This AAR is awesome!
There haven`t been any yaks for a while though, i miss the yaks.
There haven`t been any yaks for a while though, i miss the yaks.
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Why didn't you just give yourself cores on Sinkiang, I'm sure the Sinkiangese were happy to be liberated. Excellent AAR so far anyway, just a question:
"How do you shorten pictures so that only the parts you want appear?"
"How do you shorten pictures so that only the parts you want appear?"
"Yabbering" ?General Jac said:
Anyways, fear not, for the yaks are never very far from the Tibetan heart. "You can take the yak out of Tibet, but you'll never take Tibet out of the yak"
Because I already exploit enough "gamey" though legal moves, and I don't want to cheat moreCCA said:
My game is far ahead of the AAR and I editted the game only 3 times, 2 of them beeing purely cosmetic.
"Microsoft Paint"
Most battle pictures are artefact of at least 2 consecutive screenshots, sometimes 3. (to have the detail of the fight and its actual result on the same picture for example)
Stay tuned for the next update, to be released soon ! (well, it will be mainly a "gameplay" update, so don't expect too much litterature this time...)
Chapter 20
The Crossroads
The Crossroads
Lhassa, 24th August 1943
The Potala Palace
The High Council. All minister and generals are gathered around Reting Rimpoche. The Dalai Lama is playing with cubes on his throne.
Reting Rimpoche: Gentlemen,if we are gathered, it’s because we stand today at the crossroads. We have the destiny of our nation between our hands, and we must take the right path. All right, let’s sum up our situation. Mister Thupthen Ningee, could you please tell us the state of our research ?
Thupthen Ningee: We have finally completed our research about improved infantry divisions. Now we are able to produce our own modern divisions, if we choose to do so. Moreover, we can use the equipment that we bought from the French and the British much more efficiently, now that we know that their iron forms for giant spring-rolls are rocket launchers.
General Chaghoe Namgyal Dorje (thoughtful): The fact that some of our soldiers still use them to cook spring-rolls could maybe explain that series of freak accidents that happened in our canteens lately...
Thupthen Ningee: Besides that, looking for new strategic orientations, we went to speak with Mr. Harrer again, who is spending his last year in the citadel of Yumbu Lhakang. He answered to us with a riddle... let me read it (take a note from his file) “Tibet must be the dryest country on Earth, and still you managed to lock me inside a wet cell, you freekin’ id... at... aaaaat... AAAAATCH...” Then he said something that ressembled to “Schwerpunkt!” Our teams are trying to figure out what he meant.
Reting Rimpoche: Good. Now, general Shama Samphe, what’s the situation in the Pacific?
General Shama Samphe: I have good news and bad news. The bad news are: Japan annexed the Philippines. On the bright side: the Americans made one enemy casualty.
Reting Rimpoche: Excellent. If they continue at this rate for a couple million years, they will have won the war before the continental drift crashes Japan on their shores. Anything else?
General Shama Samphe: Concerning our glorious Navy, the...
Reting Rimpoche: If you say anything about a rubber duckie I shoot you. I swear I will.
Shama Samphe: Uh, I just wanted to say that I’ve finished my report now.
Reting Rimpoche: OK. Mr. Foreign minister, what’s the situation abroad?
Kuntsig Shamar Rimpoche: Bad news here too. Yesterday, the 23rd of August, and despite furious battles and the Soviet resistance, Japan annexed Mongolia.
Reting Rimpoche: Damn! What do our finest, most wise and enlightened political analysts that the World envies us think about that?
Kuntsig Shamar Rimpoche: Well, our best specialists estimate that, since Mongolia was the only country that dared acknowledge Tibetan independance, then they must be the second most powerful country on Earth after us, and thus them being defeated is a dramatic setback to our cause and calls for immediate action.
Reting Rimpoche: Excellent. Let’s not care about Mongolia at all then. And what about our allies in Sinkyang? Has Sheng Shicai sent us reinforcements at last?
Kuntsig Shamar Rimpoche: Well, not yet, but he says that fresh troops will be ready in no time, and that they just need a very short delay before they are fully ready to be sent to the front.
Reting Rimpoche: Good, I suppose. Now general Wangdu, what’s our military situation?
Gyato Wangdu: Our last operation codename Attack-North-And-See-What-Happened went exactly as planned : we attacked North and we saw things happen. Actually, we could even attack some more and see even more things happen.
Reting Rimpoche: That’s most excellent! I think that we can take the path to glory on those crossroads now. General Wangdu, please expose our latest master plan.
