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Sachmle		#321	[-]
Registered Member Posts: 57 (20-Oct-2009 15:18:38) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	And has been for 9 hours, 18 minutes, and 38 seconds... :-)
jim 1		#322	[-]
Posts: 9995 (21-Oct-2009 00:07:18) Generally Obscure Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Nott today. Wednesday remains possible. I had work to take home or otherwise interfered. Sorreee!
kdahm		#323	[-]
Posts: 600 (21-Oct-2009 05:12:48) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	We really must stop bothering Jim and informing him that it's Tuesday. I'm fairly sure he already knows, and answering the incessant pleas and reminders just takes him away from his real job of turning out more Letterstime and his hobby of making a paycheck. I therefore propose locking this thread and letting it die an unnatural death, with the reader's choice of 'Whangs', 'Whumps', or 'Splorches'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . BTW, It's the day between Monday and Wednesday. {Ominuous Hummmmmmmm}
jim 1		#324	[-]
Posts: 9997 (21-Oct-2009 05:15:37) Generally Obscure Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	If you guys eased up, I could slip to once a month (or less), so it might be just as well that you keep reminding me that someone might want to read what I'm trying to write.
New Hampshire Battleship Lover	Wanting to read it...	#325	[-]
Posts: 2113 (21-Oct-2009 06:28:14) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	jim 1 wrote: If you guys eased up, I could slip to once a month (or less), so it might be just as well that you keep reminding me that someone might want to read what I'm trying to write. We VERY much want to read it! The best story on the net, IMVHO.
torpedo mixer	second !	#326	[-]
Posts: 234 (21-Oct-2009 21:42:55) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	IMVVVVHO TM
Big Dave		#327	[-]
Posts: 1742 (22-Oct-2009 00:14:57) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Do we get to hear the satisfying sounds of 283s tearing through Town-class deck armor tonight?
jim 1		#328	[-]
Posts: 9998 (22-Oct-2009 01:19:52) Generally Obscure Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	NHBL - Torp Thank you for the kind words. ;- ) Actually, the best one on the web might be here: http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1363103 Note that the game being role-played is War in the Pacific using the Nik Mod. And, yes, that's the same person as the present CO of Seydlitz! If you read it, I guarantee that you will not think about a snake goddess quite the same way ever again. :-) Now, the bad news. (BTW, my son in Afghanistan says I never sigh lower case in person) I hate what I've written and must rubbish most of it. I am going to have to rethink how to go forward from here. The next major scripted event is still a week away, unless Uwe has something happening between July 16 and then. A cookie will be awarded to the first one who posts what that event is. In any case, I will post something next Tuesday, though I am not sure what the heck it will be. All I know right now, is that it will NOTT be what I have now.
SMS12		#329	[-]
Posts: 981 (22-Oct-2009 02:48:20) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I may be able to contribute a little side story action with our favorite RN intelligence analyst. However, I need Nott to make it back to work. I can try to set up up this weekend and hope for the best. However, the Lady J may have other plans for me. Since she is a Brit and from the Birmingham area, if she knew I was a member of the Baron's fan club and you just sank the Birmingham...oh boy.
Dave Bender	Next major scripted event is still a week away	#330	[-]
Posts: 8854 (22-Oct-2009 02:55:39) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	20 July 1915 J.W. Gerard (U.S. Ambassador to Germany) writes to Colonel House urging war against Germany. 22 July 1915. Austro-German forces begin siege of Ivangorod fortress complex. (The fortress is captured 6 Aug 1915) 22 July 1915. German 12th Army forces a crossing of the Vistula River. (A key event in the Austro-German offensive to conquer Poland.) 22 July 1915. French offensive in the Vosges defeated. BTW, where in the Vosges is the von Letters hunting lodge located? There is a good chance that part of the fighting took place on his property. 22 July 1915. SMS V44 commissioned. A GTB1913. 24 July 1915. The steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago with the loss of 844 lives. 24 July 1915. U36 becomes the first German submarine sunk by a Q ship. 25 July 1915. UC6 (a German coastal minelayer submarine) experiences engine trouble while still 90 miles from Zeebrugge. They continue the trip home using a jury rigged mast and sail. Eventually another submarines tows them into port. July 1915. France produced about 75,000 75mm artillery shells during July 1915. Production is rising rapidly as the new Citroen shell plant located in Paris works up to full capacity. Raw materials for this and other munitions factories located in Paris arrive via the Port of Rouen.
jim 1		#331	[-]
Posts: 9999 (22-Oct-2009 03:02:39) Generally Obscure Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Dave - No cookie yet! ;-)
Big Dave		#332	[-]
Posts: 1743 (22-Oct-2009 03:38:17) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The Wolves mug the RN. Yes there are still Wolves prowling about.
