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

[Cap Mandrake]

Jap forces on the Brisbane line have increased..now two full divisions, 144th Regt and a tank regt and tremendous artillery.

Ground combat at 95,159 (near Brisbane)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 33779 troops, 440 guns, 245 vehicles, Assault Value = 888

Defending force 15395 troops, 246 guns, 260 vehicles, Assault Value = 322

Japanese adjusted assault: 314

Allied adjusted defense: 603

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
1026 casualties reported
Squads: 9 destroyed, 128 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled

Allied ground losses:
673 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 88 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 34 (6 destroyed, 28 disabled)
Vehicles lost 10 (2 destroyed, 8 disabled)

Assaulting units:
144th Infantry Regiment
38th Division
8th Tank Regiment
2nd Division
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
5th Mortar Battalion
3rd Mortar Battalion
17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

[Cap Mandrake]

Broome: JJ takes Broome. We have only some RAAF guys there.

round combat at Broome (62,127)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 1903 troops, 19 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 62

Defending force 487 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 54

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 54 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Broome !!!

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

Allied ground losses:
569 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 40 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
Yokosuka 4th SNLF

Defending units:
Broome RAN Stn Base Force

[Cap Mandrake]

Up at 3:30 AM because the nurses thought it was funny to call me about a mother with a fever.

FAM: Call me again if the baby gets one <click>*

So I gave up and got ready for work. Now I have extra time and I discovered the most astounding bit of television trivia. Are there former watchers of Breaking Bad?

There is an opening to an episode where airliner parts fall from the sky. When I saw this I was pretty sure the writer had lived in LA in the late 80's. Then I discovered one of the main characters in the show has an unmistakable link to that same event.

Anyone know?



*This is not what actually happened

[Cap Mandrake]

Kongo confirmed sunk on the basis of seaplane ground losses. Nice! New Mexico and Mississippi barely scratched. No fire. No flotation damage, just some topside scratches. JJ pays a penalty for hubris and for not attacking Pearl on Dec 7.

USN prewar BB's:

Slower than coproliths.....check

Crapy range (small fuel bunkers)......check

Torpedo magnets...........check

Weak AAA suite............check

Gas hogs..................check

Sunk Kongo................check

[Cap Mandrake]

KB has disappeared again...most likely N or NE of Brisbane where we have no recon but our recon West of Noumea is a bit patchy because all the PBY's at Noumea are shot up.
An AE is headed to Noumea tonight to rearm the BB's. Most likely, JJ will send the KB to try to overwhelm the fighters at Noumea. Something bad may likely happen to New Mexico and Mississippi but that is why we have more ships.


Noumea at 34% runway damage, Tanna at 70%, Norfolk almost level 2 with no damage.

[Simonsez]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Kongo confirmed sunk on the basis of seaplane ground losses. Nice! New Mexico and Mississippi barely scratched. No fire. No flotation damage, just some topside scratches. JJ pays a penalty for hubris and for not attacking Pearl on Dec 7.

USN prewar BB's:

Slower than coproliths.....check

Crapy range (small fuel bunkers)......check

Torpedo magnets...........check

Weak AAA suite............check

Gas hogs..................check

Sunk Kongo................check

Great Kid! Don't get cocky!

[Cap Mandrake]

Yes...just a bit of 1918 USN boosterism.

When you come down to it, it was 2 USN 1918 BB's vs a modified 1911 British BB [:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

The real point is you can find a role for the USN prewar BB's other than bombardment duty. I'd say they have a 70% chance of becoming artificial reefs in the next two weeks. [:)]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Kongo confirmed sunk on the basis of seaplane ground losses. Nice! New Mexico and Mississippi barely scratched. No fire. No flotation damage, just some topside scratches. JJ pays a penalty for hubris and for not attacking Pearl on Dec 7.

USN prewar BB's:

Slower than coproliths.....check

Crapy range (small fuel bunkers)......check

Torpedo magnets...........check

Weak AAA suite............check

Gas hogs..................check

Sunk Kongo................check

Unless you got about 5 penetrating hits with the big guns, Kongo's demise was properly attributable to the magazine explosion from the sub's torpedoes! The BBs get an assist for crippling her first. The Japanese get an assist for cutting her loose on her own after the first couple of hits. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

No doubt the rickety old S boat "let most of the water in" but something very bad must have happened to Kongo's twin Yamahas to leave her dead in the water like that.

[Justus2]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Unless you got about 5 penetrating hits with the big guns, Kongo's demise was properly attributable to the magazine explosion from the sub's torpedoes! The BBs get an assist for crippling her first. The Japanese get an assist for cutting her loose on her own after the first couple of hits. [:D]

I feel bad for the sub Captain, he knows he sunk her but you know the BB Captains will claim all the credit...

[desicat]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Something bad may likely happen to New Mexico and Mississippi but that is why we have more ships.

Ahhh, kind of like the wives and children of Henry the 8th? Sometimes bad things happen by design and other times they happen by happenstance?

