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

[Chickenboy]

How 'bout an OOB checkup?

5th ID? Imperial Guards? 14th ID? What other first line divisions have you beaten on down there? Dunno.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

How 'bout an OOB checkup?

5th ID? Imperial Guards? 14th ID? What other first line divisions have you beaten on down there? Dunno.

That is actually a good question. Maybe Admiral Lord SPior's secretary wrote it down...oh wait...she got fired.

[Cap Mandrake]

Here is what I have so far (from pg. 263 on scanning for blue combat reports and ignoring all the other....erm...stuff)

7th tank (wyndham)

5th Amphbious Brigade (Broome)

Port Hedland

5th Division
24th Infantry Regiment
6th Guards Division
66th Infantry Group
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
56th Engineer Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
4th Infantry Regiment
4th Ind. Engineer Regiment
65th Brigade
16th Army (Q)

Sorong

4th Tank Regt

Darwin

4th Engineer Co
21st Ind.Mixed Brigade
38th/A Division
18th Tank Regiment
38th/B Division

There was a whole division at Katherine too...havent found it yet.

[Chickenboy]

Of course it's a good question / observation. Do you think I'd populate this thread with nonsensical observations and pedantic rubbish?

5th Division is a quality unit-maybe the best ID in the IJ OOB, no doubt. That stings.

6th Guards is a product of scenario 2 and a midling decent ID.

Be interesting to see where 38th/C is too. My guess is he's evacuated that remnant to the home islands for rebuilding after these other two "A and B" are liquidated.

65th Brigade is a nice unit-about 1.5 regiments worth (some 220-ish) of AV.

The balance of the units you've identified there (except for the one mystery / unfound division at Katherine-evacuated?) are smallish or supportish-units, certainly not deal breakers.

Upshot: A body blow in N. Australia to the IJA. There's still a sizeable OOB ahead of you-much moreso than you're bringing to the Philipines party on land. Beware his ability to stack LCUs against you on his interior lines. Your big advantage is naval interdiction of his counteroffensive.

[Cap Mandrake]

No, the remainder of 38th Div was at Katherine, along with the entire 20th Div. They are wandering the desert looking for brains.

Katherine

20th Division
38th/C Division

[Cap Mandrake]

Units trapped on Dobo. 15K IJA troops were lost at sea landing at Dobo. Not sure if they were part of these units.

16th Division
67th Infantry Group
2nd Raiding Regiment
17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Fiji

2nd Tank DIVISION as I recall, plus some infantry.

[bradfordkay]

ORIGINAL: sprior

And the contents...

I am wondering what the establishment personnel is doing listed on the menu (just before the perfunctory acclaim for the titular head of state)?

Cap... is the Mayan housekeeper still in your employ? Did she show up for work today?

[Cap Mandrake]

El doctor Mandrake no esta aqui. La senora Mandrake no esta aqui tampoco. Todos los gringos se fueron.

Gracias a Popul Vuh!

Ahorra, soy la reina de la casa.

VIVA CHICHEN ITZA!

[Cap Mandrake]

Los aviones destruido el 28 de Febrero. Hay muchas Tonios y Zeroes! Gracias a Popul Vuh

[Cap Mandrake]

Los aeropuertos que ya existen en la region central de las Islas Filipinas.

[Cap Mandrake]

OK, I'm back. Sorry about the insurrection. I just went out to breakfast and when I come back it's like a Mayan calender party. They picked my Anaheim pepper plant bare and the Tequila is gone. The Tapatio is gone too.

The leaves just turned colors here recently. Because of the climate, most of the native trees don't have a fall show so landscapers have to plant specimen trees to get that effect. One of the gated communities around here has a beautiful dispaly of brilliant orange and red crepe myrtle. I think they put up the gate to keep the Mayans out but they forgot to tell the Aztecs about the fall color thing. So there is this crew out there, presumably being paid by the HOA, chopping off the branches of the crepe myrtle trees, leaving behind bare brances. Gracias a Kukuklan!

[Cap Mandrake]

*************BMW dealership with free latte (You KNOW you are in trouble if they have free latte)***************

FAM: So I had to jump the car and the HAL 2000 says "excessive battery discharge".

BMW guy: Probably the battery but we will check the HAL 2000 with the TWIN HAL 2000 we have here.

FAM: You have a TWIN HAL 2000? How do you put up with the thing?

BMW guy: Sir?

FAM: Never mind. How much for the battery? <winces>

BMW guy: $640

FAM: Holy Kukuklan! I need a battery not a NASA fuel cell.

BMW guy: Well, here is the good news. You bought the preventive maintenance contract so we can replace your wiper blades for free.

FAM: SPLENDID! And you will reprogram the computer to accept the new blades?

BMW guy: <Awkward pause> Oh, I get it, haha.

[Cap Mandrake]

I had to cancel the case of St. Emillion grand crus I ordered for Admiral Lord Sprior. [:D]

[sprior]

****************** Local Supermarket this am ***************

Me: This place is full of retarded arseholes.
Mem-sahib: They can hear you, you know

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I had to cancel the case of St. Emillion grand crus I ordered for Admiral Lord Sprior. [:D]

I won't forget.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

****************** Local Supermarket this am ***************

Me: This place is full of retarded arseholes.
Mem-sahib: They can hear you, you know

[:D] That's why we need Mem-sahibs. To keep from getting into fights. A few more years and you will be the crazy old guy that shows up at town council meetings and rants about the neighbor's dog crapping on his lawn.

[Cap Mandrake]

The email announcing the turn is in but not the turn. It's the Hopi taunting us. Right now Rod Admirar Nerson is probably buried to this neck with rattlesnakes all about.

"Right, now change that garrison unit at Rabaul to "rest".....no.....not "reserve" you idiot....err.....I mean...please change it Mr. Squatting Rabbit...."

[Cap Mandrake]

The Newport Beach Tea Party

Every Christmas season, the City of Newport Beach has a Christmas boat parade where boat and yacht owners put Christmas displays on their boats and everyone does a slow crawl around the harbor showing off. This would normally be a hundred boats or more well lit up. Almost all the homes on the harbor put up fantastic light displays. It is really something to see, especially from one of the boats. Commercial operators charter boats for $50 a head. Restaurants fill up. The city charges admission for some. It is a serious financial boost for the city.


This year the city council passed a law imposing a $1.50 per sq foot annual dock fee. For some of the homes this might be $1500. For most it is 400-500 more than than the eisxting fee of about $100. The City claims they need the money to meet EPA rules. Maybe. Even so, the homewoners aren't buying it. Keep in mind some of these homes are worth $30M plus and most are $1-4M in value.

The dock owners started a boycot on both boats and home lighting. there were perhaps a dozen boats well lit up this year. That is an 85% reduction. Only 1 in 4 homes was lit up. It was an amazingly effective non violent protest. They didn't have to go out on the street and get their heads bashed in with truncheons. They simply spent less money on Christmas lights. The parade runs nightly for about a week. The word is out. The city must certainly ahve taken it in the shorts.

The rich fight back [:D]

[sprior]

The rich fight back

My heart pumps purple pig piss

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

The rich fight back

My heart pumps purple pig piss

Is this on the 4th rotor?