POW Camps.

[Major Tom]

I think that there should be default POW camps placed at certain bases.

Singapore
Clark Field
Somewhere in Borneo
Somewhere in Thailand
etc...

These should be known locations to the Allies, and, should be considered as highly important Victory Point areas. This will 'force' the Allied player to go for the Philippines and Borneo instead of just going for the Marianas, Iwo Jima and then bomb Japan into submission. The political bomb of allowing POW's to remain in captivity when there is the ability to rescue them should be tremendous.

Jeremy

[Vincent Prochelo]

Originally posted by Major Tom:
I think that there should be default POW camps placed at certain bases.

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I agree with this completely..... great idea.

-V

[moore4807]

I agree the POW camps should be a factor- however they should be random and changing as Port Bases get powerful enough or far enough behind the Japanese lines. This could make it an intelligence issue too. (find/raid/capture the POW bases before such and such a time in order to gain victory points)Just a thought
Jim

[mogami]

Hey why not Japan needs workers for the great Rangoon Bankok railway. And their research experiments. I do not think the allies gave to much thought to rescuing POW's during the war (Except for Patton trying to get his son-in-law)

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[Major Tom]

All that these would be worth are morale benefits. There has to be some reason why a player would want to liberate the Philippines instead of going straight to Japan from the Marianas.

[mogami]

Hi the US went "back" because Doug said he would. To reflect this in game if US keeps Doug in Command they have to go "back" or suffer victory point loss

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[Dave S]

If one would have to go to the Philipines or suffer VPs,then the player should be able to leave him there in the first place with Wainwright.

[mogami]

You can leave him there LOL. I have put Gen Short in command of SW Pacific a few times and he wins the war too. I think Doug should have been shot rather then recieved MH. I also don't think the player (ethier side) should be forced into stratic moves by game design. The purpose is for player to make these choices. PI is worth victory points if allied player can win without them thats his business. Oh and by the way most US pow's were shipped out of PI to Japan. US aircraft and subs sank several maru's full of them (one had 1800 another 1500)

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I'm not retreating, I'm attacking in a differant direction!

[This message has been edited by Mogami (edited November 13, 2000).]