I've heard a lot of mention of Spooky's site. Does anyone have the url?

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And to think the castle in Okinawa City still has some original wall left...talk about earthquake reinforcement...[:D]
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I was there (Shuri castle and another whose name escapes me at the moment) in ...

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I am not starting another Turtledove series until he finishes one of the many others that I have started.
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Here, here! He is almost as bad as Philip Jose Farmer ...

This is simple role-playing game style, the difference being that in general most role-players tend to play team style rather than oppositional. It works quite well, though I don't necessarily prefer it to a good standard wargame for oppositional play.

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mlees,<br/>
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Where did you get 11 Jan for the fall of Kendari?<br/>
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I got 24 Jan according to "War Maps from Sept 39 to Aug 45" by Simon Goodenough.<br/>
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Got to love his last name though.
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I'd like to see a name for the type of ship in addition to its code (eg CS, AK etc.) on its information screen as well. There's plenty of room, and without a printed manual it's a royal pain until one manages to memorize everything.

<t> I voted no and agree with Elf's reasoning. No politician cares what the military decides to fly, they care about what is built. Any political cost should be for changing production. <br/>
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I do think that there should be an experience penalty for switching aircraft types. Sure switching ...

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I do not mind the idea of a strike "penelty.. but it seems too sevear.. <br/>
I think a more realistic one would be when the flight ops fail the test to break up the strike into components that each get to attack and be intercepted...<br ...

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I've never even seen the leader bug myself as a strictly Jap player. Haven't searched particularly hard for it, but I've not had Yamaguichi, Nagumo, Tanaka or Yamashita disappear on me yet. <B><s>[b]</s>The rest of the Jap leaders are ...

Overflow error?

<t> Civilian casualties in the Ryukyus (Okinawa) were over 100,000, which was about 33% of the population. This came about for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the air raids, bombardment and battle consumed about 40 million tons of ordenance. That's about 1 million boxcars full. We blew the crap out of ...

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Nyeeesh! Worldwar-2.net needs to get some film reviewers. Since when has Battle of the Bulge been considered a great movie? And Pearl Harbor? Or, fond as I am of Kelly's Heroes . . . a great war movie?<br/>
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But interesting sites.
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.... They have made some generalizations, which I understand create some inaccuracies, but additional detail only adds more things to argue over.

Which should keep some of their customers happy....

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I think you are giving computers and programming abilities way too much credit. Chess has only been mastered by computers through raw processing power, the computers calcualte every move/counter move up to 10 moves in advance and pick the most ...