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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Running out of money.

Good news for you, then: you'll get ~$80/bimonthly paycheck more through February! Who says our government can't solve all our problems? [:D]

Para-assault on Fenton (the dot hex between Darwin and Katherine) can be useful to interdict JJ's supply route and rail reinforcements to Katherine.

I thought it wouldn't work because of the supply problems on the crappy track from Alice, but, it seems that after the Beta, supply is slowly accumulating at Tennant and Daly Waters.

This is very very good news indeed!!! [;)] I noticed this and a discussion exists in my thread. I believe this behavior has changed and can be exploited against a complacent IJ opponent. Keep the thread updated and how supply is working for you .. I have the very same problem to solve and have committed the 1 AUS Corps to solve it ...

*********With No. 35 Sqdrn., RAAF, Albany, Australia, Nov. 7, 1942*******

Squadron Leader James Elster, RAAF had wanted to lead men into battle since he could remember. When war broke out in Europe, he tried to volunteer for the RAF to be close to the action in the Battle of Britain, but his elderly mother imposed upon him to stay closer to home. When the Japs attacked Darwin, he could contain himself no longer. He quit his job as assistant professor of 19th Century French Literature at Swinburne University Of Technology in Hawthorn and procured himself a commission in the RAAF. He wanted to fly the Spitfire, but, alas, there were none to be had so he was qualified on the Wirraway.

He was spotted immediately for his aptitude. Unfortunately, his aptitude was all about doing involuntary ground loops. He was certified prematurely in order to not risk the lives of any of the valuable instructors any further. The training squadron commander had this to say of young Elster upon his graduation, "I am quite certain that men will follow this young officer anywhere, although chiefly out of curiosity". The wing psychiatrist had this to say, "Somewhere, there is a village without its idiot".

After much thought, it was decided to assign Sqdrn. Leader Elster to a transport training squadron in Albany. It was deemed safer to not allow him access to weapons. Despite his disappointment at not flying the Spitfire against IJN aces, Sqdrn, Leader Elster applied his full intellect, indeed his full being to the new assignment.

Sqdrn. Leader Elster: Now look here Flight Officer, I want you to pay attention. This is crucial. Always load the first class mail last. In that way, it will also be first off the plane.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Running out of money.

Good news for you, then: you'll get ~$80/bimonthly paycheck more through February! Who says our government can't solve all our problems? [:D]

Oh! Can I get free cheese too? I love cheese. A litle binding but delicious.

Para-assault on Fenton (the dot hex between Darwin and Katherine) can be useful to interdict JJ's supply route and rail reinforcements to Katherine.

Yes, I believe the LYB's pulled the same stunt on us.

ORIGINAL: Crackaces
Keep the thread updated and how supply is working for you ..

It is updated. This is all the faster the turns come in. [:D]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Crackaces
Keep the thread updated and how supply is working for you ..

It is updated. This is all the faster the turns come in. [:D]

Excellent! I have a couple of more months to go to kick my operations off .. I am still building up Tennant Creek [;)] But it would be nice to know if this works because I am going to committ a lot of forces in a couple of months to take Daily Waters ..[8D]

The transition back to the life of work does not go well on my first try.

Today (12-26), I showed up 28 1/2 hrs early for work.

Pongoes rat pack circa 1942:

The jungle Ration Mk.II provided a full days ration for two soldiers in the field. The ration consisted of:

1 Tin (5 or 7 ounce) of either Fish and Egg, Breakfast Pork, Ham and Egg, or Chopped Liver and Bacon (The 4 Flavors, in order, constitute the breakfast meat portion of each of the 4 menus)

1 Tin (10 to 14 ounce) of either Preserved Meat (Bully Beef), Meat and Kidney Pudding, Stewed Steak (or Irish Stew), Chopped Ham and Beef (Spam-like in a round can)

1 Square metal "Biscuit Tin" of "Other food stuffs", containing:

Oatmeal blocks (Either 2 single cubes or a double stick-generally made in Canada)

Biscuits Plain and/or Enriched

Chocolate (High Temperature, various flavours)

Milk Powder (Boxed) or Sweetened Condensed Milk (Foil Tube)

Tea Blocks (Tea, Sugar and Whitener combo sufficient for one 12-ounce mug each) OR

Tea Tablets (Very strong compressed Tea in a small drum called SBC "Service Blend, Compressed", but often called "Some Blokes Choke"), which was at times said to have the aroma and taste of old socks, OR

Tea Bags (Canadian Red Rose-This was like finding a good prize in Cracker Jacks!)

Salt Tablets,

Vitamin Tablets (Chewable flavoured ones)

Boiled Sweets (generally not counted but used to fill voids in tin)

Jam (Pressed) (The Chivers disks in cello)

Cheese (Tin or Foil Tube)

Sugar Tablets (8 of them in a variety of packages, but most often a drab cube box)

Salt (boxed)

Chewing Gum

Fizz Tablets (Vitamin enriched)

Lemon Crystals

Matches (not camouflaged!)

Latrine Paper (not camouflaged!)

Additionally, there was either a flat or tub shaped tin of 20 Cigarettes

Too early to drink

When is that?

Way back when, Admiral Lord Sprior chose to leave Br. 18 Div at Tennant for possible exploitation overland toward Darwin

Always have a Plan B. And a reserve. This is Op Stoat.

I thought it wouldn't work

You never said anything...

Evidently, he is bringing up more forces for a push toward Katherine

Yes, he is.

He has also assembled the Aussie Paras at Alice...hmmmm? this might actually work.

One of our plans has to eventually.

it is looking like a massive stalemate given the current forces

Yes it is, it looks like JJ favours a solid crust instead of a crumple zone.

Now we have David Tennant we can start to put fighter cover over Darwin if/when we choose to assault it from the sea. After the war the official history will state that the original Otter was but a feint...

Hey! Admiral Lord Sprior is back from his grappling training camp in Northumberland!

Was I right about the expedition up the dirt track to Darwin?

Re. the jungle rations, I think I would start smoking and trade away my chopped liver tins.

This thread has 200000 hits, my god you lot are sad.

ORIGINAL: sprior

This thread has 200000 hits, my god you lot are sad.

Shhh. [:D]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Yes it is, it looks like JJ favours a solid crust instead of a crumple zone.

[:D]

Now we have David Tennant we can start to put fighter cover over Darwin if/when we choose to assault it from the sea.

I think you mean Daly. The current P-38 model can't reach from Tennant.

After the war the official history will state that the original Otter was but a feint...

And a bloody convincing one it was!

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

This thread has 200000 hits, my god you lot are sad.

Shhh. [:D]

[:'(]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Hey! Admiral Lord Sprior is back from his grappling training camp in Northumberland!

Was I right about the expedition up the dirt track to Darwin?

Re. the jungle rations, I think I would start smoking and trade away my chopped liver tins.

You were right! About the trading the liver for the smokes.

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

After the war the official history will state that the original Otter was but a feint...

And a bloody convincing one it was!

Yes, but don't the victors usually write the official histories of the war? [:'(]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The transition back to the life of work does not go well on my first try.

Today (12-26), I showed up 28 1/2 hrs early for work.

Yesterday when you wrote "tomorrow" I sorta wondered and figured you were working an emergency clinic or something... [:D]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

After the war the official history will state that the original Otter was but a feint...

And a bloody convincing one it was!

Yes, but don't the victors usually write the official histories of the war? [:'(]

Admiral Lord Sprior! Admiral Lord Sprior! They are being mean again!