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

[sprior]

That would just be silly sending a man with a Liverpudlian accent behind JJs lines.

[Onime No Kyo]

As opposed to.....? [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Our newest agent, Lt Col Léone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudati-filius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache, reports that Mandfalay is relatively lightly held. Op Buggritt is well on its way.

That sounds seriously gay. Are you sure he wouldn't be better off in Bangkok?

[Redd]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

Our newest agent, Lt Col Léone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudati-filius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache, reports that Mandfalay is relatively lightly held. Op Buggritt is well on its way.

That sounds seriously gay. Are you sure he wouldn't be better off in Bangkok?

I'm sure he'll get there eventually. [;)]

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Mynok


Never know when they might get a life-threatening blood blister. [:D]

Are blisters a life threatening concern for Martians?

No. Only crabs. Pay attention!

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

Our newest agent, Lt Col Léone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudati-filius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache, reports that Mandfalay is relatively lightly held. Op Buggritt is well on its way.

That sounds seriously gay. Are you sure he wouldn't be better off in Bangkok?

Not as gay as Rong Irand. Or Rone Ranger.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Our newest agent, Lt Col Léone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudati-filius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache, reports that Mandfalay is relatively lightly held. Op Buggritt is well on its way.

I'll bet he's glad that Buggritt is finally underway. For all the blokes that were bent over a barrel planning this, it's good to see Tollemache-Tollemache get his justice in the end.

[Moondawggie]

ORIGINAL: Mynok

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

Our newest agent, Lt Col Léone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudati-filius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache, reports that Mandfalay is relatively lightly held. Op Buggritt is well on its way.

That sounds seriously gay. Are you sure he wouldn't be better off in Bangkok?

Not as gay as Rong Irand. Or Rone Ranger.

Gawd, I hope a new turn arrives soon so we all can move on into the virtual future!

And could we just change Sprior's title to "His Celestial Majesty (HCM)" to avoid offending him in the future?

It's hard to beat that title of aristocratic rank! [&o]

[sprior]

June 10th. Katherine holdds out for another day. I think 18th Div are trying to prove something after a brigade collapsed in 1 day of combat at Timor.

Ground combat at Katherine (76,128)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 50727 troops, 512 guns, 192 vehicles, Assault Value = 1715

Defending force 13468 troops, 392 guns, 279 vehicles, Assault Value = 510

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 746

Allied adjusted defense: 619

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: op mode(-), leaders(+), preparation(-)
Attacker: disruption(-)

Japanese ground losses:
1229 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 99 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 81 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 22 disabled
Vehicles lost 9 (2 destroyed, 7 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
161 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 31 destroyed, 31 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 55 (36 destroyed, 19 disabled)


Assaulting units:
38th Division
5th Division
40th Brigade
2nd Recon Regiment
24th Infantry Regiment
6th Guards Division
14th Guards Regiment

Defending units:
2/8th Armoured Regiment
2/10th Armoured Regiment
18th British Division
I Australian Corps
NW Australia Base Force

[sprior]

No. Only crabs. Pay attention!

This kind?

[sprior]

18th Div is getting better and better every day, 3 experience points today!

[sprior]

And over at Cochin the troops ear-marked (a painful process I'm told) for Weasel embark for Perth. The warm one not the cold, damp one.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

18th Div is getting better and better every day, 3 experience points today!

It's those 16 AEC Matadors. They are the envy of every unit within a 1000 mile radius.

[Cap Mandrake]

The lovely Pininfirina styling. The aerodynamic design...and when you put the thing into a power drift it is an awesome sight.

[sprior]

Having 72 of these probably helps:

[sprior]

According to somebody on ARRSE who should know:

Yes - a very good, simple, rugged squaddy-proof gun..

It's only fault was it was rather heavy for it's capablities and could not be realistically slung, although they did produce a lightweight varient with no shield and a folding trail. The circular gun platform and box trail combination was easy to use, and allowed for rapid traverses with minimum effort (unlike the Pack How).

It could fire a vast range of ammuniton from AP to Mars Bars (I kid you not!) although the design of the round was 1920's vintage and not as efficient as the 105. The original pre-war design did not have a muzzle brake; this was added in the early years of the war to allow SuperCharge+ to be used with AP shot in the direct fire role against tanks (always a bit of a dodgy prospect IMHO!)

In service up to the late 70s at Larkhill where it was used to exploit the last of the wartime ammunition stockpile for training OPs - a complete battery was converted to "mils and meters" for this purpose..

Shell production stopped in the 50s although Blackburn and Chorley were knocking out fuzes well into the 60s.

[sprior]

More 25lb-er loveliness. Note the pongoes in the background showing off!

[Chickenboy]

Oi! What's the one poor bloke doin' holding onto the metal brace at the back of the gun? Does he think he's going to stop the recoil or something? Looks like a great way to spike a unit's quadraceps contusion and / or bilaterally fractured femur numbers. [:-]

[Chickenboy]

Also admiring the American jeeps in that image. [:'(]

[BrucePowers]

Let's get back to the bar on Oahu[:D]