Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: wdolson

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ORIGINAL: JeffK


AB,

Are you going to include Wooloomanata ??

It was used by the RAAF to provide 79 Sqn with some bush training before being sent north, as such it was possible to use it for training of other fighter squadrons.

I don't have the game open at the moment, but since Andrew is Australian, he put extra attention to Australia. There are more bases there than stock, quite a few in the south and more in the bush.

Bill

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ORIGINAL: Heeward

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ran out of Tacoma - along the west side of Hood Canal and along the south coast of Strait of Juan de Fuca, but stopping short of Neah Bay - at Port Angles on the map? Another line ran from Tacoma to the ports of Grays Harbor - Cosmopolis/Aberdeen/Hoquim Is Bremerton and it's Naval Ship Yard included in Seattle / Tacoma? Bremerton is located in the hex due east of Seattle. It also had a war time airport - with two dozen revetments that a future road project I am involved with will be wiping out their foot prints. Shelton Airfield would be located in the same hex even though it is located on the west side of Hoods Canal. Ports of Grays Harbor county - due west of Tacoma on the map. My Father-in law in the 41st Infantry Division - 205th Field Artillery was sent there after Pearl Harbor to guard the coast. A railroad line ran from Portland to Astoria and out to Fort Stevens. I can see Vancouver Barracks and its airfields Pearson and Evergreen being absorbed into Portland even though they are located north of the Columbia River.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

Andrew,

Have you made Geelong the capital of Australia? You do deserve it!

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay
This is not correct. There is/was a rail line, part of the Milwaukee Road, that ran between Port Townsend and Port Angeles - but this rail line was never physically connected to the rest of the Milwaukee Road. Instead they ran barges from Seattle to Port Townsend. There was no railroad along the western shore of Hood Canal.

http://www.mrcd.org/olympic_peninsula_14th_sub.html


My guess when seeing this map was that the base to the east of Victoria was actually Port Townsend, but Oak Harbor is just as good. The coastal fortifications were in both of those locations, and the Naval Air Station was built up in the Oak Harbor area - so I can live with that.

WitP AE - Test team lead, programmer

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ORIGINAL: Reg

Oh don't encourage him. Geelong wins ONE grand final and you never hear the end of it....

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay
My guess when seeing this map was that the base to the east of Victoria was actually Port Townsend, but Oak Harbor is just as good. The coastal fortifications were in both of those locations, and the Naval Air Station was built up in the Oak Harbor area - so I can live with that.

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ORIGINAL: Andrew Brown

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay
My guess when seeing this map was that the base to the east of Victoria was actually Port Townsend, but Oak Harbor is just as good. The coastal fortifications were in both of those locations, and the Naval Air Station was built up in the Oak Harbor area - so I can live with that.

Yes, 'twas put there because of the Naval Air Station.

I can tell you, doing the North American part of the map when so many of the players are from there, and I am not, makes it tricky. This is a tough crowd!

Andrew

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I can tell you, doing the North American part of the map when so many of the players are from there, and I am not, makes it tricky. This is a tough crowd!

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ORIGINAL: Yank

Yep -The map is a work of art and will be a pleasure to look at it for hours on end, which I expect I will be soon. Thanks Andrew for all the hard work. Thanks also to the remainder of the development team. It is obvious from reading all of your posts, especially in the last few days, that this thing was a beast to develop and was clearly a labor of love for all of you.

I can't wait to get my hands on it and practice a bit against the AI, and then take on my long-time PBEM partner.

WitP AE - Test team lead, programmer

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ORIGINAL: Andrew Brown

Yes, I left Bremerton as part of Seattle, although technically it could be made a separate base in the hex just West of Seattle.

Long beach is in the LA hex. The base to the "East" (map-wise) of LA is Santa Ana.

The base to the "East" of Victoria is Oak Harbor.

Even though there are more bases in AE, there are still fewer on the US West coast than compared to other parts of the map. If placed here using the same criteria, there would be bases all over the US West coast. In game terms there is no need to add so many in this part of the map.

Andrew

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ORIGINAL: Skyland

I made some researches about Indochina rail network in 1941. I found that the following railroads were operationals at that time :

Hanoi - Yunnan (in China)
Hanoi - Lang son (China border)
Hanoi - Haiphong
Saigon - Loc Nynh (Cambodgia border)
Saigon - My Tho
Saigon - Phan  Rang - Nha Trang - Hue - Vihn - Hanoi
Phan Rang - Dalat
Phnom Penh - Kompong chnang - Pursat -  Battambang - Poipet (Siam border)

But there was no connection between Saigon and the "Phnom Penh - Siam line" unlike current Witp map.

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ORIGINAL: herwin

The port of Santa Ana is Newport, which is not much of a base site--at one point I owned a house on the beachfront there. On the other hand, you should have Miramar (which had CD gun emplacements) and Camp Pendleton.

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ORIGINAL: mlees

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ORIGINAL: herwin

The port of Santa Ana is Newport, which is not much of a base site--at one point I owned a house on the beachfront there. On the other hand, you should have Miramar (which had CD gun emplacements) and Camp Pendleton.

A Coast Defense gun, at Miramar? Are you sure?

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ORIGINAL: Nomad

I grew up in Northern San Diego in the 50's on Mt. Soledad. There was an empty CD gun bunker on the top of the mountain overlooking the beach at La Jolla. It wasn't large, probably only housed a 5" or so. There were others around and some that had been demolished or filled in.

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ORIGINAL: herwin

Yes, you just had to know where to look. My Chase grandparents lived in La Jolla when I was a kid, my parents later had a house a block from the beach, and I spent four years at UCSD (1968-72), living in student housing off the end of the Miramar runway and later on the Mesa above Scripps. There were a bunch of emplacements in the area.

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ORIGINAL: Nomad

I know the area all around there, I lived my teenage years there. I would have to know which side of the mountain. There was access from the South, North and West. The North side had most of the very expensive houses( $1Mil+ in the 50's). The South was mostly middle income and the West was a mixture, depending on where you are talking about.

I know there were a large number of emplacements in the foothills above La Jolla Shores, a picture perfect landing zone. My dad was in the Navy in WW2 and knew the area quite well. I remember him telling me some about a lot of Marines patrolling the beaches both North and South of San Diego and areas that were restricted, although most of that was in the first year or so of the war.