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by David Sandberg
Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:51 pm
Forum: Carriers At War
Topic: Course changes with planes aloft?
Replies: 3
Views: 99

RE: Course changes with planes aloft?

<t> I only have experience with older versions of CAW. But unless something very major has been changed from those previous versions, it's my understanding that carrier groups still do not move across the map at all while strike groups are aloft. They are still steaming around at speed within their ...
by David Sandberg
Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:41 pm
Forum: Carriers At War
Topic: No full campain!
Replies: 28
Views: 547

RE: No full campain!

Heehee! Well said, Adm. Gregor. :)
by David Sandberg
Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:46 am
Forum: Norm Koger's The Operational Art Of War III
Topic: unable to dl
Replies: 28
Views: 565

RE: unable to dl

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: ralphtrick<br/>
Try downloading the patch, you may be able to, I think it's an IE issue, and something that happened to my PC recently, since I downloaded the patch right after it was released, just to verify it was working.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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You're ...
by David Sandberg
Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:34 am
Forum: Norm Koger's The Operational Art Of War III
Topic: unable to dl
Replies: 28
Views: 565

RE: unable to dl

Bummer - I was just about ready to buy TOAW III this weekend, but after following these download issues all day, I don't want to chance it if I'm going to end up paying for something this weekend that I can't actually download and use this weekend.&nbsp; :(
by David Sandberg
Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:16 pm
Forum: Norm Koger's The Operational Art Of War III
Topic: Questions on video resolution
Replies: 6
Views: 114

RE: Questions on video resolution

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: ralphtrick<br/>
I'm playing at 1440x900 now. I also remote desktop into another computer, and after the patch, although you get a warning when you're playing at 16 bit color, it continues to play<g><e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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So now you get a warning when you ...
by David Sandberg
Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:47 pm
Forum: Norm Koger's The Operational Art Of War III
Topic: Questions on video resolution
Replies: 6
Views: 114

RE: Questions on video resolution

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: JAMiAM
<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: David Sandberg<br/>
1) My old copy of TOAW required the Windows desktop to be set to 16 bit color. Is that still the case?
<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
No. You can run at 24/32 bit color depth with no problems.<e>[/quote]</e ...
by David Sandberg
Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:25 pm
Forum: Norm Koger's The Operational Art Of War III
Topic: Questions on video resolution
Replies: 6
Views: 114

Questions on video resolution

<t> I only just started considering getting the current TOAW (I never upgraded past the original 1.0 version, years and years ago). But I have a few questions/concerns about how it deals with displays:<br/>
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1) My old copy of TOAW required the Windows desktop to be set to 16 bit color. Is ...
by David Sandberg
Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:49 am
Forum: Carriers At War
Topic: Some Gameplay Questions
Replies: 17
Views: 319

RE: Some Gameplay Questions

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: FAdmiral<br/>
Now that I think about it more, I seem to remember flights of attack aircraft being<br/>
sent towards a sighted target would bring up a display of any target TF it sighted<br/>
and ask you if you wanted to attack it or keep looking !! Thus you ...
by David Sandberg
Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:40 am
Forum: Carriers At War
Topic: Some Gameplay Questions
Replies: 17
Views: 319

RE: Some Gameplay Questions

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: FAdmiral<br/>
I played CAW (original & redone) many moons ago. I am now playing a 015<br/>
game of WITP. The one thing I remember most about the difference<br/>
between these 2 games is in WITP, I can't pick my naval targets. I'm fairly<br/>
sure in CAW I could ...
by David Sandberg
Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:36 am
Forum: Carriers At War
Topic: Some Gameplay Questions
Replies: 17
Views: 319

RE: Some Gameplay Questions

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Son_of_Montfort<br/>
Looking again at the top of the screenshot, it says "Surface Combat" (The screenshot I am talking about is the first one from the Matrix screenshot page). On the bottom it has nice little pics of guns and chevrons. I'm guessing this is all the ...
by David Sandberg
Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:31 pm
Forum: Carriers At War
Topic: Some Gameplay Questions
Replies: 17
Views: 319

