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

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

All sorts coming now about the Falkland's War, now the 30 year rule has expired/

Wow! That is quite a story. The Fench trying to sneak Super Entendards into Argentina via Peru during the war. Hory crap! It sounds like something Milo would do.

[Cap Mandrake]

Pretend I did not read the manual. Will task forces comprised of DD's at CL's with adequate main gun ammo but largely depleted torpedoes stay and fight?

We need to squeeze one more night of naval combat out of our CL's before the BB's take over at Jolo.

[BBfanboy]

Set their sailing orders to "Direct" and "Absolute" and set the patrol zone in the hex you want to cover and they will stay. Somewhere around 30% remaining ammo the commanders might get antsy and bug out - not sure if commander aggression affects this. Going Winchester for torps does not seem to affect their decision much, unless it is a sub TF.

[sprior]

Hurricane and P-40

[sprior]

The future of the Kitchen Sink Airforce?

[sprior]

The future

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

The future

It's Mogli!

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Hurricane and P-40

Beautiful colors on the Hurri. Wish they could do something with the rear wheel, though. It is a serious aesthetic impedance.

[sprior]

Beautiful colors on the Hurri. Wish they could do something with the rear wheel, though

You should tell Sydney Camm. Oh, wait...

[Reg]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Beautiful colors on the Hurri. Wish they could do something with the rear wheel, though

You should tell Sydney Camm. Oh, wait...

At the time of design, it's what everyone else was doing too....

[dcpollay]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Saury is persistent. I'll give him that. He should have gone into radiology like his uncle Morty.

ASW attack near Jolo at 73,88

Japanese Ships
DD Akizuki
CL Naka
DD Kisaragi
DD Teruzuki

Allied Ships
SS Saury

This might be old news by now, but these were ASW attacks. I think JJ found your subs, not vice versa.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
The Fench trying to sneak Super Entendards into Argentina via Peru during the war.

Le douchebags. [:-]

[Chickenboy]

Cap'n and Lord Admiral:

Very aggressive gameplay, you two. You're not quite two years ahead of the historical timeline in the central Philipines adventure. You've given JJ's fleet quite the mauling too. Keep up the good work. [&o]

[Itdepends]

Tail wheel aside the asthetics of the British fighters are far nicer than the US versions. The front of the P40 looks like it's a double chin and the Wildcat? looks tubby.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Itdepends

Tail wheel aside the asthetics of the British fighters are far nicer than the US versions. The front of the P40 looks like it's a double chin and the Wildcat? looks tubby.

Agree on the particulars of the P40 and F4F. However, what's with the asymmetric pendulous goiter on the Hurricane?

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Itdepends

Tail wheel aside the asthetics of the British fighters are far nicer than the US versions. The front of the P40 looks like it's a double chin and the Wildcat? looks tubby.

I think the F4F had a radial air-cooled engine while the Hurricane had an in-line water cooled engine which allowed a bit of tapering at the nose. I know the P40's "chin" was for a big radiator for the in-line water-cooled Allison [and later Rolls-Royce Merlin] engine, but I don't know why the Hurricane and Spitfire didn't need such a huge cooling duct. The P-51 also used the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, but a much developed [high altitude/long range, turbocharged] mark comparted to the P-40 which had a low-altitude version with no turbocharger.

[Cap Mandrake]

**************March 3, 1943(c)*************

Zuiderzee (I zink): USS Sargo has some fun.

Sub attack near Oosthaven at 47,97

Japanese Ships
xAK Atlas Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Kogane Maru
xAK Koto Maru
PB Ikunta Maru

Allied Ships
SS Sargo



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Sub attack near Oosthaven at 47,97

Japanese Ships
PB Choko Maru #2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Kogane Maru
xAK Kokai Maru
PB Ikunta Maru

Allied Ships
SS Sargo

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Submarine attack near Oosthaven at 47,97

Japanese Ships
xAK Atlas Maru, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Sargo



xAK Atlas Maru is sighted by SS Sargo
SS Sargo launches 4 torpedoes

[Cap Mandrake]

Horn Isrand: Sub has been spotted every day for weeks. Someobdy didn't get the memo.

Sub attack near Horn Island at 93,130

Japanese Ships
SS I-2

Allied Ships
xAK Dashing Wave, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
YMS-99

[Cap Mandrake]

Palau: JJ needs to put some fighters over Palau. B-25's from Sorong actually hit something. A morning raid is ineffective. tremendous numbers of ships still around Beazelbob. Hmmm...carrier raid? Nope...that's stupid.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Peleliu at 90,98

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 6


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AMC Akagi Maru
xAK Syunsei Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire

[Cap Mandrake]

Cotobato: We sent the 8th Marine Regt to Cotobato to disembark as the area North and East and West of jolo is crawling with small groups of LYB ships, even one alleged to contain a BB about 160 nm WNW of Jolo. Naturally, they were bound to be spotted. The strike is well escorted and it looks liek they brough in more Vals after the slaughter yesterday. CAP is poor owing to inadquate aviation support and poor supply at Cotabato.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Cotabato at 78,90

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
D3A2 Val x 11
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 12
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 5



Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 23
F4F-4 Wildcat x 8
F4U-1 Corsair x 6


Japanese aircraft losses
D3A2 Val: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
D3A2 Val: 1 destroyed by flak
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 3 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 destroyed

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
xAP Empress ' Australia, Bomb hits 2, on fire
DD Maury


Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled