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Gah, go away for 4-5 years and this is what happens.
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Everyones over at the AE forum [:D]
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Yeah, AE is a very great improvement over vanilla WITP, buy and come join the party! [:D]
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Well hell since you guys twisted my arm and all I guess I'll have to buy it. Peer pressure's a b****. My wife asks where I got though I'm saying someone gave it to me. Pure genius.
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Thats why I usually get the download version ... keeps the wife off the trail. [;)] But having the AE manual is worth her [8|] [:D]
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Well hell since you guys twisted my arm and all I guess I'll have to buy it. Peer pressure's a b****. My wife asks where I got though I'm saying someone gave it to me. Pure genius.
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Maybe I can have it delivered to work.......
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Oh good I'm not the only one who has a wife who doesn't approve of their need to conquer the pacific!! [:-] <----my wife...likeness not even close though.....
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Yeah definitely not the only one.&nbsp; In fact if your wife approved, you'd definitely be in the minority, at a minimum, [:D]
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My wife will sometimes mention the amount of time I spend on my PBEMs, but she doesn't have reason to complain when my last game purchase was AE and before that WITP & WPO.&nbsp; Besides she'd rather have me home than in a bar.
Todd

I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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My wife choose at random between 2 solutions, each day:

1) She don't care as long as we are making things together ( shopping, hicking, you know, this kind of stuff)
2) She laugh at me when i explain that my opponant did twist my forces and ruin my plans.

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Well, my wife got upset at the time I was spending on the computer in general.
One day, as I was playing an SSI game, she walked over to the pc and emptied
a pot of water on the machine and me.
Needless to say, I am now single.
BTW, why do the morale value of Allied air units, both land and sea, seem so low
in the later scenarios. I see values in the 40-50 range. I would have thought that in '44,
starting morale would be better. It's causing some probs in my games. Any ideas?
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ORIGINAL: bigmed1204

Maybe I can have it delivered to work.......

Thats what I did when a "friend" gave me the Thrustmaster Cougar HOTAS ;)
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The low morale later in the war was due to fatigue after years of fighting.&nbsp; New replacements are not welcomed with open arms by the vets and the vets are tired of fighting.&nbsp; If the rest areas are hellish then imagine what the combat must've been like.&nbsp; Besides how many happy campers will you have when their lives are at risk and the fighting is brutal?&nbsp; The only thing troops on the battlefield want is to survive and go home ASAP.
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I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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ORIGINAL: tocaff

My wife will sometimes mention the amount of time I spend on my PBEMs, but she doesn't have reason to complain when my last game purchase was AE and before that WITP & WPO.  Besides she'd rather have me home than in a bar.

[&o]
Exactly the same for me but with a very small difference:
it seems that to the eyes of my wife, my virility depends directly of my capacity to win the game.
She often ask me: "when will you sink Emek's CV?"
"Soon, honey, soon"[:(]

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[:D]

If my virility was linked to my 2 PBEMs then I'd have the new name of Numbnutz.&nbsp; As the Japanese in 4/44 I'm in deep stuff and as the Allies, well read my AAR.
Todd

I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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See, this forum isn't dead....we just need to talk about our wives!! Out of curiosity am I alone in being you younger married man at 28??
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tocaff, thx for your ideas re: low starting morale for allied air units. Did the devs actually use that as the reason?
I&nbsp;would agree that morale might suffer over time as losses mount. In the game however, I have new units
arriving in SF with low morale. As an example, VMF314 arrived at SF with a morale rating of 56 on 6/25/44.
The experience rating was 59. Morale value seems low for a new unit.
Thx.
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yes. it's a wife thread with a little witp thrown in. I can feel the complexity level rising. and i'm only 33 myself. been married for 8 years already.
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Been married since I was 22 ... 44 now ... and she still puts up with all my gaming habits. Guess I got lucky on that account! :)
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Sitting at the PC doesn't take as much space as having the Highway to the Reich maps & units spread out on the dining room floor.

PLUS WITP & AE & BFTB when it arrives are far cheaper than me going to the pub or my wife's quilting hobby!
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