Red Team Leader: I want a Daitai of Mavis at Port Blair.
Blue Team Leader: But Port Blair airfield has been abandoned. If they move in there we want one of those red airfield thingys on our map. Then we will bomb the crap out of them the next morning. <blue team laughs among themselves>
Red Team Leader: But that's stupid. How are they going to find out in the middle of the night?
Staffer 1 (Umpire): I am inclined to rule with the Blue Team on this one.
Red Team Leader: BUT THAT'S NOT FAIR! You ALWAYS side with them. You are a closet Allied Fanboy.
Staffer 1 (Umpire): I AM NOT! Look, it is just simply the way it is. Do you want to play or not? Blue gets the little red airfield thingy on their map if you move in Mavis's at night.
That's funny - I did a post about the same issue in my short-lived AAR of this game.
February 14, 1943, Saigon
Gen FK: He said what?
Intelligence Officer: Our operative in Karachi says that the British Command has a large map of the theater they do their planning on, and if we have planes in an airbase, they place a red airfield symbol on that base in the morning, BEFORE they issue orders to their bomber groups.
FK: That means they must have agents of their own at or near all of our airbases.
IO: That would be my guess, sir.
FK: Do these 'symbols' indicate how many planes are at the base?
IO: Not clear sir, it seems that there might be a couple levels of quantity measurement, but that even low amounts cause them to place a symbol.
FK: And then they bomb the bases that have symbols?
IO: It would seem so.
FK: What if we only have one plane at a base?
IO: It gets a symbol.
FK: One more question - why don't we get similar information on the enemy airfields?
IO: Not clear, but we suspect it has something to do with an order issued by an unofficial intelligence source in Tokyo name Turnfile.
FK: Yes, I've heard of him from my partner, Cuttlefish. I see. So by the Order of Turnfile, the Allies have gained an intelligence advantage over us. Oh well, no one ever said war had to be fair.
