xwormwood

scottsmm, sorry, i know both of them pretty well, and therefor i ment every word i wrote here. I'm pretty sure that -if they would have known where this all would finaly end-, both of them would have happily decided to simply ignore you. Without any wish to hurt your feelings, i would like (in all humility) to do exactly the very same thing right now.

Hello Moon. I can understand your motives when you act to protect a fragile comunity, of course, but banning Kuniworth an JJR for 6 month might end in protecting an empty shell, because Kuniwoth and JJR are the salt in the soup, not the flies, which needed to be removed. So you might create the opposite effect you intended. Kuniworth or JJR are both excellent members of this forum, and knowing that we are all adults here, i would like to invite you to dare something more than shown here. Close a thread if needed, no one has to many problems with that. Warn a member of this forum if you don't like a post, of course. And ban a member if you need to, who could argue with you, as you are a / the forum administrator. But rethink, please, the timescale. 6 months are an eternity in the lifecycle of a computergame. Kuniworth is an assett to enhance this game, he has proven this many times (i think i don't need to prove this here), and JJR as well, as he constantly invites all members to multiplayer games, especially those, with which he had the one or the other minor dispute, and newbies as well. I could go on, but i think i don't have to. Maybe one more point: the SC forum went pretty silent in the last years, with nearly no one writing or commenting. When Hubert released PTO the situation started to change for the better, even though some of the better members left in anger (JerseyJohn as the most missed member, per example). It would be a shame if this forum would fall back into the dull sleep in which it stayed for a pretty long and sad time because of nothing to read, to discuss, to learn again. So i beg you to reconsider the 6 month ban of Kuniworth and JJR. I think your point would be understood as well if you would decide to ban them for a week or two instead. Please don't axe them away, as we have already lost too many interesting members. It is not very entertaining to read the 10000th post like "is this game worth buying" or "i can't unload my ships because i never read the manual". I loved those fruitfull discussions in the past, about the best strategy, about historical background (KUNIWORTH!!!!) or everything else, hell yes, i like to laugh as well, and there is noone as funny as Kuniworth or JJR here around. Again: i can understand your reason, but as my doctor always said: much doesn't help much. So please: use your medicine (banning, shouting, warning) in little doses, don't give your patient the complete package of pills to swallow on the very first day of illness. Yours faithfully Claus aka xwormwood

Have you done a Stalingrad scenario?

I think someone should think again about the intelligence handicap of the japanese side. High tech equipment should be expensive for the japanese, but not forbidden to obtain. The US player get intelligence lvl 5 quite easy, giving the japanese side some more problems to research something useful. Maybe this should be checked again "(i got high intelligence, so you got less tech advances"). In my recent game against JJR i don't get any hits in anti-tank research (now 3 year with one or to chits). I think research should be easier, but equipment should be more expensive instead of "no or nearly no research advance and therefor no better equipment at all".

