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

[princep01]

I'm certain that it was the grilled onions...they always attract 8 yr old zombies.  Luckily he must have fed recently as he apparently did not try to bite you.  Or perhaps he was simply awestuck to near speechlessness by seeing his doctor actually consuming something.  Weirdness.... 

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: princep01

I'm certain that it was the grilled onions...they always attract 8 yr old zombies.  Luckily he must have fed recently as he apparently did not try to bite you.  Or perhaps he was simply awestuck to near speechlessness by seeing his doctor actually consuming something.  Weirdness.... 

... or maybe Cap's fly was open.

[Chickenboy]

Or it really is Asperger's.

[Cap Mandrake]

****************FOB Mai Tai, Papaete, Feb. 12, 1943(c)***************


Moana: <a FAA type approaches with large hammer> Plumber?


FAA type: Bloody 'ell, no. I'm 'ere for the device.

[Cap Mandrake]

Turn over to Admiral Lord SPrior. Anything that goes wrong is now on his watch. [:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

***********FOB Mai Tai, Papaete, Feb. 12 (later), 1943(c)**************


FAM: <answer's intercom> Yes?


Moana: There is a Mr. Charles Hamilton Houston, esquire, to see you and he has two very large and stern looking gentlemen with him. He seems upset. He wants to talk about the 4th rotor.


FAM: The 4th rotor? How the Hell does he know about that?


Moana: I'm not really sure, sir.


FAM: Well, tell him I'm not in.


Moana: He's standing right here, sir.


FAM: <grabs 4th rotor> OK, just a miute. <heads to window with fine teak louver blinds.....:

[Cap Mandrake]

**************Communication Shack, FOB, Mai Tai, Papaete, Feb. 12 (substantially later), 1943(c)************


FAM (on radio):...where are you, I need your help on a legal matter, over.


IDC, esquire: Sydney, over.


FAM (on radio): Sydney, didn't know you guys had an office there, over.


IDC, esquire: We don't. I'm working on a lease back arrangement on Nautilus, over.


FAM (on radio): Nautilus, you mean that thing from Jules Verne? It's real? over.


IDC, esquire: No, it's one of your SST's, over.


FAM (on radio): SST? Ah, never mind. Can you help with the legal issue, fast? Over.


IDC, esquire: Is this about the 4th rotor? Over.


FAM (on radio):. Damnit! How the Hell did YOU find out? Over.


IDC, esquire: Fellow in a bar. Think he was from Resolution or something like that? Over.


FAM (on radio): Is that a magazine? Holy shit! Over.


IDC, esquire: No, battleship. Let me guess, you had a visitor, Over.


FAM (on radio): Yes, and he brought two big guys with him. Over.


IDC, esquire: Look, as your counsel, I advise you to get to Pitcarin as soon as possible. Tell nobody. Over.


FAM (on radio): Even Moana? Over.


IDC, esquire: No, especially not her! Assume you organization is compromised. I'll send a PBY. Hairy guy piloting. Do you understand?...............

[BBfanboy]

Oh Gawd! You're not gonna abandon Moana to save that fourth encoding wheel are you? Where will you ever find another "executive assistant" with such a perfect name? [:-]

[sprior]

Away the lads!

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 21492 troops, 491 guns, 775 vehicles, Assault Value = 678

Defending force 38305 troops, 381 guns, 203 vehicles, Assault Value = 910

Allied adjusted assault: 387

Japanese adjusted defense: 634

Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(+), disruption(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
2488 casualties reported
Squads: 100 destroyed, 53 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 43 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 12 disabled
Guns lost 26 (2 destroyed, 24 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
517 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 57 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 26 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Guns lost 39 (13 destroyed, 26 disabled)
Vehicles lost 88 (12 destroyed, 76 disabled)


Assaulting units:
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
2/10th Armoured Regiment
2/5th Armoured Regiment
32nd Infantry Division
640th Tank Destroyer Battalion
22nd (East African) Brigade
2/11th Armoured Car Battalion
2nd British Division
7th RAN Base Force
14th USN Naval Construction Battalion
2nd Medium Regiment

Defending units:
66th Infantry Group
65th Brigade
24th Infantry Regiment
77th Infantry Regiment
5th Division
6th Guards Division
30th Fld AA Gun Co
51st JNAF AF Unit
4th Ind. Engineer Regiment
16th Army
4th Infantry Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
22nd Air Flotilla
9th Field AF Construction Battalion
56th Engineer Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
Yokosuka Assault SNLF /2

[sprior]

Even the Hurri drivers have a good day:

Morning Air attack on 9th Chinese Corps, at 77,44 , near Chungking

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 25
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 47
Ki-49-Ia Helen x 4



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 7


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 5 destroyed, 4 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged
Ki-49-Ia Helen: 1 destroyed

And the Vanguards!

