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ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

Will the pilot training program require fuel (actually supply in the game)?

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ORIGINAL: erstad

Sorry if this is a repeat - will the allied victory points for noumea be dialed down?

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ORIGINAL: Andrew Brown

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ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

I was just discussing something in another thread and came up with another question concerning Japanese production. Currently squads, weapons and vehicles are all produced with combinations of manpower, armament and vehicle points while the Allies get production rates of all their stuff. It seems that if the Japanese have sufficient points in the pool, they can pretty much produce whatever they need, based on the whims of the AI, of course. Sounds kind of unfair. Is there going to be any change to this facet of production?

(OMG, I'm a JFB and I'm asking this question! [X(])

It would be too big a change to provide full Allied production (or equivalent to the Japanese at least - even the Japanese do not have complete control over their production). But I don't think that the Allied player should necessarily have as much control as the Japanese player anyway. What I would like to see though is more reactive allied production - meaning that if there are deficiencies in some areas the Allied production would compensate for it. But that would be for a future game.

The other thing that we should pay attention to is that the Japanese production rates are realistic.

Andrew

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ORIGINAL: soeren01
Perhaps you could give the allied player the ability to shift production by allowing him to set some prioritys and perhaps set othe stuff on the backburner. So he could prioritize for example wildcats and army squad production wich then would slowly rise over a time of 4 - 8 weeks until it arrived at its increased production.

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

Totally not knowing what has been done in AE.

Is there any differentiation with naval bases which provide a port but not a legitimate invasion point.

to better explain, Wyndham, West Australia is about 40 miles up an estuary that is heavily tidal and flanked by mud & salt flats. Even the frontage at the port is lined by mangroves.

While this allows a port to be constructed, I cant see much in the way of beaches to allow an amphib invasion. I would suggest an uncotested landing could occur.

A lot of bases in the tropics would be like this (Palembang) which if replicated on the map would lower the number of options to the attacker and allow the defender to concentrate their defences.


Also, will the chain of islands about 60-100 miles south of Tokyo be represented. These appear capable of having landing fields which would allow the japanese to extend their ASW cover plus allow the Allied player to take and provide CAP cover to any invasions. They aren't big but appear to be good enough for a L2 base.

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

Totally not knowing what has been done in AE.

Is there any differentiation with naval bases which provide a port but not a legitimate invasion point.

to better explain, Wyndham, West Australia is about 40 miles up an estuary that is heavily tidal and flanked by mud & salt flats. Even the frontage at the port is lined by mangroves.

While this allows a port to be constructed, I cant see much in the way of beaches to allow an amphib invasion. I would suggest an uncotested landing could occur.

A lot of bases in the tropics would be like this (Palembang) which if replicated on the map would lower the number of options to the attacker and allow the defender to concentrate their defences.


Also, will the chain of islands about 60-100 miles south of Tokyo be represented. These appear capable of having landing fields which would allow the japanese to extend their ASW cover plus allow the Allied player to take and provide CAP cover to any invasions. They aren't big but appear to be good enough for a L2 base.

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Andrew
even the Japanese do not have complete control over their production)

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ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

Are zocs going to be placed for all controlled hexes from game start so we don’t see weird retreat results? I hate having to run units all over the place placing my zoc in hexes just to assure I have zocs in my territory so my opponents units won’t retreat forward into my lines.

Jim

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ORIGINAL: pad152

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Andrew
even the Japanese do not have complete control over their production)

That's one of the major problems, it always seemed that production in WITP was half finished. I hope the player in AE has full control of Japanese aircraft production in AE. Either the player is in control or the computer, not both (the computer changing the players changes)! Rather than fixing this, we ended up with the ability to change aircraft type upgrades which just made things worst and even more unrealistic.

What's being done to address this?

Is anything being done with engine production? (eliminating the useless engine types)?

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ORIGINAL: Captain Cruft

Malaria effect outside bases

There is a problem with current WitP where LCUs in the malaria zone but not in a base do not suffer the malaria effect. Will this be fixed for AE?

Thanks.

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ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

Are zocs going to be placed for all controlled hexes from game start so we don’t see weird retreat results? I hate having to run units all over the place placing my zoc in hexes just to assure I have zocs in my territory so my opponents units won’t retreat forward into my lines.

