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RE: How do you stay organized? - 3/7/2005 8:37:46 PM

HercMighty

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ORIGINAL: CobraAus

Plus whet ever else you do get Bodi's WITPUTILIY will make your day for keeping track
and it just gets better

Cobra Aus

Is this what you are referring to?:

WITP Monitor by John McDonnel : The attached utility monitors the WITP save directory and saves operations/combat/sigint reports in an archive directory (it's currently hardcoded to be directly below the save directory). It appends the relevant date to each report. It is useful if you are playing against the AI - not much use for people with multiple PBEM games (last updated - 07/26/04)

From Spooky's site.

Thanks

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RE: How do you stay organized? - 3/7/2005 9:53:16 PM

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Does Bodhi's utility work with Andrew's map?

Yes, it reads the data from the scenario database files and the pwhex.dat file, so it should work with any map mod and any scenario. Of course it's up to you to ensure that the scenario files, pwhex.dat and map graphics you use for the utility all match up.

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RE: How do you stay organized? - 3/7/2005 9:54:28 PM

Bodhi

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quote:

ORIGINAL: HercMighty

quote:

ORIGINAL: CobraAus

Plus whet ever else you do get Bodi's WITPUTILIY will make your day for keeping track
and it just gets better

Cobra Aus

Is this what you are referring to?:

WITP Monitor by John McDonnel : The attached utility monitors the WITP save directory and saves operations/combat/sigint reports in an archive directory (it's currently hardcoded to be directly below the save directory). It appends the relevant date to each report. It is useful if you are playing against the AI - not much use for people with multiple PBEM games (last updated - 07/26/04)

From Spooky's site.

Thanks

No, I think he's refering to this.

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RE: How do you stay organized? - 3/7/2005 9:55:23 PM

bradfordkay

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Thanks for the response. I belive that it is your utility that is loaded on my laptop. I'll give it a try.

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RE: How do you stay organized? - 3/7/2005 9:56:08 PM

HercMighty

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Bodhi

quote:

ORIGINAL: HercMighty

quote:

ORIGINAL: CobraAus

Plus whet ever else you do get Bodi's WITPUTILIY will make your day for keeping track
and it just gets better

Cobra Aus

Is this what you are referring to?:

WITP Monitor by John McDonnel : The attached utility monitors the WITP save directory and saves operations/combat/sigint reports in an archive directory (it's currently hardcoded to be directly below the save directory). It appends the relevant date to each report. It is useful if you are playing against the AI - not much use for people with multiple PBEM games (last updated - 07/26/04)

From Spooky's site.

Thanks

No, I think he's refering to this.

Thanks

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RE: How do you stay organized? - 3/8/2005 1:26:41 AM

Cap Mandrake

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How do you stay organized?

I don't. And my desk looks like a pile of maure too.

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RE: How do you stay organized? - 3/8/2005 1:55:12 AM

captskillet

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This has probably been beaten into the ground adnauseum but I keep a legal size pad that I write down notes on (future plans, this TF is carrying this unit(s)/supply to that location, etc.). At the start of every turn I start at the East edge of map (US) and check things out and start going West till I get to Karachi....I may not look at every base but I check out all the majors plus wherever I have ongoing ops.

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RE: How do you stay organized? - 3/9/2005 11:10:38 PM

Mike Solli

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Hi Guys,

I was surprised at how little time you spend planning your invasions/attacks. For the first turn as the Japanese, I will spend 40-60 hours preparing everything to include logistics, production and operations. To be honest though, I'm an operations officer in the Guard and am just coming of a deployment out of the country as a logistics officer. (I actually arrive home tomorrow.) I was deployed when I got the game. This kind of planning is my thing.

Anyway, I keep spreadsheets on everything you can think of and also have a one inch binder packed full of notes. I'm kind of anal too. I task organize the Japanese fleet down to the ship and have the ships in divisions and squadrons, pretty much on historical lines, but I do move around some divisions to maximize their strengths (high AA DD classes for the carrier fleet, for example).

I do the same for the air units too. I have the training Air Fleets (the on map pilot training program devised by Mogami) in Japan, as well as Air Divisions/Flotillas for Burma, China, Central Pacific, SE Pacific, DEI, etc. They are IJNAF (Air Flotillas) and IJAAF (Air Divisions) and each area has one or the other with primary responsibility, although some areas have both present. (Burma, for example, has an Air Flotilla with Nells/Betties and Zeros along with some recon to keep an eye out for the British Fleet.)

As far as ground units are concerned, I have them divided up by area, but some are transferred relatively early on. (I transfer some SNLFs, regiments and brigades from the Southern Army to the SE Fleet to take Rabaul as early as possible. The units available at start are not sufficient to take Rabaul quickly. I also send a couple of extra engineers there too.

In China, I have a list of units to be used as garrisons and which base each unit is heading to. The remaining units are divided into 3-4 armies to be used in various campaigns designed to capture the Chinese held resource areas. My plans in China are relatively simple. I don't attack until I have at least 100k men in the attack force, with 125k being preferable.

