<r> That sounds like it could be Ienaga's book.<br/>
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As for the book in the original post by Pike, I bought it, and I can say with confidence that it probably isn't the "definitive" history of anything.<br/>
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The book is riddled with typos, and glaring factual errors.<br/>
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For ...

<t> The best books I have read on the Pacific war (and I have read an awful lot of them) are by H.P. Willmott:<br/>
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Empires in the Balance, Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942<br/>
The Barrier and the Javelin, Japanese and Allied Strategies, February to June 1942<br/>
The ...

<t> I just finished my first game (1939/42 scenario) of Third Reich PC.<br/>
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It is fun, in a retro sort of way. The AI isn't terrible, but the difficulty setting is essentially just multiplying the computer player's resources.<br/>
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I let the computer play the Axis, with the AI set to ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Ostwindflak<br/>
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My wife bought me <I><s>[i]</s>A World At War<e>[/i]</e></I> this past Christmas. I am looking forward to opening the shrink wrap and diving in to it soon. I was wondering if any of you guys here have played it?<br/>

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: bo<br/>
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Hi belechannas appreciate you looking into this I am pretty good when I use osmosis to solve problems [:D] I tried f/11 but it does not seem to matter and I am leery going into the sub routines to change my cpu as it might effect my cpu in other ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: bo<br/>
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I am running it on Windows 7 Home premium 64 bit, is there any way of slowing down the AI movements of units?<br/>
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Bo
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I poked around a little.<br/>
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In the DOSBox subdirectory, there is a file called ...

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Lack of production seems to be a feature of many of the PTO games I would classify as successful:<br/>
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Victory in the Pacific<br/>
Pacific War (Victory Games)<br/>
Empire of the Sun (GMT)<br/>
Fire in the Sky (MMP)<br/>
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While we're on the subject of 3rd Reich and the ...

<t> I bought it when it came out, but was unable to make enough sense out of the rules to play it solo. I wrote about 10 pages of Q&A to the publisher, and they eventually answered about half. It seemed like an extremely unfinished and half-baked product.<br/>
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I'd recommend Fire in the Sky ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: brian brian<br/>
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Bruce Harper was one helluva Third Reich player, I remember his name from being a long-time subscriber to The General.
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Fun fact: Bruce was also a Master-level chess player, and a moderately big deal on ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Klydon<br/>
I saw later versions of 3R after they ripped off some ideas from WiF.
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Just for the record, the designer of Advanced Third Reich and later incarnations of the game (Bruce Harper) has never played, or even laid eyes on ...

<t> You might try setting the process priority to the lowest possible value in the Windows Task Manager.<br/>
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Played a few turns, and I'm impressed, in a nostalgic sort of way. I actually owned this back when AH was still in business, but back then A3R was the thing, and the AI for this 3R4 ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Jagdtiger14<br/>
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I used to be a big A3R player with a face to face group in the mid/late 90's...even played at Avaloncon in Baltimore (Hunt Valley). Loved the game.]
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Heh. I ran the A3R mailing list around that time, and ...

<t> The thing about calculating odds is: combat is very bloody, and the CRT favors the attacker.<br/>
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The attacker wins 100% of the time at odds of 3-1 or better (with a varying amount of losses), and even at 2:1 odds the attacker will win 31 times out of 32.<br/>
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Defending units are ...

<t> I started playing the original board game in 1975, a year after it came out.<br/>
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The production and economic system is based on "BRPs" ("Basic Resource Points"). Each major power starts with a base BRP amount, which they receive annually. A percentage (country-dependent) of any saved ...