Save the Australia Star! (or "Cooktown, we have a problem...")

[JohnDillworth]

All hands, a moment of silence please
















Thank You

[oldman45]

Its amazing how a thread takes on a life of its own.

Nicely written story. Flags will be flown at half mast.

[Macca]

ORIGINAL: oldman45

Its amazing how a thread takes on a life of its own.

Nicely written story. Flags will be flown at half mast.

Had it not been for this great strategy game we wouldn't have such threads. Here every ship counts, every soldier.

Great story, great game.

Mac

[Sardaukar]

Kind of reminds me how I lost USS California... It sunk one hex from Seattle, making it so far from PH...even when flotation damage had been going down during previous turns from 88 -> 81. One hex too many, I guess...[:'(]

[RevRick]

The title of the next thread on the subject:
One Hex Too Far!!!!

[Canoerebel]

ORIGINAL: briny_norman
Hello everybody.
This is almost too strange to be true.
But the reason I've been so slow to update you guys is that... - wait for it... - I've been pumping water out of my basement the whole evening and through the night...
Yes. I'm not kidding.
A water pipe blew and nobody noticed for a couple of hours.
That's a lot of water, I'll tell you.
A lot.
My brother took some pictures of me standing in my underpants knee-deep in water with a wrench and an umbrella (admittably, the umbrella was mostly for show...), wearing my girlsfriend's pink-and-purple coloured rain boots. I suppose I could upload it, but I'm pretty sure it breaks pretty much every forum rule there is... [:D]
.....

[&o] for not posting the photo

[m10bob]

I cannot imagine a girlfriend having feet as big as mine.................

[stuman]

Funny thread.

[Zacktar]

I've heard of progressive flooding, but this is ridiculous!

[LST Express]

Entertaining read!!

[moose1999]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

I cannot imagine a girlfriend having feet as big as mine.................

Well of course not - your feet are humongous...!

Anyway, my girlfriend's family do have unusually big feet.
But the principle goes further than that, so I'm not complaining... [;)]

[fmonster]

BTW, Briny, what is the flotation damage for your basement? Will it make it?

[comte]

R.I.P. Australia Star [:(]

[moose1999]

ORIGINAL: fmonster

BTW, Briny, what is the flotation damage for your basement? Will it make it?

Thanks for asking!

Well, I make it about 55-60, and she's already in port so I'm guessing she'll be alright.
I've got some temporary dehumidifying devices set up down there, and it's working nicely.
So unless some catastrophic temporary dehumidifying devices failure occurs, everything should be fine in a couple of days...
Losses were limited to a couple of rugs, 20 kilos of dog-food and an old stereo.
We'll live.

[d0mbo]

haha, nice thread people

[rattovolante]

ORIGINAL: briny_norman

Losses were limited to a couple of rugs, 20 kilos of dog-food and an old stereo.
We'll live.

how much supply do 20 kilos of dog food translate into? [;)]

[Flying Tiger]

and do you know the scariest thing.....

When Briny_norman is an old man, and he's forgotten his kids names, and maybe even his own name, he'll still remember 'the sinking of the Australia Star'. THAT is what makes this game SO good.

Nice story Briny. enjoy the game.

[JVSFugitive]

ORIGINAL: rattovolante

ORIGINAL: briny_norman

Losses were limited to a couple of rugs, 20 kilos of dog-food and an old stereo.
We'll live.

how much supply do 20 kilos of dog food translate into? [;)]

For a Japanese infantry division, that could last a whole week.

[m10bob]

ORIGINAL: briny_norman

ORIGINAL: m10bob

I cannot imagine a girlfriend having feet as big as mine.................

Well of course not - your feet are humongous...!

Anyway, my girlfriend's family do have unusually big feet.
But the principle goes further than that, so I'm not complaining... [;)]

My parants had the same sized feet as each other.
During the Korean War, dad was on leave in Japan and was going thru a "rubber shoe shop", trying to buy a pair of those shoes for my mom..He was having a difficult time explaining the size of mom's feet to the locals(who spoke no english.
They kept holding their hands out, (as if relating the size of fish), and dad had to keep making the distance larger so they might understand..

At size 12 paratroop boot, dad used to say I wore the boxes his shoes came in.[;)]

[xj900uk]

Losses were limited to a couple of rugs, 20 kilos of dog-food

I hope that your dog was not incovenienced or suffered any pangs of hunger over such a terrible loss...