Komandorski		#333	[-]
Registered Member Posts: 20 (22-Oct-2009 04:25:04) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My guesses: -The Germans determine that their codes are being read. -A major warship commissions / is repaired -Krupp tests an improved shell fuse -The Kaiser throws a hissyfit -The merchant prize fleet is discovered / makes an appearance -TLC's birthday -Holly appreciates carbon -A government falls -All skilled dockyard workers are recalled from the army -SMS Koenigsberg attempts to break out of the Rufiji delta, the monitors Mercy and Severn having been delayed by der Kaiserschlacht (I'd even try my hand at writing the last one.) Last Edited By: Komandorski 22-Oct-2009 04:39:20. Edited 1 times.
jim 1		#334	[-]
Posts: 10001 (22-Oct-2009 05:01:24) Generally Obscure Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Actually, the answer is in LT text in previous chapters.
Komandorski		#335	[-]
Registered Member Posts: 21 (22-Oct-2009 05:22:01) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	From your wording I imagined that it probably was - but guessing wildly is more amusing.
Dave Bender	No cookie yet!	#336	[-]
Posts: 8855 (22-Oct-2009 15:55:06) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The two captured merchant ships loaded with artillery shells are due to blow up any day now.
Dave Bender	skilled dockyard workers are recalled from the army	#337	[-]
Posts: 8856 (22-Oct-2009 15:56:39) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Historically this is already happening in Germany.
New Hampshire Battleship Lover	Thanks for the referal!	#338	[-]
Posts: 2114 (22-Oct-2009 18:30:28) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	jim 1 wrote: NHBL - Torp Thank you for the kind words. ;- ) Actually, the best one on the web might be here: http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1363103 Note that the game being role-played is War in the Pacific using the Nik Mod. And, yes, that's the same person as the present CO of Seydlitz! If you read it, I guarantee that you will not think about a snake goddess quite the same way ever again. :-) Now, the bad news. (BTW, my son in Afghanistan says I never sigh lower case in person) I hate what I've written and must rubbish most of it. I am going to have to rethink how to go forward from here. The next major scripted event is still a week away, unless Uwe has something happening between July 16 and then. A cookie will be awarded to the first one who posts what that event is. In any case, I will post something next Tuesday, though I am not sure what the heck it will be. All I know right now, is that it will NOTT be what I have now. Jim, Thanks for the referal. This after action report is great reading! I know EXACTLY how you feel about writing, and deciding that it's largely rubbish; the same thing has happened to me numerous times with "The Old War Wagon," including three times now with the next installment. Best of wishes toyour son in Afganistan!
HoOmAn	Königsberg	#339	[-]
Posts: 1498 (23-Oct-2009 10:26:02) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	That Königsberg idea is tempting. She may run into whatever blocks her and sink - but it surely would make for a great story....
CJvR		#340	[-]
Posts: 2397 (23-Oct-2009 11:22:42) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I doubt Königsberg have gained any time. The RN assets deployed to nail her, the monitors, are hardly critically needed elsewhere and getting any naval success will be a priority for the British. Besides I doubt Königsberg could do more damage in the Indian Ocean, being isolated and without any safe coal supply and base, than she did by providing the German colonial army with heavy artillery. IIRC the British deployed some 300000 men against East Africa and suffered some 30000 fatalities among them - more than the entire German/Askari force. A Wikipedia note... The West German embassy at Dar es Salaam identified approximately 350 ex-askaris and set up a temporary cashiers office at Mwanza on Lake Victoria. Only a few claimants could produce the certificates given to them in 1918; others provided pieces of their old uniforms as proof of service. The German banker who had brought the money came up with an idea: as each claimant stepped forward he was handed a broom and ordered in German to perform the manual of arms. Not one of them failed the test. ...old soldiers indeed!

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