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Posted: **Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:32 pm**

As we have reached November 15, 1942 in game time, and as this is exactly 11 months and 8 days after the start of the war and as stalker girl is working and as I am waiting for the Patriots game to start and as I am procrastinating on getting my brakes fixed or doing some annoying plumbing repairs around the house and as no game turn is in my inbox, I have resolved to waste some time doing a game summary.

Dec 7-8:

Hawaii: 6 Jap carriers attack Pearl Harbor. Oklahoma sunk and Tennessee adn Maryland are hulks. 20 P-40B lost.

Malaya: Singapore bombed with light losses. 2 enemy divisions land at Kuantan. Kuantan falls Dec 8. Songkla and Bandou fall.

PI:Manila and Clark airfields pulverized. Manila Harbor hit heavily. B-17's retreat to Mindanao. Aparri, Batan Is, Tatay and Puerto Princessa fall. Yossarian awakens on the 7th to find he is in WWIIb. He learns to paint holding the brush in his teeth as he is restrained in a straightjacket.

Dec. 9:

Hawaii: The KB doubles back, catching Enterprise and Lexington about 200 miles SW of Pearl. Both US carriers are lost. Hiryu is heavily damaged and one Shokaku class carrier is moderatley damaged. The Pacific is wide open to the Jap carriers. Lord Admiral Tabpub declares he has a "tummy ache" [:D]

Dec 10-11:

Hawaii: Hiryu is hit twice more from USAAF A-20's hastily deployed to Johnston.

Malaya: Jap landings at Mersing.

DEI: Jap Escort carrier hunts Allied vessels off Mindanao and Sulawese escaping from Manila.

Dec 12-18:

PI: Landings begin Davao. Landings begin Legaspi. US cruiser force opposing landings is hit by Bettys from Palau. USS Marblehead and Houston are lost, Boise damaged.

Malaya: Taiping falls Dec 16. The Commonwealth tries to hold the line in the mountains West of Kuantan. Force Z makes an ineffectual sortie into the South China Sea. HMS Danae lost to bombers from Indochina. Jap forces headed Miri. Brunei falls.

Pacific: Wake falls.

Dec 19-27:

DEI: Force Z circumnavigates Borneo to attack Jap forces in the Surigao Straight on the 20th in a daylight battle. The Japs lose one CL and 2 DD's. Force Z loses one DD and 4 heavily damaged. Both forces retreat. Amboina and Morotai fall.

PI: Legaspi, Jolo, Davao and Cagayan fall. Yossarian is released from his straightjacket on his doctor's orders because he began to smell really bad. He is assigned "light duty" and will fly the last P-40 out of Luzon.

Malaya/Siam: Commonwealth forces retreat to Johore. Mersing holds. 4 full Jap divisions now in Malaya. Jap armored thrust captures Tavoy and Victoria Point. 2nd Burma Brig. captures Rahaeng
and moves on Bangkok.

New Britain and the Solomons: An Australian/Kiwi crusier force interdicts Jap landings at Buin and Rabal. They sink all Jap transports at Buin on the eve of the 23rd but the landing force is already ashore and Buin falls. On Christmas Eve, they encounter four Jap heavy crusiers and 11 DD's off Rabaul. Perth is sunk. Kashima is heavily damaged. The Jap transports are unscathed. Leander and Canberra return alone to Buin on the 27th, driving off enemy transports, but are attacked by Bettys operating from Rabaul on the 28th. Leander is sunk.

Posted: **Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:18 am**

Oh, you are going to watch the Patriots also.[8D]

That's who I'm routing for[8D]

Posted: **Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:43 pm**

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Oh, you are going to watch the Patriots also.[8D]

That's who I'm routing for[8D]

i don't think that came out quite as intended... [:D]

Posted: **Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:08 pm**

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

As we have reached November 15, 1942 in game time, and as this is exactly 11 months and 8 days after the start of the war and as stalker girl is working and as I am waiting for the Patriots game to start and as I am procrastinating on getting my brakes fixed or doing some annoying plumbing repairs around the house and as no game turn is in my inbox, I have resolved to waste some time doing a game summary.

Dec 7-8:

Hawaii: 6 Jap carriers attack Pearl Harbor. Oklahoma sunk and Tennessee adn Maryland are hulks. 20 P-40B lost.