Gyato Wangdu: Ahem. Brum. Gentlemen. Now we have an occasion to seize the initiative, maybe for the first time in this war. The brilliant idea of our wise Prime Minister was to use against the Japanese the one thing that we have and that they lack. So I ask you : what do WE have in large quantities that the Japanese don’t?
General Chaghoe Namgyal Dorje: Uh... wood?
General Sampo Tsewang Rigzin: Very small rocks?
General Shama Samphe: A DUCK!
Reting Rimpoche puts a handgun on the table and Shama Samphe cowers immediately.
General Andruk Gonpo Tashi (unsure): Nothing?
Gyato Wangdu: Exactly! “Nothing”! And where is the greatest quantity of nothing in our empire?
Chorus: The desert of Korla!
Gyato Wangdu: Correct! We will push the Japanese toward the desert of Korla, and submerge them with the sheer quantity of nothingness that we can throw at them! And when they are really despaired for something and see that we never run out of nothing, they will finally surrender!
General Chaghoe Namgyal Dorje (dubious): Hmm. In my book they describe that as the “encirclement and destruction doctrine”.
Gyato Wangdu: Well that’s technically right but I thought that the concept was a bit arduous, and I translated it into something more understandable for the Tibetan military...
Reting Rimpoche: Anyway! Gentlemen, I am proud to tell you that we will launch the second phase of the grand Operation Anvil of Buddha, and that you will all participate into it!
He pauses.
Reting Rimpoche: Oh, I almost forgot: Mr. Thupthen Ningee, still no progress in the field of encryption devices?
Thupthen Ningee: Still not Sir.
Reting Rimpoche: Blast. Then we will still be obliged to speak with codenames. Oh, whatever. Everyone get ready for the detailed briefing of Operation Codename Encircle-The-Japanese-In-Sinkyang!
Chorus: Sah! Hurrah for Tibet!
A masterplan flawlessly executed.
Victory!
The actual result of Operation Codename Encircle-The-Japanese-In-Sinkyang
The British steal the glory on the line!
Am I detecting a hint of my patented "Steal from Monty Python" writing style?
Show those Japanese! Buddha will crush all invaders*!!!
*Except Communist China
Show those Japanese! Buddha will crush all invaders*!!!
*Except Communist China
Overwhelm the unbuddhaly invaders with your nothingness! :rofl:
Still no yaks though...
This must be the best AAR i`ve ever read!
Still no yaks though...
This must be the best AAR i`ve ever read!
We want Yaks! We want Yaks! We want Yaks!
I hope you get it now , funnny update anyways though
We want Yaks! We want Yaks! I hope you get it now
, funnny update anyways though
Actually I tried 5 times to reduce that pocket (against 3 Japanese divs class 1941 with artillery) and failed, but since they were pocketed their org dropped everytime a little and couldn't recover. I was frustrated that the British managed to defeat them before I could launch the 6th and last attack. By the way, the Japanese pocket was definitely eliminated by the british too, in Hotan (SW of Korla).stnylan said:
You know all my tricksComrade Brian said:
I kindda stole the idea of the rubber duckie, too - but since it appears also in Exterous' Luxemburger AAR, I suppose it's a classic now
That plan is very much the "only possible one"... that or an attrition war against Japan. Knowing that it's *Tibet* we're speaking aboutDuke of Wellington said:
o Nehekara, hito1, General Jac: Thanks! I'm doing my best! I hope I won't run out of inspiration before that AAR is finished. Anyway, as usual, "stay tuned for the next update" !
Lots of weirdos said:We want Yaks!
A yack in Tibet.
Herding Yaks in Tibet
The Tibetan BunnyYak of the Week™
Happy now, you perverts ?
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I had : my idea was to wage a blitzkrieg-like war with powerful, fast yak-mounted cavalry. But the provinces in Tibet and central China are mountain landscapes, very ill suited both for cavalry as a unit and for blitzkrieg as a tactic, so well... that'll be infantry, as usual...Nehekara said:
o I already made a pun about the actual-operation-that-shall-not-be-named (for newcomers: see chapter Operation Enduring Fiefdom), but you gave me an idea for another title... Thanks, I'll keep that in mind! (next update will probably be an "interlude" though)grayghost said:
I am glad I could be of assistance. Now I just hope that Retching Riposte wont send me to the north gate.
Misspelling the name of the beloved prime minister of Tibet and 5th reincarnation of the eternal Reting Rimpoche earns you one year of chores at Reting Monastry. Let's hope you like yak-butter, tea and broomsgrayghost said:I am glad I could be of assistance. Now I just hope that Retching Riposte wont send me to the north gate.