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sorry I know everyone wants AI but I barely will be able to do it in time without ai - anyone want to volunteer?

well, I am creating a map of the world at 512x256 - or have - just finishing the scripting. Will be lots of maneuver room. It will be very good. Lots of countries More what if better naval warfare etc.

I see what you mean but this causes a problem for me the way I set it up - a pretty large one - tacs will get out of proportion very strong.

There is one small problem here I would ask you to correct, Hubert. Since AT tech increases tactical bomber SA, but has no effect on an Army SD - you get an inconsistency. The Tac bomber won't get balanced. It should work for tanks, since they increase in Tank Defense. There may be some other inconsistencies - I think AA may cause issues too.

Thanks - I will win both these games. However, for the very first time playing it, Colin is a very tough opponent. I am working hard on global - the map is getting close to being done. It is quite something. The concept will be to have more open ended possibilities in this game and I hope I can do that. Also, the change in game mechanics to account for tech will be a very big change and I don't know what the repercussions of that will be.

I think forget cylindrical - it needs to be a google earth type of spherical 3d map which is zoomable - now THAT is what we need. The work would be quite heavy to do that because you would need to make it graphically even and adjust for the changes since WW 2 - for example, there are many rivers in the USSR that now have dams that created lakes - large reservoirs, that were build post-war. Just as an aside, as I create my world map and look at all these towns and cities in the Russian hinterland, almost all were replete with references to gulags, forced slave labor, etc... really vile stuff.

No - too much work - feel free to program your own - for me I tried but it is not worth the effort unless I get paid on it

Rommel is 7 - I never set him to 5

hey masterclaude - my global version of the Pacific version works well I think - take a look at it from the downloads repository. I have completed a good number of games. Now, my latest is set up for an "objectives" style game - which I am about to test. The game mechanism does not support this so that has to be done manually - but it should be workable if we play mirror games.

Remember we want decisions that have some balance - why would you say "no" for example if it is always correct? So if you do say yes, it should perhaps give you access to building minor units (Ukraine) but the reverse could be you get some better, elite SS Unit(s) instead - that way, take your elite SS or build more possible, but poorer, units from the Ukrainian pool

any news on beta release yet?

I did that too - I had reinforcements much earlier to egypt that got delayed 4 turns due to that

I just forgot to reinforce Gibraltar - which pissed me off - game is large sometimes you forget places

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The downside of CEAW was no diplomacy and limited options for editing and map making - i.e. designing your own stuff is harder. No special scripts and incidents. Also, invasion was too easy (amphibious). Advantages were the combat system, tech system, the manpower and oil rules. Weather was also absent.

I do the editors, but right now you can only have 1 convoy per nation - I would like USA for example to have various convoy routes available - which they did

It is expensive to mechanize your army - in my version I give the Western Allies a discount and Germany pays more

Dells are not as good as they used to be. Also, if you max out the stats on one you need to upgrade the power supply. My original supply blew out after a couple of years.

No one is going to do that Rambo - it is rather distasteful - you are just trying to get a rise out of people, as usual!

They actually were rather lazy - the British had to bring in people from the UK to get the railroads operating properly, it was very hard to do. It had more to do with cultural attitudes, and of course castes and such, as how much motivation to work hard do you get if you can't advance? Witness how well they do in the West now. India itself is getting better too - but it takes time to move millenia of intertia. That was a Hindu symbol, reverse of swastika - but u probably know that

I liked that system in CEAW also - plus the manpower - but it is what it is - this uses a different method, it works Ok and oil is still very valuable to control at 3x MPP value - or for that matter you can make it higher if you wish.

well - you are doing fine - since then singapore and DEI have fallen to Japan, and Japanese have struck at Pearl, invaded Philippines Axis caught unaware by Russian Winter, untold thousands die of exposure (this was a bad one for me)

I want Rambo so I can test with him - he claims he can't spend as much time but I think he will anyway

Rambo just ask me - I know pretty much anything you need to know about India in WW2

Tech can already be adjusted by the editor so that is already there. Also, from East coast to UK was easy for USA - some of the very far distances might be too much, though, I agree.