Fear and loathing - Japanese style

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: fabertong

23rd May 1942.......

Not much to report today...... except that I lost 16,000 men in a frontal attack on Yenen......having in other PBEMs recreated Midway and the great marianas turkey shoot......I continue my great disaster series with Pickett's charge.......if Tom doesn't counter and push me back from Yenen......I'll flank to the north...and join my forces at Sinning......time consuming....but not troop consuming.......
Elsewhere Scott has invested Palambang....two Aussie brigades + some Dutch.....so a bit of a fight on his hands......
Lew is finishing off the last remaining troops in the Phils......

SEND MORE MEN....I'M RUNNING OUT.[X(]

Well, i see you at least have plenty of landing craft....

[fabertong]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: fabertong

23rd May 1942.......

Not much to report today...... except that I lost 16,000 men in a frontal attack on Yenen......having in other PBEMs recreated Midway and the great marianas turkey shoot......I continue my great disaster series with Pickett's charge.......if Tom doesn't counter and push me back from Yenen......I'll flank to the north...and join my forces at Sinning......time consuming....but not troop consuming.......
Elsewhere Scott has invested Palambang....two Aussie brigades + some Dutch.....so a bit of a fight on his hands......
Lew is finishing off the last remaining troops in the Phils......

SEND MORE MEN....I'M RUNNING OUT.[X(]

Well, i see you at least have plenty of landing craft....

OHHH NOOOOO....my secret invasion force revealed........

[rtrapasso]

Fabertong's crack storm troops marching in China:

[Mike Solli]

They go well with his landing craft.[:D]

[fabertong]

AAARGH.......ALL MY SUPER-SECRET PLANS REVEALED.........IT TOOK ME MONTHS TO GET THEM TO MARCH IN FORMATION..........I mean, most don't know their left from their right..............

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: fabertong

AAARGH.......ALL MY SUPER-SECRET PLANS REVEALED.........IT TOOK ME MONTHS TO GET THEM TO MARCH IN FORMATION..........I mean, most don't know their left from their right..............

Ooops - sorry about that![:D][:'(]

[fabertong]

Well at least you didn't disclose the secret puffin brigade.........d*mn I shouldn't have said that........

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: fabertong

Well at least you didn't disclose the secret puffin brigade.........d*mn I shouldn't have said that........

Is talking about your Ostrich Special Forces Battallion allowed?

[fabertong]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: fabertong

Well at least you didn't disclose the secret puffin brigade.........d*mn I shouldn't have said that........

Is talking about your Ostrich Special Forces Battallion allowed?

That's fine, they are already in action....just don't mention the Koala's......d*mn...there I go again.....

[scott64]

Operation Oil is underway. The 18th Division is on their way to Palembang. They willbe supported with the 23rd Mixed Brdg and a coupleof support units. The Allies have landed more troops and it looks to be more bloody than first planned.
[X(][:-]

[rtrapasso]

That's fine, they are already in action....just don't mention the Koala's......d*mn...there I go again.....

What, these guys?[:'(]

[fabertong]

Exactly...the 121st Furry Mammal Cuddling Detachment...........look on in horror.........

[Terminus]

Don't let their cuddly exterior fool you... Koalas are quite vicious. Unfortunately, their biggest defence mechanism is having a heart attack and falling over dead if you touch them.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Don't let their cuddly exterior fool you... Koalas are quite vicious. Unfortunately, their biggest defence mechanism is having a heart attack and falling over dead if you touch them.

i here i thought it was they would urinate on you when attacked![:'(]

[scott64]

It seams some of our naval units decided to get a little R&R on a distant island. [X(]

TF 3 encounters mine field at 24547248,56

Japanese Ships
MSW Fumi Maru #2
MSW Banshu Maru #8
MSW Asahi Maru
PG Keiko Maru

They left because they were no native ladies present or koala bears. [:'(]

[fabertong]

and so back to the war.........

The crossroads north of Wuhan were taken and the Army group is heading North......Tom troops in Wuhan are hanging by a thread........but will take some time to complete the trap........
Operation RESOLVE is about to get underway....This will be Scott's invasion of Java....supported by Lew from the Phils......KB2 (four fleet carriers) are on the way to support.....along with a SAG (2BB,4CA + escorts) New Zero Sqdrns will be committed in the next week to this theatre.........I hope 4 will be available.......
The Para's have left Burma.....prepping for an Attack on Bali.........
Additional troops are moving to Kendari to take part in the op. to take the last Allied base on Timor........

[fabertong]

29th May 1942......

Huge allied air-raids(100+planes) over Kendari and Malaya.....ouch........
BB Ramillies hit by I boat off Palambang........I boat killed by escorts, but Ram. will be limping home.......
Op. Resolve (the invasion of Java)...is in full planning mode........est. three weeks till launch....will post full OOB once Scott and Lew have hammered out the details.......
56th Div. is returned to Scott for the Op. This leaves me short in Burma.....but I'm hoping Tom won't notice........

[fabertong]

30th May 1942.....

Warspite and Renown(or was it Resolution) Bombard Palambang..........
2nd UK Div.spotted at Palambang.....Scott's going to have a h*ll of a fight to take it........
Bataan has fallen .....The PI are all ours..........
Now for Java.......I think the Allies are going to try and hold Java......(much reinforced).....we need to trap them and then crush them there........
Op. RESOLVE will be a monster.........planning underway......Est. 3 weeks to the off.............

[fabertong]

31st May 1942

It looks as though Tom is pulling out of Wuchow....I'm launching a deliberate attack next turn...as I did this turn.....0-1 but not much in the way of casualties.......4,000 of mine to 2,500 of his......I hope to catch him on the move.....if he lacks supply and can't shift my holding force on the crossroads...these troops are doomed..........As will be much of southern China.........

[fabertong]

Tom has pulled out of Wuchow.....and surprised me once again by crossing the river to threaten Nanning/Hanoi.....and at the risk of showing my complete lack of knowledge....I didn't know you could cross the river there.....he has 6 units across another 18 just North of Wuchow that may cross or wait to see what I'm going to do next....

Nanning defended by 1 base force
Hanoi defended by 2 base forces
I've sent my tanks (4 Bgds) to Nanning will hopefully get there before him followed by 2 Divs.....the rest of the Wuchow army Is heading North......to join the troops at the crossroads and march on Kweiyang.....
Hanoi is on it's own .......no troops available to me to protect...

So Tom may take China south of the River...while I take Kweiyang and move north.......

At least China is never dull.............