Malaya: Singapore bombed with light losses. 2 enemy divisions land at Kuantan. Kuantan falls Dec 8. Songkla and Bandou fall.

PI:Manila and Clark airfields pulverized. Manila Harbor hit heavily. B-17's retreat to Mindanao. Aparri, Batan Is, Tatay and Puerto Princessa fall. Yossarian awakens on the 7th to find he is in WWIIb. He learns to paint holding the brush in his teeth as he is restrained in a straightjacket.

Dec. 9:

Hawaii: The KB doubles back, catching Enterprise and Lexington about 200 miles SW of Pearl. Both US carriers are lost. Hiryu is heavily damaged and one Shokaku class carrier is moderatley damaged. The Pacific is wide open to the Jap carriers. Lord Admiral Tabpub declares he has a "tummy ache" [:D]

Dec 10-11:

Hawaii: Hiryu is hit twice more from USAAF A-20's hastily deployed to Johnston.

Malaya: Jap landings at Mersing.

DEI: Jap Escort carrier hunts Allied vessels off Mindanao and Sulawese escaping from Manila.

Dec 12-18:

PI: Landings begin Davao. Landings begin Legaspi. US cruiser force opposing landings is hit by Bettys from Palau. USS Marblehead and Houston are lost, Boise damaged.

Malaya: Taiping falls Dec 16. The Commonwealth tries to hold the line in the mountains West of Kuantan. Force Z makes an ineffectual sortie into the South China Sea. HMS Danae lost to bombers from Indochina. Jap forces headed Miri. Brunei falls.

Pacific: Wake falls.

Dec 19-28:

DEI: Force Z circumnavigates Borneo to attack Jap forces in the Surigao Straight on the 20th in a daylight battle. The Japs lose one CL and 2 DD's. Force Z loses one DD and 4 heavily damaged. Both forces retreat. Amboina and Morotai fall.

PI: Legaspi, Jolo, Davao and Cagayan fall. Yossarian is released from his straightjacket on his doctor's orders because he began to smell really bad. He is assigned "light duty" and will fly the last P-40 out of Luzon.

Malaya/Siam: Commonwealth forces retreat to Johore. Mersing holds. 4 full Jap divisions now in Malaya. Jap armored thrust captures Tavoy and Victoria Point. 2nd Burma Brig. captures Rahaeng
and moves on Bangkok.

New Britain and the Solomons: An Australian/Kiwi crusier force interdicts Jap landings at Buin and Rabal. They sink all Jap transports at Buin on the eve of the 23rd but the landing force is already ashore and Buin falls. On Christmas Eve, they encounter four Jap heavy crusiers and 11 DD's off Rabaul. Perth is sunk. Kashima is heavily damaged. The Jap transports are unscathed. Leander and Canberra return alone to Buin on the 27th, driving off enemy transports, but are attacked by Bettys operating from Rabaul on the 28th. Leander is sunk.

Pacific: Jap carriers (at least 2) intercept a small group of AK's West of San Francisco, sinking two USN DD's. USN shipping is chiefly leaving from San Diego and making a wide swing to the South in order to reach forward US bases. Even movement to Hawaii is dangerous.

Posted: **Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:18 pm**

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Attaboy, Mandrake! You managed to get a free velvet bag for the boots you didn't buy!! Good deal!!! [&o]

Oh, wait... are you saying you did buy those boots?? [X(] [8|] [:'(]

If I know anything about women the Stalker girl will probably look at those things with a blank expression and say something like "theyre very nice, but...." [:)]

Posted: **Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:19 pm**

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Oh, you are going to watch the Patriots also.[8D]

That's who I'm routing for[8D]

i don't think that came out quite as intended... [:D]

Oops.. Would you believe rooting...........................?[:D]

Posted: **Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:15 pm**

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I wouldn't be surprised to find her late one night urinating along the perimeter of my yard to mark her territory.

