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

[Cap Mandrake]

Port Blair: After the aborted landing yesterday, the amphibious group (minus 2 damaged AP's from Nellie attacks) turn around and headed back to Port Blair. They arrived ahead of the surface group also ordered back. JJ had evidently detached a few DD's from the Atago TF. Fortunately a daylight fight. Akikaze sunk. Tawakaze wrecked. Lardner wrecked and one AP hurt pretty good. The landing force does not give up.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Port Blair at 46,58, Range 6,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Akikaze, Shell hits 9, and is sunk
DD Urukaze, Shell hits 1
DD Tawakaze, Shell hits 15, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied Ships
CA Shropshire
CL Ceres, Shell hits 2
CLAA Van Heemskerck
DD Buchanan
DD Lardner, Shell hits 20, heavy fires, heavy damage
AP Barnett
AP President Adams, Shell hits 10, on fire
xAP Durenda
xAP Gandara
xAP Gogra
xAP Hosang
xAK Ikauna
xAP Jalaratna
xAK Karoa
xAK Maldive
xAK Matiana
xAK Pellicula
xAK Shirina, Shell hits 4, on fire
xAK Tanda
xAK Yoma
xAP Jacalope
xAK City of Hankow
xAP Clan Macpherson
xAP Governor
xAP Hadleigh
xAP Varela
xAP Jalakrishna
LSI(L) Empire Battleaxe
xAP Kedah
xAP Slemmestad
xAP Merkur
xAP Taroona
xAP Michael Embiricos

Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Then a big force of Nells. Not sure of the casualties? Maybe rescued troops aboard Shropshire, which is torpedoed.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Port Blair at 46,58

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 30 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M3 Nell x 23

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M3 Nell: 8 damaged

Allied Ships
CL Ceres
CA Sussex
xAP Slemmestad
CA Shropshire, Torpedo hits 1
CLAA Van Heemskerck

Allied ground losses:
26 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

In the afternoon, Shropshire takes another and a Dutch CLAA as well.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Port Blair at 46,58

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 30 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M3 Nell x 18

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M3 Nell: 5 damaged
G3M3 Nell: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
CA Shropshire, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CLAA Van Heemskerck, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage


Elements of 29 Brigade make a big difference although the damage to our combatants is fairly large.

[Cap Mandrake]

It's hard to take HMS Shropshire seriously after the Bugs Bunny cartoon.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: zuluhour

I want to hear JJ's reaction when he reads this[X(]

Wait, do you think we are being discourteous or something? I don't think they would be offended? Sometimes it seems like they ARE reading it. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

Little red spots started popping up all over Burma

[Cap Mandrake]

Now, some might think a cheap gag about Indian troops and a "call center" to be racist. Not so. Only if we use offensive accents. This was actually the signals company of 50th Indian Para Br.

[Cap Mandrake]

Another FOW question (the concept not the person).

When you get intel on a TF movement direction by mouseover, it pertains to the last air or submarine report and NOT to the orders entered by the WJD player with the last turn, correct?

[Crackaces]

It looks like he is building a defensive line exactly as the Cap' expected. Now I wonder the state of these forces. Are these defeated forces or has the IJ brought in fresh reinforcements.

I am somewhat surprised that the IJ did not abandon Mandalay sooner and establish this line. Thus I am still suspect the state of these troops.

Although bombing does not produce a lot of casualties in the jungle hexes .. it will produce disruption ... and disruption adjusts AV downward leading to odds that cause retreat.

[Cap Mandrake]

***********50th Para Brigade communications tent, Tongoo, Burma********


Cpl. Jugdish "Sparks" Agarwhal: Roger, Agincourt, theees ees Flodden, Cpl. Agarwhal..oh good golly, Cpl. O'Brien I mean, over..."

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Another FOW question (the concept not the person).

When you get intel on a TF movement direction by mouseover, it pertains to the last air or submarine report and NOT to the orders entered by the WJD player with the last turn, correct?

AFAIK. Often times the mouse-over shows no movement direction.

[sprior]

So, who is middle-aged?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

So, who is middle-aged?

11. You can recall exactly what you were doing when you first heard of the Battle of Flodden

[Cap Mandrake]

Typical middle-aged guy. Who here thinks they look most like him?

[Cap Mandrake]

***********Near Karenko, Formosa, May 12, 1943(c)*************

Well-tanned IJN officer: Sushi? Miro, you crazy son of bitch. Japan people on Formosa not-ah have-ah money.

Man in fine linen slacks: No, no Ito-san. It's for the Americans. They are the ones with the money. Can you get me the fish?

