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

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
I'll find the little tormentor out in back..stiff..with his eyes bulging out.

Nah. Not from Jabaneros. Can you grow Sildenafil?

Well, maybe I could get some samples from the cute Sildenafil reps at work. How would you get a rabbit to eat one though?

[Walloc]

Liquify it, and inject it with a syringe into the tomato u got ur eyes on for tomorrow?

I mean the Sildenafil, not the cute rep.

[sprior]

Looks like it's our turn in the barrel.

Ground combat at Prome (55,50)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 19791 troops, 316 guns, 1438 vehicles, Assault Value = 930

Defending force 5284 troops, 114 guns, 70 vehicles, Assault Value = 10

Japanese adjusted assault: 2029

Allied adjusted defense: 4

Japanese assault odds: 507 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
3387 casualties reported
Squads: 397 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 81 destroyed, 114 disabled
Engineers: 41 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 63 (63 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 35 (21 destroyed, 14 disabled)
Units retreated 1

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
19th Tank Regiment
1st Tank Division
2nd Tank Division
2nd RTA/B Division
15th Army
55th Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
9th Australian Division

So now that's 3 tank divisions identified in Burma:

Morning Air attack on Guards Tank Division, at 59,45 (Shwebo)

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Allied aircraft
Vengeance I x 64

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
26 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Looks like it's our turn in the barrel.

Yes indeed. I don't think Mr. Curtin is going to be very happy. It seems the Imperial Japanese Army is not dead yet. A multi-continental dose of Emperor Brand Kool-aide was distributed today.

[Cap Mandrake]

St. Louis (the ship, not the saint) and friends are still 80 miles away from their assigned patrol box near Batan Is., ******* around with a Jap sub....


ASW attack near Calayan at 82,71

Japanese Ships
SS I-159, hits 3

Allied Ships
DD LaVallette
CL St. Louis
DD Lansdowne
DD Clark
DD Carmick

When....Murasame (the WJD destroyer not the violet-tinted castle) shows up at Batan. Is. First up, an ASW group.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Batan Island at 85,70, Range 12,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Murasame

Allied Ships
SC-701, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
AM Bellechasse, Shell hits 3, on fire

Murasame bores in on her goal. Fortunately for us, all the shooting going on over by Bellchase raises the alarm and USS Lang protects her sheep, although badly damaged in the process. Could have been worse.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Batan Island at 85,70, Range 11,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Murasame

Allied Ships
DD Lang, Shell hits 7, heavy fires
DM Sicard
AP McCawley
AK Oberon
AK Castor
xAP Am. Packer
xAP Aloe
xAK Lulworth Hill
xAK Nicholas van Vonn

[Cap Mandrake]

The SCTF protecting the carriers. This could have been worse too but Queen Beatrix is going to be very unhappy. I tried to plot an unpredictable route but the WJD, they fool us..they show up.


Sub attack near Taytay at 76,82

Japanese Ships
SS I-172, hits 6

Allied Ships
DD Kortenaer, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
DD Woodworth

[Cap Mandrake]

What was the other thing Mr. Curtin is going to be upset about?

This. The crevah rittah baastards sneak another 15K troops into the Lingayen area...and...at the very same time....a low level staff flunkie switches the bulk of 7th Aus Div to move mode to march on San Fernando. Shit rearry hit-ah fan. 4th FA was also in march mode. What can you say but sheeee-ite! If 1/3rd of 7th Aus had not accidentally landed at San Fernando this would nto have happened. 100% chance for more carnage at Lingayen tomorrow as JJ will follow up their attack....oh wait, never mind...there is nobody left! [X(][X(] How many KT was the yield on this device?! This imperils Iba as well. Hory crap!

