<t> Haven't gotten AE yet (projecting after Thanksgiving, have a bit of Christmas shopping to do yet), but outside WitP? Well, I have a money consuming hole in the water otherwise known as a boat. Usually go shooting on Sundays. As far as computer games go, Alien Crossfire, Tropico, Dangerous Waters ...

There is always the Federal Register, though it's a real slog, since everything that Congress does is in there.

<t> In a similar vein, is the coast artillery any better than it was in stock? I've toured CA sites in various parts of the world (what? like the rest of you don't have any strange hobbies....) and one of the things that struck me was how the spotting stations and fire control rooms seemed to have ...

<t> With the addition of coastal minelayers, do the controlled minefields in places like Manila Bay work any better than in stock? It has been a source of frustration seeing invasion forces sail on past the Corregedor fortifications, which should have been largely intact, unscathed. In the past I ...

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Blimps ? wow, they were in the pacific ?, did they do any thing useful ?<br/>
Didnt one sink a uboat once when it ...

It should be noted that ships are typically deammunitioned before entering a drydock or floating drydock, so a magazine xplosion is pretty unlikely.

Nope, I kep everything under human control. I have no idea why it's doing this. I also have a problem with the AI grabbing off merchant ships and sending them, via the worst possible route, to backwater bases.

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Yes, this happens, even with the auto-subs setting "off.." One doesn't really notice until a sub is suddenly seen under "Computer Control" and off on a mission of its own (and I think it is only after being in port ...

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My guess would be you had auto-subs set to yes. Thats the default on it (dont ask me why).
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Went back and looked, auto-subs has been off from the beginning (I haven ...

Thanks for the reply. In the instances where this has happened I had everything set to human control, which is part of what made it so bewildering. Dunno if it was a bug or what.

Does the AI still hijack subs in the yards for repair? I seem to have this problem pretty frequently, sending a boat in for repair or upgrade and then discovering it at sea when it gets down to about 10 or less for damage.

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Sinking a ship with only two shells it's a realistic aproach to ship damage? Well, i will see future surface combats to cheers.
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Actually, it is. Merchant vessels are typically built with lighter structure ...

Is it known if there will be a hard copy map or a compendium of screen shots to make one's own?

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Just fyi, Bob, it used to be that just about everybody had a cruise speed of 15, back in WiTP-I. In AE, things are different. My evil, devious, mind gives slower top speed capital ships a slower cruise speed to match. Not only ...

<t> I imagine this has been touched on before, but the search function and I are not meshing well: for vessels that are normally lost early on, such as Arizona, are there a suite of upgrades to accomodate their survival?<br/>
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On another front, in a&nbsp;current stock game, the ...

<t> Steep learning curve on this one, vast amounts of detail to track, so it's pretty easy to be overwhelmed. You end up handling a lot of things that a real theater commander would have a staff to handle. I know that forgetting to do something with a unit or base has had unfortunate results for me ...

<t> I can see an increase in the probability of attacking a designated target class under orders of this sort, but given the level of misidintification that happened in real life, only a probability increase. Land based units that hadn't had extensive training in naval attack would be especially ...

<t> Will this increased granularity result in more intermediate headquarters such as group, wing and hedron (while properly in other threads, but since I'm on the subject; will squadrons and divisions be present for ships and related organisation)? Will the impact of organisations such as CASU be ...

I'm kind of excited that the various LCS will actually do something. It has long been a source of irritation that, as the allies, I had all those hulls that didn't do anything.

<t> Probably the lack of supercharged engines and typically lower altitude flight profiles. The engines can't be run as lean at lower altitudes that search and ASW missions will tend to dictate and the Navy used the non-supercharged engines since they didn't feel that there would be any need for ...