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ORIGINAL: Flying Tiger
I have made my suggested improvements/changes previously (only units in combat effected, etc), but another suggestion is to restrict malaria effects to combat personnel ONLY (ie. any ITEM with AV greater than 1 (note ITEM not unit - so within a base force unit the combat troops ARE affected by malaria, but non-combat components NOT affected) - so support personnel, bulldozers, etc dont wither away).

And BTW - should it be effected or affected?????????????????? AAAARRRGGGHHHHH!! I hate english - and it is my language!

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ORIGINAL: Skyland

A drydock (lenght 160m, depth 9.5m, width 22m) was build in Saigon in 1885 as well as some ship repair facilities (French Arsenal de Saigon).
The drydock and facilities are still in use nowadays : 10°47'7.00"N, 106°42'35.00"E in Google Earth.

Will AE have those facilities?

Thx

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ORIGINAL: Flying Tiger

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Hope this is right place to ask about Malaria zones (yet again?! - I hear you venting... ).

Did you change (or will you?) in AE criteria for deciding if units in a base within malaria zone are immune to malaria effects? Currently the only criteria - besides of explicit exclusion list based on base index (slot) - is Airfield SPS assigned to base by scenario designer. That is only units in bases with AF SPS > 8 are immune to malaria disease. That criteria does not seem to be very helpful (most such bases - like Singapore -are excluded explicitly anyway), is rather counterintuitive (I would expect actual size of AF/Port to be used in criteria instead), and from what I remember is inconsistent with the manual (well, yes I know, I know ...).
OTOH the change would be rather easy to do without (hopefully) much of side effect. Well, it always easier to talk then walk but I keep my hopes high

Any response from the AE team???? This malaria issue comes up in the forums AGAIN AND AGAIN!! We all vent our frustration at the current system.... but very little response from anyone on the team.

Please, is anything being done about the malaria zone effects?

I have made my suggested improvements/changes previously (only units in combat effected, etc), but another suggestion is to restrict malaria effects to combat personnel ONLY (ie. any ITEM with AV greater than 1 (note ITEM not unit - so within a base force unit the combat troops ARE affected by malaria, but non-combat components NOT affected) - so support personnel, bulldozers, etc dont wither away).

And BTW - should it be effected or affected?????????????????? AAAARRRGGGHHHHH!! I hate english - and it is my language!

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ORIGINAL: Japan

1] Will it be Possible for the Japanese to Build Pilot Schools, or in any Way Effect the amount of new Pilot's that gets availeble?

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ORIGINAL: Japan

QUESTION ABOUT AE
2] In realety, POW's post both a Problem and a Resours, will this in any facion be implemented, for example by adding an amount of Light Industry for every Divition the Japanese Destroy, who would simulated Forced Labour.. (or is this to Sencetive to be in a computer game maby..)

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ORIGINAL: JeffK
AB,
Have you seen the series of booklets issued in WW2 which covered the terrain and characteristics of various points of the Pacific, and has maps of the areas?? I saw about 50 in the collection, had a quick read of the Manila booklet which had population details, industry etc about 50 pages. The booklets are about 6" X 3".
The ones I saw were at Deakin Uni Geelong, if you, or anyone else is interested I could get the titles next weekend.

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ORIGINAL: Andrew Brown

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ORIGINAL: Skyland

A drydock (lenght 160m, depth 9.5m, width 22m) was build in Saigon in 1885 as well as some ship repair facilities (French Arsenal de Saigon).
The drydock and facilities are still in use nowadays : 10°47'7.00"N, 106°42'35.00"E in Google Earth.

Will AE have those facilities?

Thx

Interesting. I had no idea this existed. Was it used at all by the Japanese?

Andrew

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

Supresses thoughts about how the japanese used and abused their POW's

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ORIGINAL: Skyland

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ORIGINAL: Andrew Brown

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ORIGINAL: Skyland

A drydock (lenght 160m, depth 9.5m, width 22m) was build in Saigon in 1885 as well as some ship repair facilities (French Arsenal de Saigon).
The drydock and facilities are still in use nowadays : 10°47'7.00"N, 106°42'35.00"E in Google Earth.

Will AE have those facilities?

Thx

Interesting. I had no idea this existed. Was it used at all by the Japanese?

Andrew

Saigon harbor facilities were controlled by japanese and used for exportation from Indochina to Japan (rice, rubber, tin, coal, manganese).
Saigon was also used as a stage for merchants convoys from Singapore to Japan.

I see no reason for the japanese not to use the drydock itself if needed.

Drydock in use (1931)

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ORIGINAL: Alexander Seil

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

Supresses thoughts about how the japanese used and abused their POW's

I assume you already suppressed any thought about the Allied treatment of Japanese POWs? There's hardly much evidence for the Allies having a high moral horse to sit on, in the Pacific at least

Although, it's rather unfortunate that many operational wargames ignore this issue. Certainly, shepherding, organizing, directing POW's to the camps and guarding them took up a lot of time and effort, although more so in Europe than in the Far East.

