::Felix, Ferdinand and FRUPAC:: obvert (A) v Greyjoy (J)

[HansBolter]

Hey Obvert,

I gleaned recently from some of your posts that you are a small craft fanboi.....naming the American 6" gunboat (name escapes me) as your "pocket cruiser" and recently touting the Taney (which I refer to as my pocket destroyer).

I just wanted to point out that you should look closely at the Aussie small craft. One of their classes (don't remember class name but recall Yarra is one of them) is armed with torpedoes!

They are a bit on the slow side at 16 knots max. but pack a real wallup if you can ever get them into a fight.

[Lokasenna]

Well, if she's gonna sink anyway... maybe put her back online, in a TF, and see if the crew puts the fire out? In my experience, ships crews have a higher potential damage repair on the minor damage stuff while in a TF rather than disbanded in a port. Granted, they can also sink at sea... but it sounds like things are heading south anyways? What's the damage at now?

Putting her into a TF is something I would've done the day after fires stayed at 1 while disbanded in port, but I wasn't reading/paying attention here at the time.

[JocMeister]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCnebZnysmI

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCnebZnysmI

Damn...now I'll be listening to DP all afternoon......

This is my personal fav from the quintessential DP album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNQKf-JIPVI

Than again maybe its Space Truckin that's my favorite.......or maybe its Lazy....

Too damn many great songs on that album to have a favorite!

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Hey Obvert,

I gleaned recently from some of your posts that you are a small craft fanboi.....naming the American 6" gunboat (name escapes me) as your "pocket cruiser" and recently touting the Taney (which I refer to as my pocket destroyer).

I just wanted to point out that you should look closely at the Aussie small craft. One of their classes (don't remember class name but recall Yarra is one of them) is armed with torpedoes!

They are a bit on the slow side at 16 knots max. but pack a real wallup if you can ever get them into a fight.

Interesting. I have used the Yarra but don't remember the torpedos. I'll check that out!

I do like making use of the variety of small ships available on both sides, especially in DBB. It's a fun game within a game to use as little force as possible to achieve and objective. [:)]

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCnebZnysmI

Are you saying that giant rabbits are on the Triomphant causing all of this?! [;)]

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCnebZnysmI

Damn...now I'll be listening to DP all afternoon......

This is my personal fav from the quintessential DP album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNQKf-JIPVI

Than again maybe its Space Truckin that's my favorite.......or maybe its Lazy....

Too damn many great songs on that album to have a favorite!

I'd really like to get that on vinyl. Some of those older 70s recordings are amazing in analog.

[JocMeister]

My dad had pretty much every 70s + 80s heavy metal vinyl ever released. I think he had some 3500+ records including some seriously rare ones. He sold them to "update" his collection to CDs...

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

My dad had pretty much every 70s + 80s heavy metal vinyl ever released. I think he had some 3500+ records including some seriously rare ones. He sold them to "update" his collection to CDs...

So sad.

[obvert]

Hi all. I'm traveling in Italy now so turns have been slowed and not much time to update. It's been fun, and will get even better. Saw some of Milan, now in Bologna, and Thursday will travel to Venice with my wife and meet Nick and his lady for a dinner. Then he is being extremely generous and lending us his flat there for three nights!! [&o]

We're really looking forward to it, and to spending time with Nick and Valentina.

I'll update soon when I can. In the meantime here is a view from my epic journey up a medieval tower in Bologna. It has 499 steps, all of which made of wood and leaning into a chasm in the middle with only a wooden rail to grip. Worth it though! great views, especially the view down onto the other leaning tower below.

[obvert]

[font="Times New Roman"]August 8 - 9, 1943[/font]

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After a week in Italy I am back home. Last Thursday Nick and his lovely girlfriend Valentina met my wife and I for a dinner, along with his cousin Candice who is half American and could help with the translations when needed. The dinner was amazing and the company even better. Nick is a true gentleman, and it's great to chat about the game while we're in the middle of it, each of us having to carefully measure our words of course! I wish we could have spent more time, but it was a great night out at least! [&o]

We also got onto to the subject of Game of Thrones, obviously a mutual interest, and I'll have to get back into the books before the series begins again next week! I keep forgetting to ask about him taking on Greyjoy as his name on the forums. A very interesting choice!

