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What Are The Chances ? - 7/12/2007 12:26:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		Was curious ask if there is a chance the max number of units and formations may be increased in a future update?
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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/12/2007 4:35:43 PM   
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Was curious ask if there is a chance the max number of units and formations may be increased in a future update?


Yeah, I for one would like to see the numbers at least doubled. FitE could surely use the higher numbers.

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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/12/2007 6:43:12 PM   
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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/12/2007 7:59:57 PM   
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And while you're at it change the max size of maps to 1000x1000, I wanna make a 1km/hex map of South Vietnam


Or a Tunis to Capetown map at 25Km

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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/13/2007 3:56:25 PM   
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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/13/2007 6:55:53 PM   
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Who's going to be first to do a battalion scale East Front scenario?

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No, WWI East African Campaign at Company Scale.

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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/13/2007 7:09:33 PM   
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Who's going to be first to do a battalion scale East Front scenario?

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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/14/2007 1:04:35 PM   
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No, WWI East African Campaign at Company Scale.


For that the main problem isn't the size of the map or the number of units, but explaining how the company of irregular colonials in Umtushpishti can instantly react to a British offensive 800 miles away when they don't have access to any form of instant communications.

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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/14/2007 4:11:56 PM   
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Who's going to be first to do a battalion scale East Front scenario?

Nervous Breakdown im Osten

Or a regiment/division scale East Front scenario where both sides units can sub-divide.

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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/14/2007 6:30:35 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay


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ORIGINAL: golden delicious

Who's going to be first to do a battalion scale East Front scenario?

Nervous Breakdown im Osten

Or a regiment/division scale East Front scenario where both sides units can sub-divide.


Ultimate East Front Breakdown Challenge


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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/14/2007 7:44:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		WW2 Europe at divisional scale, that would be the greatest scenario. Of course, map size needs to increase as well.

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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/15/2007 4:33:51 PM   
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ORIGINAL: golden delicious


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ORIGINAL: Bill II

No, WWI East African Campaign at Company Scale.


For that the main problem isn't the size of the map or the number of units, but explaining how the company of irregular colonials in Umtushpishti can instantly react to a British offensive 800 miles away when they don't have access to any form of instant communications.


..Theatre Options to activate, % chance to happen, and then a % controlled time delay, % chance to happen, just like all pre-satellite-cell-phone/ pre-internet days..

..on the other hand, hill-top bonfires could notify the whole of England of the Spanish Armada in how many hours ????...


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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/15/2007 7:20:48 PM   
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..on the other hand, hill-top bonfires could notify the whole of England of the Spanish Armada in how many hours ????...

Africa's just a little bit bigger than England.

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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/15/2007 8:18:25 PM   
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..on the other hand, hill-top bonfires could notify the whole of England of the Spanish Armada in how many hours ????...

Africa's just a little bit bigger than England.



Bigger bonfires...

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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/15/2007 9:24:06 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Veers

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..on the other hand, hill-top bonfires could notify the whole of England of the Spanish Armada in how many hours ????...

Africa's just a little bit bigger than England.



Bigger bonfires...



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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/15/2007 10:27:44 PM   
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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/15/2007 11:19:57 PM   
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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/16/2007 1:25:23 AM   
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You mean modeled as a unit? It might be possible, but you'd still need some house rules around it.



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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/16/2007 4:42:57 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Silvanski

Carrier pigeons


Talking drums? (Seriously, they're not just Tarzan movies stereotypes).

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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/16/2007 6:44:48 AM   
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Status: offline 		So, what ARE the chances for increased number of units per force above the current limit of 2000?

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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/16/2007 7:50:36 AM   
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So, what ARE the chances for increased number of units per force above the current limit of 2000?

Rounded, they are between .01 and 1, but the answer that is of most importance is whether it comes about in TOAW III, or TOAW IV.

And that one, I'm keeping under my hat for the moment...

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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/16/2007 9:33:37 AM   
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ORIGINAL: ralphtrick


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Carrier pigeons

You mean modeled as a unit? It might be possible, but you'd still need some house rules around it.




Or sparrows--but then it would be a question of african or european sparrows--then it would become a matter of weight ratios.......................


edit: That was a monty reference for those python challenged--in case anyone was wondering what the heck I was talking about.


< Message edited by B/snafu -- 7/17/2007 5:15:18 AM >

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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/17/2007 5:30:46 PM   
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BTW, my original question was for not only greater than the 2,000 units but also greater than the 400 formations. I am trying to modify Stéphane's wonderful "Vietnam Combat Operations" (with his permission) to be a game covering the length of the war. There are a number of roadblocks but particularly the number of formations is difficult to work around because of the way OAOW III works.

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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/18/2007 8:46:32 PM   
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ORIGINAL: B/snafu

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Carrier pigeons

You mean modeled as a unit? It might be possible, but you'd still need some house rules around it.




Or sparrows--but then it would be a question of african or european sparrows--then it would become a matter of weight ratios.......................




..WE don't do sparrows, not when considering the communication time between Sussex and Yorkshire..

..and allowing for the synapse-gap lag-time of Southeners....


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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/18/2007 8:50:11 PM   
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..on the other hand, hill-top bonfires could notify the whole of England of the Spanish Armada in how many hours ????...

Africa's just a little bit bigger than England.


..just luvv you ex-Colonials..

..your geography'd been a whole lot better if you'd stayed in the Empire..

....,


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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/19/2007 3:57:04 AM   
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What's in Moro Gulf, SW of Mindanao (6N 128E)?

And hill-top bonfires apparently were able to notify all of New Zealand of the attack on Gondor!  Nice duty, that, sitting in the snow with a bonfire you dare not light...

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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/19/2007 9:08:20 AM   
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ORIGINAL: a white rabbit


quote:

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..on the other hand, hill-top bonfires could notify the whole of England of the Spanish Armada in how many hours ????...

Africa's just a little bit bigger than England.


..just luvv you ex-Colonials..

..your geography'd been a whole lot better if you'd stayed in the Empire..

....,


I'm not quite sure how to react to that, so I'll take it in stride and laugh.
And say that my Geography is pretty good.


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RE: What Are The Chances ? - 7/26/2007 1:22:18 AM   
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Who's going to be first to do a battalion scale East Front scenario?

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Reminds me of a 'very old' article in a SPI magazine : World War Two at 1:1 scale (board-game) "...Comes in three railroad box-cars, estimated playing time, 20 years..."




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