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ORIGINAL: mc3744

First of all let me say that the closest I've been to a real war is in books and movies (plus the officer accademy [;)])

I wanted to hear from you about 'my chaos theory' as a good PBEM friend of mine calls it.

We all know that in WitP there are bugs, some random inexplicable events, plus the stupid human mistakes of forgetting, for example, a little setting like reaction on and loosing therefore just a couple of irrelevant CVs!

Now my theory is that, unwillingly, through those events, WitP simulates the sad reality of: '**** happens'.
Whatever is hard coded has some difficulty to recreate the human behaviour, especially in war: stupidity, cowardice, egotism, heroism, ...
All those little things that, in a real war, can screw an excellent plan.
If WitP was bugs free an excellent plan would almost always bring excellent results. However, thanks to the various bugs, you can find your wonderful offensive stopped because your troops just took the wrong way (did I mention something familiar? [;)]) and went picnicking in the forest. That's what could happen (almost [:D]) in reality, but not in a 'normal' PC game.
The beauty of it is in the fact that, given the lenght of the game, it will probably even itself over time. Creating a good mix of good and bad luck for both sides.

Now tell me if I'm gone crazy waiting for my next PBEM turn [:)] of if any of you believes that it makes some sense.

Cheers

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ORIGINAL: pasternakski

You're nuts, the pair of ya.

It's one thing when a game sets out to build in some of the command frustration the real people felt (and WitP does attempt this). It's another thing entirely when the game is just f#cked up in certain unintended ways.

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ORIGINAL: Dutchgy2000

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ORIGINAL: pasternakski

You're nuts, the pair of ya.

It's one thing when a game sets out to build in some of the command frustration the real people felt (and WitP does attempt this). It's another thing entirely when the game is just f#cked up in certain unintended ways.

Sounds like a definition of war to me.

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ORIGINAL: von Murrin

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ORIGINAL: Dutchgy2000

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ORIGINAL: pasternakski

You're nuts, the pair of ya.

It's one thing when a game sets out to build in some of the command frustration the real people felt (and WitP does attempt this). It's another thing entirely when the game is just f#cked up in certain unintended ways.

Sounds like a definition of war to me.

Having McCain beamed off the Enterprise to the bridge of her fictional interstellar counterpart just before a reenactment of Midway is not war. It is science fiction.[:'(]

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ORIGINAL: Tankerace

All ships can submerge, only subs can surface [8D]

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ORIGINAL: pasternakski

You're nuts, the pair of ya.

It's one thing when a game sets out to build in some of the command frustration the real people felt (and WitP does attempt this). It's another thing entirely when the game is just f#cked up in certain unintended ways.

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ORIGINAL: byron13

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ORIGINAL: pasternakski

You're nuts, the pair of ya.

It's one thing when a game sets out to build in some of the command frustration the real people felt (and WitP does attempt this). It's another thing entirely when the game is just f#cked up in certain unintended ways.

I'm satisfied with the game. Heck, I've played it longer than any other game I've ever had and definitely received my money's worth. But there are some things that happen that just cannot be rationalized as "stuff happens." I remember a post where they player landed an entire division in India - a very valuable unit. Just when almost the entire division was unloaded, the ship with the parent unit was sunk, and the entire division disappeared. Now here's a guy that probably took all the right precautions: plenty of escort, air cover, loading the unit on multiple APs - and the whole division disappears. Hard to rationalize. What, a typhoon sank them all? Transport your units by air and )poof!( its gone. Those are real issues.

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ORIGINAL: Mogami

Hi, I think one of the largest weakness found in WITP is the abilty to execute operations in near flawless manner. (Thank goodness I am unable to do this)