Morning Air attack on Kweiyang , at 74,49

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 13
Ki-48-IIa Lily x 3



Allied aircraft
P-66 Vanguard x 4


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 3 destroyed, 7 damaged
Ki-48-IIa Lily: 1 destroyed

No Allied losses

[BBfanboy]

Nice attack by the lads! Very spirited! But .... ummm .... with all the obfuscation since the last discussion of prans and progress I have forgotten where this attack was supposed to happen? Please update us!

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Nice attack by the lads! Very spirited! But .... ummm .... with all the obfuscation since the last discussion of prans and progress I have forgotten where this attack was supposed to happen? Please update us!

I recognize those boys. British 2nd, US 32nd ID, King's African Rifles (- Idi), sorghum havesters, Humbers, Wolverines. Those are the boys from Port Hedrand!


Amazing to me the LYB's are still able to fight after sustaining at least a month of daily 400-600 casulaties/disruptions by air. Even worse, there is a mortar platoon of some unit cutting off their suppries that might trickle in from Broome

[Cap Mandrake]

Amazing number of casualties inflicted on the defender for only 1:2 odds.

[Cap Mandrake]

*******************Elswhere Feb. 12, 1943(c)***************


Manado (Mah...nah...doh or Mah..nay..doh): Something goes wrong from the start. Washington does not arrive at night (possibly some idiot has left the "Remain on Station" switch on..investigation pending).

When the sun comes up the 5 flyable Corsairs from Ternate arrive overhead..along with a couple of P-39's who's pilots had too many Wheaties for breakfast.

Morning Air attack on Manado , at 75,99

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 18



Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 2
F4U-1 Corsair x 5


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

No Allied losses

Then the B-24's from Saumlaki, 25 sorties in two packets. Moderate efficacy. All the bombers at Manado are gone..which is sort of the point..and to protect the transports due over Sidate in a fe hours.

Morning Air attack on Manado , at 75,99

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 14



Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 22


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 16

NOW Washington shows up..in broad daylight with not that much CAP..D'oh!

Naval bombardment of Manado at 75,99

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 13 damaged
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 6 destroyed on ground

Allied Ships
BB Washington
DD Benham
DD Sims
DD Lansdowne

Japanese ground losses:
236 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 16 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 10 (6 destroyed, 4 disabled)



Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 18
Port hits 1

BB Washington firing at Manado
DD Benham firing at Manado
DD Sims firing at Manado
DD Lansdowne firing at Manado

Here is the good news..either there are no Betty's within range or they are short on Wheaties. Next up...the C-47's over Sidate..320 men of 503rd PIR drop successfully! Yeah, team.

Ground combat at Sidate (75,100)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 320 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 25

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Allied adjusted assault: 20

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 20 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Sidate !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-)



Assaulting units:
503rd Parachute Rgt /1

[Cap Mandrake]

Sorong: Opposing forces revealed by LYB bombardment. 6th Marine Regt is landing now. That will make the equivalent of an entire USMC Div plus two Bn of Stuarts and combat engineers. We attack when 6th Marine is ready.

Ground combat at Sorong (82,107)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 4188 troops, 22 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 188

Defending force 11762 troops, 186 guns, 298 vehicles, Assault Value = 361

Japanese ground losses:
12 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
13th Garrison Unit
4th Tank Regiment
1st Indpt SNLF Coy
44th Road Const Co
59th JNAF AF Unit

Defending units:
2nd USMC Engineer Regiment
1st Marine Regiment
9th Marine Regiment
763rd Tank Battalion
3rd USMC Tank Bn /2
I US Amphib Corps
A Det USN Port Svc

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

*******************Elswhere Feb. 12, 1943(c)***************


Manado (Mah...nah...doh or Mah..nay..doh): Something goes wrong from the start. Washington does not arrive at night (possibly some idiot has left the "Remain on Station" switch on..investigation pending).

[:D] Given the statement in parenthesis, the pronunciation of the place name must put the emphasis on the last syllable - i.e. Mah-nah- DOH! - always followed by a headslap for punctuation.

[sprior]

I'd forgotten how much fun Top Gear is. Tonight; A car powered by an engine from an He 111 vs a car powered by a Spitfire.

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Amazing number of casualties inflicted on the defender for only 1:2 odds.

We'll try again tomorrow.

[sprior]

Apparently

The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye gave the film five out of five, calling the film "a fantastic combination of 007 meets Bourne meets Spooks meets Home Alone".

Home Alone?

[sprior]

My favourite railway station in the world. It has always brought me home.

In the Harry Plopper films they called it Kings Cross, which is a dump.