Ground combat at Lingayen (79,75)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 19929 troops, 185 guns, 14 vehicles, Assault Value = 761

Defending force 11426 troops, 92 guns, 251 vehicles, Assault Value = 331

Japanese adjusted assault: 798

Allied adjusted defense: 172

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

Japanese forces CAPTURE Lingayen !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed
F4U-1 Corsair: 4 destroyed

Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-)
Attacker: shock(+), supply(-)

Japanese ground losses:
1354 casualties reported
Squads: 38 destroyed, 94 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 41 disabled
Engineers: 61 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 30 (7 destroyed, 23 disabled)
Vehicles lost 14 (2 destroyed, 12 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
12360 casualties reported
Squads: 325 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 753 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 41 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 58 (58 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 358 (358 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 6

Assaulting units:
23rd Tank Regiment
31st Engineer Regiment
Sasebo 7th SNLF
28th Division
54th/C Division

Defending units:
763rd Tank Battalion
503rd Parachute Regiment
7th Australian Division
2nd Marine Defense Battalion
4th Field Artillery Battalion
73rd RAAF Wing

[jeffk3510]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

My tomatoes are coming in pretty good with the individual tomatoes ripening in a nice, staged fashion. I planted the things because I hate store bought tomatoes which are selected to be almost as hard as the grapeshot used at Gettysburg (so they don't get damaged during picking/handling). They are also picked about a week early so they are usually flavorless pulp.

I would go out every morning and check....no not today...maybe tomorrow. The next day I go out and a rabbit or raccoon or a neighbor maybe has taken 2 or 3 bites out of the damn thing and decided to wait another day. [:@]

What I really should have done is go get about 40 feet of chickenwire and stake it in...but I was sick and it was hot and..yada, yada, yada.

So, this went on for about 5-6 days. Each time I would select a tomato to pick the next day...THAT particular tomato would have two bites out of it the next morning. I decided the ******* thing must have been watching me, so I took out Pinhead and let her sniff out rabbits. She ran around the 3/4 acre out back and made excited whelping sounds for about 1/2 hr. until she collapsed with her tongue out. I swear I heard the sound of a small animal giggling. Anyway, I wised up. I just picked the ripest one without a bite in it instead of waiting a day. But this is no AI rabbit. The rabbit responded by altering his routine and taking a bite out of the ripest one before I went out. F' that! I just picked the one that was TWO days away from ripeness..and then he responded by doing the same thing 2 hrs. before I went out there. Pretty soon, we were battling for the yellow ones. The other day, I outsmarted him by just slicing off the half he didn't take a bite out of. Technology! Take that *** hole! The next day the ******* thing takes bites out of BOTH sides.

Now I am back to buying the things at the store. At least they aren't yellow. Wait till the Jabaneros come in. I'll find the little tormentor out in back..stiff..with his eyes bulging out.

We have a garden at home and one at one of the farms..the one at the farms just feeds the neighborhood animals..I can't keep them out of it.. it's pointless. I won't tell my wife cus she thinks they're cute, but I have killed 6 "bunnies" this year at the farm and those &^%*ers have eaten over 300 bean plants that I keep replanting...I think they believe it is some kind of a game. The racoons eat one bite of each tomato and go to the next one...there are so many ripe tomatoe with a couple of bites in all of em'...oh well.. then at home our boys like to pick all of the buds off of them and the squash so that is pointless as well...since when was gardening so damned stressful?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Hory crap!

Ugh.

I think I've seen about enough of this staff flunkie. Put 'im against the wall. The Japs owe him a medal.

ETA: Cap'n-a t-shirt with one of my favorite phrases from Top Secret. You may want to 'rubber stamp' some more of this guy's personnel files accordingly.

[Cap Mandrake]

[font="Courier New"]Admiral Lord SPrior;

In regard to our previously discussed plan to allow JJ to win a few battles to make the war last longer, do you think this is enough or should we let it run a bit longer to keep their interest up.


With the warmest of warmth;

Fleet Admiral Mandrake
FOB San Miguel, Panay Beach Resort[/font].

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

[font="Courier New"]Admiral Lord SPrior;

In regard to our previously discussed plan to allow JJ to win a few battles to make the war last longer, do you think this is enough or should we let it run a bit longer to keep their interest up.


With the warmest of warmth;

Fleet Admiral Mandrake
FOB San Miguel, Panay Beach Resort[/font].

Geez - you guys must have shares in M&M Warwide Enterprises!

[sprior]

I think I'm going to give up AE to play this instead:

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

I think I'm going to give up AE to play this instead:

See, that's the problem. We shouldn't put our ships right next to each other like that or the bad guys will find the adjacent ship trying to cover the first deck they hit. Also, that seems like a lot of alcohol to me, but it does seem like it will go faster than AE.

