<r> While it does technically cover similar activity (i.e. tactical-level ground combat), that's about where the similarity ends. <br/>
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HoS is much more like Avalon Hill's Squad Leader game. Battles will tend to be a bit smaller in scale with HoS than most SPWaW games and there is a more ...

<t> The announcement I saw today was for a sale that ends on the 13th. I would like to make a purchase, but I also went on vacation at the start of the month, so it's just not in the budget right now for me. <br/>
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Since many people get paid on the 1st, 15th or last day of the month, why not ...

<t> I just upgraded to Win7 on a blank drive. The game seems to work, but I have a problem with my saved PBEM games not wanting to load. <br/>
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I'm now getting an error message upon trying to load a save that says “The Users on this system are not authorized to load this game”.<br/>
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<t> I need some help starting a PBEM game of BOB.<br/>
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I started the game as the Brits, saved it to slot 2 and sent it to my opponent. He did his bit as the Germans, saved to slot 3 and sent it back to me.<br/>
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When I try to load the saved game and select the file in slot 3 I am ...

I've looked through the manual and all the readme-type files I could find on the disk and see no mention of the available command line switches in ED/BTR, although I've seen other posts where people have referred to a few. Would it be possible to post a list of them here?

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<t> Not sure why there seems to have been so much fussing over this. It's a good idea to improve any user interface if it's possible. <br/>
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While I'd rate what I've seen of the game so far as a 9 or 10 in most areas (or I assume we'll get there with the next couple of patches), user ...

Testy!

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Doesn't leaving the balance of activities (in this example 20%) leave some discretionary options open to the local commander? For example, if I set my PBY-5s to "Naval Attack" and then in the subscreen change their % effort allocation to ...

I'd second that!

True Allied surprise on a Non-historic first turn with suprise enabled - a la WITP - don't allow ships to evacuate port, or AC settings to be altered, during the first allied turn

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Never had the pleasure of that, but while stationed in Germany I was honored to whitness a number of ground attack strikes while serving with the First Infantry Division during the Reforger excercises.<br/>
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Ellis and his principals are the focus of many classes for young Marine Officers at The Basic School in Quantico, VA.

I've done a bit of low-level flying when I was much younger. If you you have the "need for speed", that's how you satisfy it!

Doing it through that kind of flak, and holding it together, takes balls of steel.

GREAT pictures!

<t> It's gotta be AVD William B. Preston. The Preston survived not one, but two, short-range nighttime encounters with 3xBBs and 3xDDs with nary a scratch.<br/>
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<t> Agreed. With the KB at a Truk homebase it can work in the Coral Sea area and still respond reasonably quickly to any allied attemps on the Gilberts and Marshalls. Add some Bettys and Nells in the Kwajalien area and it's pretty untenable for the allies.<br/>
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<t> Excellent. Thanks for the heads-up on the escort TF bit. I'd always used that in the "Title Role" and hadn't noticed that it was possible to load troops.<br/>
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As for the PT boats having a carrying capacity, I'm not quite sure how you could abuse a 1-2 squad capacity. Certainly not on the ...

A manually reloaded canon in an aircraft? There must've been a Cannon Loaders Union rep on the factory floor.

No wonder they lost the war!

<t> An Emergency or Evacuation TF might be an interesting option that could allow everything, (regardless of damage, etc.) into a TF that serve the sole purpose of "getting the hell out of Dodge". <br/>
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Even PT boats could get a minimal 1-2 squad troop capacity (so McArthur can get away ...

<t> An interesting proposal. I'd like to throw out a couple other thoughts on this...<br/>
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Randomly report duds to both sides as either misses or duds and the fog of war will make it difficult to sort out what is going wrong, just as it happened IRL. I'd think the Japanese would be more ...