *war* is too forthcoming, how about a webcomic making fun of pokemon?



From XKCD, the bestest nerd webcomic around

I figure there's enough doctor/gamers here to find it amusing/terrifying.

[Cap Mandrake]

Eh...MRSA...what do we care? Methicillin hasn't even been invented yet in 1943(c) and even when it is you know who will probably sell it all on the black market and put baking soda in the bottles.


We have something better! Sulfa powder!

[Crackaces]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Eh...MRSA...what do we care? Methicillin hasn't even been invented yet in 1943(c) and even when it is you know who will probably sell it all on the black market and put baking soda in the bottles.


We have something better! Sulfa powder!

....and we will discover to connection with SJS! [;)] Nobody said life did not incurr risks ..

[Chickenboy]

Of course, "I have nothing to give but my sebum!" just wouldn't ring true with the Brits. Although it *would* be a memorable speech too. Churchill was a genius-how were we to know that blood would ring true in place of some other bodily fluid / paste?

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/nothing_to_offer.png