<t> First let me say that I am happy you replied.<br/>
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I am apparently scheduled to play hawker44721 as my first foe, and I wanted to get something up[, but getting a PM to them to set up times for our first turns is something I haven't been able to do yet. I'm going to try again tonight, if ...

I am ready to play, and I am tryng to figure out how to reach my first opponent.It's been a while since I've used the forums here, and I'm not sure about private messaging.

Also, do Steam-based users need to wqrry about the patch?

<t> I still have not given up. But I still have so many abortive plays from the conclusion that I am unclear on the basic systems. I'm going to agree with the cuncultions thatletting the AI managwe the air is simnjething I need to stop doing.<br/>
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Most of all, I must disabuse myself of the ...

I did indeed use VLC to open them, but only within this process and only once, just now, after the trouble arose.

What can I do to fix these codecs since it sounds like it may be what's at issue here?

Yes, I did. And in WitE too, which had the same problem. All of the videos worked (I had to look harder for them because I use Steam.)

So the videos themselves are fine. It's just something preventing the video track from appearing. The sound is fine.

I have a problem that the openi8ng screens in that they give me the sounds with only a black screen. I want to see the wartime footage and posters I saw the first time I played this game. What happened? Did I do a setting wrong?

<t> Completely non-apropos to any of this, my printer is not printing the One-Page Guides properly. The colors it prints are washed out and significantly less sharp than those in the manual. This is to the point that much of the guides are barely-comprehensible, (EDIT: I found out what was wrong ...

I don't know that I saw it before, but it definitely;y sounds good.

Back to Sicily again today. I hope to actually win the scenario this time. Any final thoughts?

<t> The AI*'s air planning ability Seems to reduce the complexity of the game, but the results on ground m4hky are not worth it. The air war is one of the most complex things to manage in the game, but rewarding to master.<br/>
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Ehsat does the ten-page thing say about ai??<br/>
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some good news (imho), you can actually get up and running just using Red Lancer's One Page Guides. Everything you really need are in ...

OK, getting back to the game in question, my progress has been a bit limited. I'm going to try Sicily again tonight and see if my play is improving. I got in no practice this weekend, so I would say not.

Historical question: Has there ever been a significant airborne invasion since Arnhem?

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Have you set the Status/Mode of the transport air groups to "Day/Night"? Do they all have Travel of 0%? If they're set to do training if any pilots are below a certain level of Experience, then that will cause some travel in the group, and ...

<t> I am still having trouble with launching the invasion of Sicily. I don't seem to be getting good o=use out of the paratroops, and most of them do not seem to be ready to drop. This is weird because they look like they can be helpful at first but are weaker infantry afterward. I guess I just don ...

Got it! Another RTFM moment.

So are the troops you start with on the map all you get?

<t> I played Husky to completion tonight and achieved a draw in a scenario the Allied player should easily win. And if I had figured out how to make a determined attack (I still don't know the command for that) I probably would have performed a lot better. I got four of the five major Sicilian ports ...

<t> I having this weird deja vu experience of having somehow seen or played this game before even though I've only had it for two days.<br/>
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And I finally got the manuals onto my tablet. It took me actually taking out the MicroSD card, inserting it into a USB card reader, connecting that to ...

<t> I'm trying Husky right now, but have appointments today and will come back to it. I still don't understand moving units and headquarters by sea, though -- I know why you do it, but not how in terms of actually pushing around the counters. Which is very silly that I haven't picked up already, but ...

I have a lot of storage on OneDrive. I'm going to see if my tablet responds to it. OneDrive instead of Google was because I simply have a lot more space there through Office 365.

I have a whole bunch of other manuals I should do the same way.