Surprisingly no mention of it in the new patch. Looks like we live with it. But it works for both sides. Viberpol and I just had a big go around about it. He was unaware of it and I had been using it assuming he was. We decided that it is OK but will not use it when leaving or moving into enemy occupied hexes. Seems fair.
Surprisingly no mention of it in the new patch. Looks like we live with it. But it works for both sides. Viberpol and I just had a big go around about it. He was unaware of it and I had been using it assuming he was. We decided that it is OK but will not use it when leaving or moving into enemy occupied hexes. Seems fair.
It has mixed utility when entering an enemy hex in any case... I've noticed that I can't predict movement rates as reliably in reserve mode as I can in move or combat. However, in leaving? Don't know how I feel about that. That seems to be exactly what reserve mode was actually designed for.
Surprisingly no mention of it in the new patch. Looks like we live with it. But it works for both sides. Viberpol and I just had a big go around about it. He was unaware of it and I had been using it assuming he was. We decided that it is OK but will not use it when leaving or moving into enemy occupied hexes. Seems fair.
I've never been happy with units being able to move in reserve mode at all. It just becomes a gimic to limit the effects of being bombed.
When units in reserve exploit they come out of reserve mode in order to start the exploitation move.
This makes sense to me. If you want to move a unit in reserve it should have to come out of reserve mode.
Again a terrible rough moments at work and my father who doesn't seem to get well (always in intensive care)...
Spare time has been a problem lately and it will go on like that at least untill thebeginning of April.
However there are some positive things
One of these is that next week i am going to see Erik and his wife here in Italy!! So finally our two girls will meet each other (the other times me and Erik saw each other the girls weren't with us at the same time (once there was valentina and once there was Rachel).
This doesn't mean they will let us play on hot-seat, but it's a starting point [:D]
Now the game:
CHINA: Wenchow finally fell, bagging 35,000 more troops that will respawn in Chungking. More divisions are now free to move to the Pacific and towards Sian.
South of Chungking we keep on pushing the defeated chinese army back to Patung. Chungking is now completely isolated for good.
INDIA-BURMa: everything seems quiet here. Confirmed the presence of 75 P-47s at Chittagong. mmmm........
SOPAC/SWPAC: the allies are trying to soften Finshhafen with no results so far. At the same time they are marching from Buin to Torokina.
Erik is reconning and attacking all the bases on the NG coast, from Madang to Hollandia-Biak...and from Cape Glouchester to Gasmata in New Britain....
CENTPAC: Roi-Namur is attacked daily.It could be invaded any time now. Not much i can do. Sadly.
so we're now in August 1943.
The allies have now a plethora of Hellcats and P-47s to face our air armies.
On the Burma borders, where the bulk of the P-47s are concentrated, erik hasn't launched yet an air offensive. Strange. Probably he's waiting for the monsoon to end and to have a fully operative net of interlocking big AFs before launching a massed assault on Burma.
That's good because this time let us recover a bit and reposition our divisions and our defensive perimeter.
Our "indian" divisions are moving back to Rangoon and then to Sumatra, while the fresh 4th, 5th and 6th Guards Divisions took their place on the Burma borders.
In china things are looking now brighter. The fall of Wenchow was a real relief. Now that nail in our side has been conquered and there won't be anymore surprises arising from there.
Chungking remains a fortes but the plan remains the same: starve it with stacking limits and respawning units.
In SOPAC: we are now facing the mighty pressure of the allies advance here. After the attack on Rabaul of the last week, Erik changed tactic and is now trying to annoy me with a series of night attack on the fields and on our fleets parked at Rabaul.
The recon missions lately started by the allies are getting me nervous. They are reconning Truk, Bab, Biak, Sarmi, Hollandia, Vanimo, Wewak, Madang end Hansa Bay, along with Green Island, Buka, Gasmata, Cape Glouchester and Arawe... this doesn't smell well.
In Oz...nothing... strange. We just have a good re-supplying mission at Exmouth, which is now full of 50,000 supplies and 6 forts and nearly 900 AVs. not bad.