from wikipedia: Speer, who was strongly opposed to the introduction of tabun, flew Otto Abros, I.G.'s authority on poison gas as well as synthetic rubber, to the meeting. Hitler asked Ambros, "What is the other side doing about poison gas?" Ambros explained that the enemy, because of its greater access to ethylene, probably had a greater capacity to produce mustard gas than Germany did. Hitler interrupted to explain that he was not referring to traditional poison gases: "I understand that the countries with petroleum are in a position to make more [mustard gas], but Germany has a special gas, tabun. In this we have a monopoly in Germany." He specifically wanted to know whether the enemy had access to such a gas and what it was doing in this area. To Hitler's disappointment Ambros replied, "I have justified reasons to assume that tabun, too, is known abroad. I know that tabun was publicized as early as 1902, that Sarin was patented, and that these substances appeared in patents. (...) Ambros was informing Hitler of an extraordinary fact about one of Germany's most secret weapons. The essential nature of tabun and sarin had already been disclosed in the technical journals as far back as 1902, and I.G. had patented both products in 1937 and 1938. Ambros then warned Hitler that if Germany used tabun, it must face the possibility that the Allies could produce this gas in much larger quantities. Upon receiving this discouraging report, Hitler abruptly left the meeting. The nerve gases would not be used, for the time being at least, although they would continue to be produced and tested. from wikipedia: Despite article 171 of the Versailles Peace Treaty and a resolution adopted against Japan by the League of nations on 14 May 1938, the Imperial Japanese Army frequently used chemical weapons. Because of fear of retaliation however, those weapons were never used against Westerners but against other Asians judged "inferior" by the imperial propaganda. According to historians Yoshiaki Yoshimi and Seiya Matsuno, the chemical weapons were authorized by specific orders given by emperor Showa himself, transmitted by the chief of staff of the army. For example, the Emperor authorized the use of toxic gas on 375 separate occasions during the battle of Wuhan from August to October 1938 They were also profusely used during the invasion of Changde. Those orders were transmitted either by prince Kotohito Kan'in or general Hajime Sugiyama. The Imperial Japanese Army used mustard gas and the recently-developed blister agent Lewisite against Chinese troops and guerrillas. Experiments involving chemical weapons were conducted on live prisoners (Unit 731 and Unit 516). The Japanese also carried chemical weapons as they swept through Southeast Asia towards Australia. Some of these items were captured and analyzed by the Allies. Greatly concerned, Australia covertly imported 1,000,000 chemical weapons from the United Kingdom from 1942 onwards Shortly after the end of World War I, Germany's General Staff enthusiastically pursued a recapture of their preeminent position in chemical warfare. In 1923, Hans von Seeckt pointed the way, by suggesting that German poison gas research move in the direction of delivery by aircraft in support of mobile warfare. Also in 1923, at the behest of the German army, poison gas expert Dr. Hugo Stolzenberg negotiated with the USSR to built a huge chemical weapons plant at Trotsk, on the Volga river. Collaboration between Germany and the USSR in poison gas continued on and off through the 1920s. In 1924, German officers debated the use of poison gas versus non-lethal chemical weapons against civilians. Even before World War II, chemical warfare was revolutionized by Nazi Germany's discovery of the nerve agents tabun (in 1937) and sarin (in 1938) by Gerhard Schrader, a chemist of IG Farben. IG Farben was Germany's premier poison gas manufacturer during World War I, so the weaponization of these agents can not be considered accidental. Both were turned over to the German Army Weapons Office prior to the outbreak of the war. The nerve agent soman was later discovered by Nobel Prize laureate Richard Kuhn and his collaborator Konrad Henkel at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg in spring of 1944.The Nazis developed and manufactured large quantities of several agents, but chemical warfare was not extensively used by either side. Chemical troops were set up (in Germany since 1934) and delivery technology was actively developed. Recovered Nazi documents suggest that German intelligence incorrectly thought that the Allies also knew of these compounds, interpreting their lack of mention in the Allies' scientific journals as evidence that information about them was being suppressed. Germany ultimately decided not to use the new nerve agents, fearing a potentially devastating Allied retaliatory nerve agent deployment. William L. Shirer, in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, writes that the British high command considered the use of chemical weapons as a last-ditch defensive measure in the event of a Nazi invasion of Britain. On the night of December 2, 1943, German Ju 88 bombers attacked the port of Bari in Southern Italy, sinking several American ships – among them SS John Harvey, which was carrying mustard gas intended for use in retaliation by the Allies if German forces initiated gas warfare. The