RE: Some Gameplay Questions

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Son_of_Montfort<br/>
I saw one screen in the collection that looked different than the others. While the others have TF looking like shadow outlines of ships, this one had a top-down perspective and showed fly-over details of ships.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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by David Sandberg
Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:18 pm
Forum: Carriers At War
Topic: Some Gameplay Questions
Replies: 17
Views: 319

RE: Some Gameplay Questions

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: alexs<br/>
What David says is mostly correct - with the exception that fuel is modelled in the game.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Thanks for clarifying that. I didn't know that fuel was going to be modeled - might I ask in what aspects it will be modeled, beyond ...
by David Sandberg
Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:09 am
Forum: Carriers At War
Topic: Some Gameplay Questions
Replies: 17
Views: 319

RE: Some Gameplay Questions

<t> Since no one else has responded to you yet, let me rely upon my imperfect memory to try to tell you what the original CAW was in this regard. (If I make any errors, I trust someone will correct me.)<br/>
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The original CAW's time structure was similar to but not the same as UV. The main ...
by David Sandberg
Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:32 pm
Forum: Carriers At War
Topic: New Rule for Surface Combat and Carriers
Replies: 24
Views: 530

RE: New Rule for Surface Combat and Carriers

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: freeboy<br/>
do you do anything for surface action, or does the program play out and show you the results? IE do we have choices?
<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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You did have decisions to make during surface action in the old versions of CAW (albeit relatively ...
by David Sandberg
Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:14 am
Forum: Carriers At War
Topic: New Rule for Surface Combat and Carriers
Replies: 24
Views: 530

RE: New Rule for Surface Combat and Carriers

<r>
<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Prince of Eckmühl
<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: David Sandberg<br/>
I'm guessing that cruisers will not be counted as capital ships for the purposes of determing a valid "screening TF" for this rule?
<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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I'm guessing that David is ...
by David Sandberg
Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:45 am
Forum: Carriers At War
Topic: New Rule for Surface Combat and Carriers
Replies: 24
Views: 530

RE: New Rule for Surface Combat and Carriers

<t> I'm guessing that cruisers will not be counted as capital ships for the purposes of determing a valid "screening TF" for this rule?<br/>
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I still disagree with your view about the "on station" rule, but that was bandied about more than enough a long time ago.&nbsp; I do thank you guys ...
by David Sandberg
Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:19 pm
Forum: Carriers At War
Topic: Carriers at War
Replies: 80
Views: 2522

RE: Carriers at War

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: RayWolfe<br/>
I don't know if you guys have deliberately missed the point of my "teenagers" posting but deliberately or not you HAVE missed my point. My point is that whether you have a fair criticism or not, the language that has been used verges on the sulk and ...
by David Sandberg
Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:34 pm
Forum: Carriers At War
Topic: Carriers at War
Replies: 80
Views: 2522

RE: Carriers at War

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Admiral DadMan<br/>
Geez, I thought I brought up a cogent point and a workable solution without a lot of whining.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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I believe my proposed solution is workable as well, and I like the additional realism of not allowing the carrier TF to ...
by David Sandberg
Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:06 pm
Forum: Carriers At War
Topic: Carriers at War
Replies: 80
Views: 2522

RE: Carriers at War

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: RayWolfe<br/>
You're wasting your time her. PofE.<br/>
Do you have any connection with teenage children?<br/>
"It's not fair! I don't want it! You can't make me!" And similar expressions come to mind.<br/>
When it's published and we're all having a great time ...
by David Sandberg
Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:01 am
Forum: Carriers At War
Topic: Carriers at War
Replies: 80
Views: 2522

RE: Carriers at War

<r> Gregor,<br/>
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I realize that you're going to do whatever you feel is best for your game design, and I don't want to belabor my point of view to where it becomes tedious.&nbsp; I'll just respond to a couple of your points, in case it gives you anything further to think about:<br ...

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