<r> Juggalo:<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>You said the Yorktown took a torp...what was the flotation damage? System damage? <br/>
If they both add up to >50 then no air ops... <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Woohoo! At last some information... thanks dude... far better an answer than... "was just ...

Ursa MAjor,

b)

It's always been b)

But others seek to deride and mock rather than assist.

[&:]

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Veer<br/>

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Can you explain why a US CV doesn't get a single one of it's fighters off the deck with a CAP level of 60% and fully available aircraft and pilots?
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There is no reason for this to happen. If you ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Which is precisely why you're claiming 'unrealistic' variables based on less than 7 turns of gameplay in a single scenario. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Please don't get me wrong here.... this isn't out 1st outing with UV, it's just our 1st game in a while. We decided to ...

<t> Hey Joel,<br/>
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Appreciate what you're saying. We had just decided to come back to the game after a little while away, but it's been pure hell.<br/>
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It's not that we don't know that UV has a lot of variables in it. It's that what we've seen and are seeing is very unbalanced and ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>I could refute every one of your answers to my statements above, but I won't bother. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Why not? After all I'm just recounting the precise details of what is going on infront of me, rather than guessing about the whys and wherefors and trying to ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: crsutton<br/>
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Are you playing humans? If not you are really missing out. UV is a great pbemail game. I really have had hours of great fun playing it and recommend that you give it another try. Find a human opponent. Some of the middle size scenarios are a ...

<t> Veer,<br/>
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Thanks dude.... unfortunately it's been just one aberration after another.<br/>
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If had just been a single ostrich-up then I wouldn't be quite so dispondant, but every turn has just been a catalogue of ridiculousness.<br/>
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4 subs have now fired a total of 11 ...

<r> Warfare1<br/>
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You site lots of example, and fair enough they are, but they are still the exception and not the norm<br/>
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For us playing UV they've become the norm rather than the exception.<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>UV is a game that attempts to mirror the vagaries ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Ships WILL sink during surface combat....if enough damage is taken. <br/>
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Also, if opposing ships close in (I think to 2000 yards), they'll fire AA weapons at each other.....probably where you got 18 shell hits from, or the majority anyway... <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>1. The game makes the assumption for both sides that warships will cover for transports. It is that simple, you have to blow away the DDs to get to the juicy stuff. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Isn't that what the TF did? Why don't ships sink during a battle rahter than ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Veer<br/>

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In Coral Sea, Buna's airfield is rated a 1 (1) - doesn't this mean that it can't be expanded?<br/>

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All bases can be expanded to 3 above their (x) rating. So a base with a rating of (1) can be ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Hisotrically, (mid 1942 to late 1942) US radar control was less than perfect in that often all the US ships would blast the closest IJN ship and everything else would be left alone. <br/>
So this is not a particularly ahistorical result. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Just ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Also, are you playing PBEM or vs computer.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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PBEM<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Hisotrically, (mid 1942 to late 1942) US radar control was less than perfect in that often all the US ships would blast the closest IJN ship and everything else would ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>And you have quite a few airfields to launch missions from in that area...if you build them up first... <br/>
Gili Gili, Buna, Dobadura, Woodlark Is., several other small islands off Gili Gili....
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Can't build them up... are you talking ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: jeffs<br/>
Wrong again...The allies can use their rather numerous CB and engineering units to build up bases. If you bother to read more of these arcane and obscure rules known to everybody else, you would also deduce that a base can built to 3 levels above the ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Gary Thomas<br/>
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Offensive missions require a capacity 2 base, level bombers require a capacity 4 base. The only thing you will be flying from that base is CAP.<br/>
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Cheers<br/>

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Cheers Gary, thanks for that... I ...

<t> Not sure if an explanation will reverse our decision to quit UV, but perhaps someone can offer something...<br/>
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BUNA - Weather OK for air ops...<br/>
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Airfield Capacity 1 (1)<br/>
Supplies 3680<br/>
Supplies Reqd 1859<br/>
Aviation Support 154<br/>
Aviation Support Reqd 87<br ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Just keep playing and look upon the battles and the results as being a part of war, and soon you will appreciate the uncertainty that UV offers.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Actually we decided today that we're done with UV... today's turn was the straw that broke the ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Veer<br/>
To paraphrase: Not " logical and 'real world' ". Those Argentinian pilots were obviosuly trained in the UV flight sim. [:'(]
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Well, they did exactly what they were told to do by their commanders. Good for the Brits that ...