A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Good heavens! Running this through reverse-translate - to put back in the L's - yields "clappy flavored tequila". [X(]

Werr...they DO put worms in the Mezcar for originar fravor. Why not-ah try Chramydia trachomatis in Tequira?


Edited to put the 'a-Ah' in trachomatis. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

*************January 21, 1942(d)**************

Mandrake-san figure out how to win navarh batturhs....put Admirarh SPrior-san in charge. [:)] SPrior-san know how to rorr dice.

Parembang: Japan-mens stir unroading cans of fish-head soup so send in THREE SCTF. First, Arried-mens send in torpedo boats on dark night. Good idea, but not-ah work.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Palembang at 48,91, Range 8,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Mogami
CA Mikuma
CA Suzuya
DD Nowaki
DD Arashi
DD Michishio
DD Shinonome

Allied Ships
HDML P 10, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
HDML 1096, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
HDML 1097, Shell hits 1, and is sunk

Next, send in combined Arried medium SCTF for daytime batturh. Good idea, but this time SPrior-san rorr ereven on come out rorr so bitchen Arried-mens SCTF run up against bitchen Japan-mens crusiers.
Fight start at 9000 yds because neither side buy radar set at Radio Shack yet..waiting for bankruptcy sare.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Palembang at 48,91, Range 9,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Walrus II: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Mogami, Shell hits 8, on fire
CA Mikuma, Shell hits 1
CA Suzuya, Shell hits 3
DD Nowaki, Shell hits 1, heavy fires
DD Arashi, Shell hits 3, heavy fires
DD Michishio, Shell hits 1
DD Shinonome

Allied Ships
CA Dorsetshire, Shell hits 21, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
CL Marblehead, Shell hits 9, heavy fires
DD Barker, Shell hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Bulmer, Shell hits 10, and is sunk
DD Paul Jones, Shell hits 2, on fire

Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions: 20,000 yards
Range closes to 15,000 yards...
Range closes to 9,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 9,000 yards
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 9,000 yards

[Cap Mandrake]

Mogami at 45/30/31 damage and wirr survive if make back to Singapore. Nowaki is froating charcoarh briquette at 90% fire.

[Cap Mandrake]

NOW time for right Japan-mens ships to turn up. Anothah ereven!

Day Time Surface Combat, near Palembang at 48,91, Range 18,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Kinu, Shell hits 1
DD Shiratsuyu
DD Hibiki, Shell hits 1
DD Shirayuki
DD Hatsuyuki

Allied Ships
CL Marblehead, Shell hits 13, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Barker, Shell hits 9, and is sunk
DD Paul Jones, Shell hits 7, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk

Oh, wait-ah. Where othah task force....ahh....sprendid...

Day Time Surface Combat, near Palembang at 49,90, Range 19,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
SOC-1 Seagull: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CL Sendai
CL Isuzu
DD Uranami
DD Shikinami
DD Namikaze
DD Karukaya

Allied Ships
CL Marblehead, Shell hits 17, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk

[Cap Mandrake]

Crean sweep. Japan-mens perhaps roose Nowaki....and Mandrake-san not-ah screw up anything in South Pacific.

That ain't workin'
That-ah way Japan-navy-mens do it
Money for nothin' and chicks for free

[Cap Mandrake]

Japan-mens army not-ah have same kind of day. 41st Regiment at Osthaven not-ah bring enough guns and ammo...just-ah miss 1:1

Ground combat at Oosthaven (48,96)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 3608 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 112

Defending force 2447 troops, 29 guns, 47 vehicles, Assault Value = 145

Japanese adjusted assault: 19

Allied adjusted defense: 27

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
487 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 77 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)

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

Assaulting units:
41st Infantry Regiment
4th JNAF Coy

Defending units:
1st Regt Cavalerie
So.Sumatra Garrison Battalion
6th KNIL Rgt /1

41st Regt now at 79% disruption. Severe risk if Arried-mens counter-attack. Japan-mens need to bombard hory crap out of Dutch-mens to night and by air when sun come up.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Crean sweep. Japan-mens perhaps roose Nowaki....and Mandrake-san not-ah screw up anything in South Pacific.

