<r> I'm on my second 1939 scenario play-through with Wendell Albright using VASSAL. (He is, naturally, kicking my butt. Germans in the Caucasus in 1941.) The VASSAL system is a real winner; we've experienced very few technical problems bar a rather long load-up of a full seven-map scenario on my ...

<t> We used the intel rules in the last game I played. The effect was as described: the Allies have more countries and also more production points available, hence they generally spend more and unless their dice are miserable they get a bundle of intel points every turn (especially after US DoW ...

<t> I played two campaign games through (to an apparent victory, one in 1942 the other 1945) using DOD II+ (our own revision, then the DoD III playtest rules that were posted online) and the standard Deluxe rules with planes and ships in flames. We looked at leaders in flames but decided that it was ...

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CPU Speed: 2.4 ghz<br/>
Memory: 1 gig<br/>
Disk: 40 GB + 20 GB<br/>
Monitors: 1068 x 760 resolution<br/>
Video card memory: 32 mb<br/>
Internet connection: dial-up at home, T3 available for downloading patches, etc. <br/>
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I have never played any of these ...

<t> On a 1040x768 laptop screen it works just fine. With 75% enlargement, you can still read the crucial numbers on the units and the large map (about half of the screen surface) is 10x8 hexes. That's big enough for almost every purpose. Naval battles in the Pacific are a special case, there you ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn<br/>
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I've never seen a computer wargame yet where the AI wasn't hidden away in the code somewhere and completely out of reach (a "trust me" situation).
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Paradox Entertainment's Europa Universalis, Victoria, and ...

<t> I have played the Marinacci cWiF beta at great length and have been playing WiF since 1986. I'd love to be a beta tester. I have been beta-testing for a competing product (a good one -- HOI2) but I think that WiF has something different to offer. I teach history at the college level and have ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: dtravel<br/>
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Any effort to re-write the manual would fail because Matrix/2by3 would not be willing to release enough information about the game mechanics to the players to allow them to write a decent manual.<br/>
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Bah Humbug!!! [:@]
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It would be nice if there was some sort of warning for newbies when you try to do this. "You know, Admiral King, if you order us to sail we will but we're not going to make it to San Fran. Why don't you leave us in Pearl until we get the flooding stopped."<br/>
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<t> I started a CG as the Allies recently. I was gratified when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor resulted in no sinkings. Four BB's were pretty shot up. Two were about 60-80 flotation damage, could only make about 3 knots, and so I left them in Pearl. The other two (Arizona and Nevada) were about ...

<t> This is an optional rule. I never use it. I think it adds way too much complexity for what you gain in realism. I think you could dispense with it in CWiF without harming the game.<br/>
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On the larger issue, I have to say that an AI to make the defensive decisions for the player would be ...

<t> Retreating down the Malay peninsula in December, 1941. I want to send a bunch of my boys to defend Mersing (sp? ngh -- the base just east of Johore at the tip of the peninsula). I order people to march there. Next turn, I check back and they remain in Johore, have their future objective set back ...

<t> I'm interested in World at War. Anything that Gary Grigsby's involved with is likely to be good. But 3rd Reich and its clones I found annoying. (Mostly I played in high school, in the 1970's, although I played the Advanced game once when it came out.) The naval war was always an afterthought in ...

<t> I think the single scale is fine. In the CM version of the game, the action in China was faster but I didn't note any seriously ahistorical outcomes. Certainly, out-and-out conquest of China by Japan was still tough. The reverse was more likely if the Japanese got into a serious fight with the ...

<t> One problem with DoD III is that the US and China are played by the same player. This guy was _not_ into "winning" the game so much as having fun [:D] So he lendleased all the planes he could to China, and they were flying B-24's, P-47's, A-20's, etc. He also sent them oil galore. Then, China ...

<r> Just so things don't get too dull...I think the corps/single capital ship/air division scale is just fine. I too would like there to be more possibilities in the political realm. I have played DoD III twice now and found it really adds to the experience of playing the larger game. Especially if ...

<t> The cWIF I Asian campaign played really differently than the board game because of the different scale. The China campaign was really wide open. I played several games of cWiF and every time there was a whole lot of movement in China. Either the Chinese and Russians combined to re-conquer the ...

<t> I think that PBEM is going to be very difficult. When I did a PBEM we just did each others' interceptions, CAP placements, and decisions when/if to abort naval and air combat. Helps if you're playing with a close friend who you trust not to cheat you. Otherwise it would take forever. <br/>
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<t> You can invade in WifFE with AMPH's that have a range of 3. There are some in the US countermix (I think, NRBH) that fit the bill in 1942. So, an invasion of North Africa directly from the US is possible. Of course, you would be invading from the 2 box, adding 1 to the intrinsic defence of the ...

<t> A turn in WiF is two months long, but it is sub-divided into a variable number of impulses, in which units get to move. A ground unit in a summer turn could move a half-dozen times. Each impulse is maybe a week or two. The variation -- when the turn is going to end -- is randomly determined and ...