Actually Luskan has a job that is central to the social security of this country (he works for Fosters) [:D] and so finds himself rather busy at this time of year. Fear not dear readers the yellow peril will be back very soon !
Raver,
I am going to visit family tomorrow for Thanksgiving (here in the states) and I asked if they wanted me to bring any fried banannas, roast banannas, or bananna pie.
They said NO!.
Some people just don't know how to enjoy themselves...
Flipper
Ha Ha ha ! I laughed my arse off reading that !
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
I understand totally. Tonight on way home from work picked up a bottle of Koonunga Hill Cabernet(from SE Oz) for the Wifeunit MkI and a 1.75L bottle of Baileys mostly for me and some for her.
All hail the likes of Luskan[&o][&o][&o] who help keep our two lands well stocked with nice things to drink during the year.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
Mate I hate to be the one to break this to you on a public forum, but Baileys is a GIRLS DRINK ! Good to see that the wife unit MKI has better taste.
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
And I wouldn't wash my car tyres with Koonunga Hill, but then, I know what it costs the business to make!
Well, things are creeping along slowly - work is crazy this time of year and a REFUSE to rush turns to Raver when I get home after midnight. I know how that ends.
Bert & Boris have launched, they're on schedule (although Boris had a last minute objective change when sigint info came in! Only useful piece of jap sigint I've ever seen . . . ) and Elation drones on.
In other news, I'm unable to crush the isolated, baseless supplyless survivors north of Davao - they'll starve soon enough. My troops from Lamon Bay have cut Naga off from the supply base at Manila, and i'll be grinding Naga down to nothing pretty damn soon (won't be a lightning blow because I've spread myself a bit too thin in that area - all will be revealed why VEERY soon). Turn wise that is. Might take a week or two.
With dancing Bananas and Storm Troopers who needs BBs?
Monday morning...........I didn't get chance to reply to any turns in my in box on Sunday as I was busy with Coast Guard.....got home Sunday night only to be called back out. To make matter worse I have to do overtime tonight (till at least midnight) so it will not be until Tuesday that I get start sending turns out. [:(]
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
I wish Mark VII, mostly wet and cold fishermen. [:(] Thought (hoped) I saw a mermaid once but nah, just a dumb seal sunning him(her)self in the water. Although there is a nude beach within our patrol area................frequented by old men [:(]
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
You get used to Raver loosing turns, forgetting things, senile as he is.
I'm proud to announce that Boris has landed - my troops are storming ashore at Singkiwang (sp) under the cover of a thunderstorm, keeping Raver's air farce away for the moment. He doesn't have many surface combatants in range anyway (airpower at Kuching is worth it). Bert is a little bit behind schedule, but hiding under the storm (I'm pleased - hasn't been spotted) but Elation is likely to suffer in the storm and this may rock the boat so to speak.
Otherwise it was a fairly quiet turn - my troops grind forward in Burma, Malaya and the Phillipines, while Raver bombs my BBs at Lae (hits one for no damage) but my zeros don't do a great job on cap. Too busy joyriding.
With dancing Bananas and Storm Troopers who needs BBs?
I'm not holding my breath.
You'd think Raver would want to get the early part of the game over and done with so he can get to his death star tactics etc.
With dancing Bananas and Storm Troopers who needs BBs?
Ok - this was a bit of a bad turn for me, although things could be worse.
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/12/42
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TF 6 troops unloading over beach at Singkawang, 25,57 Operation Boris half over - I'll strom Pontiniak in a turn or two.
Japanese ground losses:
92 casualties reported
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TF 94 encounters mine field at Soerabaja (22,65) Ouch. Fortunately no real damage (14 sys) she'll do a quick refit once I've got Singapore.
Japanese Ships
CL Oi, Mine hits 1
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Naval bombardment of Soerabaja, at 22,65 - Coastal Guns Fire Back! - I'd sighted a lot of ships in Soerbaja in single ship tfs. Thought Raver was getting cute so sent some heavies in to clean them out and bombard the place . . . only I set them to do not retire. Unfortunately all the tfs were subs.
Anyhow, the bombardment was a success (Raver lost over 20 aircraft on the ground that turn) and put the airfield out of kilter. Unfortunately Raver had lots of torpedo bombers at a nearby airfield that scored lots of hits on two of my BBs. Good thing the torps weren't that big, or at least not that deadly. I messed this up - they should have retired.
Good news is they're both under 30 sys, 30 flt and 30 fire so they'll both survive and make it back to a big empty repair yard in Japan. I'd guess 2 months out of action for the Ise, and about 4 for the Yamashiro.
Boris is still held up, Elation still going forward. Not a lot else happening in theatre.
