Ah, ok. Thanks.

So, it's not something I can control or even influence as a player in-game.

Kia ora folks,
I'm currently working my way through the long campaign as Nazis. I've found that I have an excess of middling Bf109s which I'd like to transfer to the Bulgarians and Romanians as they'd be a vast improvement on their IAR 81Cs and D.520s, but I can't find a way to transfer stocks of ...

Yeah, whoever wrote "history is written by the victors" had obviously never heard of the Eastern Front. (Or the US Civil War, for that matter)

<r> @Searry,<br/>
there is plenty of great writing on the campaign in NWE, but it's spread across multiple authors. Which is fine - you should always be a bit side-eye about any single source that's supposedly definitive.<br/>
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The OHs are flat out great for answering the Who, What, Where ...

<r> FWIW, apart from the US Official Histories (and the UK and Canadian equivalents) I don't recommend <I><s>[i]</s>any <e>[/i]</e></I>of the books suggested so far as standalone books.<br/>
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Hastings: the book is 30-odd years old now, but even in 1980s it was showing its age. Overlord was ...

<t> > Mountains with clear weather, I may start moving towards grey but at present it works well with the greens.<br/>
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FWIW, I'm a bit red-green colour blind. The current colour palette you've used means I have a little difficulty picking out the mountains from the hills. I *think* that ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: JeffK<br/>
except that those who commanded units in North Africa should have a rating allocated.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
... or posted in from other theatres, like Collins.^<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: JeffK<br/>
Those who where "green" could be random ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: bairdlander<br/>
Why should I expend admin points to put Eisenhower in command of SHAEF? <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
Because prior to that he was in charge of the Med, and a significant decision had to be made as to whether he - and his staff - would stay there or ...

I agree with Dobey, except for one proviso: commanders that got posted out-of-theatre (Frenedall to the US, Park to Burma, etc) should be automatic on (or randomly near) the appropriate date. In-theatre postings should remain in the player's hands.

<r> "use a turn by turn metric. Which is a huge step in the right direction."<br/>
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No dispute there. In a game like this turn-by-turn is much superior to hope-you're-doing-the-right-thing-then-wait-a-really-long-time-until-the-end-to-find-out. But you've already acknowledged that scoring ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>The bombing is something you just have to be upfront about. Say you need 'x' number of points per turn in 1943. 'y' number of points per turn in 1st half 1944...and so on. The players can decide if they want to bomb harder in earlier turns so they can bomb ground troops ...

<r> Sorry, I'm coming into this really late.<br/>
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This is from <B><s>[b]</s>LiquidSky<e>[/b]</e></B>, post #77:
<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>If you balance it for the historical route...then the person who knows how to read a map will win.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
Well sure. But that's purely a ...

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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Of course if the Allies had reached that area in say mid-44 then there would have been little that Tito's forces could have done <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
Heh, well, I'm there - in strength - in Sept '44 [;)]<br/>
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But apparently it's a permanent albeit artificial ...

<r> Throughout the Italian Campaign the British Command maintained a shared fantasy about debouching into southern Germany via the Ljubljana Gap north-east of Trieste. On several occasions - especially before the departure of forces for Op DRAGOON - they tried to convince the Americans of the wisdom ...

<r> Weird - I can't use groups that are under Tpt HQs either. <br/>
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There must be some setting I'm missing, but blowed if I know what it is <E>:D</E><br/>
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Edit: Arrgh. RAF Ftr Comd and 9th US AF are also both missing as HQs that can be given orders<br/>
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Edit2: figured it out ...

<r> Thanks for doing this Harry. I found the really clear, step-by-step instructions and descriptions - especially the ones on the first couple of pages - really useful.<br/>
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One question, about this from the first (or second?) post:
<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>m) I like to have 6 Airgroups that ...

<r> Hi folks,<br/>
I've been messing about with WitW for a while now, and slowly coming to grips with the mechanics. I dipped my toe into the editor, then promptly fled in terror <E>:D</E><br/>
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Anyway, I noticed a couple of oddities in the RAF orbat - namely a couple of Stirling sqns in ...