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Gents,

American baseball teams traditionally form a "kangaroo court," a fun tribunal made up of respected vets who levy "fines" (nominal sums like 25 cents) for making mistakes ranging from errors on the field to faux paus in front of a camera to bad attire.

AE needs a kangaroo court to levy "fines" for players who make egregious mistakes like launching an amphibious invaison made up of TFs with troops in strategic mode, allowing important ships to run out of fuel and accrue excessive SYS damage, beating up with no mercy on a newbie, improperly explaining rules, or getting married at middle age when your biggest responsibility to that point was figuring out how many hours a day you weren't going to play AE in an undershirt while drinking a cold beverage.

So, this thread is for folks to nominate forumites who need "punishment" for infractions of this sort.

Nobody is in charge of this thread - including me - so anybody can chime in. Later, if it catches on, the forum can elect judges to sit on the tribunal if so they desire.

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Great idea, but who would ever admit they let the QE pass through the SW pacific unescorted and run into a pair for raiding CA's. I would never, ever admit that here.[8D]
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Or, admit that they left a tanker TF on fast so it ran out of fuel in the mid Pacific with some of them sinking due to massive sys damage. Nope, I um..can't really say I know anybody who would do something like that......

Neither do I know of anybody who loaded the wrong marine division onto his Amphibious TF and then proceeded to land them at the enemy controlled but unoccupied Lunga. Only to see 65% of the troops disrupt. Nope, nobody comes to mind there either.....

But, boy if I ever hear of somebody ever doing these things I will let you know...
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Oh, I know a guy who once sent a USN CVE fleet from Seattle to Christmas Island thinking the TF had plenty of fuel for that little "hop."  When the TF hadn't "shown up" at Christmas Island about two weeks later, said Allied player found it somewhere southeast of Pearl Harbor, out of fuel and with five or six CVEs with 55 to 75 SYS damage.  He managed to get the CVEs to Pearl where they recovered over several weeks, but it was a near thing.  I won't mention his name, but he should be assessed a fine of at least 50 Glyptos (that's the AE kangaroo court currency, equivalent to 50 cents Federal or 25 cents Confederate).
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I know someone who got married just a few months before the original War in the Pacific was released. 
 
Same person also contracted Pneumonia with complications and had to be hospitalized two days before AE was released.  He was not able to DL AE till he got out of the hospital 10 days after AE was released.  The pneumonia made his so weak that he failed in his 57 attempts at escape in order to download AE, and crashed the hospital computer system when he tried to download it on one of the hospital computers that he found unattended.
 
Then after it was released, he agreed to adopt a little girl not knowing that this would consume a major portion of time available to be playing AE.
 
Of his many and varied mistakes while playing the game, I can say nothing.  The Statute of Limitations has not run out on some, He is still in therapy to forget others and each new day reveals another new way to screw up badly. 
 
Whoever is collecting the Glyptos is gonna be rich!
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Now I always ran the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary unescorted. The escorts just slowed them down, even if they were 35 knot cruisers (that's because the Queens were designed to run full speed across the ocean whereas naval vessels were designed to run at full speed only for short periods of time).

I will admit to having once sent the Saratoga all the way to Canton Island without her air wing that I had off loaded while she was undergoing an upgrade in the shipyard. There was a week and a half wasted...
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What is the fine for dropping an invasion force on a friendly dot hex, so delaying the invasion for weeks as they are reloaded onto the ships ?
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The there was the twit who sent a transport TF to invade Wake. Loser.
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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
AE needs a kangaroo court to levy "fines" for players who make egregious mistakes like launching an amphibious invaison made up of TFs with troops in strategic mode, allowing important ships to run out of fuel and accrue excessive SYS damage,
Was guilty of both of that. Even allowed three of my DDs to sink from Sys damage in my first PBEM.

But my persistant stupid mistake is forgetting to order Japanese invasion TFs not to load fuel. Their fast xAKs all can carry some, and this makes them into floating bombs, rather inconvenient, when Allies try to put up a fight. Even got a transport sank by 0.5 MG once thanks to it.
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GreyJoy keeps coming up with new and exciting ways to spell the names of exotic places in his "The Power of Inexperience" AAR. My favorites thus far: Scoodra, Sosarbaja and Ralpawindi.