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake


So I gave up and got ready for work. Now I have extra time and I discovered the most astounding bit of television trivia. Are there former watchers of Breaking Bad?

There is an opening to an episode where airliner parts fall from the sky. When I saw this I was pretty sure the writer had lived in LA in the late 80's. Then I discovered one of the main characters in the show has an unmistakable link to that same event.

Anyone know?

How about:
In 1986 Aeromexico Flight 498 (DC-9) collided with a Piper Archer over Cerritos, California killing everyone on board both planes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Cerr ... _collision The name of the Air Traffic Controller who was handling both aircrafts was "Walter White".

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake


So I gave up and got ready for work. Now I have extra time and I discovered the most astounding bit of television trivia. Are there former watchers of Breaking Bad?

There is an opening to an episode where airliner parts fall from the sky. When I saw this I was pretty sure the writer had lived in LA in the late 80's. Then I discovered one of the main characters in the show has an unmistakable link to that same event.

Anyone know?

How about:
In 1986 Aeromexico Flight 498 (DC-9) collided with a Piper Archer over Cerritos, California killing everyone on board both planes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Cerr ... _collision The name of the Air Traffic Controller who was handling both aircrafts was "Walter White".

[:D] Bingo.

For a period after the incident, many people wore light blue and orange ribbons in memory of tragedy. Saul Goodman wore his ribbon for a much longer time than others because he was attempting to drum up business in the form of lawsuits against the airline. "The tragedy is profound. The pain is profound. And believe me, the settlement will be profound."[1]

[:D][:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

************Feb 15, 1942(e)***************

I had to do ALSP's command as he was apparently taking a pet to the vet. Fortunately, nothing bad happened to the RN. This cannot be expanded to all navies in the area.

Sydney: The runway damage was in the 40's so I moved some fighters to Port Kembla and got all the bombers out of Sydney...anticipating further attacks.
This proved brilliantly prescient. All these AKL's were tied up to the dock pretending to be a troop convoy.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Sydney at 90,167, Range 7,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Nagara
CL Isuzu
CL Abukuma
DD Isokaze
DD Shiranui
DD Michishio
DD Amagiri
DD Kikuzuki

Allied Ships
xAKL Darvel, Shell hits 7, and is sunk
xAKL Lorinna
xAKL Caledon, Shell hits 1
xAKL Canopus
xAKL Carlisle, Shell hits 9, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Corrimal, Shell hits 6, heavy fires
xAKL Fiona
xAKL Lady Isobel, Shell hits 7, and is sunk
xAKL William McArthur, Shell hits 1, on fire
xAKL Hamakua, Shell hits 2

[Cap Mandrake]

**********Office of Commander of Coastal Defences, Sydney************

RAN guy: Look, get that Minderbinder chap on the phone right now. Those sea mines he sold us are duds....BOOOM....look, I'll call you back.

[Cap Mandrake]

TF 3 encounters mine field at Sydney (90,167)

Japanese Ships
CL Abukuma, Mine hits 1
CL Isuzu, Mine hits 1

[Cap Mandrake]

Undamaged USS Blue is sent SW from Sydney to "safety". We find the Jap carriers SE of Sydney. Clumsy TF composition if you ask me.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Sydney at 93,173, Range 21,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CV Soryu
CV Shokaku
CV Zuikaku
CV Akagi
CVL Shoho
CVE Hosho
CS Chitose
CS Chiyoda
CA Chikuma
DD Yugumo
DD Oyashio
DD Tanikaze, Shell hits 1
DD Arashio
DD Kasumi
DD Harusame
DD Umikaze
DD Suzukaze
DD Hatsushima
DD Uzuki

Allied Ships
DD Blue, Shell hits 2, on fire

Quite good intel. Hiryu and Kaga missing..also a CVL

[Cap Mandrake]

Very well coordinated zero sweep over Sydney. I think the stratosphere sweep may violate a house rule. Have to check on that.
We lose.

Morning Air attack on Sydney , at 90,167

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 46 NM, estimated altitude 34,070 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 2
P-40B Warhawk x 8
P-40E Warhawk x 29

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40B Warhawk: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 7 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 29070 feet

[Cap Mandrake]

HUGE port attack on Sydney. Our CAP is worn out. It's hard to sink a CA with 250 kg bombs but they are beginning to settle into the mud.

Morning Air attack on Sydney , at 90,167

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 36 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A5M4 Claude x 10
A6M2 Zero x 29
B5N1 Kate x 16
B5N2 Kate x 99
D3A1 Val x 36

Allied aircraft
P-40B Warhawk x 1
P-40E Warhawk x 2

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N1 Kate: 1 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 5 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak
D3A1 Val: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
CA Louisville, Bomb hits 6, heavy fires
CA Chester, Bomb hits 6, heavy fires
CA Canberra, Bomb hits 8, on fire, heavy damage
CA Salt Lake City, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Boise, Bomb hits 14, heavy fires, heavy damage
AG Pulganbar, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Van Rees, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
AG King John, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
ACM Kookaburra, Bomb hits 1