presence of the gas was highly classified, and authorities ashore had no knowledge of it – which increased the number of fatalities, since physicians, who had no idea that they were dealing with the effects of mustard gas, prescribed treatment improper for those suffering from exposure and immersion. The whole affair was kept secret at the time and for many years after the war (in the opinion of some, there was a deliberate and systematic cover-up). According to the U.S. military account, "Sixty-nine deaths were attributed in whole or in part to the mustard gas, most of them American merchant seamen" out of 628 mustard gas military casualties. The large number of civilian casualties among the Italian population were not recorded. Part of the confusion and controversy derives from the fact that the German attack was highly destructive and lethal in itself, also apart from the accidental additional effects of the gas (it was nicknamed "The Little Pearl Harbor"), and attribution of the causes of death between the gas and other causes is far from easy. from an essay of Dr. Heinrich Kahlert: Hitlers Dilemma – why Hitler did not deploy Nerve Agent The reason why Adolf Hitler did not order the deployment of nerve agents in WWII is still a subject of controversy. The most popular explanation for Hitler's apathy stems back to the previous World War where chemical warfare agents were used in combat (Hitler was temporarily blinded by mustard gas). Hitler had been victimized by these chemical agents and was unwilling to introduce new and more toxic agents. According to Gellermann, the IG- Farben also worked unsuccessfully on the development of an effective protective filter against nerve gases. The absence of such a protection played an important role in the decision of Hitler and the army in the end not to use chemical weapons. Other aspects were: the chemical groups of the army, the support troops, were still in their infancy in 1939. Later it was hardly possible to withdraw regiments from the front and to convert them into chemical warfare and defence units which would have been necessary for gas warfare. With the defeat of the Luftwaffe, the most important possible means of deployment of gas warfare agents was finally lost. Hitler's Minister of Production, Albert Speer39, said after the war, "All sensible army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane, since, in view of America's superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities.40" The May 15, 1943 meeting of Ambros with Hitler is often mentioned in literature, but lastly the content – Ambros didn’t recommend the beginning of chemical warfare (CW) - are based on affidavit of Ambros in the Nurnberg trial41 (see FN 43, Fig. 1042) which, historically speaking, should be taken with care. For the most "chemical warfare historians" the May 15, 1943 meeting applies as the "decisive conference”, whether to deploy nerve agent or not. This is described in details in Joseph Borkin's popular book “The Crime and Punishment of the IG-Farben”43: [Albert] Speer, who was strongly opposed to the introduction of tabun, flew Otto Ambros, I.G.'s authority on poison gas [chemical warfare], as well as synthetic rubber [bUNA-Synthesis], to the meeting. Hitler asked Ambros, "What is the other side doing about poison gas?" Ambros explained that the enemy, because of its greater access to ethylene, probably had a greater capacity to produce mustard gas than Germany did. Hitler interrupted to explain that he was not referring to traditional poison gases: "I understand that the countries with petroleum are in a position to make more [mustard gas], but Germany has a special gas, tabun. In this we have a monopoly in Germany." He specifically wanted to know whether the enemy had access to such a gas and what it was doing in this area. To Hitler's disappointment Ambros replied, "I have justified reasons to assume that tabun, too, is known abroad. I know that tabun was publicized as early as 1902 [sic!, 1951], that Sarin was patented [sic! SARIN was not patented], and that these substances appeared in patents. (...) Ambros was informing Hitler of an extraordinary fact about one of Germany's most secret weapons. The essential nature of tabun and sarin had already been disclosed in the technical journals as far back as 1902 [sic!, essential nature were not known until 1940], and I.G. had patented both products in 1937 and 1938. Ambros then warned Hitler that if Germany used tabun, it must face the possibility that the Allies could produce this gas in much larger quantities. Upon receiving this discouraging report, Hitler abruptly left the meeting [although Hitler got before a memo from the HWA which decribed the opposite]. The nerve gases would not be used, for the time being at least, although they would continue to be produced and tested. At the meeting with Council of State Dr Schieber, Dr. Ambros and Hitler on May , 1943, it was decided that as soon as possible, i.e. until at the end of 1944, the TABUN production in Dyhernfurth should be increased from 1000 to 2000 moto and the production of SARIN from 100 moto to 500 moto. It was stated that this enhancement should have a comparable right-of-way precedence like the tank program of Speer. Relating the question of the raw material situation it was stated by Dr. Mureck46 that for the production of TABUN around 40% of the German annual phosphorus