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SPWaW is a tactical squad-level World War II game on single platoon or up to an entire battalion through Europe and the Pacific (1939 to 1945).

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Charles2222
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RichardtheFirst:
I believe in you when you say hex with wrecks normally reduce movement. Maybe you would like to take a look at the game in question, since we are now deep in details. Just send me an e-mail from here or leave your address if you are interested.
No, sorry. My looking at it would achieve nothing. If: a)wrecks are reducing movement in all but your example and b)it is occuring to this particular battle of yours, then obviously either someone made a typo when those elements of the game are combined, or something greater is affecting it (obviously though the problem could be affecting other things, obviously whatever it is isn't affecting wreaks as a whole) similarly such as the dreaded steel.prf file thing. So in other words, though what causes that may be happening somewhere else in the game as well, the wrecks themselves aren't corrupted across the board.

About double meanings, often enough they're a lot of fun, so it's no wonder that I love British comedy (better than our stuff for the most part).

About this 'or something' deal. It's pretty common while giving advice, but when practically any thing one might say that's an opinion ends with those words it's so dumb. I wouldn't suggest you drop it necessarily, as for one thing I don't see hardly anyone "writing" like that. Tha's funny too, because I never would've imagined that that particular phrase would've made it to you, and I'm not sure it's too common in American movies, tv, etc. It was something that I would've imagined was very southern US confined. I's not so dumb said on rare occassion, but practically every time you speak to someone it's something else again (It's just as bad as some people constantly saying "You know" all the time). Check this conversation out:

Me: Hey Joe, if the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Baltimore Ravens today, how much points do you think it'll be by?

Joe: You know, I think it will be by 6pts., or something.

Me (saying this as a reaction from hearing "you know" and "or something" in the same sentence): You know, Joe, I do believe I'm going to have to shoot you, or something.

Actually I think the English and I must be blood brothers (or something). About two or three years ago an English corporation bought out our US one. In recent years I've had a detestation of somebody asking me "How you doing?". Why? Because they don't want to know. It's a silly empty vain phrase. They use it as a greeting. Instead of saying hello or wishing me a good day, which of course could happen, many will ask the lame "How you doing?" Anyway, I overheard a conversation by a couple of the British visitors who said that they passed someone in the hall who asked them how they were doing, and they complained that the one that asked them that, kept on walking. I'm not sure they realized the reason it was done, but they did think it was dumb (or even rude) to use such words and then not care to hear the answer (or as things usually work out, the one asking that only wants to hear "I'm doing great", but then doesn't want to hear if you're having a rough time or not).
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RichardTheFirst:
But I'll try to refrain to use it from now on, now that I think of it I agree it could be considered bad manners or irritating
No, I wouldn't consider it bad manners, but it is irritating and pointless add-on.

I think the British and I are somewhat blood brothers though. Our corporation got bought out by a English one about three years ago. During those opening days I overheard a couple of them being atonished at something that had happened. Somebody passed them in a hall and asked them "How you doing?". When they stopped to respond, the questioner kept walking. I'm not sure if they were offended because of what appeared to be inconsideration, or they thought how dumb it was to ask such a question when they could've just said hello or wished them a good day. I say that, because I despise that question. perhaps every bit as much as they might've. Of course, even if someone asks with any earnestness just how you're doing, if you say anyhting but "I'm doing great" they don't want to hear it. It's terrible, people (Americans) walk around acting like they care, when things look up and then run from you because you might give them a dose of the truth when you respond otherwise. All because they're silly enough to use that phrase as a greeting in the first place, when much better greetings can be had. I do rather like the British sense of humor too.

As far as the purposes of this forum go, I don't think it's all that common for people to type their 'or somethings', can't tell you why though.

There's another relatively meaningless phrase some people used, A LOT, not that long ago, but it seems as though it's pretty much toned down now (or maybe because the younger generations are the only ones that use it a lot), and what I'm talking about is the use of "you know" at the beginning or end of each sentence (sometimes at both ends).

For my part, I cannot help you with the save game, as all I could do is think of general reasons such as steel.prf file, computer reboot, bringing application down between save game loads, software reload, those sort of things.
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Blah blah blah. Fools. Either way, I've seen the bug that Richard has brought up. It only occurs when it's raining, or when there's a sandstorm or something. I think weather can increase the cost of moving into a hex, but that a wreck must do something absolute to the movement cost or something. The problem is certainly there, I've even exploited it by funnelling a collumn of Japanese troops through that hex in a battle where it was slow moving to get ONE extra hex of movement over the course of a 20 turn advance...

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Post by RichardTheFirst »

Originally posted by Tombstone:
Blah blah blah. Fools. Either way, I've seen the bug that Richard has brought up. It only occurs when it's raining, or when there's a sandstorm or something. I think weather can increase the cost of moving into a hex, but that a wreck must do something absolute to the movement cost or something. The problem is certainly there, I've even exploited it by funnelling a collumn of Japanese troops through that hex in a battle where it was slow moving to get ONE extra hex of movement over the course of a 20 turn advance...

Tomo

Your "Blah Blah Fools" is a bit offensive. I saw a lot of out of context posts at this forum and you cannot say me and Charles are not talking about the theme. We are just making a bit more conversation. So please next time keep your thoughts to yourself, it would suit you better.

But I'm glad you also noted Flea #2. I think you are right, these kind of fleas don't like bright and dry environments, they prefer it wet and windy. Weather is the key to this insect.

As I said I don't know a thing about the code but this seems like a simple revision to the values would fix it. Maybe I'm wrong.

And I'm also glad an English-speaker writes the "or something" too, maybe you did it on purpose <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> .
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