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

[Cap Mandrake]

*******Haha-jima School of Yiddish Comedy, May 15, 1943(c)***********


Jewish looking guy with Jewish-sounding name up in front of crowd: Well, well, well. Welcome everyone to the 18th Army first annual team building exercise on Haha-jima. <stone silence> Wow, tough crowd. You guys must be from Jersey <drum cue, then stone silence>. Ah, I've got a million of 'em. Boy, I tell ya', is this Haha-jima out of the way or not? I just flew in from Eniweetok and my arms are KILLING me. <drum cue...........nothing....beads of Nixonian sweat break out Jewish guys upper lip>

[Cap Mandrake]

Nixonian sweat....

[zuluhour]

I didn't realize tricky Dick ever broke a sweat.....before that tape thing anyway. That's why he had Henry.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: zuluhour

I didn't realize tricky Dick ever broke a sweat.....before that tape thing anyway. That's why he had Henry.

Oh yes, he was an epically prodigious upper lip sweat producer. The fact that he had sweat balls the size of Lake Erie during the televised Nixon-Kennedy debate is often cited as a reason for Kennedy's victory.

Personally, I suspect it was Kennedy's confidence, humor, wit and the fact that his wife was way better looking that did it.

By ra way, I think I was alive but do not remember the Kennedy-Nixon debates.

[Cap Mandrake]

Nixon is said to have watched Deep Throat 3 times before he could get it........oh never mind.

[Cap Mandrake]

I watched the replay. As usual, it ticked me off. USS Richmond and her 3 DD's were 40 miles from Horycrappo-jima chasing a sub contact when the WJD DD's were shooting up our LCM's. [:@]

Here is another problem. The DD's will expend their main gun ammo during air attacks so, after a day on station at Horycrappo-jima, they are no good for night defense and have to go back to Altimonan to rearm. The LST at Horycrappo-jima with 650 SeaBees was undiscovered. We just need some undisrupted engineers and 1000 supply and we can get to a level 1 strip. This is proving to be a costly goal.

Lots of red splotches spotted in the East China Sea. Probably, Kirishima is coming back.

We need to get an AD up to Batan Is, which is nearly at its sinking point with troops.

[Cap Mandrake]

I decided to send USS Barnes, which had just reached Sydney and USS Maryland, which was West of Fiji back to Hawaii to help with the Kurile/Sakhalin attack.

That makes the major naval assets now

Essex
3 x CVE
Maryland for bombardment duties
Indiana

Not very intimidating but I expect Kirishima, Kongo, Soryu and the CVL will be tasked with defending Okinawa.

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I watched the replay. As usual, it ticked me off. USS Richmond and her 3 DD's were 40 miles from Horycrappo-jima chasing a sub contact when the WJD DD's were shooting up our LCM's. [:@]

Here is another problem. The DD's will expend their main gun ammo during air attacks so, after a day on station at Horycrappo-jima, they are no good for night defense and have to go back to Altimonan to rearm. The LST at Horycrappo-jima with 650 SeaBees was undiscovered. We just need some undisrupted engineers and 1000 supply and we can get to a level 1 strip. This is proving to be a costly goal.

Lots of red splotches spotted in the East China Sea. Probably, Kirishima is coming back.

We need to get an AD up to Batan Is, which is nearly at its sinking point with troops.

Why were they chasing a sub contact if they were set to surface combat?[&:]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Disco Duck

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I watched the replay. As usual, it ticked me off. USS Richmond and her 3 DD's were 40 miles from Horycrappo-jima chasing a sub contact when the WJD DD's were shooting up our LCM's. [:@]

Here is another problem. The DD's will expend their main gun ammo during air attacks so, after a day on station at Horycrappo-jima, they are no good for night defense and have to go back to Altimonan to rearm. The LST at Horycrappo-jima with 650 SeaBees was undiscovered. We just need some undisrupted engineers and 1000 supply and we can get to a level 1 strip. This is proving to be a costly goal.

Lots of red splotches spotted in the East China Sea. Probably, Kirishima is coming back.

We need to get an AD up to Batan Is, which is nearly at its sinking point with troops.

Why were they chasing a sub contact if they were set to surface combat?[&:]

Well, they were attacked first and I think it made them mad.

Pretend I didn't read the manual. Does the game engine "penalize" the forward movement of a SCTF when they encounter and are attacked by an enemy sub? It sure seems to.

