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ORIGINAL: Blackhorse

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ORIGINAL: Central Blue

There is the Blackforce MG battalion that goes into one of the Australian divisions, and for some reason the USMC divisional tank battalions are independent as if they were Army -- and rather opulent in comparison to the Army's. But at the given hex scale, I certainly understand the design choice to do it the way it was done. Matrix sells many fine games for the OOB obsessed. And if they sell one that allows me to select Pedro del Valle to command the 11th Marines for an invasion of Guadalcanal, I'll buy that one too. [:)]

I hope this won't discourage you from offering further peeks back stage; it's always a treat.

Thanks. At some point I'll write up my notes about the Marines -- it was a deliberate design choice to separate the Parachute and Tank battalions from the Marine Divisions. And leader 16358 del Valle, Pedro is available in 1944 to command a Marine Division (but, not, alas, the artillery on Guadalcanal - another limitation of the land combat/leader system).

Enjoy the Marines' tank "opulence" -- it is short-lived. The Marine tank battalion starts out with a mix of 72 M2A4 or M3 Stuart tanks; the Army tank battalion has 59 M3's. But the Marine TOE changes over time to 46 M4 Shermans . . . the Army battalion will eventually change to 53 Shermans, plus 17 Stuarts, plus 6 M4 105mm Close Support tanks.

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ORIGINAL: jcjordan

Andy Mac, On my game started under original release & patched to last hotfix scen 1 of me vs IJ AI test game, I was looking around the ai side to see what it was doing after so many months of game time had gone on (Aug 42 as of now) & the ai is using several mongolian troops on an "expedition" to the chinese rear areas in the north like Hami. My question/problem w/ this is the troops don't really seem to be affected by the long supply lines as nearest IJ base is in the bases just north of Peking area plus the fact it's sending them at all. I had tried to mount a mini offensive from Yenen to the east but couldn't due to supply issues yet ai seems to be able to operate longer lines with little negative effects?? With the AI script changes you've made since release will these troops be restricted & stay more in the Mongolian area? I can post a savegame for you to look at situation but just wondering on the ai scripts when I restart game will same thing happen that ai goes for the long ball w/ little ill effects?

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ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

ot every script has this attack its a raid they return to the south afterwords - p.s. they dont get a supply advantage

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ORIGINAL: jcjordan

Andy Mac, On my game started under original release & patched to last hotfix scen 1 of me vs IJ AI test game, I was looking around the ai side to see what it was doing after so many months of game time had gone on (Aug 42 as of now) & the ai is using several mongolian troops on an "expedition" to the chinese rear areas in the north like Hami. My question/problem w/ this is the troops don't really seem to be affected by the long supply lines as nearest IJ base is in the bases just north of Peking area plus the fact it's sending them at all. I had tried to mount a mini offensive from Yenen to the east but couldn't due to supply issues yet ai seems to be able to operate longer lines with little negative effects?? With the AI script changes you've made since release will these troops be restricted & stay more in the Mongolian area? I can post a savegame for you to look at situation but just wondering on the ai scripts when I restart game will same thing happen that ai goes for the long ball w/ little ill effects?

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ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

Well I aint going to recheck your sources Buck Joel who did the US may want to but defacto unless its a pure armoured formation they will always have some ord support to relfect cooks, loggies etc etc

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ORIGINAL: Buck Beach

I have been doing some reviewing of the TOE's of the Infantry Regiments and Battation sized units and am totally confused as to the Motor Support given (or lack there of) the 2357, 2387 and 2516 units. I thought I had an understanding of how this was approached in the game from another thread, but, I would like to have some clarification (for my modding purposes) as to how the game numbers might differ from those indicated in the following online publication:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/8801662/Osprey-Battle-Order-017US-Army-Infantry-Divisions-194243

It seems to me that the numbers given the Motorized Regiment 2386 TOE are more in line with history.

Just for clarification my comparisons have been to the Regiments and Battaions in Alaska at the begining of the war.


BTW I had mentioned to JWE previously that I thought there might be a mix up with the withdrawal and arrival date of the 37th (Sep) Regiment, that in the game is set to arrive in 1944 when that is the historic date they went back to Kansas.

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ORIGINAL: Oliver Heindorf

Hi, in my game I own Wake Atoll since the game started. However, the AI tries to take it. This time, I had a small jap landing force landing on Wake but refuse to assaukt ist. irrc on atolls, you have to shock attack and you are feared to be taken out. This time the japs doesnt assault shock - they sit there since three days...any ideas ? thank you

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ORIGINAL: WLockard

Andy Mac, I noticed that when playing a game with +/- 60 day reinforcements, when I get a CD Convoy early, it still doesn't disband until its scheduled disband date. Is that intended?

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ORIGINAL: Paul McNeely

One thing I noticed when comparing the forces for the 25th Army from the Neihorster site to what I saw in game was the independent engineering, tank and recon regiments.  These are actually battalion sized formations regardless of the name but the counter for them shows a "III" of a regiment.  Is the TOE for a battalion or a regiment?

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ORIGINAL: FatR

I have a question that is related to modding (sorry if it already had been asked). If I change armament for some but not all units from a certain category, will the reinforcements they receive be determined by their "template" TOE, or by changes I introduced? For example, if I change the type of AA gun in some of Japanese AA regiments from X to Y, without changing TOE, will these units receive guns of type Y as reinforcements?

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ORIGINAL: Paul McNeely

Thanks for the reply.  The definition isn't important but the TOE would be!  It would probably be confusing to show "II" and beside that have the name Ind. x Rgt.