Having played Mike before, i can tell you, you won't find a better partner for a long term game.

RangerJoe wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 4:57 pm Have fun!

Maybe some day we can meet up for a game. Thanks for all your help.

RangerJoe wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 3:47 pm I have never played a PBEM in WITP:AE but for some reason it would almost seem like playing against my Japanese industrial and research methods! I wonder why . . .

But playing against a human, I would be like these pilots!

Absolutely Right! But I have found an opponent. I'll Close this now.

I have never played as the allies or against the computer but have several PBEMs as Japan under my belt. Longest so far was into April '44 but have a current PBEM game from long ago in January '44 that might go the distance.

I had a potential opponent lined up but we failed to be specific and he ...

btd64 wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 11:47 pm Install the new update, 1127, in a fresh install of the game....GP

i downloaded the zip file. If i run that will it automatically install it to my existing install or will it give me the option to select a new folder?

I have a game going and was going to start a new game but my new opponent wants to use the new beta.

can i install the new beta and still keep my old game going?

best of luck finding an opponent.

i was going to post for an allied opponent as well but i'll wait until you get yours.

Mersing Day 1 - gamey

Mersing Day 2 - not gamey

You know exactly where all the allied units are, and exactly how they can or can't react, so you have to bear in mind that advantage you have

Its like carrier hunting on Turn 1, or bombing Sydney, or San Diego

thank you
i would never ...

Ok, There are 24 special move TFs available. And they are supposed to be used for???

Does that apply to Kuantan? Kota Bharu? Kuching? or Miri? Jesselton? or Puerto Princess? Is there a line somewhere? Is there some other criteria? Or are only historical landings allowed?

I saw Desert Wolf post in his request for a new PBEM game mention no abuse of the magic move TFs including a Mersing Invasion. Does everyone consider this gamey?

It seems to me entirely within the realm of possibilities for the Japanese to pull off.

I would think that with Air Cover from 5 CVs of ...

Giving it some more thought while carrying my ablutions it can't solely be based on max. speed as the KB's oilers (TF2) can also move 120 hexes and it's max is 18kts.

After some more quick test here's the distances involved. I moved ships in some TF to acheive the TF sppeds. The distances are ...

hmmm...

30x cruise?


Seems that way but I suspect there's a different calc under the hood.


I've been doing a lot of testing using the 30x cruise hex speed and that seems to be VERY close to what's going on here. There are a few caveats to it where I got slightly less, but I think if ...

RangerJoe wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 1:53 pm If you were to do an AAR, you can always ask for help.

Joe is absolutely right. In fact it was Joe that was the biggest factor in my getting better along with a lot of other's help.

set the supplies required button to 7,000 by hitting the right hand arrow next to it and supply will accumulate enough to build or repair anything

hmmm...

30x cruise?

Man, i hopes he's ok. Communication is pretty important i think.

i have two games going and i've been worried about opponents now too.

in my older game i hadn't seen a turn for a while. i finally realized it had been 9 days with no word and sent a message just to make sure they were doing ok. They ...

i really screwed this up on my first game. I had a lot of factories switch on the last day of the month so i too many A6M2 Rufe and Ki-44a factories.

what i do now is make sure i turn production off on all r&d factories. That way if a factory is fully repaired on a turn when i don't expect it, even ...

very impressive work by those E boats.

They only have 3 12cm guns and 3 torpedo tubes and those are the small 53cm ones.

and most of their crews are only 50s experienced day or night.

i wouldn't say the game is dead....

i never heard of a game that starts in May 1942 - perhaps there are others that are in the same camp