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bo as Centuur says, its optional. As its not coded there is no way to "handle it" - its just not there to be played at present.

Sorry but that is where we are right now. I want Convoy in Flames coded - but it isn't yet, it could be done next year or it may never be Until it is, like Optional 47, there is nothing to be practically done.

Actually warspite I could care less whether its in or out or if Steve ever puts it in, sometimes people do not read posts correctly, of course not you and centuur I asked how you will handle it in a MWIF game if the situation does occur without the debug tool. Please tell me what you players will do in a net play game, just ignore it? I do realize you most likely will never let this happen

Ok paul answered my question while I was composing my post thank you paul.

Bo

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Sorry bo if I am being thick (a regular occurence) but I seem to be missing the point. I have no idea why there is any talk of a de-bug tool when playing the game as is.

If it (disorganised and out of supply) occurs in a MWIF game then the player deals with it as per the rules - no de-bug, no get around. It happens all the time - or at least it does to me as I suck at the game.

Sorry bo am trying to be helpful. What am I missing?

It is probably me not you, If an enemy unit should be behind your units out of supply and disorganized and you need to move your units forward without going back and destroying that unit, it will be continually reorganized every game turn, now if you do not like that situation [not meaning you per say] there is nothing you can do about it under the present rules, I do not how else to explain that to you.

This unit could cause trouble if left there I assume, as I have never played this game. If Steve does not put optional rule 47 into the game again I could care less, but if 2 players agree that this is annoying maybe Steve could leave the debug tool in the game so people who just happen to like rule 47 to keep the unit or units disorganized or the other option just ignore those disorganized or organized units at the turns end.

Of course you need to trust the other player, hmmm

It must be me but I do not see what I am saying is so complicated.

Bo

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I think from what has been said previously there is nil chance of the de-bug feature or editor being available generally due to the problems this causes.

I think it is simply a case of, if Option 47 is a deal-breaker for a player then at the moment its not the game for them. If a player does not like that situation then join the club - there are plenty of optional rules, one map campaigns and even standard rules that are not yet functioning - and that matter to others - so I do not see that Option 47 is a special case.

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bo as Centuur says, its optional. As its not coded there is no way to "handle it" - its just not there to be played at present.

Sorry but that is where we are right now. I want Convoy in Flames coded - but it isn't yet, it could be done next year or it may never be Until it is, like Optional 47, there is nothing to be practically done.

Actually warspite I could care less whether its in or out or if Steve ever puts it in, sometimes people do not read posts correctly, of course not you and centuur I asked how you will handle it in a MWIF game if the situation does occur without the debug tool. Please tell me what you players will do in a net play game, just ignore it? I do realize you most likely will never let this happen

Ok paul answered my question while I was composing my post thank you paul.

Bo

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Sorry bo if I am being thick (a regular occurence) but I seem to be missing the point. I have no idea why there is any talk of a de-bug tool when playing the game as is.

If it (disorganised and out of supply) occurs in a MWIF game then the player deals with it as per the rules - no de-bug, no get around. It happens all the time - or at least it does to me as I suck at the game.

Sorry bo am trying to be helpful. What am I missing?

It is probably me not you, If an enemy unit should be behind your units out of supply and disorganized and you need to move your units forward without going back and destroying that unit, it will be continually reorganized every game turn, now if you do not like that situation [not meaning you per say] there is nothing you can do about it under the present rules, I do not how else to explain that to you.

This unit could cause trouble if left there I assume, as I have never played this game. If Steve does not put optional rule 47 into the game again I could care less, but if 2 players agree that this is annoying maybe Steve could leave the debug tool in the game so people who just happen to like rule 47 to keep the unit or units disorganized or the other option just ignore those disorganized or organized units at the turns end.

Of course you need to trust the other player, hmmm

It must be me but I do not see what I am saying is so complicated.

Bo

warspite1

I think from what has been said previously there is nil chance of the de-bug feature or editor being available generally due to the problems this causes.

I think it is simply a case of, if Option 47 is a deal-breaker for a player then at the moment its not the game for them. If a player does not like that situation then join the club - there are plenty of optional rules, one map campaigns and even standard rules that are not yet functioning - and that matter to others - so I do not see that Option 47 is a special case.

Agreed warspite, I happened to see this post a while back and did not understand rule 47 I do now inside and out But warspite there seems to be some people here that disagree with you about rule 47, but because my family came from the Commonwealth in the 1700's I am going to stay on your side, reluctantly

Bo

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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Well it is an interesting topic warspite, and being bored like I am right now waiting for something to happen with MWIF it keeps the mind working albeit not real well, I now understand the rule inside and out.