I have one goal as the Japanese player: to loot Indonesia. In order to do that, I need to have as large a defensive perimeter as possible that I can effectively defend to protect that area as well as the supply lines to Japan.

One concern I have early on is with PPs. I can't transfer all the units I want to the Burma Area Army. I usually send the 56th Division to Malaya and then to Burma. The number of points needed to transfer it to Burma is extrordinary. I usually can't transfer it until March-April 42, although it is there long before that time.

Enough of my rambling. Time to pack to go home so I can start my next planning session (in my own house for a change).

Mike

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RE: How do you stay organized? - 3/10/2005 12:09:51 AM

byron13

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Here's how I disorganize myself. I don't do quite as much as a lot of the other players.

1. I use staging areas for different HQs. For example, Noumea is an obvious one for the Solomons area. Depending on sub or air threats, areas around Australia may be typically dumped into Sydney or all the way up at Townsville or even Darwin. If I've got aircraft or army units for that HQ, they generally run through the staging area first. Thus, if I have a TF with a ground unit and I can't remember its ultimate destination, I'm safe sending it to the staging base for that unit's HQ. From there, I can sort it out. Aircraft are so mobile that I don't bother with a final destination when they are loaded in SF; I get them in theater and then they can train or fly to wherever they are needed at the time.

2. You're going to want to set objectives for your ground units so they are fully prepped when a battle starts or are prepped for the base they will be staying in. I start doing this well in advance of an operation or operations. The objective for the land unit tells me where they are ultimately going in the war. If it's tagged for Rabaul, I know where to put it depending on where I'm at in my battle for Rabaul. It may sit in a "units tagged for Rabaul" staging area for a month or two while I develop the situation making Rabaul a legitimate target, or it may go straight to New Britain to enter the fray. If you've got a TF with a land unit, you can check the objective of the land unit while loaded and remember where to send it.

3. I'm usually able to get the ash and trash type stuff (AKs TKs) to their ultimate destination using the destination and home port functions. In the vast majority of cases, two legs of the trip should get me to where I need to go without further fiddling. If the TF won't go beyond the destination to its "home port" objective, looking at the home port will tell you where it is ultimately heading. It's rare that I have a cargo TF that I know I created for some purpose but can't remember what. Heck, the Allies have enough ships that they can pretty much leave some reserves in numerous ports for last minute emergencies. I will often send a TF to a far off port for the express purpose of doing nothing when they arrive but to be available if I need ships in that area.

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RE: How do you stay organized? - 3/10/2005 3:16:01 AM

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I certainly agree about the "plan" advice. Sit down and look at the map and decide, as quickly as possible, what you intend doing in, say, the next month, two months and three months, then devise a workable scheme to achieve these goals. Meanwhile, some obvious stuff needs to be attended to, like fortifying a few critical forward bases (Noumea comes to mind), getting Pearl up and running as your first supply hub, ensuring the safety of Australia, etc.

But even as you begin to take care of that critical stuff in the first few turns, also think about where you want to be a month, two months, three months down the road, and let those thoughts govern your actions overall.

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RE: How do you stay organized? - 3/10/2005 6:40:41 AM

Crimguy

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Mike, there's a reason they stuck you in logistics!

quote:

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

Hi Guys,
For the first turn as the Japanese, I will spend 40-60 hours preparing everything to include logistics, production and operations. To be honest though, I'm an operations officer in the Guard and am just coming of a deployment out of the country as a logistics officer. (I actually arrive home tomorrow.) I was deployed when I got the game. This kind of planning is my thing.

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RE: How do you stay organized? - 3/10/2005 6:51:30 AM

mogami

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Hi, I have never done a Japanese turn 1 in under 24 hours. I think I have done Dec 7 1941 at least 100 times. (most likely the number is much higher. There was a period where I did nothing but 1 turn one after another. )
When I first began I needed a week

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RE: How do you stay organized? - 3/10/2005 7:13:06 AM

Ron Saueracker

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ORIGINAL: Mogami

Hi, I have never done a Japanese turn 1 in under 24 hours. I think I have done Dec 7 1941 at least 100 times. (most likely the number is much higher. There was a period where I did nothing but 1 turn one after another. )
When I first began I needed a week

I remember when we first met on the forums during UVs development and you were busy plotting out strategies for WITP and it was a year or so away! Hard core.

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RE: How do you stay organized? - 3/10/2005 7:24:24 AM

Tristanjohn

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ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

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ORIGINAL: Mogami

Hi, I have never done a Japanese turn 1 in under 24 hours. I think I have done Dec 7 1941 at least 100 times. (most likely the number is much higher. There was a period where I did nothing but 1 turn one after another. )
When I first began I needed a week

I remember when we first met on the forums during UVs development and you were busy plotting out strategies for WITP and it was a year or so away! Hard core.

I'll say!

But seriously, Mogami, I know you take your gaming hard and if ever there was a game for that sort of fella . . . this is the one. I've never done a Japanese first turn, but if I ever did I could easily imagine spending a day or two on it, trying to make sense of it all. (Then pounding my head afterward for all the dumb mistakes I made.

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