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ORIGINAL: jomni

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Just consider that all the photographs in the game have to come from open, non-copyright sources, and that good quality pictures of Japanese subjects are, shall we say, difficult to come by when that's all you have.

It's easy to cry about stuff like this when you don't know the whole story.

I have a feeling those intro pictures are not old WW2 era pictures.
Looks like they are just hired models posing for a photo shoot. They all look like the same persion(s) in different roles. I might be wrong though but they really don't look vintage.

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ORIGINAL: P.Hausser

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ORIGINAL: TheElf

You guys realize YH was banned...

I did not know that Yamato Hugger had been banned either.

I fail to understand why you inform us about him being banned.
When you say above that Yamato Hugger is banned, does this then mean that we should not post in his threads ?




Well, Yamato Hugger I hope you will be back soon. I played UV, and WITP for long time before I signed up at this forum, but I have always been a "reader" of it, and your posts have always made a lot of seance to me...

I always saw you Yamato Hugger as a Pioneer within the testing, (officially testing of AE and un-officiall of WITP). IMHO you seemed to be the most "balanced" tester, so it makes me very sad to here that you are gone.

I feelt confident that AE would be "realistic" from a operational perspective (using more restricted commands, to force Allied to use PP... to delay the Allies to more realistic time frames)... and I saw you Yamato Hugger as a tester who could give the game development team more "balance" and that your presence there would aid the development to make AE a better game, and more realistic.
I used to decline all thoughts I used to have about AE being for Allied Fan Boys... until for a few days ago when I completed a series of testings, taking me through more then 150 hours of constant testing. (I wanted to make a mod... so I tested a lot)
I want to make a Mod, by using the Editor to limit the Allied reaction time, as I think IMHO  this is the biggest problem of AE.

I hope you Yamato Hugger will be back soon.
  

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

PHausser,

One option to use to limit the Allies is to lower their active squads at start and on arrival on map.

Just the Australians, all 3 Mid East Divisions had to rebuild on return to Australia, while at reasonably full strength they all took on a lot of reinforcements before leaving the Mid East & on arrival in Australia, I would say 6,7 & 9 Australian Divs would be at about 60-75% strength.
The Australian Militia was at about 25% of TOE on 7/12/41, most were at 50% by the end of Dec 41 but it was only around the end of April 42 that they approached 100% (The Bdes in Queensland were at a Higher level)

By having better strength levels, and having a few more in restricted command (In India, failure to keep garrisons should be a lot higher at start, you shouldnt take lightly stripping a garrison below the required levels, how about giving the base a chance of changing sides)

Keep looking, there are a lot of areas in AE which meed tweaking.

PS I didnt know YH got outed, and dont see the relevance of making the post in this thread. The artwork is 100% Allied, maybe it could rotate or change based on the side you choose!

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ORIGINAL: SuluSea

I dug up the thread because after two months of playing this game I can disagree with it. If that causes moistened panties my only  suggestion is change them or suffer a rash.

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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

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ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

YH has a point.  I for one would not mind having one of the loading screens have a pic of a stunningly beautiful Geisha.  Or a more neutral one so none of the fanboys can be upset.....LargeSlowTarget's island girls!

Speaking of that: I have found my old sigpic on one of my ancient computers - here it comes!


And AE is for AFBs - what do you expect when the developer calls himself "Henderson Field Designs"?

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ORIGINAL: m10bob

Now, kids....................

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ORIGINAL: Fishbed

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ORIGINAL: Jonathan Pollard

A strike against the USSR would have drained Soviet resources from the crucial summer 1942 campaign which may have allowed Germany to win there, forcing significant diversion of Allied assets from the Pacific to Europe.

I don't know. Frankly? There was even more room to trade in the far East than in the West. Had Japan struck in the Far-East, considering a more important Soviet involvement in Siberia, I believe war may have been even shorter... The IJA was simply not up to the task of undertaking modern warfare anywhere else than in the heart of the jungle or in China, especially not hundred of miles away from any source of supply in the middle of Siberia.

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ORIGINAL: P.Hausser

24th + 25th has 2 Regiments out, pay PP and you got 2 div (Pacific command)

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: Fishbed

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ORIGINAL: Jonathan Pollard
A strike against the USSR would have drained Soviet resources from the crucial summer 1942 campaign which may have allowed Germany to win there, forcing significant diversion of Allied assets from the Pacific to Europe.