In game we've only traded about two turns in the past week. Nick is still very busy at work and with his father in hospital. We'll pick up the pace a bit this week when the schedules resume their workday patterns. The game hasn't taken any big turns of late, but some long planned actions are about to be put into play, so stay tuned. There could be some fireworks. [;)]

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SUBS: [/font] Sunfish gets one of the xAKL plying back and forth to Rabaul from Truk.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]INDIA: [/font] A few units are moving down the Arakan now toward Akyab.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SW PAC: [/font] Nick sweeps Lae heavily but doesn't bomb. I don't have CAP up, and I just use this as a forward field for a turn or two, then leave again. Mostly hitting barges, of which another bunch are liquidated by some Boomerangs.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SO PAC: [/font] A division and some Marines are walking into Torokina. These will bombard as soon as possible to see what's here and how much to keep sending through. It's reading 10k from recon and the shattered Buin defenders are certainly there, but I'm not sure what else. it's interesting how some forward bases never appear in SIGINT while others show up nearly daily, like Diego Garcia.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SIGINT:[/font] Two ship reports! Nothing amazing though. The AK tells me he's stil lbuying out Chinese units to send forward.

[font="Trebuchet MS"]AK Yamateru Maru is located at Shanghai (92,55).
CL Kuma is located at Rangoon (54,53).[/font]

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Sub attack near Emirau Island at 108,115

Japanese Ships
xAKL Kokuyo Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
SC Ch 18
SC Ch 9
xAK Kosei Maru #2
xAKL Kumakawa Maru
PB Okuyo Maru #2
SC Ch 20

Allied Ships
SS Sunfish

SS Sunfish launches 2 torpedoes at xAKL Kokuyo Maru
Sunfish diving deep ....

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Morning Air attack on Kavieng , at 106,122

Weather in hex: Extreme overcast

Raid detected at 30 NM, estimated altitude 29,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5c Zero x 45

Allied aircraft
P-38H Lightning x 24

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5c Zero: 8 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-38H Lightning: 2 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 25000 feet

CAP engaged:
201 Ku S-1 with A6M5c Zero (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 31 scrambling)
4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 24000 and 30000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR August 9, 43
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Umboi Island at 100,125

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 16 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Allied aircraft
Boomerang C-12 x 16

Allied aircraft losses
Boomerang C-12: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
LB-510, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
LB-513, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
LB-504, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
LB-506, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
LB-505, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
LB-508, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
LB-503, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Boomerang C-12 bombing from 100 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Kwajalein Island at 132,115

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 35 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes

Japanese aircraft
E13A1 Jake x 9

Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 11
F4F-4 Wildcat x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
E13A1 Jake: 3 destroyed

No Allied losses

CAP engaged:
VMF-124 with F4F-4 Wildcat (7 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(7 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
7 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000.
Raid is overhead
18th FG/12th FS with P-39D Airacobra (7 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
7 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 5000 , scrambling fighters to 28440.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes

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Afternoon Air attack on Kavieng , at 106,122

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 19 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5c Zero x 30

Allied aircraft
P-38H Lightning x 16

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5c Zero: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-38H Lightning: 1 destroyed

CAP engaged:
201 Ku S-1 with A6M5c Zero (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 21 scrambling)
3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 25000 and 32000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes


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[obvert]

[font="Times New Roman"]August 10 -11, 1943[/font]

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[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SUBS: [/font] New subs coming online are moving into the area of the web north of Rabaul and along the North coast of New Guinea. This is the area where it seems we have the best chance to escape the ASW and still hit the frequent ships moving to the area. It will continue to be costly to fight in the South Pacific.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]INDIA: [/font] For the 12th I've set a big raid from Dimapur and Jorhat toward the Central Chinese plains. I'll aim to hit Chengtu manpower to reduce the industry. It's already down by about a quarter, but I want it gone. This is the first moment I've had enough supply to strike here, and it may be a one off for a while, so I'm going with all available 4E, plus some close in B-17s to hit the fields for good measure.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CENT PAC: [/font] Getting most of the air units and big infantry shuffled off elsewhere now. Some going South, some going for fur-lined gloves. [;)]