His creativity reminds me of Inspector Clouseau's tongue-twists in one of the Pink Panther movies: "A rit of fealous jage!"
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Check my name off on the whole married thing...
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I once knew a guy back in the WITP days who sailed his six Allied carriers into a carrier fight near Lunga while forgetting to set any of his bombers to fly or fighters to CAP. I....I mean to say "he" could only imagine the delight of his opponent as he watched the replay.
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ORIGINAL: crsutton

I once knew a guy back in the WITP days who sailed his six Allied carriers into a carrier fight near Lunga while forgetting to set any of his bombers to fly or fighters to CAP. I....I mean to say "he" could only imagine the delight of his opponent as he watched the replay.

I think I know who you are talking about. If it is who I think it is, I sure don't see him around much anymore..
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ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

I know someone who got married just a few months before the original War in the Pacific was released. 

Same person also contracted Pneumonia with complications and had to be hospitalized two days before AE was released.  He was not able to DL AE till he got out of the hospital 10 days after AE was released.  The pneumonia made his so weak that he failed in his 57 attempts at escape in order to download AE, and crashed the hospital computer system when he tried to download it on one of the hospital computers that he found unattended.

Then after it was released, he agreed to adopt a little girl not knowing that this would consume a major portion of time available to be playing AE.

Of his many and varied mistakes while playing the game, I can say nothing.  The Statute of Limitations has not run out on some, He is still in therapy to forget others and each new day reveals another new way to screw up badly. 

Whoever is collecting the Glyptos is gonna be rich!

I'm not 100% sure the crash-the-hospital-computer-system thing really happened, but if it did then this expderience is beyond the jurisdiction of a mere kangaroo court. That achievement is in the realm of epic-ness and that player deserves special status all his own.
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Who would ever admit to sending all 3 of his US carriers to raid Rabaul in a Guadalcanal scenario early in the game only to have them run into Shokaku and be promptly sunk...

And you wonder why I never play Allies? [:D]
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ORIGINAL: Shark7

Who would ever admit to sending all 3 of his US carriers to raid Rabaul in a Guadalcanal scenario early in the game only to have them run into Shokaku and be promptly sunk...

And you wonder why I never play Allies? [:D]

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I know a guy who sent his CV's to raid Truk in 5th day of the war. His plan was excellent, although he forgot about this little fuel thingie. After sinking few Japanese xAP's, his carriers stopped in the middle of Solomon Islands area, just to be mercifully killed by Kido.

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Amphibious assault on Singapore way back when. [X(]
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Someone, maybe you know who, is now playing a PBEM as the Japanese, and hasnt been able to get Moulmein in Burma, by July 1942. He is also now planning a bomber offensive against Burma's refineries... "If I dont get them, nobody gets", he keeps repeating. [:D]
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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

I know someone who got married just a few months before the original War in the Pacific was released. 

Same person also contracted Pneumonia with complications and had to be hospitalized two days before AE was released.  He was not able to DL AE till he got out of the hospital 10 days after AE was released.  The pneumonia made his so weak that he failed in his 57 attempts at escape in order to download AE, and crashed the hospital computer system when he tried to download it on one of the hospital computers that he found unattended.

Then after it was released, he agreed to adopt a little girl not knowing that this would consume a major portion of time available to be playing AE.

Of his many and varied mistakes while playing the game, I can say nothing.  The Statute of Limitations has not run out on some, He is still in therapy to forget others and each new day reveals another new way to screw up badly. 

Whoever is collecting the Glyptos is gonna be rich!

I'm not 100% sure the crash-the-hospital-computer-system thing really happened, but if it did then this expderience is beyond the jurisdiction of a mere kangaroo court. That achievement is in the realm of epic-ness and that player deserves special status all his own.
Well, the hospital computer crash may have been a figment of fever delerium or Dilaudid or wishfull thinking. And the 57 escape attampts might have been 2 {Fog of War?}with the last one being successful. As far as the description of epic-ness goes...uh...modesty and my attourney argue against comment.
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