Well-tanned IJN officer: Miro, you crazy son of bitch, there war on.

Man in fine linen slacks: Look, Ito-san. I'll get you the nets and an ice maker. Tell the crew it's for the Emperor. Besides, those DE's are murder now.

Well-tanned IJN officer: What kind want?

Man in fine linen slacks: Whatever you can get. And we need attractive female sushi chefs.

Well-tanned IJN officer: Japan womans not-ah sushi chefs!

Man in fine linen slacks: They are now. And they need to have big breasts too.

[Cap Mandrake]

I looked up the armament on our PT boats. A fully upgraded 77ft Elko has this. Oddly, a 78ft Higgins model has two twin .50's but one less mount for the same total armament. It would still be fun to sink a IJN patrol boat with a 20mm Orelikon. [:)]

[leehunt27@bloomberg.net]

The notations on the maps are killing me . How about some British accented interpretations of American ship names?

[BBfanboy]

Re: the mouseover of enemy TFs:
The direction of movement is the last move detected last turn, and does not indicate the next hex they are going to this turn unless the path is a straight horizontal or diagonal route. Most movement involving vertical direction change is zig-zag, so if they went horizontal last time they will go diagonal up or down next time.

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: leehunt27@bloomberg.net

The notations on the maps are killing me . How about some British accented interpretations of American ship names?

How much trouble do you think I would be in if I did that?

[zuluhour]

I can hear how it will go down in history:

" Never have so few had so much fun killing so many."

C'mon Capt'n, It's going to have to sting a little. The multi national Yankee Tommy team is putting on a clinic worthy of Monty Python.[:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

ORIGINAL: leehunt27@bloomberg.net

The notations on the maps are killing me . How about some British accented interpretations of American ship names?

How much trouble do you think I would be in if I did that?

Couldn't be any worse than the names US sailors make up on their own......like "Queerbarge" [:D]

[sprior]

Those awards in full:

The full list of 2013 Ig Nobel winners:

Medicine Prize: Masateru Uchiyama, Gi Zhang, Toshihito Hirai, Atsushi Amano, Hisashi Hashuda (Japan), Xiangyuan Jin (China/Japan) and Masanori Niimi (Japan/UK) for assessing the effect of listening to opera on mice heart transplant patients.

Psychology Prize: Laurent Bègue, Oulmann Zerhouni, Baptiste Subra, and Medhi Ourabah, (France), Brad Bushman (USA/UK/, the Netherlands/Poland) for confirming that people who think they are drunk also think they are more attractive.

Joint Prize in Biology and Astronomy: Marie Dacke (Sweden/Australia), Emily Baird, Eric Warrant (Sweden/Australia/Germany], Marcus Byrne (South Africa/UK) and Clarke Scholtz (South Africa), for discovering that when dung beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the milky way.

Safety Engineering Prize: The late Gustano Pizzo (US), for inventing an electro-mechanical system to trap airplane hijackers. The system drops a hijacker through trap doors, seals him into a package, then drops the hijacker through the airplane's specially-installed bomb bay doors through which he is parachuted to the ground where police, having been alerted by radio, await his arrival.

Physics Prize: Alberto Minetti (Italy/UK/Denmark/Switzerland), Yuri Ivanenko (Italy/Russia/France), Germana Cappellini, Francesco lacquaniti (Italy) and Nadia Dominici (Italy/Switzerland), for discovering that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond - if those people and that pond were on the Moon.

Chemistry Prize: Shinsuke Imai, Nobuaki Tsuge, Muneaki Tomotake, Yoshiaki Nagatome, Hidehiko Kumgai (Japan) and Toshiyuki Nagata (Japan/Germany), for discovering that the biochemical process by which onions make people cry is even more complicated than scientists previously realised.

Archaeology Prize: Brian Crandall (US) and Peter Stahl (Canada/US), for observing how the bones of a swallowed dead shrew dissolve inside the human digestive system.

Peace Prize: Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus, for making it illegal to applaud in public, and to the Belarus State Police, for arresting a one-armed man for applauding.

Probability Prize: Bert Tolkamp (UK/the Netherlands), Marie Haskell, Fritha Langford. David Roberts, and Colin Morgan (UK), for making two related discoveries: First, that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely that cow will soon stand up; and second, that once a cow stands up, you cannot easily predict how soon that cow will lie down again.

Public Health Prize: Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana, Chumporn Pongnumkul, Anunt Tonmukayakul, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Krit Komaratal, and Henry Wilde (Thailand), for the medical techniques of penile re-attachment after amputations (often by jealous wives). Techniques which they recommend, except in cases where the amputated penis had been partially eaten by a duck.