Bo

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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If you are talking about Matrix's MWIF where does that happen all the time when no one has ever played an actual game with another person as of yet because we have no net play, I am not talking about games that paul plays or e-mail games or vassel, I am talking about MWIF on the computer.

Bo

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Or my question should be, can you handle it, in other words if there is no debug feature put into the main game by Steve [this means you could disorganize these units again at the end of every turn] how could this be handled by players assuming that you would ever let this situation even occur in the first place which I doubt you would.

Bo

You do what you'd do if Option 47 never existed. Ground strike them and kill them. If you miss the ground strike you leave units adjacent and keep them OOS. The best they can do next turn is "ooze" to somewhere and disorganize, knowing you can then probably kill them unless they try to time it with the turn ending. Also you place your units adjacent in a manner that if they do ooze, it is you who controls where they ooze to.

In the next turn you try to ground strike them again.

If Option 47 never existed this would just be standard play in WiF with no one knowing any different.

Sounds sensible paul but aren't you tying up ground units to keep them out of supply that could be used elsewhere? Also they still have a zone of control and can still disrupt supply lines and RR lines that are in their ZOC, right.

Bo

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If you are talking about Matrix's MWIF where does that happen all the time when no one has ever played an actual game with another person as of yet because we have no net play, I am not talking about games that paul plays or e-mail games or vassel, I am talking about MWIF on the computer.

Bo

Well, for me, I am talking about MWiF which I am playing with 4 others right now. And I'm talking about the board game. Please do not create false impressions here for new readers. Many people are playing the game one on one as well, as the AARs demonstrate. Don't turn the discussion of this option into another "Sad, Sad, Sad" thread, please.

One of those is more than enough.
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Bo

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bo as Centuur says, its optional. As its not coded there is no way to "handle it" - its just not there to be played at present.

Sorry but that is where we are right now. I want Convoy in Flames coded - but it isn't yet, it could be done next year or it may never be Until it is, like Optional 47, there is nothing to be practically done.

Actually warspite I could care less whether its in or out or if Steve ever puts it in, sometimes people do not read posts correctly, of course not you and centuur I asked how you will handle it in a MWIF game if the situation does occur without the debug tool. Please tell me what you players will do in a net play game, just ignore it? I do realize you most likely will never let this happen

Ok paul answered my question while I was composing my post thank you paul.

Bo

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Sorry bo if I am being thick (a regular occurence) but I seem to be missing the point. I have no idea why there is any talk of a de-bug tool when playing the game as is.

If it (disorganised and out of supply) occurs in a MWIF game then the player deals with it as per the rules - no de-bug, no get around. It happens all the time - or at least it does to me as I suck at the game.

Sorry bo am trying to be helpful. What am I missing?

You say it happens all the time, when is that? Are you referring to the board game, if you are, then after whatever house rule or whatever optional rules you and your opponent have agreed to. I Imagine in the board game you could just turn the unit upside down and leave it here for the rest of the game with rule 47 in effect.

If you are talking about Matrix's MWIF where does that happen all the time when no one has ever played an actual game with another person as of yet because we have no net play, I am not talking about games that paul plays or e-mail games or vassel, I am talking about MWIF on the computer.

Bo

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Or my question should be, can you handle it, in other words if there is no debug feature put into the main game by Steve [this means you could disorganize these units again at the end of every turn] how could this be handled by players assuming that you would ever let this situation even occur in the first place which I doubt you would.

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You do what you'd do if Option 47 never existed. Ground strike them and kill them. If you miss the ground strike you leave units adjacent and keep them OOS. The best they can do next turn is "ooze" to somewhere and disorganize, knowing you can then probably kill them unless they try to time it with the turn ending. Also you place your units adjacent in a manner that if they do ooze, it is you who controls where they ooze to.

In the next turn you try to ground strike them again.

If Option 47 never existed this would just be standard play in WiF with no one knowing any different.

Sounds sensible paul but aren't you tying up ground units to keep them out of supply that could be used elsewhere? Also they still have a zone of control and can still disrupt supply lines and RR lines that are in their ZOC, right.

Bo

Yes they have a ZoC which can disrupt supply and rail lines. That's why you likely want to dispense with them.

Yes it ties up ground units. That's just how it is - there's no magic solution, just like there's no magic solution that will give you an AI opponent tomorrow. You kind of have to live with it.