[:D]You're done for. [8D]

Posted: **Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:40 pm**

Has she moved in yet?[:D]

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2008 7:47 pm**

The bar is a busy watering hole for the Allied airmen stationed at the big airfields supporting the defence of Perth. There is the smell of lime in the air. A noisy machine grinds ice from time to time. A strikingly young Dutch pilot of the NEIAF sits at a table in the corner with a woman who is perhaps 10 years his senior. She is strking too. She is beautiful, with a slender neck and evident breasts. They hold hands. She laughs at something he says and covers her mouth when she laughs. He places something on the table. It is a notebook, a maual perhaps, bound with a spiral wire and appears page-worn. She leans forward in what must be an intentional act, and, as she stands to reach the object, her breasts come into the clear view of the young man. She smiles and gives him a quick kiss on the cheek. His face is flushed as she turns to leave. She walks briskly across the crowded room, passing a table at which a USAAF Staff Sargeant works on ledgers bound in grey and orange. As she passes, without even exchanging a glance with the young American, the spiral-bound volume drops unnoticed into his open satchel.

Posted: **Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:49 am**

Something is rotten in ummmm.....Australia[:D]

Posted: **Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:34 pm**

Remember Lt. De Groot?

Posted: **Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:39 pm**

..

Posted: **Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:20 pm**

********11:20; November 15, 1942, 5 miles North of the Myitkyina/Mandalay rail line, Burma************

A score of Japanese light tanks lie burning or mired in the jungle stream. The bodies of several dozen Japanese soldiers lie among the tanks. A retreat call can be heard from a Japanese bugler. The automatic weapon fire abates.

Lt. Uppington-Smythe: <stands up to survey the battle scene in the impetuously dangerous fashion expected of a junior officer> Sargeant! Send this to Brigade. Tell them we have repulsed a second Jap attack and have destroyed another three tanks with the loss of one 6-pounder and crew. Tell them I shall counterattack to regain the triceratops site. <takes out field glasses and waits for replay from brigade>

Sgt. Bonebrake: Lt., the Colonel says spledid work on the tanks!

Lt. Uppington-Smythe: Are you sure he said splendid, Sargeant?

Sgt. Bonebrake: Yes, Lt., clear as day. 'e said splendid all right.

Lt. Uppington-Smythe: <smiles broadly> Marvelous! Was there anything else then?

Sgt. Bonebrake: Yes sir. 'e said buggah the triceratops. <begins to smile>

Lt. Uppington-Smythe: Oh dear! Are you sure he said bugger, Sgt.?

Sgt. Bonebrake: Yes sir! Buggah. 'ats wot 'he said, sir, clear as day. <now smiling broadly>

Posted: **Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:06 pm**

*************01:30, November 11, 1942, 400 yds off Rottnest Island, near Freemantle**********

Half a dozen Japanese submarines sit motionless in calm water in a 1000 yd arc near a gap in the reef. Perhaps ten small motor sloops ferry Japanses soldiers, who have been staged to Rottnest Island in a slow motion Dunkerque. This is the third wave of evacuations by submarine for the doomed Japanese forces investing Perth. This must all be accomplished at night as RAAF Beauforts and Dutch and USAAF B-25's rule to seas in the daylight hours. The motor sloops are a new addition to improve efficiency. In a fortuitous accident, Allied ASW patrols are this night concentrating in a scetor 15 miles to the South. One sloop approaches the sub closest to shore. The captain can be seen on the sail. His jaw is set. His expression is stoic despite the pleasant Southern Hemisphere Spring weather and the apparent fact that all goes well. As the sloop draws near, a smile breaks over his weathered face.

"Miro!", he shouts."

"Ito! You crazy son of a bitch!"

"You rook good"

"Isometric exercises, Ito, isometric exericses. I have to look good. I am running for President. Hey, Ito, you crazy son of a bitch, I hear you have a girlfriend." The boat slews sideways bumping deftly against the hull of the sub.

"Yes, Ito ruv her."

"Ruv? You crazy son of a bitch, you didn't tell HER that did you?"

"Y....yes", he answers cautiously.

"Oh dear God. Alright, look, I'll have DC&H draw up some kind of prenup."

"Prenup. Ito rike."

"Great, Ito-san. I'll have my people call your people." He passes up a satchel to Ito, "Ito, please tell Yamashita the warrants for the future purchase of shares in the former Royal Dutch facilities at Palembang are not working for me any more. I will need something more concrete. You guys are losing."

"Yamashita, Army. Ito no rike."