production was already used (50000 t/a P2O5). Thus, the production had been clearly limited by the phosphorus supply47. On March 1, 1944 Ambros (1901-1984) gave his second lecture to Hitler and others relating to the situation of the German CW program in the “Führerhauptquartier”. He explained that the decided amounts of 1000 ton per month (moto) TABUN of the meeting of 15 May 1943 were fulfilled to 70%. It was indented to fulfil the production target to 100 % in the next month. After this lecture Hitler enhanced the production quota to 2000 moto without considering that the amount of phosphorus did not exist in Germany. Almost 40 % of Phosphorus stock had already been used by the TABUN production, the great demand to Phosphorus was, however, the agricultural sector and Phosphorus could and can not be substituted by another material in both cases! In this lecture mentioned, Ambros referred to Hitler “about the demoralise impact, which were occurred by application of these types TABUN and SARIN, and the use of these stuffs was characterized as a means of very last decision. It was referred to the possibility, that the opponent [=allies] had drifted the development in a similar [bold author] direction. In literature is has been known, that – especially in America [=USA] - scientific investigations were carried out with matter related constitution What Hitler understood presumably with the formulation “matter related constitution”? Or differently asked what kind of rhetoric effect of this chemical expert will be attained by such a chemical layman like Hitler as a listener? To my opinion, there might be only one answer: Hitler might or more probably had to get the impression that the opponent had the same quality of chemical weapons with nearly the same amount, but the allies did not have nerve agents as well known historical matter of fact and the allies noticed lately it, despite of ENIGMA, not until June 1943! This is an other example, like in the lecture before (May 15, 1943), what in colloquial called a “half truth”: When non-specialists like Hitler heard, what extent of the “constitution” (spatial arrangement of atoms in a molecule) was crucial for its toxicity, then Hitler would certainly not have doubled the TABUN production, because he would have realized that not enough Phosphorus would have been available. Otherwise, exaggerated formulated, Ambros lied "with the truth". It may have been correct that there were materials already published in "similar direction" - however for chemists this does not mean anything. For a greenhorn or layman it, however, suggested that production and/or an imitation of these materials can be copied easily, like during WWI with the compounds chlorine and phosgene. It cannot be forgotten when interpreting this lecture notes that Ambros was an outstanding chemist - he had attained a doctorate with the Nobel Prize winner Willstätter in Munich. That the “constitution” is decisive for its toxicity, this was a very well-known matter of fact also in this time. Last but not least Hitler wanted to increase the TABUN production to 2000 moto without considering that this was not possible because of the lack of Phosphorus. I think this was for Hitler only a detail, but for an expert this is crucial. Further Otto Ambros maintained before Hitler49 on March 1, 1944, “it would exist the fears that the opposing side would works also in this area [in the nerve agent production], so that also this deployment may not to be overrated”, i.e., Ambros speculated explicitly before Hitler upon (not existing) a secondary strike option of the allies with nerve agents, although all indicators were showing before that the allies possessed "only" agents of the WWI! Thus, it was clear also for Hitler that his special gas, Tabun, the monopoly had gone. Hitler did not have to think further about a deployment of this special gas or not. If he would have known, how weak the clues had been, which supported the Ambros` statement, and then he would have considered something else. As we know today, this was a wrong statement of Otto Ambros. The patents, to which the chemist referred with Hitler, described very far chemical forerunners of TABUN and SARIN. To nerve agent materials they were only developed further in the IG- Farben labs by Gerhard Schrader, as I already pointed out. It is therefore easily understandable, if Paxman & Harris write that a substantial deployment of TABUN would have been war decisive for Germany. If Ambros would had been an equal vehement “chemical warfare fighter” like Fritz Haber (1868-1934) at WWI, would not be the following (hypothetical) formulation in this lecture with Hitler on May 15, 1943 more probable? "I believe, my “Führer” that the early described organophosphorus compounds do not approach our toxicity of the Trilon family. Even if they could discover the chemical composition after our initial deployment of our volatile offensive nerve agents, they might need at least 3 years, in order to realize an industrial production of nerve agent too. Thus, my ”Führer”, we have a strategic superiority in relation to the enemy, which however will answering with other "conventional" chemical warfare agents. To circumstance this, we have to launch our weapons strategically against the Royal Air Force (RAF) for killing the pilots - the consequence would be a surrender of Great Britain " In the 1980`s Ambros