Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: LTC

Well firstly,

hello peeps

I have mostly played western front boardgames and some computergames so thought i would try my hand at a pacific game, tho i confess i am not very knowledgeable about the theatre outside area gains by japan, aircraft, ships etc i don't know by name/type so have some catch up there.

my questions are,

I have started a game ( my first even) and i realise that the economy for japan is limited so i have been running about checking what HI, LI, resourses, oil etc are located around the map so i can determine what i can leave behind and what i can take out without causing a shortfall. If i have understood the system then for example i have a requirement of 180 fuel/day and 6000 resourses/day to power the industry located on the home island of hokkaido which produces about 150 oil/day and ~22000 resourses/day so i can safely remove the oil and 15k resourses without detriment.

I was about to check the same for china etc but i find this a slow process of locating the city on map then checking the industry tab and locating that city to see what is required and what is surplus. What i wanted to know is am i missing something that allows me to check the balance by region to save time or is the city by city check the only way to calculate the values for a specific area to see what i can pull out and what i must replace.

As an aside, the units for army groups seem somewhat spread out, i realise that you wont have fully organised in range units in command chains as easily as you would on the western front but that still makes me nervous, how essential is it in the pacific to maintain command chains or can you get away without them when island hopping? in addition can you only locate units under an hq by first finding an attached unit, tho that then doesn't give you the location of the hq, as it is if i click on the hq to find its units i get every unit attached to every hq that is linked to its higher hq, for southern area that is a lot. is there some tree i am missing that i can locate an hq, see its superior hq and only the hq attached units?

lastly why oh why did you not make the manual a ring bound book so i can have it lay flat and open without destroying the spine.

any advise there would be greatly appreciated

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ORIGINAL: LTC

Thank you Damian,

This will take a little while to set up the regions as i would like to see them but was exactly what i was hoping for, very nice program.

LtC