I don't know. Frankly? There was even more room to trade in the far East than in the West. Had Japan struck in the Far-East, considering a more important Soviet involvement in Siberia, I believe war may have been even shorter... The IJA was simply not up to the task of undertaking modern warfare anywhere else than in the heart of the jungle or in China, especially not hundred of miles away from any source of supply in the middle of Siberia.

The T-34 was a nasty surprise for the German army. Imagine the impact on the IJA with the state of their armor at the time.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs
And no, no web-site-stats-wars for me, thanks!

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ORIGINAL: mullk
Problem is their are some folks who really think Japan had a chance to win the war. Realism and Play balance are mutually exclusive.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: Fishbed

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ORIGINAL: Jonathan Pollard

A strike against the USSR would have drained Soviet resources from the crucial summer 1942 campaign which may have allowed Germany to win there, forcing significant diversion of Allied assets from the Pacific to Europe.

I don't know. Frankly? There was even more room to trade in the far East than in the West. Had Japan struck in the Far-East, considering a more important Soviet involvement in Siberia, I believe war may have been even shorter... The IJA was simply not up to the task of undertaking modern warfare anywhere else than in the heart of the jungle or in China, especially not hundred of miles away from any source of supply in the middle of Siberia.

The T-34 was a nasty surprise for the German army. Imagine the impact on the IJA with the state of their armor at the time.

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ORIGINAL: m10bob

The Japanese got their wake up call at Khalkin Gal, and were soundly trounced by Russian tanks before 1941.
The Japanese also failed to provide their infantry with a sub machine gun, (except for the paratroopers.)
Throughout the war, they really were sold on the idea that they could win on the spirit of the individual soldier alone. As a result,most of their fighting men became spirits, literally.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: m10bob

The Japanese got their wake up call at Khalkin Gal, and were soundly trounced by Russian tanks before 1941.
The Japanese also failed to provide their infantry with a sub machine gun, (except for the paratroopers.)
Throughout the war, they really were sold on the idea that they could win on the spirit of the individual soldier alone. As a result,most of their fighting men became spirits, literally.

Yeah - up on that. I'm not sure if they faced T-34's at Khalkin Gal, though. Not implying T-34's were any kind of magic. They were a big step up for Russian armor.

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ORIGINAL: P.Hausser


Historically the Jap's took Manilla pretty easy as it was declared an Open City, I assume it can not be modelled in the game, but from a Military point of wiev, the Japs in AE has to fight for it unless a pre agreemant is made prior to the game, if you take into consideration that the Allies has another 9 Full Divisions, ready for depolyment within March (and 4-5 of them Already by January 18th).. Then IMHO it is Balanced heavely in favour of the Allies.

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ORIGINAL: Coupon

If the AAR thread in Paradox OT forums has any merit, the current version is certainly balanced toward the allied player. Two Japanese players in a row quit the game very early, because of heavy losses .

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ORIGINAL: treespider

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ORIGINAL: P.Hausser


Historically the Jap's took Manilla pretty easy as it was declared an Open City, I assume it can not be modelled in the game, but from a Military point of wiev, the Japs in AE has to fight for it unless a pre agreemant is made prior to the game, if you take into consideration that the Allies has another 9 Full Divisions, ready for depolyment within March (and 4-5 of them Already by January 18th).. Then IMHO it is Balanced heavely in favour of the Allies.

Not that I think anyone has noticed yet...but IIRC Bataan and Manila, in game, have the same Terrain Combat Modifier. Plus at Bataan you get a nice static unit with a bunch of BIG guns.

My preference is to defend Bataan over Manila...but thats just me.

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ORIGINAL: Coupon

If the AAR thread in Paradox OT forums has any merit, the current version is certainly balanced toward the allied player. Two Japanese players in a row quit the game very early, because of heavy losses .

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ORIGINAL: Reg

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ORIGINAL: Coupon

If the AAR thread in Paradox OT forums has any merit, the current version is certainly balanced toward the allied player. Two Japanese players in a row quit the game very early, because of heavy losses .

If only Nagumo had that option on the 4th of June 1942!!

I think that is more an indictment on player expectations than anything else.....

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ORIGINAL: Shark7

There does come a point where it is pointless to resist. And Allied players are known to do the exact same thing, expectations too high maybe?

This is where game balance comes in over historical accuracy, if the game becomes unfun halfway through, it will never get finished.

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ORIGINAL: Shark7
This is where game balance comes in over historical accuracy, if the game becomes unfun halfway through, it will never get finished.