At dawn we slept...in the cab on the way back from Olongapo

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

PoW is safely in drydock in Trincomalee

Colombo?

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

PoW is safely in drydock in Trincomalee

Colombo?

Shh! Misinformation in case enemy listening!

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

PoW is safely in drydock in Trincomalee

Colombo?

Shh! Misinformation in case enemy listening!

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake




Colombo?

Shh! Misinformation in case enemy listening!

No WAY! I will never stop talking with loose women! [;)]

[Cap Mandrake]

The USN carriers take a few minutes to put up their feet and the WJD are all over the place.

[Cap Mandrake]

Rabaul: The night skirmish at Rabaul. I think both sides scared each other with star shells.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Rabaul at 106,125, Range 10,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Yayoi
DD Uzuki
DD Mochizuki
DD Yuzuki
DD Oite
DD Yunagi

Allied Ships
CA Australia
DD Stuart, Shell hits 1

JJ does not attack at Rabaul on the 21st. Neither does Australia get a chance to bombard.

[Cap Mandrake]

Balikpapan: The town falls but at least we got some mileage out of the mines. There is cosmic justice in a minelayer falling prey to a mine.

TF 107 encounters mine field at Balikpapan (64,97)

Japanese Ships
DD Sanae
PB Keiko Maru
PB Busho Maru
CM Itsukushima, Mine hits 1, heavy damage

6 mines cleared

[Cap Mandrake]

DEI: The KB is now 120 m SW of Pontianak, Borneo. They might be retiring or they might be covering a landing at Palembang (which appears imminent)

[Cap Mandrake]

Hiryu and Soryu are gone and may have started back for repairs. The least damaged of the two could be available for operations lamost immediately. Kaga will likely need drydock after the torpedo hit.

[Cap Mandrake]

The USN carriers have to go back to Townsville for fuel and then can return to the Rabaul area.

[Cap Mandrake]

This would be wonderful news if Maya sank from her mine strike near Banjowangi (phonetic spelling) after chasing after helpless merchies in an obvious war crime.
Would also be very nice if the other bitchen' CA were sunk from her wounds with Repulse...but my heart has been broken so many times by Miss Fog'o'war that I am untrusting (someone check to see if this is really a word).

[Cap Mandrake]

**********Waikiki Beach, Oahu, December 21, 1941(e)*********

WO Ogaki, commandah of Ha-18: OK, Hata, stay here in bushes with cocconuts, Ogaki-san head ovah to Royarh Hawaiian and stearh some Hawaii-mens shirts so rook rike tourists.

Torpedoman First Crass Hata: Ogaki-san, when attack on Pearh Harbor start?

WO Ogaki, commandah of Ha-18: <annoyed> Damnit! Hata, did mothah drop on head when baby? Ogaki-san arready exprain nobody show up. Nobody terr Ogaki-san eithah. So, it rike this, submarine broke because Hata too stupid to terr starboard from port so
either charge gate at Hickam field and get shot in heart for no good reason or stay with Ogaki-san pran to get Hawaii-mens shirts and pretend Phirripinos from Ros Angeres. Which Hata want?

Torpedoman First Crass Hata: Phirripino from AN-juh-res.

WO Ogaki, commandah of Ha-18: ROS An-juh-res, IDIOT! Hata forget "Ros" part get us kirred!

[Cap Mandrake]

..

[Cap Mandrake]

*********December 22, 3 days till Christmas**********

Rabaul: JJ sneaks in a SNLF coy by fast transport taffy.

The USN cruisers catch up to them in daylight...which was the plan...but it is quite disappointing. We have them badly outgunned and outranged.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Rabaul at 106,125, Range 21,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Yayoi
DD Uzuki, Shell hits 3, on fire
DD Mochizuki
DD Yuzuki
DD Oite
DD Yunagi

Allied Ships
CA New Orleans, Shell hits 1
CA Minneapolis
CA San Francisco
DD Ralph Talbot
DD Henley
DD Patterson
DD Jarvis

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

This would be wonderful news if Maya sank from her mine strike near Banjowangi

Chickenboy-san sympathize. He walking around house in dark and Banjowangi'd serf on corner of bed.[X(]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

This would be wonderful news if Maya sank from her mine strike near Banjowangi

Chickenboy-san sympathize. He walking around house in dark and Banjowangi'd serf on corner of bed.[X(]

[:D][:D]
You wouldn't be subtry bragging now, would you?

[Cap Mandrake]

**********Two days till Christams, 1941(e)**********

Rabaul: USN cruisers have some ammo left so we use it.

Night Naval bombardment of Rabaul at 106,125

Allied Ships
CA San Francisco
CA Minneapolis
CA New Orleans
DD Jarvis
DD Patterson
DD Henley
DD Ralph Talbot

Japanese ground losses:
111 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

[Cap Mandrake]

Feni Islands? Sounds like one of the spice islands. Oh, wait, that would be the Fennel Islands. Oh..Hell..<goes to look it up>..ah, it's by New and Improved Northumberland..or whatever that island with Kavieng is called.

HMAS Australia had a full magazine so she was ordered to turn around and stop being a sissy. She is ordered to cover the AP evacuating the Diggers. We run into some WJD AKL doing something or other.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Feni Islands at 108,126, Range 21,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
xAKL Tomozono Maru #3, Shell hits 1, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CA Australia
DD Stuart

[Cap Mandrake]

Bolstered by the fresh Wee Jap Dobbers, JJ tries again at Rabaul. Rejected.

Ground combat at Rabaul (106,125)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 4107 troops, 38 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 125

Defending force 2451 troops, 16 guns, 174 vehicles, Assault Value = 20

Japanese adjusted assault: 27

Allied adjusted defense: 31

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0)

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

Japanese ground losses:
101 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
82 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 7 (2 destroyed, 5 disabled)

Assaulting units:
Maizuru 1st SNLF
Maizuru 2nd SNLF
2nd Indpt SNLF Coy

Defending units:
Lark Force
B Coy/NG Rifles
Rabaul Base Force

[zuluhour]

"Bolstered by the fresh Wee Jap Dobbers, JJ tries again at Rabaul. Rejected"
Sure this is not commentary from the Terp Indiana game?