Jim

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ORIGINAL: Andrew Brown

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ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

Are zocs going to be placed for all controlled hexes from game start so we don’t see weird retreat results? I hate having to run units all over the place placing my zoc in hexes just to assure I have zocs in my territory so my opponents units won’t retreat forward into my lines.

Jim

ZOCs are changed in AE - they are temporary rather than permanent, which is as it should be (and is in every other game I have ever played). Therefore there is no setting of ZOCs at game start. What you describe is more properly described as "hex control", which would be defined at game start, be permanent, and control such things as supply paths and retreat preference, but this concept is not included in AE (the old WitP ZOC rules are an unfortunate combination of ZOC and hex control rules).

Andrew

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I think that covers it except for one point/question.

If an invasion over the beach goes badly, the force should be able to attempt to embark over the beach for an evacuation, although it might be pretty bloody. Is this allowed?

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

I think that covers it except for one point/question.

If an invasion over the beach goes badly, the force should be able to attempt to embark over the beach for an evacuation, although it might be pretty bloody. Is this allowed?

Good question. Right now you have to wait for the next turn and manually load them back into the APs. And if only half unloaded in the first place, it dumps the second half on the beach anyway.

One would think that if the odds against are at or above a certain level, the Invasion would be repulsed, the unit would evacute with great loss of men and material, and the amphibious task force would withdraw home.

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ORIGINAL: Shark7

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

I think that covers it except for one point/question.

If an invasion over the beach goes badly, the force should be able to attempt to embark over the beach for an evacuation, although it might be pretty bloody. Is this allowed?

Good question. Right now you have to wait for the next turn and manually load them back into the APs. And if only half unloaded in the first place, it dumps the second half on the beach anyway.

One would think that if the odds against are at or above a certain level, the Invasion would be repulsed, the unit would evacute with great loss of men and material, and the amphibious task force would withdraw home.

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I think so too. And I coded the invasion routine in AE.

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ORIGINAL: treespider



Can you guys name where that happened historically?

Closest I can think of is Dieppe....how many got out?

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

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ORIGINAL: treespider



Can you guys name where that happened historically?

Closest I can think of is Dieppe....how many got out?

Not many fron 2nd Canadian, most that returned did not land or were from one of the flanking Commandos

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ORIGINAL: herwin
An invasion stopped at the waterline or repulsed by counterattack should lose most of the landing force that actually lands. It's hard to evacuate troops standing in the water or pinned down on the beach. Troops remaining on the transports would return to base. Typical examples would include Wake, Milne Bay, Dieppe. Bay of Pigs.

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ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl

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ORIGINAL: herwin
An invasion stopped at the waterline or repulsed by counterattack should lose most of the landing force that actually lands. It's hard to evacuate troops standing in the water or pinned down on the beach. Troops remaining on the transports would return to base. Typical examples would include Wake, Milne Bay, Dieppe. Bay of Pigs.

Interesting that the two examples from the Pacific should both be Japanese invasions....

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ORIGINAL: herwin

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ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl

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ORIGINAL: herwin
An invasion stopped at the waterline or repulsed by counterattack should lose most of the landing force that actually lands. It's hard to evacuate troops standing in the water or pinned down on the beach. Troops remaining on the transports would return to base. Typical examples would include Wake, Milne Bay, Dieppe. Bay of Pigs.

Interesting that the two examples from the Pacific should both be Japanese invasions....

Quantity has a quality all of its own. The American forces believed in quantity.

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ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl

and large amounts of ordnance.

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ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl

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ORIGINAL: herwin

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ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl

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ORIGINAL: herwin
An invasion stopped at the waterline or repulsed by counterattack should lose most of the landing force that actually lands. It's hard to evacuate troops standing in the water or pinned down on the beach. Troops remaining on the transports would return to base. Typical examples would include Wake, Milne Bay, Dieppe. Bay of Pigs.

Interesting that the two examples from the Pacific should both be Japanese invasions....

Quantity has a quality all of its own. The American forces believed in quantity.

I would have said that America believed in liberal applications of quantity and quality..., along with ingenuity, mechanization, and large amounts of ordnance.