Okay, Ops Center Episode 09 is in the can, the new Podcast is coming out later this week, and it’s lunch time at work.  Time to finally catch up on the thread.

@rasmus – Indeed, Sendai Byo and Kama were running abeam for most of that battle, I was almost starting to worry that Sendai wasn’t getting the full use of her very expensive thrust and maneuverability, shackled as she was to her “BBW” sister.  😀  But things seemed to work out.  Indeed those Akashi strike frigates are fierce.  Just don’t get attached to them.

@limburger – most of the universe and lore writing is in the project thread, although it’s down there quite a ways.  Actually, no it isn’t.  Apparently there is a “bottom” to the project system and I have hit it.  My Darkstar project is missing all of its early entries.  Too long, I suppose.

@unclejimmy – yep, that’s the battlereport.  A lot of our battle reports are now in video form on the Sitrep YouTube Channel.  You might like these three we did on Gold Beach (admittedly the first half of the first video is a little slow and creaky, I promise the videos pick up the pace as they go along).

You cats sound awesome.  “Mysterious wounds” – sounds like they’re out brawling at night, little free range ass-kickers!

Jesus, is “Stolen Valor” really a thing?  I guess so.  Shows how much I pay attention.  How dumb to these people have to be?  I  guess they don’t realize how instantly obvious it is, if even one ribbon is out of place, if their boots are laced right over left instead of vice versa, if their trousers aren’t bloused just right, if you can’t cut your hands on the creases …  I gues they’re trying to pull this on civilians who don’t know the difference?  Even then, to what end?  Not only offensive, but dumb.  I don’t get it.

Thanks for the compliment on the MiG counters.  Sadly, they didn’t perform as well as they look, I couldn’t make a Split-S turn to save my ass.  Nor could my SA-2s hit the SKY, much less any American planes IN the sky.  @elessar2590 PWNED my ass with his two US Navy F-4 Phantoms (VF-51, USS Oriskany).  I’ll probably start the video cut on that one today now that OpsCenter 09 is done.

@tuffyears – those Harlequin minis look extremely details and fragile.

@cpauls1 – thanks.  I can’t wait to see you drones painted up!   The kitten is adorable.  Look forward to seeing the armored cars.    Those Arcadian legs just look like BDUs to me, except for the WW2-style leggings on some of the boots.  Yes, 90 degrees F … Brr!  Can someone turn up the heat?  Just kidding, we hate the heat as much as anyone.  It’s actually not bad here with the rain every day and situated as we are between the Atlantic and Lake Okeechobee (practically a small inland sea).  92-93 is about as bad as it gets.  Now if we can just judge hurricanes for another year …

@robert – that’s awesome!  Hey, hobby takes all forms and shapes.  And thing you make with knitting might have the additional benefit of actually being USEFUL in real life.  😀

@unclejimmy – OH NO!  Only a B minus.  I suck.  🙁 🙁 🙁  Seriously, thanks for the comments of the battle report.  Yeah, @damon really rolled poorly on that last broadside.  That’s happened to him twice now.  That game works out many times where you maneuver and maneuver and take hits and pivot and roll and dogfight … just trying to get to that one juncture where you’re at the right range, the right position, with the right arcs, on the right targets …  The game is often decided right there.  Now Damon’s broadside wasn’t perfect, the range was long and one ships (HMS Indefatigable) was hitting Kama’s starboard quarter rather than her stern (it helps when you focus ALL fire on one facing, you overwhelm shields and armor that way) … but it definitely SHOULD have done a lot more than it did.

Was the note to @rasmus – “better luck next time” … about the Darkstar game?  If so, Rasmus was fine.  He STOMPED in that game.  Damon’s the one who needs to melt his dice down and make them into an ashtray for how they treated him in that game.

Nice Mark IVs.  They look like late Gs or Hs.  I’m sure someone can use them.  That’s an extremely ubiquitous mid- and late-war tank.

Hope the weather cools down for you soon.

I like that cemetery gate.  Reminds me of Thulsa Doom from the 1982 Conan movie.

Awesome gaming pics!  Desert tables are always some of my favorites.

@crazyredcoat – great start so far!  😀

@woldenspoons – great creatures.  Pox Walkers?  What game is that for?  Sorry if everyone else knows and this is an obvious question.