<r>July 7, 1942<br/>
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Dear Father, <br/>
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The battle is joined! <br/>
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There are reports filtering into headquarters that a massive air and sea battle is taking place right now, just Northwest of New Caledonia. I must not divulge any secret information at this time regarding ...

<r>June 27, 1942<br/>
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Dear Father,<br/>
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Most disconcerting news has arrived from the important outpost at Gili-Gili. Urgent radio reports indicated a landing by Australian troops! I fear that the islands' defense force was overrun, as we have not heard from them in over a day. This is a ...

<r>June 25th, 1942<br/>
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Dear Mother,<br/>
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Please forgive me for not writing more often. Things have been very busy around here at headquarters, as we prepare for the upcoming battle with the enemy. Our forces are gathering strength in unprecedented numbers, and the battle may be joined ...

LOL! So true, I can see why the Emperor declared the holiday.

<r><QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>11) We have lowered level bomber accuracy against TFs, especially for pilots with less than 70 experience against ships travelling at high speed. The impact of pilot quality and ship speed on level bomber accuracy against TFs has been enhanced. Even strong level bomber pilots ...

<r>June 17, 1942<br/>
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Dear Father,<br/>
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I'm sorry to have to report some more disturbing news. From some sketchy reports coming in from the Shortlands area, we have heard of some unfortunate losses to our transport fleet that was re-supplying Gili-Gili the other night. Apparently there ...

<r>Thanks, Kid. <br/>
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I guess what I was driving at is that with the vast scope of WitP, 2x3 is going to have to give us a more elegant way of finding and giving orders to large numbers of units without resorting to UV's method of clicking on each base to give orders to units. <br/>
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For ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by loader6 <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
<B><s>[B]</s>My request involves the little blue quick jump boxes at the bottom of the screen for each base that shows air groups and TFs and Land units. I'd like to be able to organize the air group buttons that ...

<t>I agree with those that complain that UV's surface battles are pretty much slugfests that go on....and on.....and on. <br/>
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An improvement to me would be that every surface engagement would have a good chance of being very different. Most night battles would be brief, intense fights ...

<r>June 12, 1942<br/>
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Dear Uncle,<br/>
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It has been three days since my last letter, so I thought I had better bring you up to date on what has been happening around Lae. On the 10th, the Americans attacked again and were able to damage a few of the ships in the re-supply convoy, but our ...

I'm coming next, Mandrake. You promised!

<t>Grotius, one lesson I've learned (thanks to Toro) when playing the Japanese, is to not let ships sit in harbor at Rabaul, or Shortlands. They are not safe in those harbors until PM is captured. This is one aspect where playing the AI gets you into trouble in your PBEM games. The AI does not ...

Just wondering how big our little wargaming community actually is.

<r>June 9th, 1942<br/>
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Dear Uncle Toshiro,<br/>
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It was good to receive your communication yesterday. It sounds as if things are as busy at Truk as they are here in Rabaul! It is surely good news that the 2nd and 38th Infantry divisions have arrived safely in truk without incident. I am ...

Touche'!

<r><QUOTE><s>[QUOTE]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Originally posted by denisonh <e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
<B><s>[B]</s>Great thread!<br/>
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Keep it up boys! <e>[/B]</e></B><e>[/QUOTE]</e></QUOTE>

Thanks, if you like it so much how about showing us by giving us a good rating for this thread?<br/>
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My haiku's ...

<r>June 8th, 1942<br/>
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Dear Father, <br/>
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I am quite disturbed today, because I just received word of a fruitless and wasteful attack that our naval command staff must have ordered yesterday. From the reports trickling into Rabaul, I know this much: The Americans had docked two medium ...

<t>I try not to launch any attacks in rain or in thunderstorms, although if I'm in the middle of an invasion, then I keep flying as long as my guys are alive. <br/>
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I keep CAP up in all weather, as you never know when they'll be needed. <br/>
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But in reality, I pay more attention to how ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>The other one was "Fires on the Plain" - can't remember where it was - either New Guinea or the Phillipines and the Japanese are in full retreat with no supplies. Think Donner Party but in the SW Pacific.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>

I highly recommend "Fires on the Plain". An ...