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RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:16 pm
by House Stark
I googled Kai-eilanden and a wiki article was the first result. A Dutch wiki article, that is. Cap, I think your the first American to care about this place in a long time.
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:26 am
by Cap Mandrake
**************Kai-eilanden, Jan. 11, 1943(c)*************
Maj. Walseth, 1st Marine Raider Bn.: <speaking on radio> Apache base this is Apache One. We are on Kai Echo India-landen not Kai Echo-landen. Am I directed to establish base or prepare for evac, over?
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:32 am
by Cap Mandrake
****************Bali Hai Club, Perth Jan. 11, 1943(c)****************
Man in fine linen slacks: <on phone> Wait, say that again. You left the "I" out of all the islands in the Dutch East Indies?
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You have GOT to be kidding me!
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No we are NOT reprinting 2000 maps. We'll fix it on the next edition. Any idiot could figure it out...............
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:46 am
by Cap Mandrake
This brings up my theory of impaired global domination by stupid language handicaps.
I think Mandarin is way up there.
Aztec is too but they had other serious handicaps (no horses, no gunpowder, building capital in mosquito infected swamp)
Then there is Vietnamese. They are smart as Hell but who can pronounce "Nguyen"?
Rome (latin). While they were trying to teach the decelentions, the Visigoths, who wiped their behinds wine pine branches, kicked there asses
I now think the Dutch might be fifth.
Finnish would probably be fifth but they were never going to amount to anything anyway
[:'(]
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 1:36 am
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Then there is Vietnamese. They are smart as Hell but who can pronounce "Nguyen"?
"Win"
Easy as pie, Cap! Spelled just like it sounds.
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 1:38 am
by Cap Mandrake
Maj. Walseth
With a 95 aggression rating in the game I figured he was a historical figure
First Tank Battalion
Fwd Ech,
Commanding Officer--Maj Harvey S. Walseth
Anyone know the backstory?
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 1:40 am
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: witpqs
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Then there is Vietnamese. They are smart as Hell but who can pronounce "Nguyen"?
"Win"
Easy as pie, Cap! Spelled just like it sounds.
You realize the native speakers laugh at you every time you say that, big nose. [:'(]
They are just too polite to say anything when you are around.
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 1:37 pm
by Cap Mandrake
<wakes up in morning after vodka wears off>
Look, I hope I wasn't out of line about dishing on the Dutch. Y'all are a nice bunch. And tall, too. Fact is we Mandrake's have some "Lower Dutch" in the woodpile...sort of..he was actually a French Huguenot who moved to Holland to escape persecution then Dutchified his name.
Truth be told, "Island" is kind of a stupid word too.
The Finns...it's just all the vowels. [;)]
And the native Latin speakers...
mea culpa.
ROMANES EUNT DOMUS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8
I'm not taking back what I said about the Aztecs....I'm just not.
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 1:41 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Why won't Maj Walseth attack? 95 Aggression rating. Santa Maria! Maybe he isn't very good at paperwork but if anyone is going to attack you would think it would be this guy. This has put the conquest of Japan behind by two days.
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 1:58 pm
by Cap Mandrake
OK...who ordered this? Seriously, I suspect a hidden "incentive"
What a waste of B-24 airframes.
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 1:59 pm
by khyberbill
Why won't Maj Walseth attack? 95 Aggression rating.
Perhaps he is aggressively waiting for the phone to ring to order him to attack.
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:03 pm
by Cap Mandrake
I suppose it is obvious the turn is not back? These babys arrive in 17 days...just in time for the invasion of the PI..death from above, baby....
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:04 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: khyberbill
Why won't Maj Walseth attack? 95 Aggression rating.
Perhaps he is aggressively waiting for the phone to ring to order him to attack.
Do they even have phones on Kai-e(i)landen? <sudden flash of insight>
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:21 pm
by Blackhorse
For AE, I made sure that all the USA and USMC division commanders were in the data base, as well as (at least) the most significant regimental commanders for the separate regiments and marine battalions. Generally, if a leader has a first name, (i.e. "MG Blank, Jos.") he was added in AE.
I did not add/review Maj. Walseth. He appears to be a carryover from WitP. He is a historical figure, who first fought in Guadalcanal. He was a division staff officer in Korea and apparently sometimes commanded
ad hoc units or columns as the Marines fought their way to friendly lines. A quick google search suggests that he was alive in 2011 to celebrate his 100th birthday.
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Maj. Walseth
With a 95 aggression rating in the game I figured he was a historical figure
First Tank Battalion
Fwd Ech,
Commanding Officer--Maj Harvey S. Walseth
Anyone know the backstory?
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:25 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: Blackhorse
For AE, I made sure that all the USA and USMC division commanders were in the data base, as well as (at least) the most significant regimental commanders for the separate regiments and marine battalions. Generally, if a leader has a first name, (i.e. "MG Blank, Jos.") he was added in AE.
I did not add/review Maj. Walseth. He appears to be a carryover from WitP. He is a historical figure, who first fought in Guadalcanal. He was a division staff officer in Korea and apparently sometimes commanded ad hoc units or columns as the Marines fought their way to friendly lines. A quick google search suggests that he was alive in 2011 to celebrate his 100th birthday.
Wow. Better be careful.
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:38 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Chokai is claimed to have been sunk in the run-in with the old USN BB's. One IJN DD sunk by a "collision"..that would be rich.
The sub patrols east of Formosa are finally starting to bear fruit.
One IJN sub allegedly sunk by a mine at Saumlaki even though we don't have mines there. Hmmm?
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:57 pm
by Crackaces
One IJN sub allegedly sunk by a mine at Saumlaki even though we don't have mines there. Hmmm?
That is where it sunk .. not where it ran into the mine necessarily it could have been damaged severly and then found its final resting place ..
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:18 pm
by BBfanboy
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Why won't Maj Walseth attack? 95 Aggression rating. Santa Maria! Maybe he isn't very good at paperwork but if anyone is going to attack you would think it would be this guy. This has put the conquest of Japan behind by two days.
I think I see the problem - every man is carrying twice his own weight in supplies. Perhaps they captured some Dutch hooch that was left behind when the islands were abandoned? That would explain the 7 disruption ...
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 7:31 pm
by khyberbill
Do they even have phones on Kai-e(i)landen? <sudden flash of insight>
Perhaps they use drums or maybe signal by blowing conch shells. They warned us to not blow conchs when I was in Navy boot camp. Or was it? Oh never mind, it will come to me after a martini.
RE: Hearts and Minds
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 8:26 am
by Itdepends
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
OK...who ordered this? Seriously, I suspect a hidden "incentive"
What a waste of B-24 airframes.
They do allow you to do paradrops at greater than normal range though (unless you can paradrop with Catalinas? Never tried myself.