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Make the printscreen, cut the flyout.
Make new printscreen, past 1st Flyout and position it.
Make new printscreen, cut 2nd flyout. Paste 2nd flyout in the 2nd step image.
Draw two yellow lines with the desired thickness of brush.
Save it.

ORIGINAL: Cohen

Make the printscreen, cut the flyout.
Make new printscreen, past 1st Flyout and position it.
Make new printscreen, cut 2nd flyout. Paste 2nd flyout in the 2nd step image.
Draw two yellow lines with the desired thickness of brush.
Save it.

warspite1

What are you using? Paint? I don't understand what I am pasting the 1st flyout too [&:]

Paint indeed allows that. My knowledge of graphical stuff hardly goes beyond drawing stickmen with Paint, so I can assure you it's pretty easy to do that thing. It just requires some time per screenshot.

ORIGINAL: Cohen

Paint indeed allows that. My knowledge of graphical stuff hardly goes beyond drawing stickmen with Paint, so I can assure you it's pretty easy to do that thing. It just requires some time per screenshot.

warspite1

Time I have - understanding what I am doing with computers is the problem.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Cohen

Paint indeed allows that. My knowledge of graphical stuff hardly goes beyond drawing stickmen with Paint, so I can assure you it's pretty easy to do that thing. It just requires some time per screenshot.

warspite1

Time I have - understanding what I am doing with computers is the problem.

Join the club... [&:]

I'm not a big fan of solo games...but I'm checking it out anyway.

I'm also not a big fan of going all out on Poland. If I'm playing France in this game, I'm salivating at the possibilities that I might last into 1941. USSR can be up to no good...I'd try the Bulgarian gambit. CW should heavily commit to France (which they should anyway).

ORIGINAL: rkr1958

CW - Setup. Convoys and Production.

In addition to keeping France alive as long as possible, convoys and production is Britain's second concern. In fact, one might argue that it's Britain's first concern. I have grown to love the convoy and production part of this game. In setting up the CW convoy lines I've made use of all convoys (81 of 81 used, i.e., 0 unused convoys) and have minimized the amount of oil going to production. That is, maximized the amount of oil saved and for use on a rainy day. My goal is to max out build points each turn while saving as much oil as possible to England proper as insurance against German u-boat and Italian submarine attacks. Also, saved oil is a good source for resources to the Soviet Union once such an option exist.

Beginning with all the CW convoy points seems to invite trouble with the convoy line if Italy should declare war early. I suggest that having some convoy points in reserve is a goal that CW should strive for.

The traded NEI oil resources can not be used for reorganization. They must be either saved or used for production so with no CPs there they are lost.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Cohen

Make the printscreen, cut the flyout.
Make new printscreen, past 1st Flyout and position it.
Make new printscreen, cut 2nd flyout. Paste 2nd flyout in the 2nd step image.
Draw two yellow lines with the desired thickness of brush.
Save it.

warspite1

What are you using? Paint? I don't understand what I am pasting the 1st flyout too [&:]

I'm using the freeware program GIMP 2.8. We use it at work too. There's a Windows version and a Linux version. Of course for this AAR I'm using the Windows versions. It has a moderate learning curve, but once you get the hang of it you can pretty much do anything in it that you can do with professional graphic programs costing 100's of dollars.

To get the image with the two flyouts included, I first made a screen cap of the "base" image and pasted that in GIMP 2.8. I then made screen caps of the two flyouts (one for each stack) and pasted them into GIMP as separate images. I then copied and pasted each GIMP flyout image into the base image. After that, I selected and moved each flyout to where I wanted it placed on the base image. And then finally I drew a straight line using the pen function. I know it sounds complicated but I have no doubt that if one can master the complexities of MWiF, then one (if they so desire) can master GIMP's learning curve and be rewarded with a powerful graphics program that's FREE.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

rkr1968 who do you get two flyouts showing in that screenshot please?

By the way, thanks for taking 10-years off my age. I wish it was that easy. [;)]

ORIGINAL: Orm
Beginning with all the CW convoy points seems to invite trouble with the convoy line if Italy should declare war early. I suggest that having some convoy points in reserve is a goal that CW should strive for.

For the CW, only the Cyprus resource flows through the Med. Is it the 10 CP's in the St. Vincent sea area that you'd be worry about?

ORIGINAL: Orm
I suggest that having some convoy points in reserve is a goal that CW should strive for.