Plans in the next few days in the So Pac area so all available first and second tier air units are going to be involved. I've got enough bases now all over the place and I want to give Nick a little scare. I haven't ever assembled the pieces in this area yet, and when I do, it'll be for a good reason. I've got the reason now, so they're staging in, but I'll try to veil the intended target with my placement. I know he's very keen on recon, watching troop numbers, airfield numbers and reading the leaves of what might happen. So far he's seeing what I want him to see and not what I don't.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SW PAC: [/font] A few missions to hit bases around the New Britain and New Guinea area meet with no opposition. Madang field is damaged, a few more troops disabled at Arawe and Gasmata, and some damage is put on Umboi by the 4Es, destroying a few Jakes.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CHINA: [/font] Nick is starting to pay attention to Sian again. He hit with four waves of bombers, knocking out a bunch of supply.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]OZ:[/font] Units are 2-3 days out of Carnarvon. I'm not sure if he's aware of them, but they don't seem to be getting any recon attention. He mentioned over our dinner that he thought a good way to stall the Allies is to fight for West OZ. It is certainly better than not fighting there at all, but the only bases I really need are Carnarvon and Exmouth. The rest I can subdue or bypass.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SIGINT:[/font] Another ship. This tells me little though.

[font="Trebuchet MS"]CL Oi is located at Truk (112,108).[/font]

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR August 11, 43
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Morning Air attack on Umboi Island , at 100,125

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 3
B-25C Mitchell x 16

Japanese aircraft losses
E13A1 Jake: 2 destroyed on ground

No Allied losses

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 15000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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[font="Trebuchet MS"]No opposition here yet! [/font]

[Symon]

ORIGINAL: obvert
Hi all. I'm traveling in Italy now so turns have been slowed and not much time to update. It's been fun, and will get even better. Saw some of Milan, now in Bologna, and Thursday will travel to Venice with my wife and meet Nick and his lady for a dinner. Then he is being extremely generous and lending us his flat there for three nights!! [&o]

We're really looking forward to it, and to spending time with Nick and Valentina.

Italy is simply spectacular, isn't it? And when you get to spend some time there with righteous locals like Nick and Valentina it becomes a once in a lifetime experience. I envy you. Ciao John

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: Symon

ORIGINAL: obvert
Hi all. I'm traveling in Italy now so turns have been slowed and not much time to update. It's been fun, and will get even better. Saw some of Milan, now in Bologna, and Thursday will travel to Venice with my wife and meet Nick and his lady for a dinner. Then he is being extremely generous and lending us his flat there for three nights!! [&o]

We're really looking forward to it, and to spending time with Nick and Valentina.

Italy is simply spectacular, isn't it? And when you get to spend some time there with righteous locals like Nick and Valentina it becomes a once in a lifetime experience. I envy you. Ciao John

That's it! Couldn't beat the company, and it is an exceptional place, and set of places. One trip just makes you want to go to see other things you missed. I hadn't really done serious traveling there since 1996, so this was a great refresher.

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[font="Times New Roman"]August 12 - 13, 1943[/font]

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[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SUBS: [/font] Grayling hits an xAK and Crevalle gets a PB. Picking up the pace here.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]INDIA: [/font] The move to Akyab continues slowly, and it looks like there are about 13-14k troops there along with another 20k across the water in the jungle. In the meantime most divisions have filled out and almost all have 43 squads and devices. Most of the Indian army is free to move as well since it was easy to buy them out early. [:)]

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CENT PAC: [/font] Just shoring things up here and getting some base forces installed. I'll start some bombing against Eniweitok and Wake soon.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SW/SO PAC: [/font] I've got some things in the works here. Step one though is para-dropping at Hansa Bay. It's nearly empty and close enough to support. Really though it's a diversion hoping to draw some fighters this way, out of Rabaul. More to come!

Nick moves some CL/DD to Umboi with a big Cap for the 12th, playing right into where I want him, but moves them back a day later after jumping some Boomerangs. I think he suspects something, but more around the Southern side of New Britain.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CHINA: [/font] A LOT of fires started at Chengtu. at the end of the bombing 266,448 were burning! Some industry has burnt, but not as much as I'd expect. We'll see as they continue to burn.

I nearly got an arty fragment through into Chungking to open a hex side but he bombed them a day before they would have crossed! Too bad.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]OZ:[/font] Troops will enter Carnarvon very soon.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SIGINT:[/font] Only one unit shows at Carnarvon, and if this is it, this should be easy.

