Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[JeffroK]

ORIGINAL: sprior

So today I go in search of HR and find them in Fort Southwick. Now, I've been in a few HR departments but this was Alice in Wonderland stuff. I get to the front gate and there's a Centurion tank:

Chieftian?

[erstad]

I'd "waste" Miri and Brunei's oil production-yes, you will get points for it (manual, page 231 and 264).

Not quite. From page 264:
Points will only be scored by the Allies for bombing industry in mainland Japan, and by the
Japanese for bombing industry in North America, Australia, and/or Hawaii.

Unless something changed in a beta.

[sprior]

Here's one I launched earlier:

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: JeffK
Chieftian?

Indeed it is.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: erstad

I'd "waste" Miri and Brunei's oil production-yes, you will get points for it (manual, page 231 and 264).

Not quite. From page 264:
Points will only be scored by the Allies for bombing industry in mainland Japan, and by the
Japanese for bombing industry in North America, Australia, and/or Hawaii.

Unless something changed in a beta.

Yes, you're right. I missed that last sentence! Good reminder, erstad...

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: erstad

I'd "waste" Miri and Brunei's oil production-yes, you will get points for it (manual, page 231 and 264).

Not quite. From page 264:
Points will only be scored by the Allies for bombing industry in mainland Japan, and by the
Japanese for bombing industry in North America, Australia, and/or Hawaii.

Unless something changed in a beta.

Ah, so then the only reasons to attack DEI oil centers or refineries would be for:

1) Disruption of the flow of war materials to Japan-mens

2) Diversion of Japan-mens airpranes.

3) Machismo

[sprior]

You forgot;

4) Because we can.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

You forgot;

4) Because we can.

I remember that time we took a couple of pot-shots at Burmese oil centers. JJ started bombing noodle factories in China.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Here's one I launched earlier:

Polaris of some description?

[Cap Mandrake]

************June 8, 1943(c)************


Okinawa: Indeed, the IJN DD force, minus the DD lost to PT boats yesterday, is still on station at Naha.
Fighting starts at 1000 yds. Radford sinks Onami. Harusame sinks Radford.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Naha at 95,66, Range 1,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Tamanami
DD Onami, Shell hits 14, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Harusame

Allied Ships
CL St. Louis
DD Fletcher
DD DeHaven
DD Eaton
DD Philip
DD Radford, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk

[Cap Mandrake]

A P-47 sweep over Naha from Miyako-jima. These must be some hotshot Tojo jockeys. They manage 1 for 2.

Morning Air attack on Naha , at 95,66

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 13 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 19

Allied aircraft
P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 16

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 37000 feet

[Cap Mandrake]

The main B-24 raid over Naha is pretty effective thanks to some"little friends" from Miyako.
Another 37 bomber sorties from 17's and 24's are not as effective but a few planes are destroyed on the ground.

Afternoon Air attack on Naha , at 95,66

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 60 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 20 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 11

Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 9
B-24D1 Liberator x 19
F4U-1 Corsair x 16

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
D3A1 Val: 4 destroyed on ground
Ki-30 Ann: 3 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 1 damaged
B-24D1 Liberator: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 34

[Cap Mandrake]

Takao: Even though the airfield seems to be beat up by recon, JJ manages to get some Tojos in the air, likely downing a few B-25's. Maybe it's LRCAP? They seem to have psychic abilities as they did the same thing yesterday over Taihoku.

Morning Air attack on Takao , at 84,65

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 41 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 7

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 12
B-25D1 Mitchell x 21

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged
B-25D1 Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged

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

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 3

[Cap Mandrake]

South China Sea: Other than a sub attack on an IJN PB, nothing happens. The cruiser force strikes out. A dozen subs almost strike out. The B-24's don't fly. Nothing.

[Cap Mandrake]

Burma JJ went after 6th Aus Div again from the air but lost a few to our CAP.

[Cap Mandrake]

************Pranning**********

We follow up the air attacks on Naha with a bombardment tonight by North Carolina and Wichita, San Francisco and Juneau in two taffys.
Santa Fe (CL) and 4 DD's will sanitize the area first.


Then, in the morning the P-47's sweep again and the bombers go back in. We need both fields out on Okinawa before any landing.

Next night Massachusetts goes in, then Washington (unless Kirishima shows back up).

Miyako-jima will be level 4 in about 3-4d. Once the CAP is gone we can send in B-25's and TBF's on level bombing to augment the damage.

[Cap Mandrake]

The carriers. Victorious is in drydock at Colombo. Essex just left Panama and is tasked for the Kuriles operation along with Santee and Anzio.

Yorktown available at Manado but her escorts are off fighting.

Wasp and two busted up CVE's are at Manado repairing system damage then they have to go to Sydney.

Forgot about Barnes (CVE) which just had a AAA upgrade at Pearl.

[Cap Mandrake]

The BB's. Indiana just finished repairs at Alameda. She and Maryland are tasked for the Kuriles. Maryland to bombard P-jima and Indiana for security.

Colorado and South Dakota have to go back to the West Coast.

[Cap Mandrake]

Company Christmas party last night. Pretty fun. Drinks were pricey and half the volume of the martinis was in the olives...and the salmon was a bit gamey..but still pretty fun.

Desert was good..kind of a brandy-infused baked pear with brown sugar crust and tiramasou.

I'm sure there weren't many left over desert plates. Our staff is getting rearry, rearry beefy. Fortuantely, the dance floor was laid out on a concrete foundation. When the DJ played some salsa tunes it was like a Richter 5 quake. To paraphrase Winny, "never has so little fabric been stretched so thin on so many".[:)]


Stalker Girl had a few glasses of $8 wine and was getting territorial about one of the business office chicks. She turns to me and says, "If she touches you again I'm f***** takin' her out". [:D][:D][:D] That is the highlight of those things..the girl fights.

Also found out the one openly gay doc in the group is like the King of Salsa. His date, a guy with earrings was a rousy dancer so he went out on the floor with one of the Latinas with big "pompies"...Santa Maria! El Rey de salsa!

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The carriers. Victorious is in drydock at Colombo. Essex just left Panama and is tasked for the Kuriles operation along with Santee and Anzio.

Yorktown available at Manado but her escorts are off fighting.

Wasp and two busted up CVE's are at Manado repairing system damage then they have to go to Sydney.

Forgot about Barnes (CVE) which just had a AAA upgrade at Pearl.

What about those slackers in Seattle? [:'(]