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

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

I heard that the NSA/FBI/CIA found a link to this AAR on the hard drive of some ex-employee named Snowdon

And where are the Snowdons of yesteryear?

Helping Russian friends hack credit card accounts?

[Cap Mandrake]

Here is what happens when you try to try a little neighborhood Eminent Domain foolishness with a mailbox. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

I think toddlers with a vocabulary of < 10 words are somehow conspiring to make me sick. I get over one thing and the little multi-colored baaaahstards give me something else.

[Cap Mandrake]

So I go to the bank and it is actually open..so I go in. The are two open tellers, an earnest Hispanic young man and a really cute Hispanic young woman who looks like Shakira.


Need I say more? It's perfect, they are trained to be polite so you can flirt with relative impunity. She laughs at my jokes..I laugh at hers..it was fun and harmless..then I go to sign the check and she turns bright red.
Damndest thing. Poor thing, probably overwhelmed by the GQ looks, the urbanity and the account balance. We conclude the transaction and I thank her and wish her a good day...better get out before she faints.

Then, as I am walking away, I go to put the pen back in my pocket. It's a hideous triangular drug company advertising pens with big block letters on one side saying:









































BV BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS

[:D][:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

Formosa, the Ryukyus and the Japans: Armor and 2nd British Div marching on Taihoku. The main rationale for invading Formosa was to cut off shipping routes and take Taihoku which buildable to level 9.
It's almost immaterial now.

The 4 divisions at Naha are resting for an attack on mainland Japan. Nago is a sideshow.

The aptly named Fuk-ue-jima [:D] appears to have no garrison and has an airstrip. The little island east of Okinawa now has a level 2 strip to accommodate C-47's and Aus 1st Para Bn is ready. Also a drop on Tokara Retto to build a fighter strip to cover a landing on the main islands.
Construction engineers are embarking aboard landing craft at Kume-jima to make the run into Fuk-u-jima and Tokara Retto. Landing craft TF's seem to excite enemy land based bombers less.

The IJN carriers were just in action near the Kuriles so we are free to push ahead here.

[Cap Mandrake]

Intel shows something moving into the Sea of Okhotsk south of Sakhalin. It's supposed to be TK's and PB's. Seems more likely to be a surface threat. Follow-on landings of Shikuka and Shimushiri deferred until we find out.

Attacks at both Shimushiri and Shikuka today even though one of the Canadian brigades was pretty well disrupted and disabled at Shimu.

[T Rav]

Assuming that to be the $10,000 mailbox, will you now reassert your Lebensraum?

p.s. I know it's the wrong theater, but reasserting your Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere is very cumbersome to write and doesn't come off as well should you need to use it in a screaming three-hour long rant with your HOA.

[Cap Mandrake]

I think the "101" category islands off Kyushu will not trigger emergency Japanese reinforcements but I could be wrong. The Kuriles have the same code.

[Cap Mandrake]

Also, to clarify, the hexside from Takaramatsu on Shikoku to Honshu is walkable, right?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: T Rav

Assuming that to be the $10,000 mailbox, will you now reassert your Lebensraum?

p.s. I know it's the wrong theater, but reasserting your Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere is very cumbersome to write and doesn't come off as well should you need to use it in a screaming three-hour long rant with your HOA.

I didn't do it...nobody saw me...you can't prove anything.* [:)]


* Bart Simpson 1998

[Cap Mandrake]

Evidently the new neighbors are Amish or Menonites or something. They seem to have settled on something more chaste..and on their side of the property line too. [:D]

Of course, this could just a platoon of combat engineers and something akin to a Mulberry harbor is on its way.

[Cap Mandrake]

Are the Amish allowed to drive Jaguars and massive Toyota SUV's? Anyone know anything about the Amish? I know they can't have tractors but maybe there is an exception for sedans?

[Cap Mandrake]

How about Takamatsu to Kobe? Is that walkable. The Fx keys don't work in AE for me (I think I am not in full screen mode)

[Cap Mandrake]

Wait till the poor baaahstard Amish get a desist letter from the HOA for changing their mailbox without permission. [:D][:D]


I wonder how you say "&@*!((#&&&&# $#&#*@* %&$&$$&" in old Dutch?

[T Rav]

If you watched Mars Attacks and your neighbors were Martian, it would be pronounced GAAAKK!! GakGak!

[T Rav]

But in Old Dutch it is pronounced the same way you wrote it -- "&@*!((#&&&&# $#&#*@* %&$&$$&"

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

How about Takamatsu to Kobe? Is that walkable. The Fx keys don't work in AE for me (I think I am not in full screen mode)

The 'F' keys work fine in windowed mode too. But if you are on a laptop, sometimes the 'F' keys toggle to some hardware specific use. You might hunt on the keyboard for a blue or blueish looking precedent key that might be used with one of the 'F' keys to toggle the row back to 'F' key status.

Or you could buy another laptop.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Are the Amish allowed to drive Jaguars and massive Toyota SUV's? Anyone know anything about the Amish? I know they can't have tractors but maybe there is an exception for sedans?

If they use the MMV (Massive Motor Vehicle) to pull down an edifice that was wrongfully constructed on a neighbor's land, thereby righting a wrong (as opposed to writing a wrong, which would be something like 'libel'), then it probably falls under the 'two wrongs make a right' exception, more generally known as the Mills Lane I'll Allow It* principle.

* Credit to Celebrity Death Match.

[Cap Mandrake]

***************July 17, 1943(c)******************


Operation Sticky Green: The alleged TK's in the Sea of Okhotsk were................tankers.
The carrier dive bombers and TBF's sank most.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Shikuka at 126,43

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Allied aircraft
F6F-3 Hellcat x 66
SBD-5 Dauntless x 14
TBF-1 Avenger x 48

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-5 Dauntless: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
TK Ryuei Maru, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
PB Nagata Maru, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
TK Akatuki Maru, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
PB Santos Maru, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
TK Nissan Maru, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
TK Zuiyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage


Damaged Yubari, sunk 8 times previously takes 3 torps up the chuff from an S-boat. That should finish the damn thing off.



We capture Shikuka. It wasn't even close. 180:1

Ground combat at Shikuka (126,43)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 8877 troops, 147 guns, 148 vehicles, Assault Value = 387

Defending force 908 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 21

Allied adjusted assault: 374

Japanese adjusted defense: 2

Allied assault odds: 187 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Shikuka !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
654 casualties reported
Squads: 17 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 43 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 15 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 8 (8 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 1
Units destroyed 1

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

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
27th Infantry Regiment
2/151st Combat Engineer Battalion
58th (Sep) Infantry Regiment
201st(Sep) Infantry Regiment
North Pacific

Defending units:
Yokosuka 6th SNLF
39th Const Co

[Cap Mandrake]

We needed the Canadians at Shimushiri. We manage a 2:1 and take down forts. Maybe one more attack and it should fall.

Ground combat at Shimushiri-jima (132,51)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 6045 troops, 154 guns, 119 vehicles, Assault Value = 292

Defending force 2069 troops, 36 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 60

Allied adjusted assault: 133

Japanese adjusted defense: 47

Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 2

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
392 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 34 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 19 (2 destroyed, 17 disabled)
Vehicles lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
98 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
13th Canadian Brigade
198th Infantry Battalion
1/153rd Infantry Battalion
1/151st Combat Engineer Battalion
197th Infantry Battalion
18th Canadian Brigade
1st Irish Fusiliers Battalion
154th FA Bn
107th USN Base Force
165th Field Artillery Battalion

Defending units:
46th Naval Guard Unit
21st Air Defense AA Regiment
34th Const Co