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Thanks Mike.
The Happy Pinatas
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Onime No Kyo
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RE: The Happy Pinatas
Thanks Mike.
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Onime No Kyo
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RE: The Happy Pinatas
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Just a point of order moving forward....are 'Onime Blasts' by visitors welcome? No reason in particular, just curious. [:D]
Knock yourself out. [:'(]
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RE: The Happy Pinatas
Very nice start to the AAR. You're definetly a talented writer.
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Onime No Kyo
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RE: The Happy Pinatas
To provide a brief snapshot of where the game is after 10 turns.
- The Japanese launched 2 days worth of very damaging attacks on PH.
- There are significant enemy land forces in the PI with bombing continuing daily.
- Most of N. Borneo has fallen aside from Sambas, which is unlikely to withstand a determined attack.
- No significant combat in Malaya as of yet. The enemy landed at Kuanatan several days ago but found only a BF unit. The blocking units at Alor Star are in contact with leading elements (likely light and/or armored units, but no firm data is available) of an enemy column from Singora. The enemy has spent the last 4 days demonstrating actively but has not attacked. Air recon shows follow-on forces, perhaps as many as 3 infantry divisions, approaching from the north.
-The enemy has crossed the causeway into Hong Kong but has not attacked.
-Several sharp naval skirmishes have taken place in the Celebes Sea, where a light enemy carrier and several surface groups were known to be active, resulting in the loss of several transports and the USS Houston.
-A light Japanese surface force, consisting of 1 CA and 3 DDs had entered Balikpapan harbor (possibly intending to bombard or chasing cripples) several days ago, where it was met by the RN's Force Z. The only Japanese ship to leave was a DD. Force Z suffered no significant damage.
- The enemy force unloading at Kuantan was attacked by bombers operating from Singapore with significant success before the base fell. Similar raids launched the following day were met by fighters operating from the Kuantan airfield. Escorting Buffalos and Warhawks of the AVG gave a good account of themselves against the Japanese CAP but bomber losses, both to flak and fighters, were severe.
-The China front has been stable. Aside from daily air attacks, the enemy does not show much activity.
-An enemy force of uncertain strength is believed to be approaching Wake Island.
-SigInt suggests a possible landing at Lae in the near future. Naval recon has not located any enemy threat in the immediate area.
-Enemy submarines are known to be operating off Singapore and the West Coast of the US. At least one submarine was sighted heading north through the Strait of Malacca. ASW forces operating from Indian ports have been placed on alert. Minesweeping forces are likewise in a state of readiness.
- The Japanese launched 2 days worth of very damaging attacks on PH.
- There are significant enemy land forces in the PI with bombing continuing daily.
- Most of N. Borneo has fallen aside from Sambas, which is unlikely to withstand a determined attack.
- No significant combat in Malaya as of yet. The enemy landed at Kuanatan several days ago but found only a BF unit. The blocking units at Alor Star are in contact with leading elements (likely light and/or armored units, but no firm data is available) of an enemy column from Singora. The enemy has spent the last 4 days demonstrating actively but has not attacked. Air recon shows follow-on forces, perhaps as many as 3 infantry divisions, approaching from the north.
-The enemy has crossed the causeway into Hong Kong but has not attacked.
-Several sharp naval skirmishes have taken place in the Celebes Sea, where a light enemy carrier and several surface groups were known to be active, resulting in the loss of several transports and the USS Houston.
-A light Japanese surface force, consisting of 1 CA and 3 DDs had entered Balikpapan harbor (possibly intending to bombard or chasing cripples) several days ago, where it was met by the RN's Force Z. The only Japanese ship to leave was a DD. Force Z suffered no significant damage.
- The enemy force unloading at Kuantan was attacked by bombers operating from Singapore with significant success before the base fell. Similar raids launched the following day were met by fighters operating from the Kuantan airfield. Escorting Buffalos and Warhawks of the AVG gave a good account of themselves against the Japanese CAP but bomber losses, both to flak and fighters, were severe.
-The China front has been stable. Aside from daily air attacks, the enemy does not show much activity.
-An enemy force of uncertain strength is believed to be approaching Wake Island.
-SigInt suggests a possible landing at Lae in the near future. Naval recon has not located any enemy threat in the immediate area.
-Enemy submarines are known to be operating off Singapore and the West Coast of the US. At least one submarine was sighted heading north through the Strait of Malacca. ASW forces operating from Indian ports have been placed on alert. Minesweeping forces are likewise in a state of readiness.
