<t> I'd say you're right. There's one catch, those other operating systems don't have the installed base to make the games commercially successful. In the long-long ago SSG did very well with their hex-based games on Macs (and they still run in Classic mode on OS X) - I certainly bought enough of ...

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I've been playing other things instead of tinkering with the smaller stuff.

Rome:TW, Forgotten Battles, Matrix Online Beta

To be truly hardcore I'd want to only see the total points, if even that, for my opponent.

<r> I've done portions of Jutland in multiplayer using Naval Gunnery Campaigns. It's a PC game, Internet multiplay, and divisional-level campaign. The Run to the South, the BC action at the opening of the battle, makes for a great scenario for 2-4 people. The graphics need a pro revision, and it's ...

<t> I had fantastic luck (under 1.0) with B-17s based at Rangoon pulverizing the airfield at Bangkok. 20-25 plane raids would destroy 30+ aircraft on the ground. I got air superiority in SE Asia in a few weeks. Buffaloes served fine as escorts against the Nates - Buffs have a *good* range.<br/>
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"Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics."

The Chinese forces may suck, but I took Bangkok with Chinese troops in May 1942 (against the AI). If they've had MY luck the PLA will give them a medal.

<t> I've been having some weird retreats in the Rangoon area myself. I'm still holding Rangoon in late March 42. I've fought off the first attack, forcing a large stack of IJA units to retreat. They came back, minus the artillery they lost in the retreat. While the situation was in flux, I got the ...

They still have 4th Fleet at Kwaj, but those are still replacements that aren't going to be bothering the Chinese. Not to mention at least a dozen transports sunk and a battleship burning like a torch.

6th Fleet was headed in Kwajalein's general direction.

I'm still a bit tickled at the timing and the whole raid in general. LBA at Kwajalein put a torpedo into Enterprise, but she got back to Pearl with only 12% damage.

<t> In January, 142 i sent a 3 CV raid West from Pearl. I caught a couple of convoys reinforcing the outer perimiter, and I put 20 bombs into the Mutsu (on fire). But the prize was hitting a convoy and seeing "Task Force 64 rescuing survivors from Sixth Fleet" no less than four times. I'm not sure ...

You want a copy of Irfanview, http://www.irfanview.com/

Free, fully featured, powerful, flexible. It does batch renames and conversions too. That'd be actually worth money.

Whatever it is, I need some. I just had the SS Seadragon hit by a torpedo after missing the Haguro wiht her own torpedoes. Congratulations to the crew of the Hayashio, they're some bada$$ mofos.

I had a Sierra Nevada on the way home. Why that brand ? They were out of cider (pear !) and that was the closest tap that wasn't a "national brand".

There's most of a fifth of Dewars for later. It's my VACATION after all.

Hmmm. I'm going to have to break up my PT TFs into smaller chunks. But I find the effective range to be fairly high. From a base at Rendova I can intercept enemy shipping at Shortlands or even all the way to Buka.

YMMV

I was in, of, May of 1943 as the ALlies and was bombarding Buka. A Bombardment TF built around a fast BB and 8 CAs ran into about 20 AGs in two TFs. We got almost all of them

Hmmm. Interesting. it could work. One player gives orders to his units, then sends a save file to his partner, who in turn forwards his results to the opposition.

<t> Ships taking massive damage during surface combat can sink after a round of fire or after the combat. You also see followup strikes on small TFs (say, a carrier damaged the previous day) all fail to find the target because it sank.<br/>
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Very few warships in WW2 sank in minutes. A few ...

<r> CRT = Cathode Ray Tube. Big tube.<br/>
LCD = Liquid Crystal Display. Flatscreen.<br/>
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Try Google or the Wikipedia for longer explanations <E>:-)</E><br/>
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LCDs have varying refresh rates - any on the market now should be able to at least play a DVD just fine. Piuck from the ...

<r> Speaking of Liberator morale, check out this posting for scans of the diary of a Liberator crewman in the South Pacific.<br/>
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