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No capable of offensive operations sure, but still an army. Get them back in supply and they're good to go. I think the game is better with that latent threat there than just having 250,000 men magically disappear. You want them gone, go kill them.

Heh, you'd better. I'm teaching the Tunisians to sing "The Italian Mouse" with internationally recognized arm gestures.

I see nothing that needs to be fixed. So you have two units just sitting there doing nothing, big deal. The locals are making a living off the land. A army could too if it did nothing else. History is replete with cut off units and garrisons that lasted a very long time.

I'm tempted to say Church Camp. But given the state of the various diocese these days…

You forgot the permanently submerged sub. The rest of the Italian Navy bravely runs away. Working on the first North African city. Have Italian transport and Army bottled in the second.

Absolutely not. Especially in his case. In fact, in his case above all others, strictly verboten.

I was sooo close to wiping out those rotten little skysoldiers...

Oh, that'll just draw the hordes in. Ya gotta give them a little more than that. At least serve canapés.

Hmm, so you're saying it was just some prime frontier jibberish?

He's not a Knight ... you're not very smart are you. Joe </font>

You just knew an Olde One would step in, and not only make him a Knigget, but give him a Title to boot. Everybody, give Sir Sturmy a limp-wristed wave.

Fleet in Being is correct. Bismarck and Tirpitz were a threat even if they never left port. UK was the ones who had to burn a heck of a lot of fuel to keep them bottled. Bottom line, as you figured out, Germany has Romanian oil, they're golden. UK has the US oil, same same.

Look, while it appears a BB burns a staggering sum of fuel when you first look at it, it's really not that much. Bismarck - 844,800 gal. Panzer IV - 470 gal So to run one voyage on a BB you could run 1,800 tanks. Sounds bad, right? But, this is the key. You're not going to run that BB each and every day while those tanks will be burning each and every day. Not to mention all the other supporting vehicles in an army. We're not even talking in the same league when it comes to fuel consumption. There's a reason most of the world's trade is shipped. It's the most fuel efficient. Unless things get really dire (like they did for Japan) you can cross fuel worries off the list.

Cool! Thanks for the links wormwood!

Oops. Forgot a negative. Good thing you're here, Mr. Friggin Sunshine.

Nice bonnet, Joe. I'm just glad you're wearing a slip under that dress. </font>

248' You were close. Forgot spanker (or jigger). No spinnaker. She's a 1938 Portuguese Greenland codfisher. Read "Quest of the Argus" by Villiers. Haven't got my pics back yet, but this guy's look amazingly just the same. When you've been there, you've been there. http://www.fortogden.com/poly001.5.html

Oh, and damn you SeaMonkey. You just cost me $25. Jogged my memory and I had to run over and order "The Way Of A Ship" by Allen Villiers. Just got off the four-masted schooner Argus, or as she's known these days, Polynesia.

Nitrates from Chile. Used for making gunpowder, or fertilizers, among other things. Germany was one of the last nations still running square-riggers around the Horn. Beautiful ships, it's a shame the war killed them off.

Chop, chop, Shaw, start the next one. And I expect Rules. Not just rules, mind you, but Rules that would make a postal inspector cry out in pain against the futility of the oppressive universe.

That's what I would hope. A good four to eight player game. Round robin pbem ideally as getting a group together for any length of time is tough. Think you'd hit a good marketing spot on the wargaming side.

Ships burn fuel, but they don't burn that much. German fleet would be doing sorties, not extended patrolling. Wouldn't worry about it. 41-42 seems a reasonable time to kick it off. Actually, I wouldn't give anyone a tech edge, you might really unbalance things. As you point out, all the pre-war work was ignored till it was really needed. As usual.

Hey, they're deaders anyway. Gotta at least scratch the paint on those panzers.

I'm just guessing at the weight. Was about a three footer. Email works fine for everybody else Boo. Must be your usual inadequacy.

Oh come on, spill. I got a v1.00 SC-1 disc too and I just got back from vacation. Could really use some more fun tickets.