That ain't workin'
That-ah way Japan-navy-mens do it
Money for nothin' and chicks for free

Admirarh Sprior get a brister on his thumb! [:D]

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Crean sweep. Japan-mens perhaps roose Nowaki....and Mandrake-san not-ah screw up anything in South Pacific.

That ain't workin'
That-ah way Japan-navy-mens do it
Money for nothin' and chicks for free

Admirarh Sprior get a brister on his thumb! [:D]

Admirar SPrior-San banging on bongoes rike chimpanzee

[Cap Mandrake]

Mandrake-san have new instarh of AE but onry run as rittah crappy window. What-ah code Mandrake-san put in AE boot firhes to make work right?

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Mandrake-san have new instarh of AE but onry run as rittah crappy window. What-ah code Mandrake-san put in AE boot firhes to make work right?

What I run on a Windows 7 desktop:

"C:\Matrix Games\WITP AE - PBM #1\Beta2\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -altFont -cpu4 -dd_sw -archive -wd -pxf1920 -pyf1018 -noFire

What I run on a Windows 8.1 laptop:

"C:\Matrix Games\WITP AE - PBM #1\Beta2\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -altFont -archive -wd -deepColor -px1366 -py768 -fixedArt -noFire -SingleCpuOrders -cpu3

[Justus2]

What does the -nofire switch do? I haven't seen that one before.

[witpqs]

I don't have a fast video card, just the video built into the CPU. As a result, sometimes during replay my screen would split vertically and half of it would jump. Basically the PC's video could not keep up with the processing. The noFire switch turns off the guns/bombs/ etc. animations.

It might overlap with fixedArt or maybe even have been replaced by it, but it still works (I've had it on the desktop PC for a long time).

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

I don't have a fast video card, just the video built into the CPU. As a result, sometimes during replay my screen would split vertically and half of it would jump. Basically the PC's video could not keep up with the processing. The noFire switch turns off the guns/bombs/ etc. animations.

It might overlap with fixedArt or maybe even have been replaced by it, but it still works (I've had it on the desktop PC for a long time).

I borrowed your game launch string some time back and couldn't live with the "noFire" switch because I use the fire/smoke animations to gauge how much damage is occurring in combat. Fortunately I have a good video card so I could just remove the switch. Belated thanks for the rest of the setup - got me using the full resolution and able to see a much wider map section.

[witpqs]

[:)]

[Reg]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

It might overlap with fixedArt or maybe even have been replaced by it, but it still works (I've had it on the desktop PC for a long time).

-fixedArt turns off rotating airplane and ship (and base) artwork which normally changes based on game date and it may (I'm not sure) suppress other artwork chrome such as ship/LCU unit badges.

It was intended to take a load off slower processors....

[Cap Mandrake]

Mandrake-san decide being strategic genius not necessarirry transrate to erectronic devices.

[Cap Mandrake]

Mandrake-san find out various adurt (and even 10 year ord) using Mandrake-san fancy gas dryer. Top screw hording door back out (because probabry made in Korea) so door just hanging by rower screw but nobody fix it..just prop heavy thing against door rike bunch of useress deadbeats that get dropped on heads as babies.

Eventuarry, bottom screw give out too and guess what...door farr on ground. Weight of door deform sheet metal and strip crappy Korean threads. SG admit probrem and offah to buy new dryer. HERR NO! Mandrake-san find bigger screw and pound in sheet metarh and use Popeye forearms to make new threads with screws. Mandrake-san arso ban arr descendants of SG from evah use dryer again.

[Cap Mandrake]

How Mandrake-san supposed to win war if arways having to fix stuff around Seaside Virra?

[Cap Mandrake]

*****************January 22, 1942(d)***************

Sumatra-jima:Pretty good day for Japan-mens. Dutch-mens and Scottrand-mens with fancy socks give up first time Japan-mens attack at Parembang. Arried-mens run away across rivah to Southwest.

Onry 1% of refinery and oirh werrs damaged. [:)]


At Oosthaven, Arried-mens miss opportunity to counterattack so 41st Regt resting up.


South Pacific: Anothah SNRF sarefry ashore at Noumea with no rosses. Nothing bad happen anywhere. Japan-mens attack Noumea again tomorrow.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

... Mandrake-san arso ban arr descendants of SG from evah use dryer again.

Of course this means more damp clothes on the poor tabruh ...[:@]