Asia and Oceania OOC

The 2020 in service date is for the carriers operating fully as aircraft carriers, due to the nature of the size increase compared to their predecessors and the other related testing this is anticipated to take around four years. The 2016 date for that was outdated as it assumed a final build date of 2012 which was never really achievable. Sometime in 2016 the future HMS Queen Elizabeth will be delivered to the Navy to begin operations she just wont be ready for war until 2020 but that is reasonable, look at the Gerald R Ford that is pencilled in for several years training as well.

I think this will give new meaning to the term drop bears..

If my drone base or space plans don't get a mention for Oceania in the region review thing, Dax...fair warning..don't open any brown boxes that arrive in the mail for about a month..

Stok, how were you planning to determine the outcome of the attacks as far as their effectiveness, etc?

After I posted, I was actually wondering about that. I can't determine that Epoch Times went down, and I was considering asking the USA player since their HQ is in New York, but at the same time Falungong is a Chinese thing. Would this qualify for an event or would it simply be kinda just whatever USA/China says goes?

My advice would be to coordinate with the US player and come to an agreement among yourselves. If you can't, the events team can simulate it. But as a rule I much prefer a bilateral player approach to these kinds of things.

BTW TheOne in case you did not know half the Australian fleet, including at least two of the Anzac class FFHs have been mothballed of late by Labor into long term storage you might want to roleplay bringing them back into service.

Link please?

http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/navy-mar...s-updates-5905/

If you read through the last maybe four or five pages of this it details the issues with the Success, the argument over the two mothballed FFHs, and the Skandi Bergen situation (The Skandi being the sister ship to the Ocean Protector) it has all the links to various articles from the DoD and several newspapers including the joint letter by the Chief of the Navy/ADF (Can’t recall exactly) and the Defence Minister one of the papers for broadcasting the views of the Navy servicemen, i.e. that Smith is a useless twat who has no idea what he is doing and just wants Bob Carr’s job.

I was more so looking for a link from an official source, not a discussion forum of wannabes and arm chair generals who think they know everything.
Not a critique of you btw.

Can you link me to the specific post that says which ships specifically have been mothballed?
Half the fleet being put out of service, including at least two ANZACS, would be pretty big news, at the very least it would get a mention in the media and catch peoples attention.

And Smith isn't the defence minister anymore and Labor isn't in government. I rp'ed a change in government.

That’s okay I know many of the internet forums are full of people such as that an to be careful, this one I have found is generally populated by a lot of active duty servicemen which is why I tend to use it more than some of the others.

The first post is a general summary of what is going on and was a reply by one of the more senior members to the general question “What is the problem with Stephen Smith”

The second is a comment by an active duty guy from the frigate unit regarding the two vessels out of service and why they cannot be used and the implications therefore.

Generally the issues with the military not getting more publicity, compared to say the United Kingdom where every minor decision on the carriers makes front page news, has been noted – I know the Canberra Times and The Australian are the two that have been heavily publicising the situation from the perspective of the sailors which has really been the only mention in the media so far, considering that the entire morning news today across every channel was that stupid boy band that’s not too bad, the following are a summary of the articles depicting the recent media interest in the situation with the Skandi Bergen and so forth, if you did some searching you would probably find some more from the non-major sources as well as on nearly every forum out there.

As a general view most people are using is that in their rush to bring the budget back to surplus and with the lack of a Defence Minister who has the respect of the forces sloppy decisions have been made that are severely impacting upon the operational capacity of the forces which already had enough issues with the difficulties with naval maintenance which have been constantly on going since they were practically bankrupted by the Collins class cock up.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/a...?skin=text-only
http://www.navy.gov.au/On_The_Record:_Chie...phibious_claims
http://www.navy.gov.au/Purchase_of_Offshor...Disaster_Relief
http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/2012/04...-31-march-2012/
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-a...o-1226309695302

Hmm. So seems I'm going to have make a "big deal" about maintenance and speeding up the upgrade process and perhaps staggering it.

Come on fellas, get busy with the news posts. I feel like I'm a post whore.

Dirty dirty post whore?

The filthiest kind.

Is India going to horde its rare earths?
I was thinking of hording Australia's rare earth's and banning their export, or allowing a very small amount for export to certain countries.

Commonwealthhhhh!!

There's really only three or four in the commonwealth that can actually use rare earths.
UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand. And maybe India..I don't know much about it, isn't it a big call center? *cheekygrin*

But seriously, today I woke up in a really good mood, which was partly ruined by the reminder of the bills I have to pay today. Various licenses, mobile, car rego..F*#$ THE GOVERNMENT!!
But I'm still in a good mood. The weekend is here. Buying a dozen big bottles of beer. Big as in almost a liter in each bottle. Or in ghetto speak, 40's.. haha
One of the biggest games in footy(aussie footy) is on sunday..well, locally anyway.

Sample of years gone by..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIgUHtssm-0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtXIiOexlyI
haha even the trainers go down in this one

carn Port!!
the Aussies here will understand..i hope.

and one more for good luck ... my nigga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-LTDH5Djls&feature=related

this man, byron, is a legend. one of my favorite players of all time.
absolute fucking machine who demolished anyone who got in his way.
we miss players like him on the ground these days.

Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)

I've always enjoyed that acronym lol.

"Hell ya mah nig!!!! We gon be gittin dis shiett!!"
Note: I live with three black guys, and I can affirm without any shred of doubt that this has been said at least once.

haha i got black(aboriginal) cousins
nobody believes me at first, you know, being Greek, but then I show them a photo of us, and they like, oh...with a blank stare.

I can only find Sol in those big bottles.
its like $6 a bottle.

Am I crazy enough to create an inland sea?

Did China declare economic war?

Yes, you read right.
396 trillion cubic meters.
6,600 years worth of power for Australia .

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/sha...3-1226353827258

It's not 100% confirmed, so I'm going to do exploration. I guess the events team will decide? I'm happy to go with 396 trillion, obviously. Although I have a feeling you will halve it? I know you certainly wont increase it
One thing I hope the events team keep in mind, is that the Australian outback is largely untouched for natural resources, but 'known' to be extremely rich in many.
For example, 40% of the worlds uranium is out here..

Request an event in the Event Commission so I don't forget.

Sorry my bad, it's cubic feet not meters.

396 trillion cubic feet works out to 11.2 trillion cubic meters (11,213,471,250,000)

So it's not astronomical. It really blew my mind, because all I could find for Russia was about 55 trillion cubic meters, and here I was thinking 396 trillion cubic meters...lol damn.

Ah well, guess I don't need that event then. Thanks for the response anyway Dax.