Operation SF Scenario

[Symon]

Woof !! This was a pain. Durn near as bad as making a whole new set-up. Heck, it was a whole new set-up; toes, locations, ships, planes, trains, and automobiles. Allies are done. Opening day has a few features worth noting.

37th ID (-) is in convoys heading for NZ. Supposed to go to Fiji, but intelligence suggests that’s not a good idea at the moment, so the convoy was diverted to Auckland. 1st MarDiv (-) is in convoys headed to Wellington, but taking the southern route.

There’s a CV TF roaming around, but the others are at Pearl, or heading for Pearl, or waiting to appear. There’s cruiser and BB TFs here and there, made up with formal DesDiv components. They are there as ‘holding’ TFs, assigned to their respective stations as of opening day. A few of these, notably DesRon 12, are rationally distributed into bases.

Transport ships appear as they did. There’s perhaps enough to hump what they had to, but I wouldn’t depend on it. Troop transport was either on APs or xAPs, as was done. However, the hard, fast scenario rule is that no Amphib TF may EVER include an ‘x’ ship. There is a special rule for Japan (for AKs and –t’s) that mirrors this. So everything is constrained for everybody.

Everything is constrained. Hootz Gazooties. This is not your nephew’s AE scenario.

[Symon]

Apropos of nothing at all: went to Moseley's Meats to get my usual lamb and porterhouse order. Chris says they have some late kill duck and quail breasts in the cooler. Gosh, what's a boy to do? So I got some. One of the nieces is married to a serious "Ducks Unlimited" hunter, and they are coming down to visit in Feb. So duck breasts marinated in garlic, on the grill, with roast asparagus and mashed carrots/pumpkins. Sweet onions, mirin, spices, things that inflate your boat. Woof !! Wotta world, wotta world. Ciao. JWE

[Symon]

Woof !! Lamb Chili. White beans, black beans, and some nice chili sauce. Onions, tomatoes, duh. Cumin, duh. Dried seeded Ancho and Pasilla chiles, and a skoosh of Guahillo; Into the coffee grinder and out comes perfection. Cook real long, on low heat; you want them flavors to combine into forever land.

Serve over basmati rice, with shredded green onions and cilantro as a garnish. Maybe a dollop of yogurt or sour cream as a topping. I had some left over tatziki that worked real well. Yum. JWE

[US87891]

Good, but Swedish meatballs. 1lb gr beef, 1/2lb pond gr pork. Sauteed onion, bread crumbs, egg, allspice/nutmeg, in a blender to make a glop. Combine glop with meat and mix by hand. Roll into teeny balls. Put on wire rack. Oven at 350 for 20 minutes.

In a big pan, render, ½ cup flour, 2 cups beef broth, ½ cup milk, allspice/nutmeg, salt/pepper; make egg noodles. Combine meatballs with sauce. Serve over, or with egg noodles.

John, I grant you make some tasty chili, but you are simply a Cali tyro [;)]. Remember you once came to College Station for a chili cook-off and I had to hit you with an epi pen [:D]? Ah, youth, it’s so wasted on the young[8D].

[US87891]

The strategic situation as of May 1942. Japan has the Bismarcks, New Britain, Solomons, Gilberts, and much of Papua.

The black arrows are the proposed air/supply bridge to Australia, formalized at the Washington Conference, Dec. 1941, modified by JCS #509, 9 March, ’42 and CCS #12, 17 March, ’42.

Japan, of course, knew nothing of this. But she did have an appreciation of what would happen if the Allies built up Australia as a staging base … so … the smart money was on an operation in the SW Pacific.

In Phase-1 there’s major operations against the Fijis and Samoas. There’s a secondary operation against Milne Bay. Phase-1a has operations against the Tongas.

In Phase-2, the survivors will contribute units to operations against the New Hebrides.

Phase-3 is the invasion of New Caledonia. You have all the initial units to play with (such as they are) and a new, fresh, division to play with.

[US87891]

Japan OOB is finished, as is Allied. All we are doing now is supply allocation; Japanese special convoys to Manila, Palaus, etc.. Allied entry to San Diego. Production is off.
Using our paradigm for daily supply usage for a unit in "combat mode-quiet", "defensive mode", "offensive mode-bombard", "offensive mode-deliberate". So total it up and let the chips fall in the special convoys for Japan. Same with the Allies. They get a bigger lump sum, and on a more ongoing basis, but on the sharp edge, beans will be at a premium. Both sides will have to schlepp supply from disparate, far away ports. And there's not near enough high speed vessels to do it.

Matt

[Symon]

We will no longer continue to support our scenarios on this forum.

We will continue on our private forum on our private server. Things we think appropriate we will post on the website, but will not discuss the details on this forum. You all know why. Just thank Hans Bolter and his weenie peenie nonsense and the useless pathetic crap he forces on other newbies that don't know just what a wet, smelly, douchebag he really is. Goodbye and good playing.

[Mac Linehan]

Hi, John-

Just wanted to check in and say that I am looking forward to the release of Operation SF on the Babes site.

My sincere gratitude to the Babes Team for your historical research, effort and attention to detail. It is a real challenge to work within the confines of the historical goals, restrictions and resources available.

Mac