[font="Trebuchet MS"]1/12th Garrison Unit is located at Carnarvon(49,133).[/font]

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Sub attack near Truk at 108,112

Japanese Ships
PB Hakkai Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
xAKL Taganoura Maru
xAKL Daiten Maru
PB Takunan Maru #5

Allied Ships
SS Crevalle

SS Crevalle launches 2 torpedoes at PB Hakkai Maru
Crevalle diving deep ....
PB Takunan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

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Sub attack near Aogashima at 112,66

Japanese Ships
xAK Kozui Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Hirota Maru
PB Suyozai Maru
AO Daiei Maru
xAK Kuroshio Maru
xAK Mito Maru
xAK Amagi Maru
xAK Tokai Maru
xAK Hokuroku Maru
xAK Hawaii Maru
E Maeshima
E Yurijima
E Niizaki
E W-9

Allied Ships
SS Grayling

SS Grayling launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Kozui Maru
Grayling diving deep ....
E Maeshima fails to find sub, continues to search...
E W-9 fails to find sub and abandons search
Escort abandons search for sub

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Morning Air attack on Chengtu , at 75,41

Weather in hex: Light cloud

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

Allied aircraft
Liberator II x 12
B-17E Fortress x 3
B-17F Fortress x 13
B-24D1 Liberator x 51

No Allied losses

Manpower hits 429
Fires 110880
Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 16
Runway hits 83

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Liberator II bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on Neikiang , at 75,44

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 9 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 21

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
52 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Airbase hits 26
Airbase supply hits 10
Runway hits 53

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on Chengtu , at 75,41

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 9

No Allied losses

Manpower hits 70
Fires 266448

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR August 13, 43
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Ground combat at Torokina (109,130)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16033 troops, 240 guns, 138 vehicles, Assault Value = 468

Defending force 13540 troops, 78 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 341

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

Assaulting units:
32nd Infantry Division
2nd Marine Regiment

Defending units:
15th Garrison Unit
18th Garrison Unit
46th Naval Guard Unit
42nd JNAF AF Unit /1
45th JNAF AF Unit
51st JNAF AF Unit
48th JNAF AF Unit
44th JNAF AF Unit
33rd Ind.AA Gun Co
11th Air Flotilla /1

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Ground combat at Hansa Bay (97,121)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 232 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 19

Defending force 412 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22

Allied adjusted assault: 16

Japanese adjusted defense: 11

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 0

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

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

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

Assaulting units:
1st Australian Para Bn /1

Defending units:
44th Naval Guard Unit

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[font="Trebuchet MS"]Within a few days these targets will be landed simultaneously. [/font][:)]

[Lowpe]

Really impressive and thorough advance there in the Solomons, one can only imagine all that you are learning and honing your game there.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Really impressive and thorough advance there in the Solomons, one can only imagine all that you are learning and honing your game there.

Yeah, I was also amazed at how some sneaky infestations of dot bases in 1942 really accelerated the advance later on. A few of the encroachments were wiped out by counter-landings but most remained in Allied hands. I thought it was excellent use of the small units available in the area at a time when no major offensives could be undertaken by the Allies.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Really impressive and thorough advance there in the Solomons, one can only imagine all that you are learning and honing your game there.

It is a bit historical, but f course our use of the tools in the area snit at all. Nick's dispositions are decidedly farther North from the actual war as well. It's like we're playing with what we consider to be learned lessons from the campaign and yet because of the early campaigns elsewhere the Allies were still able to get a good foothold and begin the slow move up the chain.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Really impressive and thorough advance there in the Solomons, one can only imagine all that you are learning and honing your game there.

Yeah, I was also amazed at how some sneaky infestations of dot bases in 1942 really accelerated the advance later on. A few of the encroachments were wiped out by counter-landings but most remained in Allied hands. I thought it was excellent use of the small units available in the area at a time when no major offensives could be undertaken by the Allies.

I've been reading a lot abut the area and there was so much activity with small units and small ops, seeing all of those little units in the OOB made me think I should do something with them. For the Allies it's a great place to fight in 43![:)]

[Drakanel]

I just finished reading all this AAR and I liked it a lot. I wanted to let you know that I will be following this from now on. It's a very entertaining read. I am a newbie and this game has a horrible learning curve, just reading this taught me a lot.

And I am very curious about your line, a few posts ago, about "fur-lined gloves". Possibilities... possibilities [8D]

Can I ask a question? How do you feel you are doing considering your position, your losses and the current date? I mean, since I'm completely inexperienced, I do not have a good idea of the flow of the game and so I have a hard time telling. Do you feel you are on a good timetable, or not? Do you feel your losses have been heavy, in line with what's expected, or relatively light? I'm quite curious