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Yeah I don´t really care, whatever works.

Ronnie, I will playing as Russia/China/C.China in another game with my friends so if you do not mind I would like to try CW/France/USA, or if we divy them up in another way.

ORIGINAL: jesperpehrson

Ronnie, I will playing as Russia/China/C.China in another game with my friends so if you do not mind I would like to try CW/France/USA, or if we divy them up in another way.

That'll work for me. I'll take Russia/China/C.China.

Also, once the axis side is firmed up I propose we open a new thread for handling the game and start the discussion on optional rules.

Sounds fine. I like Germany/Italy.That's the hardest side to play i think. but Japan is also ok for me.
Lets talk optional rules. Fun.
Willem

I have some questions as a PBEM-noob.
It seems like die-rolls are handled via another source in many/some of the AARs. How do you manually input the dierolls? Is this something you wanna do?

Do we have any standing orders for small decisions? How do we handle this? Or are all opponents decisions handled via the forumthread? Can you save the game in the mid of a decision?

As for optional rules I need to defer to our experienced friends.

ORIGINAL: WILHELM_slith

Sounds fine. I like Germany/Italy.That's the hardest side to play i think. but Japan is also ok for me.
Lets talk optional rules. Fun.
Willem

warspite1

Looks like we are on the same team then Wilhelm. Are you okay for me to be Germany/Italy?

Here are the optionals I use (except Extended game length should be off) - I post this as an opener only and am happy to go with the flow

warspite1, all, should we open another thread for this disucssion? If so, I propose warspite1 open it and post his opening position on optionals. This new thread could be our game thread.

Okay.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Okay.

Thanks! I assume we'll move this discussion to the AAR section then. [8D]

ORIGINAL: rkr1958

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Okay.

Thanks! I assume we'll move this discussion to the AAR section then. [8D]

warspite1

Done

ORIGINAL: jesperpehrson

I have some questions as a PBEM-noob.
It seems like die-rolls are handled via another source in many/some of the AARs. How do you manually input the dierolls? Is this something you wanna do?

Do we have any standing orders for small decisions? How do we handle this? Or are all opponents decisions handled via the forumthread? Can you save the game in the mid of a decision?

As for optional rules I need to defer to our experienced friends.

I will give few tips if Warspite1 already didn't tell all these. I have played few year, all using PBEM and most of them with die roller.

I game you need to choose "Interface / Player interface settings / check box " Set die rolls". Then you can set always the die roll. That helps you also to recreate combat result if you need to reload for any reason.

Why I want to use online die roller is that I can feel good when I roll really really well and no one need to think how can I have that good luck. Like in France to shoot down two German bombers and one fighter, maybe some pilots included, with my less good fighter. We are all gentlemen here, no one is here to cheat, but it feels better when online die roller sends results to all.

In my games we have only few standing orders: subs are not included during port attacks and CAP is not asked, non-phasing player need to tell before impulse that he might use it. We play normally CAP disabled, but it can be turned on when needed. I think in all out games it have been used once or twice.

Game cannot be saved in all phases, but game has auto saves in every phase (for example use ask interception during ground strike but don't get answer. You can quit and next day reload from declaring ground strikes). Naval combat can be quite long and I save after each round so that I don't need to play them all if something goes wrong.

You can ask using AAR (and we all can read how your game is going) or use Skype/Whatsapp etc to ask interceptions and other things.

Thanks Mayhem. I will read your post a few times and try it out for myself before I embaress myself in the game.
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ORIGINAL: jesperpehrson

I am not sure Ssiviour threw his hat in the ring.

I have no real preference except I have very little experience playing Axis.

Sorry I wasn't watching your thread guys, maybe on a rematch then ....