New: Infamous Days (free, open-ended, email, www, human, historical, wargame, rpg)

From: donotreply@pbm.com (PBM List Autoposter)

Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:13:01 +0000

Name:		Infamous Days
Costs:		free
Frequency:		weekly
Email:		rmackenzie zat gmail.com
URL:		http://infamousdays.atspace.com/main.html
Type:		WWII strategic wargame
Last-Update:		2006Jul22
Keywords: free, open-ended, email, www, human, historical, wargame, rpg

Description:

December 7th 1941, it was a date that would forever be etched into not
only the generation of Americans alive in 1941, but for all the countless
generations that would follow it. It was the day that America came
abruptly and brutally to the realization that it could no longer stand by
and watch Europe and the rest of the world become enflamed in conflict. It
was the day that America was forced to enter the greatest war history had
ever known at that time for the survival of Europe, America was forced to
fight for its survival.

At the time no one realized what the cost of victory over the Axis powers
would be, no one realized what the cost in American lives would be to
reclaim Oahu or the Pacific, or free Britain and the rest of Western
Europe from the tyranny of the Nazis, or even the cost of American lives
for freeing Russia from Axis occupation. On that hazy Sunday so many years
ago, America and her citizens were living in a time of innocence, that
innocence was shattered with Japanese Aircraft destroying the Pacific
Fleet in Pearl Harbor. The Battleships were but the first victims of the
Pacific War, the Enterprise, the Saratoga quickly joined the American list
of losses. The losses of the Enterprise and Saratoga meant that Lexington
was the last remaining carrier in the Pacific as the Yorktown had been
sent to the Atlantic fleet to assist in the Royal Navy in combat
operations against the Kriegsmarine.

The Jacksonville, the Washington, the Iowa, the Lexington and many more
ships like them were to become endeared to history, fighting against all
odds to secure victory against the Axis Alliance. American Sailors and
Marines would fight against tremendous odds and eventually take back
Japanese Fortification on Oahu, Midway, Wake, and a thousand other
islands. The world has never seen valor like was displayed in those years.
We are getting a head of ourselves here discussing the ending of war, to
fully understand the conflict that was the Second World War we should go
back to it's darkest days, Mid December, 1941, when the Pacific Fleet was
scrambling to rebuild itself, and Soldiers, Marines and Resistance
fighters were fighting the Japanese Invasion of Oahu.

In those days, the American 1st Fleet had been wiped out by the Japanese
Attack on Pearl Harbor. The American 2nd Fleet had been reorganized in San
Diego, and the USS Jacksonville, being on of the only ships to survive the
destruction of the 6th Fleet was made Flagship of US 2nd Fleet. Several
Battleships were being rushed out of the dockyards, the Iowa Class
Battleships were due in 12-20 months to be on the front line, with the
Iowa and Missouri going to the Pacific and New Jersey and Wisconsin
heading to the Atlantic. There were even rumors of a new super battleship,
Kentucky Class that was being planned to avenge Oahu. For the navy
officers in the Pacific it was what they had secretly hoped for, a Big God
Damned Navy War.

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Well right now there are several different storylines occuring, as you
could imagine with this sim Below is a brief summary and a link to our
list server

1) The American Second Fleet, departed San Diego under the escort of
Admiral Halsey and the USS Lexington. Fighting 8, Torpedo 8, and VFM-214
"Black Sheep" are enroute to the Task Group. Operation Tailhook is under
way with the objectives of resucing trapped Americans on Oahu

2) PM Winston Churchill is making preparations to evacuate the British
Isles, to save the BEF, and fight on in exile as Germany prepares to
invade in March.

3) The Marines and 24th Infantry Division are preparing to the leave the
Island in Stolen PT Boats. Colonel O'Connor has located and rescued some
American POWs and an unconscious General Short. The Navy wives are on the
run, after shooting a Japanese Officer

4) Colonel Doolittle is starting preparations for his raid, this time not
on Tokyo, but Honolulu.

Below is a link to our list server, which you can link to our main site,
and get more detail

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/infamous_days/
http://infamousdays.atspace.com

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