Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the vgsfleetleague group. File : /3rd...
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iaaschool
Oct 5, 2008 12:58 am
I have uploaded a scan of the 3rd Fleet Rule book. It is in the Files section. Cheers... ... pauvres de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de ...
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flamearrow65
Oct 6, 2008 8:04 am
Thank You very, very much!!!!! regards ... aux...
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darthvader170
Oct 8, 2008 10:09 pm
Hi, Can upload a scan of the Charts & tables Booklet for the 3rd fllet book rules? If so, you will finish a good job uploading those archives. By the way, can...
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vgsfleetleague@yahoog...
Oct 10, 2008 4:40 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the vgsfleetleague group. File : /3rd...
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vgsfleetleague@yahoog...
Oct 10, 2008 4:40 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the vgsfleetleague group. File : /3rd...
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iaaschool
Oct 10, 2008 4:44 am
I've uploaded three 3rd Fleet files. Scans of Combat Charts, Strategic Air display and Task Force display....
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darthvader170
Oct 12, 2008 6:29 pm
Thank you!...
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jjcarp1963
Jan 10, 2009 5:47 pm
I used to play quite a bit of "Fleet" years ago, and finding Ian Raine's WestPac '78 material recently has rekindled my interest. As my own contribution I've...
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Steve Williams
speedracer550
Jan 11, 2009 8:56 pm
Wow. I gotta say, these new maps are really beautiful. Nice job using photoshop, JCarp. If you fleetgamers haven't gotten them, I highly recommend you go to...
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jjcarp1963
Jan 11, 2009 11:00 pm
Thanks, Steve. One of the reasons I wanted to make those was to open up the options for using the Chinese, but it does raise the question of what forces would...
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Geof
kuraaku7
Jan 12, 2009 8:27 am
Greetings, Well done on these map expansions! This is particularly timely, given the expansion of naval bases on Hainan recently. I work with several Chinese...
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jjcarp1963
Jan 12, 2009 2:12 pm
Thanks, Geof, but my research wasn't terribly deep. I checked globalsecurity, wiki and this: http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-PLA-AFBs.html I also checked the...
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Bryan Brinkman
brinxb
Jan 12, 2009 2:32 pm
I would think that shallow water would be any hex in which one would not normally encounter a thermocline layer. I.e. subs cannot "hide" below the "layer" to...
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jjcarp1963
Jan 12, 2009 6:11 pm
My earlier reply about CZs was bass-akwards. Their lack in shallow water would benefit the sub, not make it more vulnerable. I think I may have found what...
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dmikulec@...
donaldmikulec
Jan 13, 2009 1:05 pm
Anyone read "Scorpion Down!" There is a nice section about the the discovery of the deep water sound channel and SOSUS. According to the interviews, from the...
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Michel Boucher
alsandor
Jan 13, 2009 3:40 pm
... Another fairly reputable source is The Military Balance, an annual publication by the IISS. My 1996/97 (and I don't imagine it changed that much in ten...
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Geof
kuraaku7
Jan 18, 2009 10:51 pm
Great detail, I have not read that book, but it is now on my list. Speaking of Soviet Subs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, have you read this material? ...
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flamearrow65
Jan 29, 2009 12:58 pm
Hy everyone, this post concerns the "The Problem of Sequence: Interactive 3rd Fleet" article published in "The GENERAL" Vol.27,No.2. Regarding "The Problem of...
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Jim Eliason
mendelphile
Feb 1, 2009 3:21 am
It turns out that I know the author of that article and I forwarded this question to him. Unfortunately he doesn't play the Fleet games any more and doesn't...
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Tracy Johnson
tmjva23666
Feb 2, 2009 1:48 am
I think it just adds unneeded complexity to the game system. A system I think intended more or less to simulate wartime fleet management on an 8 hour turn...
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Jim Eliason
mendelphile
Feb 2, 2009 4:28 pm
There are some good ideas in that article, and the problems he cited are real. However, I agree that the proposed system as a whole is way too cumbersome to...
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flamearrow65
Feb 5, 2009 10:53 am
Hy Jim, if it is not a problem for You i could send You the rules about "Opportunity fire" in .PDF format in order to make Thomas Dworschak (the author) read...
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Jim Eliason
mendelphile
Feb 5, 2009 5:50 pm
Tom said he "wouldn't know an Akula from an apple any more." I don't think prodding him again would do any good. This often happens with game designers also....
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flamearrow65
Feb 6, 2009 9:01 am
Ok, thank You anyway ;-) I'll try to set rules with my friends. Regards ... don't think prodding him again would do any good. This often happens with game...
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s.williams
speedracer550
Feb 6, 2009 2:42 pm
Flamearrow, I've been following this thread and what to chip in at this point. I agree with Jim--one of fleet's strengths is that it's a quick-playing...
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shallendor@...
sydbar
Feb 6, 2009 7:38 pm
I agree that the logistics rules make the game alot more fun, since you have to think more strategicaly about the game. The sub rules look interesting,...
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Geof
kuraaku7
Feb 9, 2009 4:04 am
Has anyone played the Asian Fleet game, designed by Humiya Shinohara, published by Kokusai Tsushin in 2007? This appears to be a follow on to the Fleet...
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jjcarp1963
Feb 10, 2009 12:33 am
I haven't played it, but it was that photo of their playtest map that inspired me to finally make my extensions. The "Fleet" folder over in Consimworld has...
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masherve
Feb 10, 2009 8:55 pm
See the Fleet folder of Comsimworld, post #2476. I attached the translation of scenario 4: invasion Taiwan....
