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

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Thanks witpqs.

1/16/42 Lousville may have been in decent shape before she was intercepted nearing Noumea. My reports are that she sank.

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Not much to report today. Luganville is mine. My reports have been that the Astoria sank, then it unsank, then it sank again. Louisville sank, the Indianapolis sank on the same spot but the Louisville didn't actually sink. My as yet not well trained naval search crews are spotting the enemy everywhere, they'll be reporting the Loch Ness Monster soon. My ground spotters are seeing flying saucers.

Definition for the day:

What is the German term for constipation?

Farfrompüppen [:'(]

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Luganville was unoccupied. Some Japanese tourist aboard the SS Mino got lost and ended up there. The locals surrendered to a sailor from the Mino. We will be renaming Espiritu Santo Girrigan's Irand.

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1/21/42 I hate it when this happens.

Yesterday a large force of mine was about 1 mile outside the Manila hex at Mauban. The screenshot shows I have possession of the hexside involved. I don't know why that is as I have not had any units cross it yet. Anyway, the next day this force magically appears at Batangas, still with the order to go to Manila, but only having travelled two miles so far. I'm not going to wait for them, the first assault will occur tomorrow.

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Here's the next day's screenshot.

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I've discovered where Raiden put the American CD guns.

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day one

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day two. Koumac is mine. La Foa will be tomorrow. Noumea perhaps the next day.

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1/22/42 day 3.

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La Foa is mine. Here's some action near Nadi.

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Manila

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day 4. I should've moved those ships to unload at La Foa after the troops were off.

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Here's a couple more things that happened

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Just to remind everyone, Raiden is free to visit this thread and contribute if he wishes. Just keep that in mind.

I think it is safe now to admit that my original plan was to capture Fiji, Pago Pago, Christmas Island, Palmyra and Canton Island in one fell swoop. This plan was still active up to a week ago (game time). The units to carry out each invasion were segregated and assigned. I did not allow any of them to "plan for" the attack so that Raiden would not know what was up.

[I'm going to compose the rest of this in Word before I get kicked off.]

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Each invasion posse was designed to be sufficient to capture the target and then accomplish the requisite work at each site. Unfortunately it took longer than I hoped to herd all these cats together and begin the campaign. I’m pretty sure Raiden achieved some reinforcement of some of these targets before I could have arrived. It is certain that he did (perhaps in the nick of time at Suva), complicating my strategy. The KB had not gotten the opportunity to rearm, and were now out of torpedoes. After the initial landings at Nadi, I decided the original plan was just too long a stretch and modified it to capture Espiritu Santo and New Caledonia. Realize that the troops involved in all these landings had been shipboard for over a month.

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Here is the Odyssey of the KB so far. I forgot to load turn 2 into Tracker.




Looks like a constellation, doesn't it? The crane sitting on her nest ready to peck to death anything that tries to reach her nestlings.

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1/24/42

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1/28/42 S-37 at the top of the screenshot below is an instance of running afoul of your own minefield, as I had placed none there. I don't know if this was influenced by my possession of Manila (I should hope not). Leander and Adelaide bombarded my troops at Noumea, who have still failed to take her (but I think will tomorrow). Suva has also held out, but my troops will have to take a breather before assaulting again.

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Well, I now know where at least some of his carriers are.

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Wait a minute, could it be? The Enterprise! Kiiirrrk!