Fear and Loathing in the Pacific (3x3 MPBEM)

[witpqs]

Marconi! [:D]

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A bunch of tall, really skinny guys (plus some really skinny and short Filippinos) open a can of whoop-ass on a bunch of shorter well-nourished guys.

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[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

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OMG - the teleportation portal!! This explains a LOT!![X(][:'(]

[Cap Mandrake]

Memorandum

To: Col. Butterworth, G2, SWPac HQ
From: Cpt. V. Da Gama, Cartography Section, SWPac
Date: 3-28-42
RE: Map, Amboina POW camp


Sir;

Here is our latest go at the Jap POW camp, Amboina Is. This was compiled with the aid of LtCol. Kapitz (KNIL) of Molukken Garrison Bn who helped supervise construction of the Dutch base at Amboina (which is now opearted by Jap. Marines). Additional information derived from aerial recon of GVT-17 from Dili on 3-17-42. We were unable to answer your query re. nature of beach approaches and suitability for approach of amphibious vessels. This will require human recon or prewar navigational charts. The extension of barbed wire fence some 200 ft into Inner Ambon Bay at the Eastern perimeter of the camp does suggest a shallow topography.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

OMG - the teleportation portal!! This explains a LOT!![X(][:'(]

Think Stargate (shape, size, orientation, pictographic markings).

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

OMG - the teleportation portal!! This explains a LOT!![X(][:'(]

Think Stargate (shape, size, orientation, pictographic markings).

Ah-hah! Only saw the movie, about a zillion years ago or so...[:D]

I actually went and looked at the Japanese version of this on their AAR to confirm the teleportation. They mumbled something about "Next time, we'll issue the transport commander some maps!"[:D][:'(]

EDIT: The Japanese players seem to be remarkably Good Sports. So far (that i know of) the Pearl Harbor Strike didn't, they had one key division vanish, and now this...[X(][8|]

[Tom Hunter]

We have had the 44th Indian brigade step onto gangplanks at Akyab but end up in the Jungle North of Gasmata, movement bugs turned a 30 day march to Myitikyna into a 60 day march for another brigade and have slowed armor and artillery units as well.

I'm enjoying the game but concerned about all this, because we may end up losing it due to these kinds of issues.

At least it is screwing up both sides

By the way if you want to pass this information to the Japanese that is fine. They already know about the 44th, but the other stuff will be news to them.

[rtrapasso]

No - i don't usually read that AAR except on relatively rare occasion. I had understood that you guys already possessed the info i mentioned in my prior message.

Bugs like these really distress me as to the long term outcome of the game. However, even being biased towards the Allies, i think i would have rather put up with the bugs you have encountered than those they did - just the PH strike-out is terrible (although i understand the Allied side did offer a re-run.) In reading these AARs, it seems to me that the better the IJ side does on turn 1 pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. Exceptions exist, of course...

[Tom Hunter]

We did know about the division, and since the recent teleport landed on our troops we knew about that too.

I kept quiet about what was going on in Burma because it would telegraph moves on my part that the Japanese may not have been aware of.

Also even though their intial strike on Pearl did not go off correctly they still pounded the place pretty hard, with very light losses. Thier problems are not from Pearl, or even from the dissapearing division, they are largely self inflicted due to command decisions about where and when to send thier forces.

[tabpub]

....and 3000 planes lost to date vs. 2000....
...and the merchant shipping that has that "Charles Bronson attitude" but just can't pull it off....

Oh, and will someone remind Mandrake that he is SOPAC and that I am SWPAC!! He keeps writing memos using my title as originator or addressee....<I jump up and down and throw a Mac-sized tantrum>...where the hell is Sutherland so I can kick him in the ass some more and have him kiss mine!!!

Gen. D. "Tabpub" MacArthur

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Busted