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Baron

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  1. Just wanted to thank Hubert and Bill for such a quick reply I love this company and the community around it!
  2. Are the French mobilized units supposed to start behind the German lines?
  3. http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/10/obit.dick.winters/ The greatest generation lost another good one
  4. No not reinforce - what if I upgraded a Boch to a Rommel or Manstein. Would it loss the experience gained?
  5. When you upgrade a HQ does it keep its experience or lose it?
  6. Bill101, I will agree to disagree. If you do a little research you can find the maps that had each individual ships sector of fire on assigned beaches during landings. Those ships were there specifically to give direct fire support to the troops on ground. They could and did give fire support when requested. As far as being embarrassed for calling on support it wasn't the Generals (and their egos) that would request the fire support. It would be a Lt in a fox hole under fire who would be calling for the fire support. I doubt he would feel embarrassed at all for calling on fire support from anywhere he could find it. My argument would be that the ship, which is adjacent to the beach, is there for the specific reason of supporting the landing (very much like the artillery piece behind that enemy Corps). The rest of your fleet (those not adjacent) to the beach would have had the job of interdicting any enemy naval activity. You have a point in that the further inland you go the more difficult it would be to apply indirect fire effectively. That is why there are specific MOS's that specialize in calling in fire. The US had by far the best training and system for doing this and it was quite a nasty surprise for the German troops when they confronted the Americans. Having agreed to disagree let me thank you for the work that goes on behind the scenes of the SC series. It is what makes this game second to none.
  7. If you overlook the 2400 damaged B-29’s that made emergency landings on the island’s two airfields after the island was captured I might agree. The US took 25k casualties taking the island (7k killed), by doing so they saved the lives of 26400 aircrew of the damaged B-29’s (late during the war some of the gunners were not on the B 29’s to save weight so 26400 crewman is bound to be high). I’d say losing 7K KIA to save 26K KIA was probably worth it. As for why we took Iwo Jima we needed the airfields and the island gave Japan a 2 hrs notice of incoming American bombers from the Marianas (Yes, the Enola Gay flew from Tinian) so taking that Iwo Jima was well worth the cost. Betio (not Tarawa) really changed the way we fought war. After Betio we really did bypass and let non essential islands starve Rabaul and Truk being two that most would recognize. A strong argument could be made that returning to the Philippines was a mistake and Peliueu certainly was. Both were assaulted due to the vanity of a particular Gen who was later fired in Korea. As far as naval superiority being established I’d argue it wasn’t until we won the Marianas “Turkey Shoot” which was fought in June of 1944, 2 ½ years after Pearl Harbor that we could assure naval superiority. It wasn’t like we could do as we pleased when we wanted. As far as Air Power being king you are spot on and as far as limiting casualties you won’t get any arguments from me. We have the ability today with smart technology to really win wars with airpower. In the 1940’s we didn’t thus the millions of civilians killed around the globe from the strategic use of airpower.
  8. Sort of - The last Japanese soldier did not surrender until the 1970's (I think it was in the Philippines). A blockade would have made the airfield on Iwo Jima irrelevant as long as the island was pounded from time to time (this is exactly what we did to Wake Island). The real value of Iwo Jima was the lives it saved in our bombing against Japan. Once captured we based P-51's on the island and they escorted the B-29's to Japan and back. The number of crews that were saved because they had an emergency field to land on (Iwo Jima) exceeded the total casualties it took to take the island. Incidentally the Iwo Jima battle was the only island battle in the war where we took more losses (including wounded) than we inflicted. The blood bath on Iwo Jima and Okinawa were a big reason why we dropped the atom bombs on Japan. Operation Olympic the proposed allied invasion of Southern Japan would have involved the following forces: Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyūshū, was to begin on "X-Day", which was scheduled for November 1, 1945. The combined Allied naval armada would have been the largest ever assembled, including forty-two aircraft carriers, twenty-four battleships, and four hundred destroyers and destroyer escorts. Fourteen U.S. divisions were scheduled to take part in the initial landings. The estimated casualties were almost 500,000 with over 100,000 Allied soldiers killed. This does not take into account the Japanese casualties. It is no wonder Truman choose to drop the bombs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall#Olympic good article on the planned invasion of Japan
  9. Since supply is handled indirectly in this game one could presume that the fleet supply train (convoys of ships that resupplied warships) would keep the ships supplied. As far as ammo load the amount of shells they carried was pretty impressive. I think a more limiting factor might be the life of the gun barrels. I know that they did wear out and had to be replaced. The maximum range of most BB’s guns was 20 miles or so although I believe the HMS Warspite (15” guns) achieved a hit at 23 miles once. However, like I alluded to earlier, the most effective seaborne bombardments were carried out by DD's and CA/CL's. This means 5" to 6/8" guns. The amount of ammo would be a non factor given the scale of the game considering that ship units are considered to be a task force of various types of these ships. A New Jersey class BB alone had 20 5" guns. This is the equivalent to 3 Panzer Divisions (1 battery each of 6 Hummel's plus ammo carrier) compliment of Hummel’s, which is the largest SP arty the Germans employed during the war. A single DD had the equivalent firepower to a battery of Hummels and many times the ammo (a Hummel could carry 18 rounds so a battery would have 108 plus what the ammo carrier carried). Think about the US ships that used 5" guns in the AA role, I don't think ammo was an issue.