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RE: The Happy Pinatas
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
As this AAR progresses, I fully plan to showcase my complete lack of writing talent for all the world to see. And believe me, I'm no Cuttlefish, nor yet a Mandrake.
You have received fair warning. Proceed with caution. [:-]
Few of us are. Don't worry about it.
Edit: Onime, I just read your 7 Dec entry. Who says you can't write? That was great! [:)]
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Onime No Kyo
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RE: The Happy Pinatas
ORIGINAL: Mike Solli
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
As this AAR progresses, I fully plan to showcase my complete lack of writing talent for all the world to see. And believe me, I'm no Cuttlefish, nor yet a Mandrake.
You have received fair warning. Proceed with caution. [:-]
Few of us are. Don't worry about it.
Edit: Onime, I just read your 7 Dec entry. Who says you can't write? That was great! [:)]
Thank you Mike. [&o]
Incidentally, the Pacific war is not exactly my area of historical expertise. Come to think of it, neither is the Western side of the whole war. [:D]
I know that quite a few of you guys are accomplished amateur historians (and some not so amateur) and avid readers. If any of the drivel I'm likely to write sticks in your "historical craw", please dont hesitate to let me know. I will be happy to correct my errors, both because I want this stuff to sound at least somewhat plausible and because I would love to learn the details myself.
"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok
RE: The Happy Pinatas
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
As this AAR progresses, I fully plan to showcase my complete lack of writing talent for all the world to see. And believe me, I'm no Cuttlefish, nor yet a Mandrake.
You have received fair warning. Proceed with caution. [:-]
[:D]
This AAR, i can't miss it.
You have a new reader
RE: The Happy Pinatas
I shall be following with interest.
"Grown ups are what's left when skool is finished."
"History started badly and hav been geting steadily worse."
- Nigel Molesworth.
"History started badly and hav been geting steadily worse."
- Nigel Molesworth.
RE: The Happy Pinatas
+1.ORIGINAL: sprior
I shall be following with interest.
... and nice title on the AAR [:D][:'(]
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RE: The Happy Pinatas
+2 Steven and the Mouse, this should be entertaining. 
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RE: The Happy Pinatas
Intact farmer's daughters filling the hot tub? Sorry, just had a flashback of the Saw movies...[:D]ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
If you can arrange for a hot tub filled with farmers' daughters I may consider it. [:D]
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Onime No Kyo
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RE: The Happy Pinatas
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Intact farmer's daughters filling the hot tub? Sorry, just had a flashback of the Saw movies...[:D]ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
If you can arrange for a hot tub filled with farmers' daughters I may consider it. [:D]
You, sir, are a sick puppy.....umm...chicken.
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RE: The Happy Pinatas
Dec. 17, 1941
A single rifle shot rang crisp and clear in the pre-dawn darkness.
"Bloody fools" muttered Lt. Maxwell to himself in the murk of the dugout, barely lifting his eyes from the maps he was studying by the dim light of the oil lamp. It wasnt the cultural differences between the lieutenant and his Punjabis. In fact, he rather liked their food and the sing-song quality of their language. It wasnt even the way his soldiers tried to shirk the least pleasant duties and details by feigning an inability to understand their orders. To be perfectly honest, the lieutenant had to admit to himself, I would do the same in their place. What really drove Lt. Maxwell to distraction about his Indians was the way they good-naturedely but consistently ignored the most basic of military lessons, such as sound and light discipline, and the fact that crawling out of your foxhole at night, for whatever reason, was an extremely bad idea, regardless of how many times those basics were repeated to them. "Another dead bloody fool", thought the lieutenant again with a pang of guilt and regret as the limp body of a young soldier was carried into the dugout on a tarp by two others. The man who was now the corpse had probably crawled out to take a leak. Who shot him, an alert Japanese sniper or one of his jumpy buddies, was as unimportant as the reason he crawled out of his hole in the first place. Either way he was just as dead.
Nor was he the first, and will certainly not be the last. Maxwell and his unit was located towards the western end of the thin line of troops defending Alor Star. To his left were the Leicestershires, obviously being trusted most to secure a flank. To his right stretched out the rest of the 15th Indian Brigade.
