<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Frank<br/>
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Sorry, but your inlogic. Why should I want the Netherlands to become champion, when Spain won against Germany? It is much cooler to say, hey, see, we could have been second, because the other poor guys also lost against them.<e>[/quote]</e ...

<r> I suppose that this link can be interesting. They usually have good analysis of tactics, post-match (and, of course, of many more matches).<br/>
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<URL url="http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/07/07/spain-1-0-germany-2010-world-cup-tactics/"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010 ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Offworlder<br/>
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Though I have no octopus to comfort my prediction, I think the Netherlands (not Holland please!) have a good cance of winning. Why? Simple. Every team who met the Spanish simply conceded the ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Jaroen<br/>
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Heh, it looks like you were a bit quicker than me regarding that midfield point.<br/>
Cannot agree more on that Dutch influence on Spanish football! But that was some years ago really, with a very winning Barcelona only. Don't know how the ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Jaroen<br/>
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<B><s>[b]</s>Respect the octopus!!! <e>[/b]</e></B> [;)]<br/>
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Commentators are praising Spain for denying Germany good play. Which I think is certainly true for the 2nd half but the first half was showing two hesitant, testing teams ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus<br/>
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Since I have been rather contundent ("Spain or Germany to win the final": now that you have seen the Spanish midfield performance I guess you can understand why I said so [8D]) a curious anecdote (but TRUE).<br/>
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Even if ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus<br/>
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Jaroen, you have missed my point about Kuyt [:)] Holland gave him this position because the coach does not have Van Bastens, Gullits anymore... You see the glass half full (he struggles a lot, like a mule), I see it half empty (an ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Offworlder<br/>
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Germany's midfield is rather eclectic and flexible. Except for Osil, all are capable of defending or at least doubling an ...

One question: are the "new" german midfielders good, defensively speaking?

RiP.

ORIGINAL: herwin

Actually, the Japanese calibre was 18.1" (460 mm). The next Japanese one up was 510 mm. They had also built a 480 mm battleship gun for testing.

I was rounding, for the sake of simplicity.

One question. Big guns calibers are 16", 18" and then 20". Weren't odd calibers tried or even considered? Why there wasn't any 17" guns (for example)? Problems in manufacturing, testing, design? Not enough gains from increasing that caliber a single inch?

Ok, it's clear now. I get the rest of the conversation, but the meaning of "bouncing" here just confused me, because I cannot imagine a squadron bouncing another one in the "usual" meaning... [:D][:D]

As a non english-native speaking person, I have a question: "bounce", here, means just "surprise the enemy"?. Or "make a first surprise pass"?

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: FatR<br/>
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Setting HRs for this game will require a lot of research, playing 4 months will require investing in the game for about 1,5 months. And proving something to someone who is already convinced that he's right is futile, particuarly when any case of ...

<t> In any case, it's easy to verify if Allied players complaints are true, and the experience levels for the japanese crews is too high. Play a game with a Japanese player deliberately organizing ships as the japanese did in real life. This is, no more convoys than IRL, no more conversions from ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Bradley7735<br/>
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67% of an inflated exp number is too much. 132% of a deflated exp number is too little. Sure, those numbers will matter when all ships are at 75/75 exp in 1943 (except any new allied additions. They need to wait a bit longer to ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: castor troy<br/>
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the only advantage for Allied ASW I notice is the fact that they´ve got a higher ASW value due to having more DC racks and their DCs have a better accuracy and a higher effect. That´s it.
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Nope. Mark Weston ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: mdiehl<br/>
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The general conjecture that the Japanese were particularly better at naval combat has no merit when you look at the outcomes of actual battles. The one and only thing that the IJN possessed that was a superior torpedo system. Of course, that ...

Thanks!