  10. I suppose Sicily, every island battle in the PTO, and Normandy didn't have spotters? They did and performed in every US amphibious invasion of war. Those funny airplanes that the CA's and BB's carried are called spotting aircraft. They had observers who were specifically trained to call in naval gunfire. The USMC has an entire MOS devoted to this specific task. The HG Panzer Division was shot to pieces by defensive naval gunfire to list just one example. In other invasions the allies had air superiority - I forget how many sorties the LW had on D Day 1944 but I believe it was under 200 so there is no reason why it isn't reflected in the game. With properly trained spotters the time delay for naval gunfire is no different than that of land based arty fire. I will point out that it was mostly small ships DD's a CL's that provided direct gun support on the beaches because they could get closer to the beach and in some instances fire in the direct fire role. Still, the guns on a DD are as big as the Corps/Army level guns that are in the series already.
  11. So when do the ships fire in defense of a friendly land unit on the beach getting attacked by an opposing land unit? I suppose that is called shore bombardment but it is totally lacking in the SC series. Land arty units can do it, fighters can intercept incoming planes but a flotilla of ships sitting off the coast (I presume they are there to escort and do shore bombardment) just sit by as the friendly ground unit they are next to is attacked by opposing land units. I guess ships guns only work on the offense???
  12. Why can't warships return fire like land arty can when an adjacent land unit is under attack? They certainly had larger caliber guns and since the ship units represent squadrons of ships then it stands to reason they probably had as many if not more guns to return fire with.
  13. In light of today’s date the 69th anniversary of Pearl Harbor I thought I'd ask the question: Is it worthwhile to attack PH in Global? My own experiences would lead me to vote no. I was interested in hearing others responses. On a more serious note – let’s all hope and pray there will never be another “day that will live in infamy”
  14. Hamachi is the way to go. Pretty easy to set up, I'll be away for the next couple of weeks but if you contact me tonight I could help you set up Hamachi.
  15. Crispy, Download 7zip it is a zip program that does several forms of compression. Another one you might try is tugzip - it also does several types of compression. I believe both of these can be found at filehippo.com and are free to download and use. Great for swapping files across the pond!
  16. Rambo, I didn't think you were old enough to remember VG's Civil War. I loved that game and still have a copy of it somewhere. I'd love to see a American Civil War game or something like AH's War and Peace. I had a group of 4 friends in High School and we would play W&P all night long on the weekends. After I moved they moved onto Empires and Arms but I still love W&P (I still have a copy of it also). One of the reasons I love the SC series games and W&P/Civil War is the beer and pretzels approach. I don't have to memorize a 60 page rule book to play the game. I've always been a firm believer in the KISS principle. SC series captures it perfectly, I guess that is why we have all become SC addicts!
  17. Hubert, Thanks for the quick reply! Looks ike v 1.03 in my immediate future
  18. How close are we to the next version? I'm at the point of upgrading from 1.02 but if my normal luck holds version 1.04 will be released 10 turns into mt new game
  19. I don't play the AI hardly at all and I only have played 2 games of Global against an person so far. What is the secret for taking out China as Japan? Do you just throw in all the ground forces and then hit with the air? What about attacking in the North or the South? Inquiring minds want to know!
  20. There are several instances of naval gunfire being used to support a defense (Sicily comes readily to mind). I think it would need to be play tested though to see what the long term effects would be. I'm thinking only BB's and CA's should be allowed the ability although the DD's did most of the damage in turning back the Germans in Sicily. Maybe it can be tested for the next patch?
  21. I like the feature and I'd like to suggest another feature. If art. can fire in defense of adjacent land units then why can't ships? A naval task force certainly had the fire power that a Corps level unit has in this game. Just thinking out loud is all.
  22. I agree that the issue can be "worked around" by having different installations on the same PC. However, if you are playing from a laptop you could start running into lack of space on the hard. I'm not sure if the issue is software and the different versions would crash the game but I would like to see the patches compatible with older version game files. I have all the SC series from the original and it has been a major pain in the rear having all the different versions going. Having said that I can't praise enough the work that goes into making these patches in response to what is wanted by us gamers. I have never seen support like what the SC series has anywhere. It would just really be nice if older files could be brought up to speed on the newer versions.
  23. How do you edit the units icons? What sort of program do you use? Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks
  24. geofighter, Another thing to try is going to Microsoft Updates and seeing if MS has a newer driver for your laptop. I don't have Windows 7 so I can't tell you exact instructions on how to do this. Good choice on Toshiba for a brand though, they are in the top 3 for the least amount of hardware failures in the first 3 years of ownership.
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