The Mariannas are getting substantial reinforcements and the Kuriles too. I am trying to use the time bought in SOPAC in order to build a strong inner perimeter...not easy but with the 3 new divisions coming out of China the Mariannas should be fine in the mid-long term.
One of these is that next week i am going to see Erik and his wife here in Italy!! So finally our two girls will meet each other (the other times me and Erik saw each other the girls weren't with us at the same time (once there was valentina and once there was Rachel).
This doesn't mean they will let us play on hot-seat, but it's a starting point. [:D]
AE or time with wife/girlfriend....
AE or some 'cultural event'....
AE and 'maybe' sending the ladies shopping!!!
One of these is that next week i am going to see Erik and his wife here in Italy!! So finally our two girls will meet each other (the other times me and Erik saw each other the girls weren't with us at the same time (once there was valentina and once there was Rachel).
This doesn't mean they will let us play on hot-seat, but it's a starting point. [:D]
AE or time with wife/girlfriend....
AE or some 'cultural event'....
AE and 'maybe' sending the ladies shopping!!!
Sending the ladies shopping and for some *girl time* might end up backfiring and becoming a very expensive alternative but if it gives you time to play WITPAE... Dooo it!
Hi all, just to say that We are still alive!
Turns have slowed down a lot because of Erik travelling here in Italy and i being very busy with work.
However yesterday night we managed to meet each other in Venice: it was a great night!
We went eating in a very tipical venitian restaurant and we had a lovely dinner with our two ladies (who met each other for the first time). We had many tipical venitian plates and drank some good wine. Was really cool!
We even managed to talked a bit about our game, while our ladies talked about women's stuff.
We reviewed Erik's advance in the Marshalls and in the Solomons, the air battle for Rabaul, the strategical role of Torokina and Horn Island and the battle for India, with Erik complaining about his results at Patna and giving me the congratulations for the succesfull evacuation of Madras[:D]
We also talked a lot about GoT, exchanged theories about the "three heads of the Dragon" and about who really are Jon Snow's biological parents[:D]
Venice was magical, as always. Almost full moon and windy.
Oh my, what a good time! Tell me more about the food, was it liver+polenta, or sarde in saor? Damn I'm hungry.
's true, Venice is magical. In August 1980, I walked the temporary bridge over to Giudecca & heard a flute/oboe/organ concert at Il Redentore (the most beautiful church on the planet). The next night's fireworks were truly 'Apocalypse Now'!
Note to lovers: take your sweetheart to Venice. Wow her at Museo Correr, & the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Propose marriage (or re-affirm your vows) at Il Redentore.
We also talked a lot about GoT, exchanged theories about the "three heads of the Dragon" and about who really are Jon Snow's biological parents[:D]
The first book pretty much screams it out; but does it really matter now? Stabbed in the back, he may live, and probably will, but Martin will probably never live long enough to finish the tale as it seems his interests have migrated elsewhere.
We also talked a lot about GoT, exchanged theories about the "three heads of the Dragon" and about who really are Jon Snow's biological parents[:D]
The first book pretty much screams it out; but does it really matter now? Stabbed in the back, he may live, and probably will, but Martin will probably never live long enough to finish the tale as it seems his interests have migrated elsewhere.
Unless he loses big at the racetrack.
The guys at HBO forced the ending out of Martin so they could finish the TV series in case he died suddenly. I guess Martin lost his motivation. Can´t say I blame him. He is financially set for the rest of his life (which is probably not many years left) so he probably have more fun things to do then sit inside and write a book. [:D]
I pretty much lost interest in the books after the 3rd book although I read them all.
I believe someone from HBO said that the series may veer from the books starting this year. Mostly because they know the broad outlines but not much detail and in any case the TV version is going to get ahead of the books at in the next couple of seasons. Great stuff. Easy to see it now but at the time it must have been quite a gamble that this would pay off. The unexpected this for me (husband and father of 3 daughters) is that the ladies like Game of Thrones as much as the gents do
Today I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat, do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. - Yasser Arafat Speech to UN General Assembly
Funny you should mention GoT. Of late I have been listening to the books on tape while I do my turns and work on my WitP pilot automation program. It's a good combo.
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