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ORIGINAL: Andrew Brown

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ORIGINAL: JeffK
AB,
Have you seen the series of booklets issued in WW2 which covered the terrain and characteristics of various points of the Pacific, and has maps of the areas?? I saw about 50 in the collection, had a quick read of the Manila booklet which had population details, industry etc about 50 pages. The booklets are about 6" X 3".
The ones I saw were at Deakin Uni Geelong, if you, or anyone else is interested I could get the titles next weekend.

Andrew,

I've bailed out of the city and now have a 7 minute drive from home, sheer luxury!!!

I'll be back at Deakin on the weekend, I'll see if I can troll up the titles on the catalogue. (I'm sure they were US Army booklets, many about the Phillipines)

No I haven't heard of these. Sounds very interesting! If you are able to borrow one or two I would be very interested to see them. You work in Southbank don't you? Might have to arrange a "business" lunch...

Andrew

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ORIGINAL: Alexander Seil

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

Supresses thoughts about how the japanese used and abused their POW's

I assume you already suppressed any thought about the Allied treatment of Japanese POWs? There's hardly much evidence for the Allies having a high moral horse to sit on, in the Pacific at least

Although, it's rather unfortunate that many operational wargames ignore this issue. Certainly, shepherding, organizing, directing POW's to the camps and guarding them took up a lot of time and effort, although more so in Europe than in the Far East.

Please explain more, apart from the disinclination to take japanese prisoners, who were disinclined to allow themselves to be captured, I find very little organised and officially sanctioned maltreatment, starvation & outright murder of japanese POW.

Always willing to learn a bit more. 

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ORIGINAL: Flying Tiger

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ORIGINAL: Alexander Seil

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

Supresses thoughts about how the japanese used and abused their POW's

I assume you already suppressed any thought about the Allied treatment of Japanese POWs? There's hardly much evidence for the Allies having a high moral horse to sit on, in the Pacific at least

Although, it's rather unfortunate that many operational wargames ignore this issue. Certainly, shepherding, organizing, directing POW's to the camps and guarding them took up a lot of time and effort, although more so in Europe than in the Far East.

Please explain more, apart from the disinclination to take japanese prisoners, who were disinclined to allow themselves to be captured, I find very little organised and officially sanctioned maltreatment, starvation & outright murder of japanese POW.

Always willing to learn a bit more. 

I'm with Jeff on this one - what do you (Alexander) know about Allied mistreatment of Jap POWs?? I know of some very 'nice' (relatively speaking) prison camps for Jap POWs around rural Aus. And  i know that generally the Japanes soldiers chose not to surrender, but have not heard much (any??) about Jap POWs being mistreated. Please enlighten us!

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ORIGINAL: Skyland

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ORIGINAL: Skyland

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ORIGINAL: Andrew Brown

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ORIGINAL: Skyland

A drydock (lenght 160m, depth 9.5m, width 22m) was build in Saigon in 1885 as well as some ship repair facilities (French Arsenal de Saigon).
The drydock and facilities are still in use nowadays : 10°47'7.00"N, 106°42'35.00"E in Google Earth.

Will AE have those facilities?

Thx

Interesting. I had no idea this existed. Was it used at all by the Japanese?

Andrew

Saigon harbor facilities were controlled by japanese and used for exportation from Indochina to Japan (rice, rubber, tin, coal, manganese).
Saigon was also used as a stage for merchants convoys from Singapore to Japan.

I see no reason for the japanese not to use the drydock itself if needed.

Drydock in use (1931)

Saigon drydock in construction (1886)

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JeffK

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ORIGINAL: Charbroiled

I was wondering if ship traffic is still going to be allowed between India and Sri Lanka in AE. These 2 land masses are connected by "Adam's Bridge" (Rama's Bridge) and is only 3 to 30 feet in depth. Historically, it is only navigatable by small crafts.

It can easily be seen using Google Earth.

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama's_Bridge

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The Burma Road between Lashio and Kunming does not cross the Red River as shown on the standard WITP map....or if it does it was a smaller tributary. It does cross the Salween and Mekong (Lancang) which were significant obstacles. In fact, I think what is labeled the Red River is actually the Mekong.

Is this corrected in AE?

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ORIGINAL: Andrew Brown

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The Burma Road between Lashio and Kunming does not cross the Red River as shown on the standard WITP map....or if it does it was a smaller tributary. It does cross the Salween and Mekong (Lancang) which were significant obstacles. In fact, I think what is labeled the Red River is actually the Mekong.

Is this corrected in AE?

Yes it is corrected in AE. The Burma Road crosses the Salween and the Mekong (which gets short shrift on the stock map), and not the Red River. As bradfordkay mentioned I corrected this on my WitP 1 map as well.

Andrew