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January 3, 1942

Easter Egg No. 1: I tweaked SigInt a bit to eliminate the use "chatter" like this:

Radio transmissions detected at Babar (76,117).

Then I tweaked it a bit to give Japan a little helpful stuff. Here's today's report:

SIG INT REPORT FOR Jan 02, 42

CV Hornet has a complement of 20 fighters, 36 dive bombers, 30 torpedo bombers
She is in TF 3 in hex 114, 73, heading due West at regular speed
Her commander is Mark Mischer
There are two other CVs in the TF
One of those is CV Enterprise
She has 22 SYS damage accuring after a flank speed run and a collision with CA Pensacoloa [another Easter Egg]
Hornet should be in hex 114, 67 tomorrow
Based upon current movement orders, she should be near Nagaoka in two days
Computer estimates raid on Home Island industry
Your nearest fighter squadrons are in Taiwan
Send every fighter back to the HI now.

Banzai!

ORIGINAL: adarbrauner

Someone here is missing his playing buddy

You ain't just whistlin' Dixie.

I mean it literally. Have you, as a European, ever whistled Dixie? Do you know what this expression means?

Damn. Go to my Mom's for five days and THIS happens.

Goodness...

January 4, 1942

Easter Egg No. 2: I got this surprising information. Have any of you ever seen this before? I swear this wasn't coded into my mod. I'm pretty sure. Banzai!

OPERATIONAL REPORT FOR Nov 06, 44

SS I-3506 reports having been sighted by the enemy at 180 , 107
SS I-3519 reports having been sighted by the enemy at 180, 109
Pearl Harbor reported sunk by upgraded salvo of Photon Torpedoes fired by SS I-3506 at 180 , 107
All units scheduled to arrive at Pearl Harbor erased from data base at 180 , 107

I'm pretty sure Pearl Harbor is gone, as I heard breaking up sounds.
Also, the Intel Screen reports 219 P-26 fighters destroyed "on Ground." [I bumped P-26 fighter production to 73 per month to enhance Allied air operations, since the next gen P-39 doesn't arrive unit 3/44.]

Scratch one "unsinkable flattop"!

Banzai!

I think my AAR is getting better and better. Look at this - It only took me twice as many posts to get the same number of replies!

Banzai!

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: adarbrauner

Someone here is missing his playing buddy

You ain't just whistlin' Dixie.

I mean it literally. Have you, as a European, ever whistled Dixie? Do you know what this expression means?

dixieland?

Dixie River?

This sis devastating.

an unstoppable BLOB

ORIGINAL: adarbrauner

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: adarbrauner

Someone here is missing his playing buddy

You ain't just whistlin' Dixie.

I mean it literally. Have you, as a European, ever whistled Dixie? Do you know what this expression means?

dixieland?

Dixie River?

The Mason-Dixon line that defines the Northern and the Southern States.

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I think my AAR is getting better and better. Look at this - It only took me twice as many posts to get the same number of replies!

Banzai!

Ahh, Postus envy, another sign of creeping age - or aging creeps! [:'(]

I spent a nice New Years weekend in London, England. A bunch of us went to a public house and at 7 pm they started playing music. The first song that was played was Dixie. Even though I am from the Northern most of the lower 48 states, I could sing along as well.

Have you spotted the 1x10*6 yet?

Cheers,
CC

January 5, 1942

Japanese Economy: I've just gotten word that it isn't possible to run my economy without fuel and supply. My opponent and I are restarting, using my Where the Chrysanthemums Bloom mod. Please disregard this thread and continue with the newest one titled "The Shattered Sword" (tm.asp?m=4499197).

We can not disregard such an elegant thread.

And we are still waiting for the justification of the house rule
that states that only a single 4 engine bomber may make a bomb run
per turn.

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

I spent a nice New Years weekend in London, England. A bunch of us went to a public house and at 7 pm they started playing music. The first song that was played was Dixie. Even though I am from the Northern most of the lower 48 states, I could sing along as well.

At the end of the ACW Lincoln was happy to hear "Dixie" being played as he quite liked the tune.

That and the fact that he meant it when he said, "with malice towards none, with charity for all."

ORIGINAL: JeffroK

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

I spent a nice New Years weekend in London, England. A bunch of us went to a public house and at 7 pm they started playing music. The first song that was played was Dixie. Even though I am from the Northern most of the lower 48 states, I could sing along as well.

At the end of the ACW Lincoln was happy to hear "Dixie" being played as he quite liked the tune.

Didn't Grant order his band to play "Dixie" after Lee surrendered at Appomattox and Confederate troops were marching away to dispersal to their homes? Another gesture of respect and goodwill toward brothers-in-arms.

In 'Outlaw Josie Wales', Client Eastwood says "Are you gonna whistle Dixie?" to 3 surprised Union soldiers.

ORIGINAL: Zorch

In 'Outlaw Josie Wales', Client Eastwood says "Are you gonna whistle Dixie?" to 3 surprised Union soldiers.

[:D]
The clenched teeth belie his goodwill toward those red-legs!

And Edwin Booth saved Robert Lincoln. Edwin was a Unionist but did not know whom he had saved until he received a letter from a friend on Grant's staff telling him. He was much comforted by this after what his brother had done.

https://mentalfloss.com/article/56482/t ... ncolns-son

General Chamberlain had his men render honors to the Confederates as they marched in to surrender their arms. General Gordon returned those honors.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/prim ... n-virginia

I am missing the "I spotted two enemy AK and one AKL unloading on a south pacific atoll. I am 60 hexes away. Am flank speed going for it with my KB - I have 6 CV, 4 CVL, roughly 800 airplanes, just enough for the job."

Also the "The air fleet of 300 G5N2 Liz have started to bomb Panama canal from Tokyo. The canal is destroyed (possible in this mod!) and so further movement through it is prohibited." (uh, I feel that I have erred in this one, gave John an idea maybe I shouldn't).

And finally:
"It is 1943 and Japan is R&Ding the atomic bomb. Should come online in early 1944".

[:D] [:D] [:D]

All kidding aside, it is John's mod and all who play him know EXACTLY what they are getting into - an ironman mod where Japan has a hundred of new ships and planes types led by a super aggressive and competent AI

I think we must remember that this is a game, and it IS unrealistic (Japan routinely conquers China, anyone?). So why not make a fun mod to give Japan ironman scenario toys.

Someone wrote that John's mod was made specifically tailor made to allow John to play the game with his unique playstyle - hyper aggressive everywhere. The thing is, the answer to this is "duh!". OF course this mod is made by John for John, and it gives an experienced Allied player a very challenging and fun game.

ME, if I played the Allies in this vs John, would have lost San Francisco to a Japanese naval invasion in 1942 [:D]

I searched for Anarcho and John's AAR's because I enjoy Anarcho's AAR vs John a lot, to me the best AAR I have read on this game. Because of the mod, it is nonstop action. Sci fi Star Wars action but hey.