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I used the editor function with CWiF liberally, as it let me play the way I wanted. I liked to clean up the weak and obsolete air units in the reserve pool by scrapping them, and giving each MP a little back as salvage. I even tried to devise a way to do that with ships, though over a much longer period. I would do the HW unit replacements, the city based volunteer replacements, and all sorts of stuff like that.

But it would usually crash the game by about mid-war. I never did finish one. So it is better that the debug feature is not readily available.

I also think the idea of making a concerted effort to isolate certain units is silly. The "best unit" any side has is the unit that is still moving forward toward the objectives. The only "unit" better than that, is the person playing that MP, since that's the only "unit" that can actually think for itself.

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I used the editor function with CWiF liberally, as it let me play the way I wanted. I liked to clean up the weak and obsolete air units in the reserve pool by scrapping them, and giving each MP a little back as salvage. I even tried to devise a way to do that with ships, though over a much longer period. I would do the HW unit replacements, the city based volunteer replacements, and all sorts of stuff like that.

But it would usually crash the game by about mid-war. I never did finish one. So it is better that the debug feature is not readily available.

I also think the idea of making a concerted effort to isolate certain units is silly. The "best unit" any side has is the unit that is still moving forward toward the objectives. The only "unit" better than that, is the person playing that MP, since that's the only "unit" that can actually think for itself.

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In my defense, I've been doing repairs on what amounts to our local "projects", only they aren't publicly owned. A lot of patching, and that dust is like a poor man's cocaine.
Personally, I think the mustiness from the flooding in one place, now a de facto maintenance room, is more potent.

As for my tactics, too many times I have managed to cut off my own spearheads [during solitaire games] by forces I thought I had bottled, until I realized an error I had committed, and the only way to fairly correct it [in my mind, at least] was to send the offending unit back to it's last known start position, and disorganize it [I was keeping in mind that I might have an offended human opponent to placate at some point, and then I was making a lot of mistakes]. I wasted a lot of time back then - time I should have been in classes. I was bad, but I had the bug. But I learned to play more cautiously, since if I could wreck my own plans so thoroughly, a real opponent would do so even faster.

On a completely different note, I tried out the "Making History" games I found on steam, and while the nation-building parts were fun and engrossing, there was just something about the combat that bothered me. They manage combat by territory, not by battle lines, so you can end up with two opposing armies marching right past one another, but where a frontal system would generate a meeting engagement, at the very least, as units block each other with ZOC's and whatnot, the armies in this game just pass each other by. I could just imagine the Austrian troops invading Serbia as they tip their hats to the Serbian troops marching in the other direction to invade Bosnia, perhaps even calling out tips to each other on where to find the best cafes and such. Therein and it wasn't much different for the WWII version, so it just took a nosedive in my opinion.

Imagine arguing that one out! [Actually, please don't - I'm just joking here]. Made me run all the way back to the WiF vassal module, only to be reminded that the reason I stopped messing with that is it was short a bunch of charts for the DoD part. I am a fussy completist, and I like having options, but without some more official thought put into it [I know many have worked out their own fixes], that in my opinion [and it's just my opinion] Option 47 doesn't really do much more than reward a few lucky die rolls, gamey strategies to keep certain units out of action for a while, or to overly punish players for making bad moves [while out of supply] or trying to make a mad dash for it. You might find, Bo, that by using the computer game, we as players are avoiding a lot of the errors that would leave us with those dire straits. We know when a unit is out of supply before we move it, and are reminded when we do, if it goes "face down" [gets the orange dot]. Then we can undo the move, and try something else. All the frustrations we had while Steve was still sorting out the supply subroutines has certainly taught me to think twice before moving an HQ before moving anything else, and I'm a lot more careful about committing one to combat during turns where the weather could sour [just in case the HQ goes "orange dot" and can't be moved to shorten supply lines later on].
Lately I've been trying to do more just by manoeuvre - have the Japanese side prompt the Chinese side to pull back to preserve itself, rather than force the Japanese to pile up on it. The terrain now impedes the Chinese as much as the Japanese, since their units have less movement points, even if they might have more supply sources open to them.

Anyway, I'm starting to jones for the must and dust [meaning i need to go take another pass at my patching].

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In general though I am more concerned with the total halt of the optional rules being coded tbh.
AI and NetPlay are quite immense more so than some Optional Rules in my eyes.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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The order in which to proceed was decided on by Matrix. That was: supply - naval combat - Netplay. After that, I would first like to see the missing components of the "standard" game as the half map scenario's, search and seizure, neutrality pacts and mutual peace with multiplayer Netplay and a lot of bugs fixed too...

