THE THREAD!!!

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: USS America

They go together like peas and carrots.  [:D]

Or pickles and yogurt.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

mid week blah.....

Considering its Fleattle, isnt it always more or less blah?

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: JWE

ORIGINAL: Terminus
Thread, it's snowing like Heck here... Supposed to get even worse overnight.[X(]

Golly, must really suck to be you, Terminus. All that snow and no hills to ski it on. Woof!

Here in SoCal, it's maybe 78F, the sun is out, sea is absolutely flat; no breeze at all; the Bougainville's are blooming.

Thats good. Going over there in a few weeks and I'm hoping for a New Years in shorts.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Brigs

Perhaps this will answer those rumours.

Joshua Michael Alcock, availablity dates: 15th December 2009 onwards

Congratulations Dixie , and please extend my best wishes to Mrs Dixie !
[:)]

Thanks again to everyone who's posted since I last said thanks [:)] He's not a happy boy at the moment, he doesn't seem to appreciate being woken up to feed [:(]

Give him time. Its only his second day here, he hasnt learned to appreciate the finer things in life, like eating, sleeping and not having to wipe your own butt. [:D]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

The Bougainvillea is native to South America. Its connection to Bougainville is that both were discovered by the same French explorer.

There you go, blaming the French again. [:-]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Bedtime, methinks... Snowing is falling heavily outside, though the wind hasn't picked up as much as forecast (yet). G'night, y'all...[>:][>:][>:][>:]

Well, its not like you have to go anywhere. [:)]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Grollub
Just retired from the christmas party. I'm drunk (as h*ll).

So thats how you guys keep warm. [:'(]

[DivePac88]

Morning Guys from the South Pacific.

[DivePac88]

Caution... an Onime Blast is in Progress! [:D]

[stuman]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Up to Chapter 5 in volume 2 of The Civil War. Gettysburg almost upon us...

Picketts Charge, the high water mark of the Confederacy.( 'Tho I am not so sure of that ).

[stuman]

ORIGINAL: Restart

To my fellow hobbyists on the WitP:AE Forums, warmest greetings:

I had the memorable pleasure a few years ago of investigating in great detail the then-newly released “War in the Pacific”. I spent many enjoyable hours researching this truly epic and enormous wargame; coming to understand it’s operating principles and concepts, discussing several matters I didn’t quite grasp with players whom I’d come to admire through their posts and AARs, and generally becoming enthused and engrossed with the staggering scope of this product. I believe I spent, conservatively speaking, about four months researching that game.

You can imagine my delight when, just a couple of weeks ago, I saw that WitP had launched an “Admiral’s Edition“; and as you can imagine I have been spending many pleasing hours now studying the Forum in detail with all the energy, probity and discernment that a lifetime hobbyist has about such things.

To be honest, I didn’t purchase WitP back then. It was a split decision, a close call, a 51/49 kind of thing. Generally, most people believed the game was very playable provided one agreed to various house-rules and accepted occasional bugginess and shortfalls in the game’s design. As I’ve said, this is an enormous game, the sweep of which covers hundreds of units over thousands of miles over a span of years; my respect for the game’s developers and contributors is really quite high, and to be realistic anything of this magnitude is more than likely going to be a bit thin in an area or two. Whether a certain concept or result of gameplay was a relatively minor and acceptable fault, or a real game-breaker, seemed to be a matter of personal opinion amongst members of the Forum. For me, seeing how much my long-time hobby has benefited from applying the power of the computer has been inspiring; so much more that so many talented individuals have undertaken the task of attempting to simulate the entire war in the Pacific!

So do I plan on purchasing WitP:AE? Yes, absolutely. When? Not soon. Should this be taken as some kind of critique of the Admiral’s Edition as it now exists? Not at all. I have nothing but admiration for the game’s designers and contributors. What has been accomplished here is outstanding, and to give it anything less is to fail to see the forest for the trees.

So why don’t I get the game? Fair question.

In the first place, it’s pretty evident I need a hardware upgrade. It’s not something I can necessarily get to very soon. Secondly, I’ve noticed the patches and bugfixes are coming at a much slower rate now, and the game is reaching a very high state of polish. Simply put, there are far fewer people in the Forums posting concerns about critical fixes, and I believe the best time for me to get the game is not now far off. Thirdly, I believe she will be a very demanding taskmaster. No beer and pretzels here. This is going to require an extremely high amount of study and practice over a very substantial amount of time if it’s to be done rightly, and I am absolutely rubbing my hands in anticipation of this.

And lastly, I want to make sure I take the time to give my future opponents a very spirited go of it!


All the best to each and every one,

Restart

Interesting first post [:)]

Buy the game, now. Your life will improve. You do not need much in the way of a powerful PC.

Go get the game , now ! Waiting is going to only lead to heartache and sorrow the later you wait.

Go, buy, now.

[stuman]

And good evening all.

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: USS America

ORIGINAL: Mynok


Send some of that snow to Colorado next week. I'm hoping for a white Christmas this year.

Traveling this year? [:)]

Indeed.....

[USSAmerica]

I need to get a turn finished up to make sure Mynok isn't too bored tonight!  [:D]

[Mynok]

You forget I'm in two of these things.....[:D][X(]

[Mynok]

Ya know, we should really schedule a marathon turn cranking day over the holidays. I've got a number of days off while the wife is working.

[USSAmerica]

That would be a lot of fun!  We could work on the CHS turns in between blasting the AE Guad turn back and forth.  [:D]

I'm off for 2 full weeks, but my wife and son are also off the entire time.  They may travel down to see her dad for one day.  If so, that will be a perfect time. 

How is your other CHS game coming along?  

[Mynok]

August 43. Allied airpower is getting pretty dominant, though I've maintained a reasonably sound fighter defense. He's invaded Sumatra and is held up at Banka. My air transports are doing banner service shuttling in supplies. The Solomons are lost with Rabaul isolated. I've extracted most of the important units or parts of them via air transport. I've maintained a fleet-in-being and have all but one carrier (Hiyo). He's pushing strongly in the Eastern Indies, Sumatra and I expect a push in the Marshalls soon. He's lost several carriers, but I suspect he's got a bunch now. Just haven't seen them yet. I've ambushed him a couple times using bait TFs and he's jumpy. I've got strong defenses waiting for him at the line Palau through the Marianas. Truk is being evacuated of all saved units while I can still run transport missions there.

All things being equal, not bad. I took this game over from a fairly incompetent Japanese player so was in a problematic position in the Solomons to start with.

[USSAmerica]

I remember you took it over already in bad shape.  Doesn't look too bad at all.  Good work.  [:)]

[DivePac88]

It must take real commitment to keep those CHS PBEM games going, as I restarted My PBEM games in AE, like the old games were hot-potatoes. Perhaps you Guys are real purists, and I am just a new gimmick person. [&:]