stated to Gellerman that “this perception of the experts of the chemical industry [on May 15, 1943 of Ambros] appears to have a certain impact to Hitler”, and Ambros had the following impression after the lecture “that Hitler and its environment felt relieved of a burden, need not to meet a decision in the chemical warfare area". The scientists focused their attention to the fact that since the beginning of the war in American technical periodicals there had not been any reference to “nerve-agent-similar compounds” (what that ever means). This situation was repeated with the building of the atomic bomb. They pulled themselves to the correct conclusion that this was the result of the US-American censorship (the German censorship in scientific magazines however were not very strong!). What they did not realize, that it this happened at the secrecy of the insecticide DDT, which was developed straight forward and it is not relating to the nerve-agent-similar compounds which Paxman & Harris implicitly mean. (43 Interrogation IG-Farben Process: On 15 May 1943, as the last conference, there was a discussion with Hitler and this concerned the treatment of the chemical warfare agents. Q. Were you alone? A. Shortly before this date I was notified by telegram by the Armament Ministry, and I was told to come to Berlin, and I was taken to the supreme headquarters in East Prussia by airplane. There were representatives of the General Staff, Speer, Schieber, and various directors of central committees from the armament industry. Q. And what did Hitler want from you? A. As the last point on the agenda of this conference there was a one-hour conference about the situation in the poison gas field. Mr. Speer and Mr. Schieber reported, first of all, about the military aspect, about the general situation, and then I was given the floor; and I showed, on the basis of a table: (a) the requirements of poison gases by the General Staff, ( the actual production, © the stocks. Thus, I discussed objectively all types and described the situation as it was. Q. Did Herr Hitler ask you — one could practically gather this — whether one could use poison gases, or what was the situation? A. The first reaction was a disappointment, since, in most types, not even half of the requirements of the General Staff had been met. There followed a discussion about the reasons for this, and he asked the question: "What is the other side doing?" Q. Before that, I would like to ask you a question. Did you have the impression as if Hitler wanted to use the poison gases? A. No, Hitler himself did not, but around him there were people who did. Q. Well, go ahead, please; describe to us what happened at this conference. A. He discussed the main types, always with a point of view of "How does it look on the other side?" and I reported objectively that, for example, in the Lost [mustard gas] field, countries which have a lot of ethylene would perhaps have the possibility to produce larger quantities of these substances than we could. Thereupon he said: "I understand that the countries with petroleum are in a position to make more, but Germany has a special gas, Tabun. In this we have a monopoly in Germany." At that moment I said: "I have justified reasons to assume that Tabun, too, is known abroad. I know that Tabun had been publicized as early as 1902, that Sarin was patented, and that these substances appeared in patents," and I said, "I am convinced that other countries, in case the German side might use these gases, would very shortly not only be able to imitate these special gases, but even produce them in much larger quantities. […] Mr. Ambros, before the recess we were talking about this conference with Hitler in May 1943. Is there anything important to say about this conference other than what we have already said? A. During this conference an expansion was also discussed which the OKH had suggested for Tabun. This plan was to be put into execution, but a few months later it was withdrawn. Q. Mr. Ambros, we can draw our own conclusions about your attitude at this meeting. I do not want to go into that much further. I have another question in this connection. You said that certain circles, or certain people in Hitler's entourage, would have been glad to use poison gas. Do you have any indications that after you took an objective point of view at that time you were not doing these people a favor and that later attempts were made to gain your assistance? A. In August [sic! 1. March]1944, I was called to Mr. Speer, and again there was a suggestion from the people who wanted gas warfare, but the situation was exactly the same, and my attitude was exactly the same again about the objective of a technical expert. Speer had the same attitude, and so it was again possible to prevent the use of this terrible weapon. Q. Mr. Ambros, for absolute clarity on this point: your point of view was objective? A. Yes. [sic! Certainly his recommendations were not objectiv] Q. In addition to that, did you tell the people who were in favor of gas warfare that you were against it, or was that not possible, or did you think it advisable not to do so in your own interests? A. Those who were in favor of it were Ley, Goebbels, and Bormann. I did not know any of these men. I did not speak to any of them, and I never spoke to Hitler again. " See http://www.mazal.org/archive/nmt/07/NMT07-T1044.htm pp.)