[Cap Mandrake]

Old Foxtrot listing in a river. The author doesn't know much about subs but the pictures are interesting.

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ne ... ne?image=0

[Cap Mandrake]

*******Oval Office, Washington, April 26, 1943(c)********

FDR: This Lingayen thing is really going to look bad in the press.

Gen. Marshall: Yes sir, it will, but I am afraid it could get worse. There are another 3,200 of Australian 7th Div pinned down at San Fernando and the US garrison at Iba has no practicable escape route.

FDR: How could this happen, General?

Gen. Marshall: Well, Mr. President, it seems a low level flunkie gave the orders for 7th Australian to assemble in road march right in front of the big Jap attack.

Adm. King: And there is the whole crazy yellow bastard angle as well.

Gen. Marshall: Indeed, well said. I very much enjoy the erudition of these meeting. <looks back at FDR> Sir, I'm afraid there is one more thing......it's MacArthur sir, he's trapped at Iba.

FDR: OH SWEET BABY JESUS! NOT AGAIN! <pinches his patrician nose..and pauses in thought> Look, Adm. King, is there any way we can take all the PT boats in theater out of action?

Senator Truman: <pokes head in door> Sorry to interrupt but Fernando in the kitchen said you ordered these crackers with sea urchin eggs. Say, I couldn't help overhearing? Is Gen. MacArthur going to be OK? He's one of my favorites.

[Cap Mandrake]

..

[Cap Mandrake]

I'm stuck inside sick most of the weekend and no turn. [:@]

The good news is I have reached a state of equilibrium with the raccoon/rabbit/rat/opossum/skunk/squirrel/neighbor kid that has been eating my tomatoes. There are so many right now we both have enough. Something, however, is eating the bean leaves and the pepper leaves. I've got a nest of 47%'ers in the back yard. They are all over out here in California.

[Cap Mandrake]

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

The question is what to do with the Mongol horde at Lingayen? 800 AV, plus there is at least another regiment of the LYB's at Iba already.

Most likely, the horde will turn west toward Iba but they could also move east and destroy the remainder of 7th Aus at San Fernando. They could hunker down at Manira or Crark but I doubt it. An attack at Iba is the much bigger threat. They could potentially be there in 2 -3 d and attack in 3-4.

Also of note, JJ just did a recon by arty attack yesterday at Manira. That is at least most of two whole divisions at Manira. There are a shedload of WJD's on Luzon! [X(] I no longer think it is a good idea to take the two Marine regiments out of the line at Manira.

Ground combat at Manila (79,77)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 255 troops, 21 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 894

Defending force 13258 troops, 322 guns, 367 vehicles, Assault Value = 554

Assaulting units:
52nd Division
19th Division
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
7th Shipping Engineer Regiment
14th Army
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
28th JAAF AF Bn
4th JAAF AF Bn
11th Garrison Unit /1

Defending units:
193rd Tank Battalion
7th Marine Regiment
182nd Infantry Regiment
1st USMC Corps Tank Battalion
8th Marine Regiment
110th Combat Engineer Battalion
5th Marine Regiment
3rd USMC Tank Battalion
97th Field Artillery Battalion
98th Field Artillery Battalion
148th Field Artillery Battalion

Short of evacuating Iba, we will have to throw more units in there. This means some of the units prepping for Okinawa or diversion of the landing at Aparri. Also, the Mongols at Lingayen are going to get plastered by every B-24 on Mindanao and probably some of the mediums need to be brought up too.

It's not fun to lose 12,000 troops in one day but it is fun when JJ fights back. [:)]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I'm stuck inside sick most of the weekend and no turn. [:@]

The good news is I have reached a state of equilibrium with the raccoon/rabbit/rat/opossum/skunk/squirrel/neighbor kid that has been eating my tomatoes. There are so many right now we both have enough. Something, however, is eating the bean leaves and the pepper leaves. I've got a nest of 47%'ers in the back yard. They are all over out here in California.

Well, clearly you're in the top 1% in bean production and therefore you're not worthy.

[Chickenboy]

These 'surprise' arrivals of WJDs on Luzon? Any chance they were the SWPac reserves previously tasked to Truk?