I'm from Melbourne and mine arrived today also (eight days)...yeah my manual was also creased in one corner. I agree the packaging could of been better, but at least its arrived. 

Ordered on 3rd August, arrived today from UK to Australia, standard post. Eight days, not bad for half the world away.

Sorry, just realised I had peer guardian activated that was blocking matrixgames ip address. It now downloads fine.

Please delete this post.  [:'(]

Hi I am trying to download patch 1.02 but the link is not working.

Can someone verify this?

Thanks

<t> There are some engine factories in Japan that are producing engines that don't belong to any plane. They should be changed to produce useful engines. Of course a player could change them once the scenario starts, but then the factories will become damaged and you'll lose weeks of production ...

<t>Yeah, it's amazing how many times Australia attacked from the sea and air. They did reconnaisance also over Tasmania and Melbourne as well. Of course these sea and air attacks were only tiny pinpricks compared to the overall war effort. Still, it was a pretty big effort by the Japanese given ...

Judging by those reports I can only guess what the results would be if those Allied P-51 groups have 99 exp as well?

All 54 Zero's destroyed?

<t>I guess which type of ship you give priority too depends on the situation of your game.<br/>
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I'm sure the Japanese would had loved to build lots of everything but there was only so much resources they had to play with.<br/>
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Of course you're going to need to build at least some of all ...

Hmmmm, yep looks like it will be interesting how the Matrix team will handle this.

I wonder if the troops in China will be locked in China HQ like in PACWAR where you had to wait till a certain date in order to send them to other theatres?

<t>I remember a while back there were screenshots concerning how production would be handled in the game. Has the decision on how production been finalized by the Matrix team?<br/>
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How will oil and resources be tied into production?<br/>
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How about routine convoys. Will they be handled ...

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Does anyone know how is China going to be modelled into this game? I really do hope it's going to be far more realistic this time, unlike PACWAR where you could overrun it in a dozen or so turns.<br/>
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I would gather that to model a more accurate China, she's going to need a ...

<t>Actually the reason why the Japanese oil supply drops so quickly in the first few turns is that a lot of bases in SE asia has very little fuel so the routine convoy has to ship thousands of fuel points to these bases. This means a lot of oil is used up to make fuel. <br/>
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If you use the ...

<t>If you know all about hex editing, then use a hex editor to open up the pac.map file.<br/>
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Each byte is a value that corresponds what tile number it is.<br/>
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Tile 0 is a water tile.<br/>
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So that means if the first byte in the file is 00 (I think). Then it must be water. <br ...

<t>For those who wish to modify the airfield sizes in the EXE, here are the hex locations to do it...<br/>
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ADDRESS: 3B3B1 ---> 3B3B9 <br/>
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You should see a string of hex values like this<br/>
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02 04 08 09 09 09 08 06 04<br/>
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3B3B1 = Terrain 1 Airfield & Port Max..<br/>
through ...

Actually, Mika uses a disassembler to peak into the EXE. That's why he knows what all the calculations are in PACWAR. It's possible to change already existing values in the EXE with a hex editor, such as LCU sizes, airfield sizes, combat formulas etc but one cannot add new things to the EXE.

<t>From version 3 onwards, there is a new map which includes all of India. <br/>
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The new obc's have had their bases with their x,y coordinates modified.<br/>
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If you are playing a saved game from a version 2.3 scenario or starting a new version 2.3 scenaro, then the bases will appear in ...

<r>On top of my head, I remember seeing a a map of the US showing where certain things were produced.<br/>
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Yes virtually all Armored vehicles and artillery were produced in the East US.<br/>
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Most Boeing factories were in Seattle.<br/>
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There was one B-24 factory in L.A. No B-17 or B ...

In ver 3.0, why is Marcus Island port size of zero? This effectively makes it a landlocked base. I am unable to send ships or Task forces there to garrison the base. Marcus Island has a port value of zero in all the new OBC's so obviously it was delibrately but for what purpose?

<r>[QUOTE]<I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by Jeremy Pritchard <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
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Since when did Tojo get all of this Hitler power?<br/>
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Tojo was not Hitler, he never had close to the same power that Hitler had. Churchill and Roosevelt were more dictators then Tojo ...

Their horrendous casualties were caused by their belief in their "bushido code" of honor.

The bushido code revised by Tojo was nothing more than a big propoganda scam in order to boost the morale fibre of the Japanese army.