Despite the fact that in civilian terms they had been in their positions quite long enough to have improved their positions, the military reality was quite different. From the first day of the war, Alor Star had been bombed on a daily basis. After the first few days, a new threat appeared. Advance elements of the Japanese column had arrived on the outskirts of town. While the enemy had not yet made any effort to advance, enemy sharpshooters occupied hidden positions in the dense undergrowth abutting the town. All movement in the open had become perilous, of which the young man whose body now lay in the corner of the dugout was, perhaps, another reminder. It became impossible to improve the existing trenchworks. Some rudimentary digging was still going on further back, in the reserve area, but any rational being realized that once the Japanese penetrated the main line of defense, there would be nothing to stop them.
Maxwell sighed and folded his map as the distant rumble of the day's first air raid reached his hearing. It wouldnt be long now, he mused. Recon patrols, brave and desperate souls who risked their lives to crawl through the enemy-held jungle, had confirmed that the main body of the Japanese column was at most within a day's march. He straightened his uniform tunic and ducked out of the dugout to give the usual pats on the back and kind words to his anxious soldiers before the bombs, and perhaps even the first enemy charge was upon them.
A single rifle shot rang crisp and clear in the pre-dawn darkness.
"Bloody fools" muttered Lt. Maxwell to himself in the murk of the dugout, barely lifting his eyes from the maps he was studying by the dim light of the oil lamp. It wasnt the cultural differences between the lieutenant and his Punjabis. In fact, he rather liked their food and the sing-song quality of their language. It wasnt even the way his soldiers tried to shirk the least pleasant duties and details by feigning an inability to understand their orders. To be perfectly honest, the lieutenant had to admit to himself, I would do the same in their place. What really drove Lt. Maxwell to distraction about his Indians was the way they good-naturedely but consistently ignored the most basic of military lessons, such as sound and light discipline, and the fact that crawling out of your foxhole at night, for whatever reason, was an extremely bad idea, regardless of how many times those basics were repeated to them. "Another dead bloody fool", thought the lieutenant again with a pang of guilt and regret as the limp body of a young soldier was carried into the dugout on a tarp by two others. The man who was now the corpse had probably crawled out to take a leak. Who shot him, an alert Japanese sniper or one of his jumpy buddies, was as unimportant as the reason he crawled out of his hole in the first place. Either way he was just as dead.
Nor was he the first, and will certainly not be the last. Maxwell and his unit was located towards the western end of the thin line of troops defending Alor Star. To his left were the Leicestershires, obviously being trusted most to secure a flank. To his right stretched out the rest of the 15th Indian Brigade.
Despite the fact that in civilian terms they had been in their positions quite long enough to have improved their positions, the military reality was quite different. From the first day of the war, Alor Star had been bombed on a daily basis. After the first few days, a new threat appeared. Advance elements of the Japanese column had arrived on the outskirts of town. While the enemy had not yet made any effort to advance, enemy sharpshooters occupied hidden positions in the dense undergrowth abutting the town. All movement in the open had become perilous, of which the young man whose body now lay in the corner of the dugout was, perhaps, another reminder. It became impossible to improve the existing trenchworks. Some rudimentary digging was still going on further back, in the reserve area, but any rational being realized that once the Japanese penetrated the main line of defense, there would be nothing to stop them.
Maxwell sighed and folded his map as the distant rumble of the day's first air raid reached his hearing. It wouldnt be long now, he mused. Recon patrols, brave and desperate souls who risked their lives to crawl through the enemy-held jungle, had confirmed that the main body of the Japanese column was at most within a day's march. He straightened his uniform tunic and ducked out of the dugout to give the usual pats on the back and kind words to his anxious soldiers before the bombs, and perhaps even the first enemy charge was upon them.
"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok
RE: The Happy Pinatas
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Intact farmer's daughters filling the hot tub? Sorry, just had a flashback of the Saw movies...[:D]ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
If you can arrange for a hot tub filled with farmers' daughters I may consider it. [:D]
You, sir, are a sick puppy.....umm...chicken.
Extremely sick![X(]
RE: The Happy Pinatas
ORIGINAL: DivePac88
+2 Steven and the Mouse, this should be entertaining.
Actually that's Steve. or Stephen. [:D]
RE: The Happy Pinatas
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
Hello everybody (I'm sure there arn't that many of you) and welcome to the AAR.