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Disco Duck

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I watched the replay. As usual, it ticked me off. USS Richmond and her 3 DD's were 40 miles from Horycrappo-jima chasing a sub contact when the WJD DD's were shooting up our LCM's. [:@]

Here is another problem. The DD's will expend their main gun ammo during air attacks so, after a day on station at Horycrappo-jima, they are no good for night defense and have to go back to Altimonan to rearm. The LST at Horycrappo-jima with 650 SeaBees was undiscovered. We just need some undisrupted engineers and 1000 supply and we can get to a level 1 strip. This is proving to be a costly goal.

Lots of red splotches spotted in the East China Sea. Probably, Kirishima is coming back.

We need to get an AD up to Batan Is, which is nearly at its sinking point with troops.

Why were they chasing a sub contact if they were set to surface combat?[&:]

Well, they were attacked first and I think it made them mad.

Pretend I didn't read the manual. Does the game engine "penalize" the forward movement of a SCTF when they encounter and are attacked by an enemy sub? It sure seems to.

I believe the rationale is that they are using up OPs points prosecuting the sub encounter.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Disco Duck

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I watched the replay. As usual, it ticked me off. USS Richmond and her 3 DD's were 40 miles from Horycrappo-jima chasing a sub contact when the WJD DD's were shooting up our LCM's. [:@]

Here is another problem. The DD's will expend their main gun ammo during air attacks so, after a day on station at Horycrappo-jima, they are no good for night defense and have to go back to Altimonan to rearm. The LST at Horycrappo-jima with 650 SeaBees was undiscovered. We just need some undisrupted engineers and 1000 supply and we can get to a level 1 strip. This is proving to be a costly goal.

Lots of red splotches spotted in the East China Sea. Probably, Kirishima is coming back.

We need to get an AD up to Batan Is, which is nearly at its sinking point with troops.

Why were they chasing a sub contact if they were set to surface combat?[&:]

Well, they were attacked first and I think it made them mad.

Pretend I didn't read the manual. Does the game engine "penalize" the forward movement of a SCTF when they encounter and are attacked by an enemy sub? It sure seems to.

I think it's possible that SCTFs or other TFs that dilly-dally around with I-boats 'use up' some of their movemement turns.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Personally, I suspect it was Kennedy's confidence, humor, wit and the fact that his wife was way better looking that did it.

Well, yes. But you're forgetting his epic reputation for philandering and the Chicago 'machine' backing.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Disco Duck



Why were they chasing a sub contact if they were set to surface combat?[&:]

Well, they were attacked first and I think it made them mad.

Pretend I didn't read the manual. Does the game engine "penalize" the forward movement of a SCTF when they encounter and are attacked by an enemy sub? It sure seems to.

I believe the rationale is that they are using up OPs points prosecuting the sub encounter.

And a perfectly reasonable rationale that would be. It makes real world sense. It seems, empirically, to happen in the game but I wasn't sure if it was one my imagined mythologies of AE or was really implemented.

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Personally, I suspect it was Kennedy's confidence, humor, wit and the fact that his wife was way better looking that did it.

Well, yes. But you're forgetting his epic reputation for philandering and the Chicago 'machine' backing.

Read "Paddywhacked" for a better idea of what the Kennedy's really were like. The Media just liked them better. Camelot my big foot.

http://www.amazon.com/Paddy-Whacked-Unt ... ddywhacked

[Cap Mandrake]

Well, you have a good looking, young, trust fund guy who has been told he was a master of the universe since he was 3....vs.....this sweaty, floppy-necked ex Quaker who wore white socks and wing tips and bermuda shorts when he walked on the beach and who was really, really good friends with Bebe Rebozo, not that there is anything wrong with that.


Kennedy used to have interns brought to him while he was swimming in the WH indoor pool. Not much like Camelot as far as we know. More like Merovich riding around the Frankish villages and picking out the good-looking virgins.

[Cap Mandrake]

In what way was JFK unlike Wilt Chamberlain

1) Shorter

2) Whiter

3) Didn't keep track

[Cap Mandrake]

Remind to find PT-109 when I get home.

[witpqs]

I thought it sank?

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

I thought it sank?

So, it must be found!

[Mike McCreery]

I read the whole thing... and loved it!!

Keep up the good work on the worst AAR in history!