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ORIGINAL: kaleun

Thanks Joel for your advice. It is kind off what i had planned.
And thank you for all your work and help in this forum of cantankerous (mostly) old farts

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ORIGINAL: Platoonist

Something tells me the inscrutable mass of code and algorithms that is the Japanese AI is not too terribly concerned.

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ORIGINAL: GameTester

I will follow Mr. Billing's advice and start with one of the smaller ones.

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ORIGINAL: captskillet

Joel is production gonna be handled kinda like it was in Pacwar?

And to the Japanese AI a word of warning... when I get my grubby little booger pickers on the game here in a couple of days WATCH OUT! The 1st Marine Division is comin!!!

There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion.

Gen. William Thornson, U.S. Army

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ORIGINAL: Joel Billings

I want to strongly encourage all new WitP players to fight the urge to jump right into one of the main campaigns. Even if you are an experienced UV player, there are many new features that you will want to learn. By playing a smaller scenario (like #2 Rising Sun or any from #3-#6) you will quickly start uncovering these new features and new rules without having to try to handle all of the units of the main campaigns. You also won't have to worry about production. Scenario 2 is especially good, as it will familiarize you with the main area of operations for the first 100 days of the war. If you have not played UV (and maybe even if you have), using the tutorial is a must. Since I like to play immediately when I get a game, I'd personally start scenario 2 as the Allies and see if I could stop the Japanese AI's opening moves. The unit count won't be too high and if you make some mistakes, at least you'll learn quickly without having to play for hours. Once you are ready for more, try scenario 2 as the Japanese. You'll have to manage major operations with lots of ships and other units, but again it will be much more manageable. At that point, you should have figured out a lot and all you'll have left to learn is production (aside from strategy that is).

Alternatively you could start a full campaign and run only one or a few areas (letting the AI run the rest), but the turns will take much longer to execute (and a lot of the action won't involve your units). I'd still stick with a small map scenario to start.

I know everyone wants to jump into the campaign. If you can resist, you will learn faster and I think will actually be enjoying the campaign much sooner than if you try to tackle it first. For the UV players, playing scenario 2 should be a lot of fun as it will open up a whole new area of the world to you as you prepare yourself for the main campaign.

If you wanted to climb Mount Everest, I think you'd want to start with something a little smaller first and gradually work your way up. WitP is no different. Consider UV like a nice 4,000-meter peak in comparison.

Whatever you do, I hope you enjoy the game.

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ORIGINAL: brisd

Thanks Joel for the advice and all the hard work that went (and still is ongoing) into this game. Now go out and take a break on this beautiful San Diego day! (hope you are home and not in some other sweaty city).

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ORIGINAL: Joel Billings

I want to strongly encourage all new WitP players to fight the urge to jump right into one of the main campaigns. Even if you are an experienced UV player, there are many new features that you will want to learn. By playing a smaller scenario (like #2 Rising Sun or any from #3-#6) you will quickly start uncovering these new features and new rules without having to try to handle all of the units of the main campaigns. You also won't have to worry about production. Scenario 2 is especially good, as it will familiarize you with the main area of operations for the first 100 days of the war. If you have not played UV (and maybe even if you have), using the tutorial is a must. Since I like to play immediately when I get a game, I'd personally start scenario 2 as the Allies and see if I could stop the Japanese AI's opening moves. The unit count won't be too high and if you make some mistakes, at least you'll learn quickly without having to play for hours. Once you are ready for more, try scenario 2 as the Japanese. You'll have to manage major operations with lots of ships and other units, but again it will be much more manageable. At that point, you should have figured out a lot and all you'll have left to learn is production (aside from strategy that is).

Alternatively you could start a full campaign and run only one or a few areas (letting the AI run the rest), but the turns will take much longer to execute (and a lot of the action won't involve your units). I'd still stick with a small map scenario to start.

I know everyone wants to jump into the campaign. If you can resist, you will learn faster and I think will actually be enjoying the campaign much sooner than if you try to tackle it first. For the UV players, playing scenario 2 should be a lot of fun as it will open up a whole new area of the world to you as you prepare yourself for the main campaign.

If you wanted to climb Mount Everest, I think you'd want to start with something a little smaller first and gradually work your way up. WitP is no different. Consider UV like a nice 4,000-meter peak in comparison.

Whatever you do, I hope you enjoy the game.

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ORIGINAL: ATENTOKO

I´M IN SPAIN, AT CANARY ISLANDS IN THE ATLANTIC. WHEN CAN I BUY THE GAME???

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This game is clearly going to have a learning curve associated with it, but I can't wait to get back to climbing it.

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ORIGINAL: Grotius

Atentoko, I think we'll all be able to buy it via Digital Download shortly. For a small additional fee, you can also order a CD via mail so that you have a backup for your digital download.

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ORIGINAL: Drex

i just recently saw a documentary on the possibiliity of an island in the Canaries being so unstable as to possibly producing a catastrophic Tsunami on the East Ccoast of the US. Have you heard of this,

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ORIGINAL: Pier5

Hi:

What kind of internet service do you have there now? I made a number of trips to Tenerife (design-build of a time-share condo built up the side of an extinct volcano at Los Cristianos), but never got to Gran Canaria. I enjoyed an incredible view of the Atlantic on the veranda from about 800 meters up.

Pier5