I sorted got carried away didn't I. I wanted to see if I could achieve a setup that got the CW max build points and used all its starting convoys. I guess the good news is that I accomplished this (i.e., used all the convoys). Also, I guess the bad new is that I used all the convoys. [:(]

ORIGINAL: Orm
The traded NEI oil resources can not be used for reorganization. They must be either saved or used for production so with no CPs there they are lost.

I plan to get those moved and saved as soon as the CW can get additional CPs.

Sep/Oct 1939. Allied #2. CW and French Naval (1 of 2)

The CW and French decide that the best way to help Poland is by moving their massive navies to sea and protect their vital shipping lanes against the threat of German u-boats and surface raiders. Also, the CW moves the BEF commanded by Gort out into the North Sea and under heavy naval escort. After all it's going to take more than naval and air power to win this war against Germany and punish them for their invasion of Britain's close ally, Poland. A few ground troops will also be required. This thing should be over before the fall rains hit!

Sep/Oct 1939. Allied #2. CW and French Naval (2 of 2)

In addition to their naval support to the RN in the North Sea and Bay of Biscay, the French moved strong naval forces to sea in the Med to deter LL Duce from trying anything funny there.

Also, the French sent a sub group into the Baltic to raid German convoys that might show up to move resources from Sweden to Germany. The Germans smartly kept their convoys in port and protected during setup. However, the sub group is in position if, or when, the Germans move such convoys to sea.

Sep/Oct 1939. Allied #2. Cape St. Vincent

The CW, and French, take the protection of their vital shipping lanes serious, as demonstrated by the commitment of the RN to the protection of the Cape St. Vincent sea area. In addition to the CPs in box 0, the CW moved a 6-5 motorized corps to sea there for deployment to Gibraltar.

Sep/Oct 1939. Allied #2. Allied Convoy Routes.

After both the CW and French "declared war" on Germany, there was some confusion about intended convoy routes. The MWiF program decide to "help" me and route one of the four CW resources from the far East (and highlighted in blue) through the Med instead of around the Horn of Africa as desired. The result of this "help" was that 1 of the 2 French resources highlighted in blue didn't have a complete route to get to their intended destination. After taking the time to manually go through and set the desired routes for the four highlighted CW resources (around the Horn of Africa), both French resources then found their way to their intended destination. All in all it took me approximately 30-minutes of figure all this out and get the resources flowing the way I wanted them to flow.

Sep/Oct 1939. Allied #2. Strategic Bombing.

Knowing that this war will be won on the seas and in the air, Sir Arthur Harris ordered the RAF to carry out a bombing raid on German factories in Berlin. Also, he convinced his French allies to strategically bomb German factories in Essen. Apparently the French forgot to load their planes with bombs. However, RAF bombers found their target and reduced German production by 1 PP. Surely this will convince the Germans of the folly of invading Poland.

Sep/Oct 1939. Allied #2. Poland.

The CW saved 2 of their 3 allotted air moves to move the Polish bomber and fighter to Warsaw. The Luftwaffe has no organized fighters within range of Warsaw so the Polish bomber will be able to provide its 3 factors of ground support to the defense of Warsaw without interference.

Also, in a stunner to the CW and French, the Soviets move forces across their border to claim Eastern Poland and the Baltic States.

Sep/Oct 1939. Allied #2. USSR Angers the USA.

Not only did the move by the USSR to take Eastern Poland and the Baltic states catch CW and France by surprise, it angered the USA to the level that they pulled both remaining entry chits from the Germany/Italy entry pool. This means that the Soviet move into Bessarabia will have to wait until the USA cools down and puts two more chits back or risk a forever neutral USA against Germany and Italy. Damn Isolationist!

Sep/Oct 1939. Allied #2. USA.

Speaking of those "DAMN" isolationist, the USA moved Nimitz's HQ and a AA division to the Hawaiian Islands and deployed them to Honolulu later in the impulse. In addition to the 5 CPs in the Hawaiian Islands required for the USA and Japanese trade agreements, the USN has 2 additional CPs at sea there. These 2 CPs will be returned to Manila in the Philippines at the end of this turn and will be used to transport the Philippine resource to the China once the USA "passes" entry option 9 (resources to China).

Sep/Oct 1939. Allied #2. Northern (communist) China.

In Northern China, the communist move a militia army unit to block the pass to the communist held city of Tungkwan.

Sep/Oct 1939. Allied #2. Southern and Central (Nationalist) China.

In southern China, a Nationalist Calvary corps takes advantage of the Japanese focus being in the north to recapture the port city of Swatow.