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Filters on the Commander select screen - Air / Surface / Invasion / ect.
 
Display and sort other ratings on Commanders select screen
 
Ability to designate sub bases.
 
Filters on TF select screen including overdue for refit.
 
Available date(in addattion to number of days) on Availablity screens.

ORIGINAL: HansenII

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D Category: Air combat management

1. Setting priority targets,
especially for naval & port attacks. If I think of all those good 500 ibs bombs being wasted on the armour of some super battleship with nice, soft-skinned tincans right next to them being left unmolested.....[:@]
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Or at least, let bombers ignore all those ships that they think they cannot damage - i.e. bombers with 500lb/250kg bombs ignore BBs, those with 250lb or 100kg bombs ignore BBs and CAs.

Just recently bought my copy of WiTP. What a delight. I was an avid PacWar player in the 1990's -- it almost cost me my PhD. It's good to see this reincarnation of an old favorite.

I see there is discussion of a WiTP2, so I'll get a couple of suggestions in right now, even though I'm new to the game.

1. I miss the PacWar LCU icons. PacWar used different color combination to designate nationalities and services. I miss that. Fighting in SE Asia, a quick glance at the screen would show Commonwealth, Malaysian, Indian, Aussie, Chinese sometimes all in the same hex. Gave greater sense of individuality to the units and reinforced historical sense of the alliance. Same in the Philippines. All over the Pacific slightly different shades of green separated US Army and Marines. In WiTP the ships and aircraft have great artwork which, it appears, can be easily modified. But the LCU's all run together and I have to bend way into the screen to see what they are. Which brings me to...

2. At 54, I guess I'm getting old. Or at least parts of me are getting old. High and variable resolution is just about mandatory these days when using LCD screens. I’ve got a new 20” Samsung, but it seems you’ve got to run these things in native resolution to be able to easily read small text. Even with the “-altFont” switch on (and that helps a lot) I grow weary bending over peering into the screen trying to read the text. I’m not sure I can hold up during the year or two it will take me to finish a full campaign. Improved graphic resolution would be a blessing.

But what a package this is! Thanks to all the team and also to all the players who have helped out.

It's a little thing, but I've always thought that the game should process each phase (nighttime, daytime naval, am air, pm air, and ground movement/combat from east to west, just as the local time progresses. A nighttime sub attack off pearl harbor will happen well before another nighttime sub attack that occurs off rangoon.

My feature request for WitP 2 is to model torpedo defense systems (anti-torpedo blisters on the sides of ships) on ships that have them.  If a torpedo, whether launched from a ship or an airplane, is found to have scored a hit on a ship that has anti-torpedo blisters, then a check must first be made to see if the torpedo is defeated by the blister.  If the blister does stop the torpedo, then the ship takes no damage from the torpedo hit.

Different ships with anti-torpedo blisters obviously have different levels of protection, and this would be taken into account when assigning a ship a "torpedo defense rating".  Some would be better at stopping torpedoes than others, and the power of different types of torpedoes would be taken into account when the torpedo defense check is made on a particular ship.  The Bismarck, for example, has a particularly excellent torpedo defense system.  Which took one or more torpedo hits from British warships, but none of them penetrated the armor belt (which was verified by direct underwater visual examination of the perfectly intact heavy armor inside the anti-torpedo blister directly where a torpedo blast hole was found on the outer anti-torpedo blister).  And the interior of the ship was unaffected by the torpedo hit(s).

These torpedo defense systems would have a major impact on many naval engagements, and thus it's important to include this simple and yet vital check on any torpedo hits before any potential ship damage is calculated.  Thanks for considering this feature for WitP 2! 

i want the ability to build/improve trails, roads, railroads with construction btn's

I would like very much to be able to see the flak strength of the LCUs in a base somewhere in the base info screen. Maybe also approximate values for enemy bases when doing a mouse-over.

ORIGINAL: SireChaos

I would like very much to be able to see the flak strength of the LCUs in a base somewhere in the base info screen. Maybe also approximate values for enemy bases when doing a mouse-over.

I would like to see better AA effectiveness. As Japanese, having an AA units or not in a base is quite the same. Bombers (expecially 4E bombers) have so little penalities that you could easily ignore them.

Bye

I would like a "notepad" function within the game, so that I can write notes to myself to be used in future turns. It would really be useful not jot down the location of TF's, etc.

target priority list for subs!

Are there any plans for another update?

ORIGINAL: Jutland13

Are there any plans for another update?

They are working on another patch.

Flipper

Probably has been asked before, but ......

It would be nice when choosing leaders to sort on "type of unit to command". If I'm after a fighter commander, I'd like to be offered those choices rather than visiting EACH and EVERY one to see would is and who isn't ......

Is there any info on this patch, when and what might be included and a potential timeline? Thanks.

how about more control over "home base" and "retirement allowed" As it stands now, with retirement allowed on, once a TF reaches its desitnation, it will retire back to its home base. I would like to see a feature where the home base is set to a TF, that way players can detach warships from CV TF's for night bombardments, and have them meet back up with the CV TF by day break

In the Operations Report, when recon planes take photos of LCUs like this:

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Ki-15 Babs takes recon photos of 22nd Prov Army Temp. Division
Ki-46-II Dinah takes recon photos of 5th CCP Infantry Corps
Ki-46-II Dinah takes recon photos of 5th CCP Infantry Corps
Ki-15 Babs takes recon photos of 5th CCP Infantry Corps
Ki-15 Babs takes recon photos of 69th CCP Infantry Corps
Ki-15 Babs takes recon photos of 99th CCP Infantry Corps
Ki-15 Babs takes recon photos of 99th CCP Infantry Corps
Ki-36 Ida takes recon photos of 2nd CCP Guerilla Brigade
Ki-36 Ida takes recon photos of 9th CCP Guerilla Brigade

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Can you please add the location where they were photographed? The game seems to give a location for naval units like:

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PBY Catalina sighting report: 1 Japanese ship at 40,55 , Moving Southwest
PBY Catalina has spotted Chokai at 40,55
PBY Catalina sighting report: 1 Japanese ship at 45,52 , Moving Southwest
PBY Catalina has spotted Nagara at 45,54
PBY Catalina sighting report: 1 Japanese ship at 47,45 , Moving East
PBY Catalina has spotted Nagatsuki at 45,49
PBY Catalina has spotted Mizuho at 45,54
PBY Catalina sighting report: 8 Japanese ships at 45,46 , Moving West

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Thank you.

A button on the start screen that you can choose for the Japanese
Kamikaze Yes or No (Or better choose between very low ; low ; normal or high

An indicator of which direction troops are moving - kinda like the info you get about which direction TFs are moving.

Once an LCU has moved 30 miles or more in one direction your recon should be able to tell you this. For multiple units in a hex the largest one is the one for which the info is given.

The Hudson/A-29 was used for more than just supply transport.  How about extending the list so that it is not limited to just bomber missions?  You should be able to use Hudsons for troop transport too (the Japanese used captured Hudsons to fly their paratroopers in the DEI).
 
It sounds like we're building a wish list for WitP II....

Probably one that has already been asked, but please increase the number of aircraft that can be included in the dataset so that we can use more variants or more different aircraft, including more artwork.