Steve (AW1Steve) and I are playing against John (John 3rd) and Scott (scott1964). They are both from Colorado and are very good and experienced players. Incidentally, they can stop reading and get the heck out of this thread.....now. [:'(]
As for Steve and I, we have absolutely nothing in common except sheer bloody mindedness. We have played several games of the original WitP against each other and found them to be invariably bloody but very, very enjoyable (speaking for myself, of course, although my partner might agree as well) during which I have acquired great respect for Steve both as a player and person and am honored to fight with him side by side, as it were. We have also noted that we have a very similar playing style and tend to think along the same lines strategically. We hope that this will prove an advantage in this game.
This is my first game of AE anything aside from about a month's worth of turns I ran against the AI as I only bought the game a month or so ago after taking a very lengthy pause from vanilla WitP for personal reasons and not having the guts to return until now. Steve has quite a bit more experience, both with AE and WitP in general and has been an invaluable resource for information and a great sounding board for my silly ideas.
The premise of this game is simple. There are no house rules. We are all gentlemen and adults and can agree that we can enjoy this game without throwing up preemptive bulwarks of house rules (which always struck me as a sort of PBEM prenop). Therefore, all the parties involved have agreed to keep themselves honest, not engage in any gamey behavior or to misuse the weaknesses of the system in any way. There is the caveat that any notice of gamey actions can and should be called out to the offending side, but I'm personally sure that this will not become necessary.
Other than that, the field is open. As Steve is fond of saying, the gameyest part of this game is that one person can be Field Marshal, Admiral, President, Prime Minister and God the Almighty all in one.
As for the setup of this AAR, I have noted elsewhere previously that I am no fan of cutting and pasting the combat summary. Maybe my partner would be willing to take care of that side or either of us could simply provide a synopsis. I'll try to fill in the color commentary as the muse moves me.
Questions, comments and jokes are always welcome. Rude and/or obnoxious behavior is not.
Enjoy.
The reason I've never cut and pasted the combat summary is that I've never quite figured out how. I probably will some day, but not for the tactical benefit of Chickenboy![:D]
Yury and I have very different backgrounds and areas of interest. Strangely enough they complement each other. I won't say where those areas are , because they will give too much info to "you know who", whom I'm currently engaged in another deadly struggle (2x2 PBEM)![:D]
We've had hours of preperation and planning , via email,phone callsand instant messaging. My hopes are to increase this to tele-conferencing next. (Assuming I can get the newly purchased camera and other gear functioning!).To plan any better or more extensively would require one of us to purchase an airline ticket (probably me, as I very much doubt Yury will visit the land of Beef,beer,bombers and Corn-huskers!). [:D]
If you can arrange for a hot tub filled with farmers' daughters I may consider it. [:D]
And what would your fiance (GFU) have to say about that?![:-]
RE: The Happy Pinatas
ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: DivePac88
+2 Steven and the Mouse, this should be entertaining.
Actually that's Steve. or Stephen. [:D]
Sorry Stephen. [&o]
When you see the Southern Cross, For the first time
You understand now, Why you came this way
RE: The Happy Pinatas
No need Des. I was simply being a smart @$$. [8|][:D]ORIGINAL: DivePac88
ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: DivePac88
+2 Steven and the Mouse, this should be entertaining.
Actually that's Steve. or Stephen. [:D]
Sorry Stephen. [&o]
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Onime No Kyo
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RE: The Happy Pinatas
ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
The reason I've never cut and pasted the combat summary is that I've never quite figured out how. I probably will some day, but not for the tactical benefit of Chickenboy![:D]
Yury and I have very different backgrounds and areas of interest. Strangely enough they complement each other. I won't say where those areas are , because they will give too much info to "you know who", whom I'm currently engaged in another deadly struggle (2x2 PBEM)![:D]
We've had hours of preperation and planning , via email,phone callsand instant messaging. My hopes are to increase this to tele-conferencing next. (Assuming I can get the newly purchased camera and other gear functioning!).To plan any better or more extensively would require one of us to purchase an airline ticket (probably me, as I very much doubt Yury will visit the land of Beef,beer,bombers and Corn-huskers!). [:D]
If you can arrange for a hot tub filled with farmers' daughters I may consider it. [:D]
And what would your fiance (GFU) have to say about that?![:-]
Given that this forum is chock full of married men ogling girls in bikinis, I'd say I'm rather innocent. [:D]
"Mighty is the Thread! Great are its works and insane are its inhabitants!" -Brother Mynok
RE: The Happy Pinatas
ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
No need Des. I was simply being a smart @$$. [8|][:D]
I know Steve, just felt like saying sorry to someone, as I haven't done that for a week. [;)]
When you see the Southern Cross, For the first time
You understand now, Why you came this way