While you await AE release....

[PeteG662]

While we all await an AE release, another company is offering a free 10 day trial of World of Warcraft. If you want a distraction try www.warcraft.com and enjoy a hack and slash!

[Erik Rutins]

Resist... it's really not worth getting sucked into WoW-land with AE getting so close. [;)]

[Yank]

Who would want to do battle with Goblins and Ghosts when we will be rampaging across the Pacific with Kido Butai soon enough!

[undercovergeek]

ORIGINAL: Yank

Who would want to do battle with Goblins and Ghosts when we will be rampaging across the Pacific with Kido Butai soon enough!

pffft - ill do the rampaging - you just do the sinking!! [;)]

[Yamato hugger]

ORIGINAL: undercovergeek

ORIGINAL: Yank

Who would want to do battle with Goblins and Ghosts when we will be rampaging across the Pacific with Kido Butai soon enough!

pffft - ill do the rampaging - you just do the sinking!! [;)]

Oh this misinformed [:D]

After 4 years in WoW, I can say that MOST goblins are good guys, and I have seen a fair number of "apparitions" of 1 type or another, I have seen few ghosts. Most of the critters you encounter are run of the mill animals (like rabid grizzlys) and your odd dragon and of course your standard humanoid "evil-doers" [:)]

[undercovergeek]

ORIGINAL: Yamato hugger

ORIGINAL: undercovergeek

ORIGINAL: Yank

Who would want to do battle with Goblins and Ghosts when we will be rampaging across the Pacific with Kido Butai soon enough!

pffft - ill do the rampaging - you just do the sinking!! [;)]

Oh this misinformed [:D]

is this a slight upon my skills or an indication of how much you have chopped and devalued my beloved KB in AE?

[Yamato hugger]

Hehe, you missed the edit. And I usually play the Japs, but I for 1 dont keep the KB together. My "standard" Jap deployment has 4 or 5 carrier TFs.

[undercovergeek]

ORIGINAL: Yamato hugger

Hehe, you missed the edit. And I usually play the Japs, but I for 1 dont keep the KB together. My "standard" Jap deployment has 4 or 5 carrier TFs.

im a keep em all together kind of player - but as my opponent is a few posts up ill say theyre spread all over the place - especially outside Palmyra [:'(][;)]

[Yamato hugger]

If I am moving outside land based air cover, I will bring 3 or 4 of these TFs together (in proximity not in an actual TF) for whatever mission Im performing. The problem with keeping all your carriers in 1 spot is, well, that they are all in 1 spot. The other guy can do whatever he wants everywhere else. There are very few places I go that I cant cover with land based air so it isnt often I have my carriers all in 1 spot. Midway, New Caledonia, Perth, Ceylon, Aleutians, Canton, Palmyra. Many of these arent worth taking in AE because you wont be able to hold them for long. Midway, Palmyra, maybe Canton. Hard to support because of lack of interlocking airfields in the area and you can only put 6000 troops to defend (about a regiment with little support). You can hold them as long as your carriers are around to help them. Thats pretty much it. When your carriers leave, the other guy will show up and retake it.

[fabertong]

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Resist... it's really not worth getting sucked into WoW-land with AE getting so close. [;)]

OK Erik........go on.........how close.........do I have time to wisk my wife away on a romantic weekend.....or two......before locking myself into a dark bunker for the next, say 8-12 years.............

[Tophat1815]

ORIGINAL: fabertong

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Resist... it's really not worth getting sucked into WoW-land with AE getting so close. [;)]

OK Erik........go on.........how close.........do I have time to wisk my wife away on a romantic weekend.....or two......before locking myself into a dark bunker for the next, say 8-12 years.............

beat me to it! How close is close? Are we talking geological close or my close as in under two weeks?

[Yank]

I can guarantee I'll give you a better fight if you come that way...of course it's easy to acheive mass as the Allied player when most of the Pacific and Indian subcontinent are occupied by the IJA

[Terminus]

ORIGINAL: fabertong

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Resist... it's really not worth getting sucked into WoW-land with AE getting so close. [;)]

OK Erik........go on.........how close.........do I have time to wisk my wife away on a romantic weekend.....or two......before locking myself into a dark bunker for the next, say 8-12 years.............

Get the whisking done now, Brother Penguin... Score all the points whilst you still have the time, because you soon won't have any more time...

[madgamer2]

Its not even worth it to get sucked in if AE was not close...

Madgamer

[PeteG662]

Since it is a ten day free trial there is no harm! LOL 

[undercovergeek]

can johnson isl still reach pearl? - this was always a handy island in bombing pearl to prepare the way for the glorious takeover - i take it this only has a 6000 capacity too?

so.... in stock were we doing the impossible and now AE has rectified this, or has AE just made harder what was realistic in stock. it always seemed plausible as a plan to take johnson and bomb from there

[Blackhorse]

ORIGINAL: undercovergeek

can johnson isl still reach pearl? - this was always a handy island in bombing pearl to prepare the way for the glorious takeover - i take it this only has a 6000 capacity too?

Yes, Johnston is a small (6000 capacity) atoll. IMHO, that's generous.

Historically, the US defended the atoll with a defense battalion detachment, because the island was too small to hold an entire battalion.

[Erik Rutins]

There's definitely enough time for some romantic getaways, however, there isn't enough time to get sucked into WOW. [8D] Seriously though, the release will not be in May, given printing time we're talking some time in late June most likely. We're pretty much aiming for that 5th anniversary.

True story, one of our projects years ago was delayed for three months because the testing lead got completely addicted to WOW and didn't tell anyone, just stopped getting his work done while everyone was trying to work around his effective disappearance. Personally, WOW does not really grab me but I know it has a siren's call for some.

Don't heed false prophets when AE is around the corner. [:-] [:D]

[Charles2222]

Destined for 6/21/09. Why? Operation Barbarossa anniversary (different theatre, so what!), Father's Day, a sunday (the PH attack and Barbarossa were both on sundays). There you have it.

[patrickl]

Can you push for 18 Jun release? It would be very nice - my birthday! [&o]