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
Hawk 75A: 3 destroyed
Brewster 339D: 3 destroyed
CW-21B Demon: 1 destroyed
CW-22 Falcon: 2 destroyed
T.IVa: 1 destroyed
19 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
CL Yura
BB Hyuga
CL Oi
BB Ise
CL Kitakami
BB Yamashiro
BB Nagato, Shell hits 4
Allied ground losses:
412 casualties reported
Guns lost 10
Vehicles lost 1
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 16
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TF 6 troops unloading over beach at Singkawang, 25,57
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Day Air attack on 21st PA Division, at 43,51
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 12
Ki-21 Sally x 8
Ki-48 Lily x 20
Allied aircraft
P-26A x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48 Lily: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
P-26A: 3 destroyed
Allied ground losses:
48 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-48 Lily bombing at 10000 feet
8 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 10000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Singkawang at 25,57
Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 3
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AP Ginyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Blenheim IV bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 23,55
Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 11
Blenheim IV x 3
Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 2 damaged
Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Blenheim IV bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Soerabaja at 22,65
Allied aircraft
CW-21B Demon x 3
Brewster 339D x 12
T.IVa x 2
Martin 139 x 5
Beaufort V-IX x 7
Allied aircraft losses
Martin 139: 2 damaged
Beaufort V-IX: 5 damaged
Japanese Ships
BB Yamashiro
BB Ise, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
BB Nagato
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 15000 feet
2 x T.IVa launching torpedoes at 200 feet
2 x Martin 139 bombing at 15000 feet
3 x Beaufort V-IX launching torpedoes at 200 feet
4 x Beaufort V-IX launching torpedoes at 200 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Soerabaja at 22,65
Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 7
Martin 139 x 6
Allied aircraft losses
Martin 139: 6 damaged
Japanese Ships
BB Yamashiro
BB Hyuga
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Soerabaja at 22,65
Allied aircraft
CW-21B Demon x 3
Brewster 339D x 8
Martin 139 x 3
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
BB Ise, on fire
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Soerabaja at 22,65
Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 5
Beaufort V-IX x 11
Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort V-IX: 5 damaged
Japanese Ships
BB Yamashiro, Torpedo hits 3, on fire
CL Yura, Torpedo hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Beaufort V-IX launching torpedoes at 200 feet
3 x Beaufort V-IX launching torpedoes at 200 feet
4 x Beaufort V-IX launching torpedoes at 200 feet
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ASW attack at 44,43
Japanese Ships
PC Ch 3
PC Kyo Maru #12
PC Shonan Maru #2
PC Shonan Maru #1
PC Kyo Maru #13
PC Kyo Maru #11
PC Kyo Maru #2
Allied Ships
SS Skipjack
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Ground combat at Naga
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 47668 troops, 487 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 968
Defending force 11497 troops, 107 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 303
Japanese ground losses:
12 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Allied ground losses:
30 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
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Ground combat at 42,60
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 2243 troops, 18 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 62
Defending force 2296 troops, 18 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 35
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
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Ground combat at 49,36
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 17773 troops, 229 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 830
Defending force 6854 troops, 29 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 232
Japanese max assault: 331 - adjusted assault: 574
Allied max defense: 230 - adjusted defense: 69
Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
152 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported
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Ground combat at Singkawang
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 6334 troops, 33 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 154
Defending force 1019 troops, 8 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese max assault: 144 - adjusted assault: 154
Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 7
Japanese assault odds: 22 to 1 (fort level 2)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Singkawang base !!!
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
Martin 139: 2 destroyed
Japanese ground losses:
64 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Allied ground losses:
24 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
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Ground combat at Naga
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 9557 troops, 106 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 301
Defending force 50217 troops, 482 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 968
Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
With dancing Bananas and Storm Troopers who needs BBs?
Success ! Success ! Success ! Success ! Success ! Two BBs with holes in their sides.....and from the Dutch no less ! There's some mud in your eye banananana boy ! Time to do the happy dance.
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
Well, I hate this part of the game.
Yamashiro was er . . . more damaged than previously announced, so I ordered the TF to STAY TOGETHER and move at BEST SPEED (TOGETHER) towards friendly air cover. It should have been fine except they split up, Yamashiro was left ON HER OWN moving at MISSION SPEED!!!!! and so got torped again this turn and sank. Just stupid. Another two hexes (she would have got there at full speed) and she'd have been under a zero LRCAP. Another few ships in the tf and the flak would have counted for something.
Yamashiro sank by game issue, not by anything useful Raver did. Very irritated about the whole thing. Glad I'd had a few drinks before watching the turn or I'd have been upset.
In other news . . . nothing much.
With dancing Bananas and Storm Troopers who needs BBs?
