WAW 5T

[ezto]

Hey im down for some WAW 5T. Im not that experienced but want to learn. I would love to have 4-5 players. Anyone interested?

[RufusTFirefly]

Have sent a PM.

Regards Rufus T Firefly

[82ndtrooper]

ill play with you also

will send PM.

[DRommel]

sorry but i have two games going at the moment
next time maybe
please try an to do an AAR

[GrumpyMel]

I'm up for it. My advice would be to do a 4 player game and have whoever plays SU do China as well...as there is really no conflict of interest there and it tends to speed things up.

[ezto]

Ok so far I got
Germany Grumpy/open
Japan Grumpy/open
SU/China Ezto
West 82nd trooper

So we need one more axis and grumpy to choose which axis he wants to be. Would you guys also like to do a simple AAR?

[ezto]

ok grumpy took Germany. Japan anyone?

[explorer2]

I'm hoping to have T6 out Tues, 5/18 in the morning in Pacific Daylight Time, which is GMT -9.
It will have Dutch East Indies including northern New Guinea and Solomons being historically accurately uninvolved until after the Pacific Blitz.
Also a slightly adjusted Pacific Ocean map giving more accurate distances from Pearl to Sydney.

Also thinking about restoring first turn for SU to awake to January instead of February, giving them one more turn to get ready.
Any thoughts on that one?

[82ndtrooper]

aye we can do an aar  dosent have to be really fancy.


and i am having some concerns about the dutch east indies change. the west needs that supply.   we reduced the west production and if we take that supply away early its going to have an impact.   it you make that change than we need to do something to remady that.

[82ndtrooper]

ORIGINAL: ezto

ok grumpy took Germany. Japan anyone?

rufus wanted to play he was first to answer you.

[Barthheart]

ORIGINAL: explorer2

I'm hoping to have T6 out Tues, 5/18 in the morning in Pacific Daylight Time, which is GMT -9.
It will have Dutch East Indies including northern New Guinea and Solomons being historically accurately uninvolved until after the Pacific Blitz.
Also a slightly adjusted Pacific Ocean map giving more accurate distances from Pearl to Sydney.

Also thinking about restoring first turn for SU to awake to January instead of February, giving them one more turn to get ready.
Any thoughts on that one?

These all sound good to me.

[explorer2]

Sorry guys, real life getting in the way unfortunately of getting it out this morning.
I"m done at work at 8:00 pm PDT. I'll try to knock it out right after that.
Thanks for the feedback.

[RufusTFirefly]

Sorry for the mistake, guys. But I didnt want to participate. I only wanted to invite ezto to another game where we had a slot available (it is taken now). So I would only participate in case you are urgently needing another palyer. But it seems as if there are enough volunteers [;)]

[82ndtrooper]

ahh cool rufus.

we still need a player for Japan if anyone is interested.

[ezto]

so im guessing we switch this to T6? also we still need a Japan player.

[Lunaticus_matrixforum]

I would volunteer for Japan if the slot is still open....

[ezto]

ok so we have it
Germany Grumpy
Japan Lunaticus
SU/China Ezto
West 82nd-Trooper

So shall we go ahead with 5T or the upcoming 6T? Also Grumpy and 82nd feel free to start a modest AAR if you wish.

[82ndtrooper]

well we are so close to it being ready we may as well wait now

[explorer2]

Just uploaded 6T to scenario bank.

Here's the changes:

Removed free city garrisons to UK when playing Historical Western Blitz
Adjusted Pacific Ocean map to more accurately reflect distances from Pearl to Australia
Changed Dutch East Indies & Solomons to more historically accurate not in war until Pacific Blitz
Added 2000 free supplies to Calcutta until JA declares war with China, removed 2000 of new JA production, in order to aid game balance

Posts, both public and private, gave overwhelming rejection of the free UK city garrisons. Point well taken, so now removed.

New Pacific map should more accurately give the importance of Guadalcanal as a base used to interdict USA supplies to Australia. (thanks 82nd)

I also just completed a fair amount of research from numerous sources about exports from Dutch East Indies in war years.
Almost all their exports went to JA and USA from 1939 to July 1941. When USA declared embargo on JA 6 months prior to Pearl, Dutch East Indies did the same. UK was getting virtually nothing from DEI. Also, Allied troops did not base there until after Pearl Harbor. Thus the need to get them out of the game until Pearl.

I checked India's production as well, and it was also fairly small until Pacific war heated up. They did contribute a number of infantry however, especially starting in 1943 and the push to retake Burma. I think the changes I made will more accurately reflect these historical realities without throwing game balance too far in JA's favor. Play testing (which I obviously haven't had time to do yet) will give us a better idea of how this change improves or not game balance while adding more accurate historical flavor.

Hope you guys have a great game. I will follow it with anticipation.

[GrumpyMel]

Thanks Explorer2,

Hey guys, just let me know the options you want and I'll download the scenerio and start up the game.