That's a whole different strategy. Optional rules are nice, but they are optional, aren't they...

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The order in which to proceed was decided on by Matrix. That was: supply - naval combat - Netplay. After that, I would first like to see the missing components of the "standard" game as the half map scenario's, search and seizure, neutrality pacts and mutual peace with multiplayer Netplay and a lot of bugs fixed too...

That's a whole different strategy. Optional rules are nice, but they are optional, aren't they...

Yes they are centuur, even optional rule # 47 is optional

Bo

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Hey, hey, hey, Booboo! That's a mighty nice picnic basket you got there!

[Different Yogi, I know]

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Hello

When playing, it is possible to at least make an imitation of option 47 :
Even if the unit gets reorganized, just pretend it isn't and don't move it.
If your opponent wants to destroy it, choose the die roll to mimic the result that would have been if the unit(s) had been flipped, including the odds change. Or choose the die roll to make sure a ground strike succeeds.

Sure, it is awkward, but better than nothing. Attach the comment "Option forty-sevened" to the unit(s) in order to remember.

Now I really wish it were possible to destroy your own units in MWiF. For instance to get the repair pool rid of obsolete naval units that you intend to let rust in repair yards, to get rid of outdated planes in the reserve pool, and to avoid turning the game into a "Prisonners in Flames" one.

Best regards

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If you are talking about Matrix's MWIF where does that happen all the time when no one has ever played an actual game with another person as of yet because we have no net play, I am not talking about games that paul plays or e-mail games or vassel, I am talking about MWIF on the computer.

Bo

Well, for me, I am talking about MWiF which I am playing with 4 others right now. And I'm talking about the board game. Please do not create false impressions here for new readers. Many people are playing the game one on one as well, as the AARs demonstrate. Don't turn the discussion of this option into another "Sad, Sad, Sad" thread, please.

One of those is more than enough.

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If you are talking about Matrix's MWIF where does that happen all the time when no one has ever played an actual game with another person as of yet because we have no net play, I am not talking about games that paul plays or e-mail games or vassel, I am talking about MWIF on the computer.

Bo

Well, for me, I am talking about MWiF which I am playing with 4 others right now. And I'm talking about the board game. Please do not create false impressions here for new readers. Many people are playing the game one on one as well, as the AARs demonstrate. Don't turn the discussion of this option into another "Sad, Sad, Sad" thread, please.

One of those is more than enough.

Posts like this aggravate me a bit. Your title should say Beta-Tester. You have the Debug Tool to fix these issues. Therefore, you do not have them. That's disingenuous if you aren't up front about that. Releasing the debug tool to this 'huge' community with a warning that it might screw up the game is not sufficient for some reason.

I bought the game because I'm getting old, and I make far too many simple mistakes on supply, and other complex issues playing the boardgame online with Vassal. I just need something to calculate supply, and prevent illegal moves.

However, if you are any fan of SPI or other old wargames, realize that the most important aspect of this game has 2 serious issues.

1) Isolated units are automatically re-organized regardless of whether they can trace supply. You literally cannot pocket the enemy, wear them down, and kill them. These things traditionally shown by step-losses, were represented by disruption alone, simplifying play from that of Fire in East. I've played it, and found the detail amazing, but game-play a bit funny.
2) The finer points of tracing supply across straights is broken, so I had to abandon the first game I've been able to play past the first turn. Too many turns were ruined by my wondering what was going on.

Paul FIXED supply problem I come across with a tool he has.

3) Why can't the customers have the same tool? Everyone cannot rely on beta-testers to fix their games to proceed. That is not a functional or realistic process.
4) Implementation of optional 47 consists only of changes to the re-organization phase, and has no impact during the tracing of supply during the turn. Therefore the changes only exist in that location, not everywhere in the game like other things requested.

I would really like to play this game to the end at least once.

Yes Paul, I understand you have no problem with this, but you have the debug tool.

I promise that if I get that tool, I won't ever report a game bug in a game where the tool has been used. Or maybe stamp the save to indicate the tool has been used. Whatever. The customers of this game need it.

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Hey, hey, hey, Booboo! That's a mighty nice picnic basket you got there!

[Different Yogi, I know]

What does this have to do with optional rule 47 Ok sorry, but those two Yogi's look alike

Bo