Wouldn't it be wise to make this a bit more obviouse? Tell the player what is happening: his unit x fights and loses men and eqiupment in the landing. Maybe a picture or soundclip here and there would help a bit.

Japan suffers under very harsh research limits, while the US get often long range Jets in 1943, while in mid 1944 they already don't know anymore where to spend all this incoming cash.

Bill101: maybe this could be solved through a pop-up question at the begin of the japanese first turn? option a) Stay at Japan for x turns and receive x amount of cash (saved fuel) or earn x points of experience (training) or a free naval tech or a free political chit option sail to pearl (no change) option c) free to move, starting from japan (lose x amount of cash) :confused:

It is not that hard, seems like you should practise a bit. General hint: don't fight at the russian border, try to stall the advancing germans until you got enough power to fight back for real. It is no shame to fall back to Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev. Hold till you get your siberians, than think about fighting back. On the other hand try to hit the Axis everywhere else with your allied forces, so that the axis needs to rebuild losses or shift some forces from the east to other war theaters (Africa, France, Norway etc.). You can't stop the Axis at the Russian border or at Minsk, and if you try, you will bleed dry unter the massed axis might (HQs, AirFleets, Panzers).

Take a look at point 3 and 4, dear friend: http://www.battlefront.com/community/showpost.php?p=1110818&postcount=9

I tried to recreat it, but it never happened again. I fear now that i simply misclicked (without knowing), getting disband instead of operational movement or amphib. That would explain what happened: stupid user makes mistake, writing about a not existing bug in the forum, resulting much noise for nothing. I think you should put this back into PTO forum again, so that those, who did read my "bug" see where the mistake realy came from. I'm terribly sorry for that. Even though i am not in a position for making request: maybe a little sound (coins falling on the table or something like that) would help morons like myself to understand what really happened when they failed like me.

It is possible to lose a unit when you chose to operate it. In my actual game i lost a bomber when i decided to operate it but wasn't allowed to place the unit anyway. It simply disapeared, aborting with right mouse click didn't helped either. When i looked into the purchase menu i "found" my missing bomber: seconds ago on operational movement, now avaliable for purchase: :eek::eek::eek: I stumbled about this bug more than one time, and i'm not sure if this one wasn't already in previous SC2 games. I know that "Patton strikes east" has a bug when you load to many transports or amphibs. When the game allows you to amphib a unit but has no free tile left to place the new unit than the player loses his unit as well. I posted this amphib/transport bug some month ago, but i got never any response. :confused:

Welcome panzerkiller. 1) Is the tile empty? You can't invade an occupied tile. Do you have transports or amphibs? Transports can't invade, you need friendly ports with them. 2) Yes, as long as you are the japanese, and as long as you want to play historical 3) Everyone, never let the enemy feel secure anywhere

If there will ever be a campaign which combines the Fall Weiss & Plan Z campaigns (and this would include both maps, not a midget map where england is 3 tiles long and the atlantic is 7 tiles wide) than the Russian war entry would be solved, because the russian player would have to withdraw his units for real from the european theater into asia, making the live of the germans easier, the live of the americans and british much harder there.

Quite the opposite is true, dear friend.

@thetwo Great post, excellent! @Bill101 Keep up the good work!

Thank you, Bill101! Now i get it. I made a mistake when i thought i needed to be next to an coastal tile while i needed to be in a tile which actualy contains a coast. Again, thanks!

And here we go: Shouldn't the ISE be safe for bad weather effects right were she swims on this picture? :confused:

Ok, i read the manual, dutch naval units join the UK, allright. But what about the weather? I have no picture, but i got often hit by bad weather where i thought i would be save because i saw land next to my naval unit. Is it possible that there are map tiles wihch might look like land which are being treated as sea? Mmhm. Next time i make a hardcopy, it's difficult to explain this when you can't show no prove at all.

Just two short questions: is it correct that coastlines don't protect against weather damages anymore and that there is a possibiliy that units survive the surrender process? In my last game General Stilwell fought on after China went down, im my recent game the dutch cruiser and sub fight on after the dutch surrendered: I bet both answers are in the manual which i (again) haven't read, correct? Would be glad to get an answer.

