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Wow! - 1/23/2008 5:55:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hello from a new guy. I bought this game a few weeks ago and I am impressed to say the least. When I was in elementary school, I used to recreate the PH, Midway and Coral Sea battles by drawing dozens of little paper airplanes and ships, and using a toothpick simulate battle destruction. Eventually, I purchased the Avalon Hill game Midway, but I had no one to play it with so if I remember corectly, I just laid the game out and admired the counters. Fortunately my days of Pacific War solititude appear to be ending.

The learning curve is really something, but I have spent the last couple weeks reading the manual, a couple of excellent AARs, and a good number of the 'must read' threads . I have also played the coral sea scenario several times from both sides. I feel I am ready to try my hand as the allies in the full campaign in a PBEM game.

A couple of questions:

- Is the stock campaign still a good way to go for PBEM?
- What are the critical house rules so as to avoid the game being unbalanced by gamey tactics (if at all possible to do so).




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RE: Wow! - 1/23/2008 6:09:38 PM   
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RE: Wow! - 1/23/2008 6:59:35 PM   
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Stock is a good way to learn PBEM. It;s also good that you go with Allies since you have time to learn with them a nd a few mistakes are not critical. With Japanese that's not always the case. The other mods out there may offer more 'accuracy' from some POV but stock is ok/good to learn PBEM.

HR are hard to say. They are really down to you and the oppponent you play. A common one is not to allow gamey paradrops of a few troops/amphib attack by a few troops to purposefully block divisions of men from moving.

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RE: Wow! - 1/23/2008 7:01:28 PM   
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Another common one is not to allow Speedy to sail his subs west of the international date line.......

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RE: Wow! - 1/23/2008 7:06:11 PM   
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RE: Wow! - 1/23/2008 7:09:04 PM   
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Another common one is not to allow Speedy to sail his subs west of the international date line.......




yes, a VERY GOOD house rule would be: don´t let Speedy use subs at all!

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RE: Wow! - 1/23/2008 7:14:07 PM   
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RE: Wow! - 1/23/2008 7:30:02 PM   
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RE: Wow! - 1/23/2008 7:53:28 PM   
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is he that deadly with them?

Read Faber's AAR. I've never heard such foul language from a penguin.

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RE: Wow! - 1/23/2008 9:00:59 PM   
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is he that deadly with them?


Speedy cheats with his subs. Can't figure out how though.

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RE: Wow! - 1/23/2008 11:13:46 PM   
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Damn, lots of newbies coming online at the moment. Welcome aboard.


YEAH! FRESH MEAT! Errr...I mean welcome! Step right in ....care for a PBEM?

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RE: Wow! - 1/23/2008 11:14:43 PM   
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is he that deadly with them?


You should read them and take notes....

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RE: Wow! - 1/24/2008 12:51:01 AM   
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Pfft. That's biased and unfair

you commited war crimes against penguins

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RE: Wow! - 1/24/2008 1:30:05 PM   
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RE: Wow! - 1/24/2008 1:31:27 PM   
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is he that deadly with them?


Speedy cheats with his subs. Can't figure out how though.


You mean your ASW measures haven't prevented me from sinking some crappy little meatball ships in our game?

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RE: Wow! - 1/24/2008 2:23:35 PM   
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is he that deadly with them?


You should read them and take notes....



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RE: Wow! - 1/24/2008 2:24:37 PM   
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Pfft. That's biased and unfair

you commited war crimes against penguins



sentence will be death by, by, wat can penguins do?



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RE: Wow! - 1/24/2008 2:29:07 PM   
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is he that deadly with them?


You should read them and take notes....



i would ask but he blocked my PMs



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RE: Wow! - 1/24/2008 4:49:00 PM   
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quote:

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Pfft. That's biased and unfair

you commited war crimes against penguins



sentence will be death by, by, wat can penguins do?




Guano Firing Squad???

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RE: Wow! - 1/24/2008 4:58:15 PM   
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quote:

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Pfft. That's biased and unfair

you commited war crimes against penguins



sentence will be death by, by, wat can penguins do?




Guano Firing Squad???



AGREED!!!

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RE: Wow! - 1/24/2008 6:35:00 PM   
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Pfft. That's biased and unfair

you commited war crimes against penguins



sentence will be death by, by, wat can penguins do?




Guano Firing Squad???

isn't that bats?

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RE: Wow! - 1/24/2008 6:35:27 PM   
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Pffft. They started it

Yes but they didn't purpotrait war crimes

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RE: Wow! - 1/31/2008 5:11:20 AM   
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Pffft. They started it

Yes but they didn't purpotrait war crimes





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RE: Wow! - 1/31/2008 5:11:47 AM   
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Pfft. That's biased and unfair

you commited war crimes against penguins



sentence will be death by, by, wat can penguins do?




Guano Firing Squad???

isn't that bats?


yes

but still good

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RE: Wow! - 1/31/2008 5:17:17 AM   
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I do not believe that the guano wars in South America were over bat guano. Instead I beleive they were over seafowl guano..

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RE: Wow! - 1/31/2008 6:51:48 AM   
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Actually, guano can be created by any kind of birds... it is merely the droppings that can be quite beneficial one they have accumulated to the point that they can be mined for fertilizer.

I do not believe that the guano wars in South America were over bat guano. Instead I beleive they were over seafowl guano..



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RE: Wow! - 1/31/2008 5:54:31 PM   
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Actually, guano can be created by any kind of birds... it is merely the droppings that can be quite beneficial one they have accumulated to the point that they can be mined for fertilizer.

I do not believe that the guano wars in South America were over bat guano. Instead I beleive they were over seafowl guano..


Wow...you really know your guano.

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RE: Wow! - 1/31/2008 6:50:50 PM   
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Actually, guano can be created by any kind of birds... it is merely the droppings that can be quite beneficial one they have accumulated to the point that they can be mined for fertilizer.

I do not believe that the guano wars in South America were over bat guano. Instead I beleive they were over seafowl guano..


Wow...you really know your guano.



You aren't the first to accuse me of such...

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RE: Wow! - 1/31/2008 9:26:12 PM   
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Actually, guano can be created by any kind of birds...

Except Robins (that's why the floor of the Bruce Wayne's Bat Cave(tm) is all one color).

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