<t> Like the title line says, I'm looking for a skilled opponent. Auto-victory on, no FoW or area supply. I prefer auto-supply, because it saves me a whole lot of clicking, and I prefer the new supply rule in effect, because it's somewhat more realistic. (It's stil a bit silly having Germans wander ...

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However, there is nothing stopping a player from continually moving ships which did not attack in the 1st round back into the contested area.<br/>

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There's the chief problem right there. <br/>
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: woody75<br/>
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Also another thing - is there any reason why german fighters start off with 1 evasion higher than WA fighters?? Its certainly true that 109s could out perform hurricanes but the spitfire was easily its equal. True, for every 2 active hurricane ...

<t> I'm still pretty new, but I've been quite successful in my email games so far. <br/>
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FoW off; Area supply off; autosupply either way; new supply rule preferred.<br/>
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I'll play either side. If I'm the Axis, I can go either way on Area Supply, but I'm not playing the Allies with it ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: mike mcmann<br/>
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hmmm....interesting psychology...<br/>
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I guess, to me, I understand the "confusion" people have, but disagree with the purpose for debating to change it...<br/>
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The year starts, unequivocally, on January 1st (from a western ...

<t> There was an interesting quiz in an issue of Psychology Today back in the mid-80s I remember taking. It had a number of unlabeled figures, which you were asked to label. For example, one of them was a circle, cut into four parts by a horizontal and vertical lines. You were asked to number them ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Oleg Mastruko<br/>
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Qbeam, I agree on a day/month/year issue, BUT...<br/>
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you "Winter as end of the year" guys have to realize it's not the end of the year that would make problems with your proposed system, it's the BEGINNING of the year that would ...

<t> Actually, the seasons are not well correlated with the temperature/precipitation trends. That's because the seasons are defined by the length of the days, rather than by the long-term weather trends. <br/>
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Obviously, the longer the days, the more energy is added to the local system, and ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: mike mcmann<br/>
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It is a comon misconception (at least in the United States) that winter is the last part of a calendar year. That is incorrect. While it does begin to get cold and snow occasionally during the fall months, "Winter" is actually the first ...

<t> Sorry, I should have given more information. In my case, I had ample reasearch points available (as indicated by the upper right number in the panel that comes up when you click on a stat to improve it), and I was not attempting to spend more than I was allowed in a given category. In fact, I ...

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One suggestion I would make (apologies if someone has already mentioned this in this very long thread) would be to reduce the multiplier for number of research points that can be spent when ...

<t> What are you researching when you research infantry stats?<br/>
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Both offense and defense could be improved with advances in training techniques. In the heat of battle, most people freeze and do nothing--if twice as many of your boys don't, you're going to own the battlefield. Likewise ...

<t> I suspect that much of the theoretical disagreement we have comes from a different opinion about what each unit type represents, in terms of a TO&E. I figure a tank unit is pretty much a Panzer corps, including everything that entails. That means about 2/3 of its divisions are mechanized ...

<t> kverdon,<br/>
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I generated some unnecessary confusion by referring to the Liberator, when in fact what I meant was the Albemarle. (It looks similar because of the tail section, but it's a twin-engine medium strat bomber.) Anyway, the point I was trying to make is that, while the B-17 ...

<t> I'm encountering a bug that is preventing me from spending production points on tech. I buy the points, but when I go to spend them, the "+" button stops working. I can take points back out with the "-" button, but can't put them back in to anything. Has anyone seen this problem?<br/>
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<t> Oh, jeez, no! <br/>
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Ok, I admit it, I played it more than any other strategic WWII game. But for much of that time I was highly annoyed by it's WWI-esque mechanics, and perpetually trying to design a better one. I must be a glutton for punishment. Wait, yes, that's true--I've played 6 ...

<t> Frankly, I think anti-ship rating of 2 over-rates the effectiveness of heavy bombers against ships. Whole fleets of B-17s could drop bombs and get zero hits. And transports are harder to hit than carriers; so, oddly, transports should have a higher defense against to high-level bombers than ...

<t> Two complaints with your argument, one specific, and one general:<br/>
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Why would you assume that the starting stats are B-17 stats? They barely existed at the start of the war, and proved a dramatic improvement over pre-war bombers, like the Liberator. <br/>
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Why would you assume ...

<t> I don't see why an unkillable unit is such a big deal to people. I don't care about killing my opponents' units, except to the extent that helps me achieve my ultimate goal of taking his territory away from him. I don't need to kill them to do that--I just need to get 2x as many units in the ...

<t> Firstly, I think hakon's basic point, that each unit should still have some counter unit, even when out-teched by one level, is a sound observation. However, I'm not sure about the specific conclusions drawn. For one thing, they appear to be based on the assumption that hitting 1/3 to 1/4 of the ...