"Ah, you are too hard on the guy. He is a bit gruff and he will take a mile if you give him an inch, but he has his soft side too. By the way, Ito, I have some paintings of bare-breasted Polynesian women. I have been trying to move the things. Are you interested?"

"Gaugin?"

"Yes, as a matter of fact, yes, they are Gaugin, originals, of course."

"No, Ito no rike Gaugin. Girls chubby."

"OK, Ito, you crazy son of a bitch." He smiles as he steps back into the now empty motor sloop, "One more load then you boys need to push off. That Borgnine idiot is supposed to 15 miles South of here but I don't trust his navigational skills." A quick turn of the throttle and the engine pulls the sloop quickly away from the sub.

Posted: **Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:22 pm**

[:D][:D]

How was Christmas Mandrake?

Posted: **Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:58 pm**

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

[:D][:D]

How was Christmas Mandrake?

It was good, but I did blow my gift budget a bit. Stalker girl bought gifts for my kids and her gifts were nicer than mine [:@] I had to remedy that. [:)] I never did get my outdoor Christmas lights up, so I am now afraid to open any mail from the Sturm HA. I don't actually know there is an ordnung about putting up your Christmas lights on time but I do know there is one about taking them down because that is one of the first things that brought me to their attention....well, except for the verboten pampas grass that just grew up from a wind-blown seed and the unauthroized front yard landscaping that was here when I bought the place..and..well...there was that nasty incident of the hammock tied up to a native oak..ah..forget it. The point is I put some mud on my street address numbers in a clever camouflage plan.

*******The most popular watering hole for Allied Officers in Perth (partly because of the exotic tropical, or frozen, or fluminating cocktails and partly because it is now, the authorized, by exclusive contract, "place of operation" of the Perth Welcoming Committee), November 10, 1942***********

A young Australian Lt. sits across from a beautiful young woman with an elegant neck and an ample bosom.

Woman with ample bosom:Oh..I just LOVE your accent! What unit are you with Lt.?

Young Australian Lt.: 40 Bn., 12th Infantry Brigade, 4th Division. We are a militia division but we are damn good. We cut our teeth killing Japs here around Perth.

Woman with ample bosom: Oooh! I wager you have quite an important job, Lt. <the tone is clearly seductive and the question so obviously manipulative that any cretin could see through it, unless, of course, that cretin had testosterone coursing through his veins>

Young Australian Lt.: Yes ma'am. Battalion HQ company!

Woman with ample bosom: <sidles closer and leans forward provocatively> Oh, I do so hope they don't send you anywhere. We don't get many here as handsome as you. <giggles slightly and covers her mouth>

Young Australian Lt.: <looks slightly deflated> Well, I probably shouldn't tell you this but we just recieved maps for Babo and vicinity. I had to look it up. It's on the NW tip of New Guinea.

Woman with ample bosom: Ohhhh. You must tell me when you are going. I have a fantastic recipe for deviled eggs. I would love to have you over when my roomate is away for the weekend. <giggles again>.........

Posted: **Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:03 pm**

Egyptian Girl's Note: Some readers may not know that the expression "ample bosom" is a period nicety. Succintly it means that the party in question has big breasts. It is most commonly used to describe women.

Posted: **Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:49 pm**

Oh dear, oh dear... Wonder what particularly hellish assignment our young Australian leftenant will find himself volunteered for?

Posted: **Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:47 am**

OMG, Mandrake, it just became clear to me: Looking at all the turns this narrative has taken over the last year, if I were a Freudian analyst (and yes, we still had those kind of guys on faculty at Stanford Med School when I did my psych clerkship there in '78), I would intuit that your written description above of "Woman with ample bosom  extracting vital operational information from a young, testicularly-induced dyscognitive male" is actually a manifestation of a deep-seated, repressed fear that Stalker Girl is actually a John 3rd plant hell-bent on stealing operational plans from you and Tabpub in your death struggle playing WITP. 
 
My advice as a trained medical professional:  give her info, but slowly and most sparingly, and maximally enjoy the ride. Besides, those Boise girls become really loyal to the guys around them, and switch sides easily. 
 
You can send me $50 for my professional analysis whenever you find it convienient...

Posted: **Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:33 pm**

Apparently the writers' strike is affecting this AAR as well.

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