It's been years since I've been on this forum. You almost have to wonder why I decided to have another look just as my old opponent has passed. He was a good man. My condolences to the family, and also to his friends in the community here.

<t> The problem with increasing starting fatigue and disruption is that it only gives a short-term penalty to the Japanese. They can easily be sent to well-supplied cities, recover for a couple of weeks and then start their offensive. This gives the Chinese some time to improve their positions, but ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: oldman45<br/>
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interesting piece, how would changing the "type" of ship impact its crew exp level?
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Ships with a low experience level increase this over time when at sea, even without combat (this is very briefly hinted at in ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Cribtop<br/>
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PS - I need some help from the Admins. I have a new all in one tablet/lap top and need to download AE to my new device. How can I do this? I am happy to supply my original WiTP and AE license keys and to delete the game from my old desktop if ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Robert Murhpy<br/>
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Thanks Norm, but that would indicate another entirely different problem. VMF-221 flying corsairs definitely states it is carrier trained. That is why I attached it to the CV as other units only indicated carrier capable. <br/>
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<t> Thanks for the welcome, I've indeed seen that michael has kept busy, but haven't run into large game mechanic changes yet. Any that I should be aware of ? PBEMs are not for the near future, I'm afraid I'd run into the same problems that ended our PBEM. I've got enough time to flip turns against ...

<t> Hello Joseph, nice to see you are still enjoying PBEM campaigns, I hope you can make it all the way to Japan in this one. I've recently picked the game up again after a long hiatus and will be following some AARs as well. If my old opponent picks up the Allies himself, I'm definitely interested ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: SiliconMagician<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>TommyBoy, the AI doesn't really do the lower echelon stuff when you turn on "computer control". What you do is give ALL the decision making power of a particular region of the Pacific Theater over to the computer ...

<t> Basically, the AI works on pre-written scripts for the strategic/higher level stuff. This is turned off on the Chinese front in a quiet China game, so you will not see large scale offensives. However, there is also a part of the AI that will attack when it sees weak stacks close to it's lines ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin<br/>
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No its wrong, the Japanese did not use green Zeros back then. They used space Battleships.
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For some reason people always think that "being blown out of the water" is a bad thing. The Japanese and their ...

<t> Yep it's PDU off. Cuts on both ends, off the +- 150 Japanese planes there were a 100 Oscars. On the other hand both USAAF fighter groups in Burma are equipped with P-40 variants while there are lots of P-38 doing not much at all in SWPac. (Had one P38-E squadron, but they came in first and lost ...

<r> <I><s>[i]</s><B><s>[b]</s>27th of February 1943<e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
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<B><s>[b]</s>Karsten<e>[/b]</e></B>: Thanks, feel free to post here if you've any questions or comments<br/>
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A small mistake in the dates earlier, we just finished the 27th.<br/>
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<t> Supply is no issue as long as I don't get the ground routes cut off. This game predates supply movement caps, so I can get almost everything I need by playing with the supply draw buttons. I have quite a bit of them at the ready though, transporting infantry of an American Division, so if I get ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s><U><s>[u]</s>Burma<e>[/u]</e></U><e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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Another Allied offensive has started in Burma, this time the goals is to completely take over the central plains. The below map gives an estimation of the location of Japanese divisions (A total of about 6000 AV). Some ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s><U><s>[u]</s>China<e>[/u]</e></U><e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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The retreat in China is going according to plan, tank units tried to get around my large stack falling back on Kunming, but a 1000 AV stack was put in place to counter just such a move. The main stack is now only 46 miles ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s><U><s>[u]</s>Gillberts<e>[/u]</e></U><e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
Not much battle going on here, but the Allies are slowly advancing. Medium bombers from Tabit seem to have bombed out the defenders of Beru, Nonouti and Abemama. Barge transport is bringing engineers, aviation support and ...

<r> <I><s>[i]</s><B><s>[b]</s>17th-23rd of February 1943<e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
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<U><s>[u]</s><B><s>[b]</s>Solomons<e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/u]</e></U><br/>
No damage to the carriers and they make good their escape the next day. Battleships keep visiting Lunga at night, but at least he ...

Seems like another case of overloading his TF, if these guys had come in 3 different TFs the battle might have been very different. As is stands, Valiant lived up to it's name.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Rob Brennan UK<br/>
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I'm a great believer in combining the odd fragments of allied troops in Malaysia and Burma early war. The full divs last a lot longer in combat than individual regiments. <br/>
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However I have had problems with one Aussie Division ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Smeulders<br/>
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"Converting" old cargo ships to CVEs would be dead to all aboard, but this seems to be a sub chaser. Of course they'd go down if hit once, but hitting one would be rather hard ...