Fear and Loathing in the Pacific (3x3 MPBEM)

[Feinder]

This sounds ominous...

[:(]

-F-

[rtrapasso]

i agree! Awaiting the next report with much trepidation...

[Cap Mandrake]

*******ABOARD USS ENTERPRISE, 17:55, AUG 14****************
****OFF THE COAST OF AUSTRALIA, SOUTH OF TOWNSVILLE*********

Spruance: Send this to Hornet. Enemy carrier force estimated 1 CV and 2 or 3 CVL/CVE spotted 280 mi SSE Lousiades, course 200, 15 kts. Steer new course 75, 25 kts for possible dawn intercept.

[Cap Mandrake]

Time to roll in about 4000 sq ft of sod in my back yard. I will be AWOL for a few hrs. [;)]

P.S. I made a mistake on Halsey's order, it was also late afternoon 8-14. Now corrected [:-]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

*******ABOARD USS ENTERPRISE, 17:55, AUG 14****************
****OFF THE COAST OF AUSTRALIA, SOUTH OF TOWNSVILLE*********

Spruance: Send this to Hornet. Enemy carrier force estimated 1 CV and 2 or 3 CVL/CVE spotted 280 mi SSE Lousiades, course 200, 15 kts. Steer new course 75, 25 kts for possible dawn intercept.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Time to roll in about 4000 sq ft of sod in my back yard. I will be AWOL for a few hrs. [;)]

The Mandrake household, 0-dark-hundred this morning:

"Honey, forget that stupid game today and get that sod in before it gets ruined."

"It's Captain Mandrake, Mrs. Mandrake."

"Whatever!"

[:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

The Mandrake household, 0-dark-hundred this morning:

And is was hotter than **** yesterday. Then the rototiller broke down[:@] My crew ran out of energy about 4 PM. I offered them $20 an hour..there eyes got real big..but they couldn't do it. [:)] I had to take about 4 showers yesterday when I felt the heat exhaustion setting in..and was out there till 8:15 PM laying the stuff. I even had my 14 year old daughter help for a bit. [8D Sill have about a 1000 sq ft. to do. Uggh. looks fantatstic though.

[Cap Mandrake]

***From Lt JG Barnes, VS-3, USS Saratoga, 07:25, 8-15*******

Apache this is Meadowlark 3. Four enemy carriers spotted 50 miles NE of Eastern tip of Flores Is. Range 115 miles my bearing. Heading 90, speed 15 kts estimated. CAP is low. CAP is low!

[Cap Mandrake]

*****From Lt Baxter, VS-6, USS Enterpise, 08:20, 8-15*******

Three enemy carriers spotted! One Kaga class. Two smaller carriers unidentified. Range 225 miles my heading. Course 225.

[Cap Mandrake]

Everything from Gili Gili to Townsville is on a tripwire...even Yossarian's group (armed with the new Mk82C)

[Terminus]

Wow, if they're down to relying on the 90th, things must be desperate...

[Moondawggie]

I don't know, but I bet if Yossarian drops 50,000 cans of spam and pineapple onto the open deck of an IJN CV, the antiaircraft gunners and deck crew who aren't knocked senseless will quit doing their jobs and break for a snack...[:D]

And then, just maybe the SBDs will catch the IJN decks full with attack planes unable to take off...Mitsuo Fuchida would have nightmares again! [:)]

You go Yossarian! M&M, all the way... [&o]

[rtrapasso]

Oh, man, still no update!! [:(]

[Cap Mandrake]

Man..what a "weekend". Every muscle I have is torn to shreds (I think). Its not what you might think.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Man..what a "weekend". Every muscle I have is torn to shreds (I think). Its not what you might think.

Reminds me of the quote "God created grass for man's use and enjoyment, but then the Devil created lawns..." (or something like that!) [8|] [:'(]

[rtrapasso]

OK - to keep this straight: Halsey has Saratoga, Lexington, Indomitable, Illustrious, and Furious vs. Zuikaku, Shokaku, and Kaga (in Banda Sea)

and

Enterprise and Hornet vs. Akagi, Shoho, Ryujo in Coral Sea.

Well, without factoring land air, i'd give advantage to Halsey in Banda Sea, and maybe Enterprise and Hornet in Coral Sea. WITH land air, it's anyone's fight!

[Cap Mandrake]

..

[rtrapasso]

So far, so good, but where is the IJN counterpunch? Probably en route...

[USSAmerica]

Wow! Massive damage in the first wave of Allied attacks! Now, will there be an effective counterstrike before the Allies can recover, rearm, refuel, and launch again? I'm betting that a large part of the Japanese strike potential is already out of the fight.

Yes, I'm still avidly following and enjoying this thread! [8D]

[Cap Mandrake]

OK - to keep this straight: Halsey has Saratoga, Lexington, Indomitable, Illustrious, and Furious vs. Zuikaku, Shokaku, and Kaga (in Banda Sea)

Almost right..its Formidable..not Furious

Enterprise and Hornet vs. Akagi, Shoho, Ryujo in Coral Sea.

Bingo. Yorktown is late for the fight, just having refueled in Brisbane. Wasp is playing goose to some Goslings as is Hermes..and Long Island is steaming around aimlessly int he Indian Ocean trying to get the Japs to waste a torpedo on her.