I should add that all of these suggestions were only made because i already love playing this game the way it hit the market, not because i am unhappy, angry or loathing at or about anything. 1.) Garrison Value Introduce a garrison value (not unit) for cities. ressources, fortresses, fortifications and harbors. This way you, me and the AI (i think the AI would need this most) wouldn't need to guard these place with combat-units. On the other hand you could still move your combat unit into a garrisoned tile if you want to. If i understood Bill101 right the AI tends to protect its bases even if they are not really in danger. Give the AI cheap or plenty of free garrisons to let her roam the map with combat units. 2.) Enhanced Engineers Let these units build streets. And if a street was build, let them build rails. The building process should take its time in mountains and jungle, and should be done a bit quicker in plain tiles. 3.) No autorepair City bombed to ashes, your mine stomped down, harbor destroyed? Tough noogies, my friend. You want this mess cleared up, then pay for it. Else live with the consequences. 4.) No long distance operational movement for fighters or dive bombers Put these babies on a harbor, load them, transport them, unload them. There is a reason why carriers were used to transport Wildcats to Wake, Midway or Australia. The reason is limited range and long distances in the pacific. 5.) More descisions for the japanese Player example a) Spend in 194X the amount of x Yen for german jet-tech, tank-tech, rocket-tech. In (insert month and year) a german sub enters the eastern map. If sub make its run towards the japanes homeland, japenes techs get improved by factor X. If sub gets sunk, all is lost. If sub doesn't make its arrival in time (Germany surrendered), the sub surrenders to the allies, giving them some more uranium, hastening up the A-Bomb production (or give one more A-Bomb attack). example Build a base (pay first amount X Yen) in Sumatra or Java for german naval units. Put one german sub in the production line, maybe one german raider (strength one) or a single CA as well. example c) Use POWs for slave work, build some rail tiles. If Allied units reach these tiles the crime gets known, fastening the A-Bomb or some units in the production line example d) human treatment of the chinese population (lower income, less partisans) It is nice to get so many descisions as the Allied Player, and somewhat sad to get only one as the Japanese Player (Shinano: CV or BB). 6.) Add more pictures and sounds I always love (don't get me wrong, please) the radio message about the japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. Bring more of this. And i love the few picture of the refloated battleship or Admiral Yamamoto. Add for every ship, or better every unit a picture under properties. Add more pictures to in-game messages. Add more pictures to diplomacy menu etc etc. 7.) Give destroyers a +1 or +2 supply-zone of control (already mentioned this elsewhere, sorry for being repetitive) For starters it would introduce the Tokyo Express. But more importantly: all those zero supply islands and places cout be used to fight, because a little supply run from a destroyer would keep units alive there, even if there wouldn't be a natural supply source on the island. 8.) Add more convoy lines (already mentioned this elsewhere, sorry for being repetitive) India-Australia Australia-New Zealand USA-New Zealand USA-Australia India-coastal lines Australia-coastal lines USA-coastal lines 9) Punish bad play When the chinese get pushed back, they receive free reserve units. If the British get pushed into India, they get free reserve units, etc. etc. As good as this is , give me some punishment as well after you granted me free units i would have never seen if i wouldn't had been pushed back. Example: - End of war in Germany not in May 1945, but later. - Stall in the production line. - Uprisings or panic, followed by lower supply or morale - early indian independence 10.) allow AA-Units to enter ground combat They can lower their guns, honestly!

Do you use an ATI graphic card? Than use video acceleration option in SC2 (newest patch).

Digital download for instant fun, why waiting for snail mail???

Put your airforce to China, just like JJR wrote, and than hammer them out of the war. Early 1944 yyou should be able to collect 700 mmps, but beware of the russians, which attack the minute you kicked the chinesee out of the war. Buy cheap garrison units like AA or AT units to garrison cities, because else you get some nasty visits from unwelcome chinese guests.

If anyone wants to start a game (email), i'm available for a Z-campaign game. Just write me an email. If you want to play the japanese, please add the first turn. else i send you my japanes turn as reply. I just want to play for fun, and i don't care to win or losse, all i want to have is fun. Would be great if my opponent would feel the same way. :)