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Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/17/2009 10:18:29 PM

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Land bases with no units or supplies are very difficult to spot. For example, there is one such base here... find it out -- I stumbled on it purely by accident:

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/17/2009 10:19:34 PM

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This is the base, btw. Perhaps land bases with no flags could have a bigger dot to mark them? Or a little rectangle?

Even an arrow saying "<-- Base is here" would work (hahaha)

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/18/2009 7:06:13 AM

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That base is one that flags up in the Ops report as failing the garrison requirements - took me ages to find it.
I admit this is the hardest of many 'dot bases' to find. Perhaps it conveys the problems of the leaders of the time due to poor maps.

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/18/2009 9:00:45 AM

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"dot bases" are dots because they have no airbase or port. Yeah that particular one is tough to find but necessary because it starts with an insufficient garrison.

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/18/2009 9:17:44 AM

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That base is one that flags up in the Ops report as failing the garrison requirements - took me ages to find it.
I admit this is the hardest of many 'dot bases' to find. Perhaps it conveys the problems of the leaders of the time due to poor maps.

Took me a while to find it. For this base the garrison is irrelevent, there's nothing to destroy.

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/18/2009 9:26:05 AM

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You might find reason to put some supply there

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/18/2009 9:45:14 AM

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As Allies, I definitely want that base getting garrison problems....that is, if this one is in Burma as it looks like.

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/18/2009 1:43:16 PM

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quote:

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Land bases with no units or supplies are very difficult to spot. For example, there is one such base here... find it out -- I stumbled on it purely by accident:

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Actually I see two of them on that picture

Btw there is some dot base in China which has 100 resources in it, I almost retreated my troops before I realized that...

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/18/2009 2:06:59 PM

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If that had been in Indochina or Burma..I'd suspect heroin laboratory...

100 resources but nothing showing on map...hmm...

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/18/2009 2:22:27 PM

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Some islands have the same problem -- the dot is too small to clearly see it. Many times I click on an island just to see if there is a dot there or not.

I'd say we need a bigger dot

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/18/2009 2:25:09 PM

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i cant see the dot at all!

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/18/2009 2:31:57 PM

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If you look again you can see 3 dot hexes, theres one in the se corner

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/18/2009 2:40:50 PM

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If you look again you can see 3 dot hexes, theres one in the se corner

Both corners have dots, so now I see 4!
Tomorrow at this time there will be 8 of them, they just seem to multiply without any need for supplies...

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/18/2009 2:43:43 PM

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If you look again you can see 3 dot hexes, theres one in the se corner

Both corners have dots, so now I see 4!
Tomorrow at this time there will be 8 of them, they just seem to multiply without any need for supplies...

Hell, you're right!...I'm starting to get spots before my eyes

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/18/2009 4:36:08 PM

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I found that if you punch the " r " key and look at the road network it can help you find some " dot " bases. There are some some places that might make nice air bases depending upon how ones game is going. And also a 121 resource dot base near Nanchang (sp ? ) IIRC.

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/18/2009 7:13:37 PM

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It's like an "I Spy" game in here.

I spy with my little eye, a bunch of useless dot bases.

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/19/2009 10:22:14 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Djordje

quote:

ORIGINAL: Curty

If you look again you can see 3 dot hexes, theres one in the se corner

Both corners have dots, so now I see 4!
Tomorrow at this time there will be 8 of them, they just seem to multiply without any need for supplies...

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RE: Land bases with no units or supplies - 8/19/2009 11:31:28 AM

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Just pull up the base list, reference the name, and click on the right side column, and poof, it will take you to the hex.

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ORIGINAL: FOW

That base is one that flags up in the Ops report as failing the garrison requirements - took me ages to find it.
I admit this is the hardest of many 'dot bases' to find. Perhaps it conveys the problems of the leaders of the time due to poor maps.

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