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As the wyrmm turns, or A gorn in his side DBB-C

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Alright, now I have become the embodiment of the Imperial Empire, destroyer of planets. For my first time (ever, including against the AI) I will be defeating the forces of evil, as represented by the Allied side. This may not be pretty (at least not as pretty as me).

We begin with the same house rules as we have observed in the past, mainly no restricted troops marching across political boundaries and no 4E bombing below 10k.

I am willing, however, to dispense with the 4E rule. All house rules I have seen seem to be to the benefit of the Japanese, and I don’t want them. My opponent need not observe this rule, and I will not complain if he doesn’t. I pretty much feel the same about the restricted troops rule, but I’d like to have it explicitly stated by my opponent that that rule no longer applies.

Now, to a matter of some delicacy. My opponent has been using an avatar of a Raiden aircraft. If he persists in that, and I capture him, I may be forced to execute him as a spy. (yeah, right)[:D]

I will continue with my past practice of having an open AAR, meaning my opponent is free to visit and comment if he wishes. He will be free to produce his own AAR which I will be prohibited from visiting. I will not confide in you anything I’m unwilling to tell him, thus maintaining some suspense as to what I may be in the process of doing. He, of course should feel free to discuss all relevant details about his operations. I will present to you much of what’s going on as most of it will be no secret to him, and that which is will be subject to FOW. Much will be revealed after a suitable passage of time.

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Good Luck, May you channel the Captain Kirk in you to a win! [:D][:D][:D]
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The Captain Kirk in me?? Oh, my god, give me some solution of sodium hydroxide to drink to clean him out!

Oh, I get it, you think I ate him. If I had chewed him up I would have spit him out.

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Holy cow! Big challenge! Good luck, Geoff.

I don't know if a non-Star Trekkie can read your AAR. 75% of your comments go over my head. It reminds me of high school, when I seldom knew what was going on among my classmates.
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Good luck - we'll all be watching!

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Below are the combat reports. My paratroopers captured Atimonan. Landings have begun at Khota Baru and at Miri. Force Z has escaped my clutches. Ryujo made multiple torpedo attacks on the Houston with no result.

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I lost 50 planes to flak today, mostly Zeros.
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I just noticed, there's 12/8 attacks on here. Those must be from a prior playtest I did. Ignore those, the rest is accurate.

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12/9/41 Satisfied that they have destroyed several carriers, battleships, cruisers and destroyers, the KB is off looking for a more formidable opponent to attack. They will rendezvous with their support TF tomorrow and then set off for, who knows, the Icemen of the Arctic? Khota Baru and Miri have fallen. No other landings are reported. Several forays were made from PH by CA TFs without result.


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Here's the situation on 12/10. As you can see, the American garbage scows that carry kites that blow away in the wind are located at Pearl Harbor.

You can see where I am. Let's have a show of hands, how many would go down there and get them?

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Geoff,
Count me among those who would not "go down there and get them." It's only December 10th. I could be wrong, but what you're looking at is probably FOW. If he elected to move both of his CVs straight into PH without worrying about what the was KB was doing on Dec 8th and 9th, he's a fool. From reading some of your last AAR vs Wrym, he's not that bad. Take what you see with a grain (or two) of salt.
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Too late, I already gave the orders.

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Just so you know, Quixote, you passed the test.

I should stipulate, wyrmm is not just not that bad, he's rather good, in my experience.

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I didn't even have to cram the night beforehand. I feel so proud! [:)]

(I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope you don't lose too many pilots to DDB flak. Who knows, you may even nail a BB or two that hadn't already been consigned to the bottom of the harbor on the 7th. Good luck, senor Gorn!)
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Already lost quite a bit to PH flak. Don't want any more. Don't get too cocky with your initial grades, I can still make modifications!

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12/12/41 Aparri, Vigan, Legaspi, Miri, Altimonan, Khota Baru and Sinkawang have fallen. Altimonan was occupied by paratroops, and more troops are landing by sea. The infantry regiment headed to Sinkawang had its AV greatly reduced due to a bomber from Singapore laying an egg on one of the xAKs, sending her to the bottom. I decided to attack anyway once the rest of the reg. landed without waiting for reinforcement. To help out I had Kongo and Haruna bombard, which I had not intended to do before. The attack was a success. Troops have landed at Kavieng and are preparing to capture her.

Here is the bombardment result:


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Here is a surface action precipitated by his daring attack with cruisers. Note the collision. King Kongo had a bad day.


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Here is the second attack on Hong Kong:


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Here is the ground assault on Sinkawang


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Now, remembering this is my first time playing the Japanese, here's the tracker chart from the 11th. If you see anything really out of whack, please advise. I don't know what I did to cause the vehicle prod pts to crash the way they did, the only warning I have is a critical one on veh. prod.


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Here's the chart from the 12th so you can see trends. Vehicle production seems to be recovering.
The engines look the way they do because I cancelled a number of obsolete engines and set the factories to convert to current models, mostly Ha- 32, 33, 34 and 45. I also cancelled the Kawasaki Ha-60.

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