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ORIGINAL: Point Luck

Can idlely talk to the wife (till she inevitably nods off) whilst doing my thing.....

You nailed that one.

I even sacrifice the TV so my wife will stare at the tube and drift off, then I even switch the channel on her.

Sat are honey do lists both hers and mine, I tire her out there too, She's down by 7 those nights, also by passing out honey do lists to her have resulted in a decline in my own honey do lists from her.

Friday nights are party time.

Now if I can train my job and clients the same way Life would be great.

Long past the Friday night party stage. Hurts too much. But the wife is an Anethesiologist and has to be in the OR by 5:30AM every day, so her body clock is such that if she's not in bed by 8:00PM she's zonked in the chair. Friday night and Sat morning we do the chores (yes, we are one of those rare upper income folks that still do all our own house cleaning, yard work, and cooking...) so that by about 2:00PM on Saturday's we are pretty much done with everthing for the weekend. Then it's off to computer land.....unless I have a ballgame to play (I play over 40 baseball), or we have a dinner date planned or such.

But the laptop thing is a Godsend. I can talk to the wife while playing games or reading this forum and she feels like I'm really paying attention to her (which I am, really), until she dozes off..... No need to run off to the home-office just to get on the computer.....

and she feels like I'm really paying attention to her (which I am, really),

Yeah right![:D]

No need to run off to the home-office just to get on the computer.....

Built the house 7 years ago, wired the entire house with both a LAN and smarthouse technology, Also built a home office at the same time - added WiFi throughout the house 2 years ago. Only place lapptop not allowed is masterbed room, unless I'm sick and I need to et some work done (wink wink)

Office not used that much any more. Wife's looking at office now and wondering if it be a good room for the grand kids, There goes another personnal freedom.

Too old for heavy partying ourselves, Fri partying consists of nice restarant, maybe a show. Whatever she picks, Golf considered part of job get to do that during week, don't count against game playing time

ORIGINAL: ZOOMIE1980

ORIGINAL: Point Luck

Can idlely talk to the wife (till she inevitably nods off) whilst doing my thing.....

You nailed that one.

I even sacrifice the TV so my wife will stare at the tube and drift off, then I even switch the channel on her.

Sat are honey do lists both hers and mine, I tire her out there too, She's down by 7 those nights, also by passing out honey do lists to her have resulted in a decline in my own honey do lists from her.

Friday nights are party time.

Now if I can train my job and clients the same way Life would be great.

Long past the Friday night party stage. Hurts too much. But the wife is an Anethesiologist and has to be in the OR by 5:30AM every day, so her body clock is such that if she's not in bed by 8:00PM she's zonked in the chair. Friday night and Sat morning we do the chores (yes, we are one of those rare upper income folks that still do all our own house cleaning, yard work, and cooking...) so that by about 2:00PM on Saturday's we are pretty much done with everthing for the weekend. Then it's off to computer land.....unless I have a ballgame to play (I play over 40 baseball), or we have a dinner date planned or such.

But the laptop thing is a Godsend. I can talk to the wife while playing games or reading this forum and she feels like I'm really paying attention to her (which I am, really), until she dozes off..... No need to run off to the home-office just to get on the computer.....

Zoomie;

How did you find the over 40 baseball league? I aspirate badly at basketball, but baseball might be fun.

ORIGINAL: Og

The photo we had of origins showed mostly heavy players.

[&:] Whadya mean? Beer guts, hard core geeks, stoners...?[8D]

I prefer to play UV against somebody on the other side of the earth.

This gives me the chance to get home, relax, and play my turn any time during the evening at my own leisure.

Usually I can play a turn a day but sometimes Real Life interferes and I miss a day.

In the case of a very complex turn, you can partially play the turn and save it – and come back to it later. If it takes 4 hours to play a complex turn you could spread it over 2 or 3 evenings.

Remember to keep your opponent informed so he knows you have not disappeared.

Now that everyone has had the opportunity to play more...and the "wow" factor has worn off a leeetle bit (if that is possible?) - does the automation of tasks and delegation to the computer really work well enough....or do you really need to do the full monty of specifying what sandwiches the pilots will eat each day (too much corned beef reduces morale etc) for every unit in theatre?

Final checkout on the micromanaging before running the gauntlet of DR.

The "Not the game I was hoping for" thread has me worried...some reasonable points raised for us part timers. But damn I want to see my Swordfish popping fish into Japanese BBs. Plus Beaufighters.

Well, Hartford, I don't automate everything, and I'm playing the campaign as the Allies against the AI. What I've found is that the first turn setup is a bear, but after that the game plays out surprisingly easily. (Actually, I mean the second turn, the one right after Pearl Harbor; I didn't put any orders in for turn 1.)

The first turn is admittedly a lot of work. Several hours, in my case. After you decide what to do with your CVs and other military assets, you've got click on hundreds of ships and bases, organize massive Transport TFs, check what reinforcements are arriving where, puzzle over the production system, etc. But once you've done all that, you don't need to do it again, because things are already in motion. Sure, I'll need to make many more cargo TFs in turns to come, but I won't have to do them all at once, which is a big job. I rather enjoyed it, but I could see someone finding that the first turn is a bit much.

Now that I'm rolling along, though, the ratio of tactical to logistical decisions has gone way up, and I'm doing a turn every hour. It's gotten a lot easier. And it's great fun to fight in the Phillipines, Malaya, Burma, China and Wake Island at the same time. At least it is for me. The basic game system still feels more like UV than anything else, but it's been polished up and mixed with elements of PacWar. I'm having a blast with it, but if you didn't like UV's logistics or PacWar's scope, you may not care for this either.

In the end, I say go for it. The poster who didn't get the game he was looking for was looking for, well, a different game. It sounds to me like you know what you're getting into: a massively detailed day-by-day treatment of the Pacific War, with uncompromising attention to logistics. For many of us, that's preicsely the game we're looking for.

Grotius

Thanks. Already booked a slot at Kinkos tomorrow!

Hartford