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88455
why the next impulse? assuming a new port is in same sea zone to the old port where the loaded trs ends its move, but connecting to the next sea zone where you...
zpmu061
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Dec 1, 2006
8:51 am
88456
btw, you don't even need to do a cw super combined to invade, all you need is 1 naval move (queens) and 1 land move (mar) and land attack (mar), the us has to...
zpmu061
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Dec 1, 2006
9:56 am
88457
Hey, if US TRS reorg the Queens, it cost twice the reorg points to reorg it, there would need an awful lot of TRS. But, seriously now, as I already pointed...
Patrice Forno
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Dec 1, 2006
10:33 am
88458
ITPOTE doesn't affect subs so the analysis is spurious. I agree - and have stated so in many a previous post - that the BoA doesn't work as it should in WiF....
Herbert Gratz
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Dec 1, 2006
11:11 am
88459
The original mail was in reply to the contention that WiF doesn't give ships enough 'legs' and aims to show that this isn't so. I agree, if anything I believe...
Herbert Gratz
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Dec 1, 2006
11:22 am
88460
No they won't, you are moving from port to port. ... You will also need to re-org the marine as it will be face-down after each RTB move. ... TRS. ... ...
Herbert Gratz
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Dec 1, 2006
12:10 pm
88461
..what the defender chooses... of course. ... If you have no MOT/MECH/HQ unit and it was a blitz, the first loss can be anything the attacker chooses. As for...
Herbert Gratz
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Dec 1, 2006
12:17 pm
88462
huhh? why the defender? in the absence of mandatory first loss units (winterised, engr or mot etc), the *attacker* chooses any other involved unit to be the ...
zpmu061
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Dec 1, 2006
12:33 pm
88463
Patrice people like it, throw em a bone and let them keep it. BTW in miles at 29.5 knots a ship goes 5,700 miles in a week. The irony for me is that a land...
lbinflorida42
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Dec 1, 2006
3:00 pm
88464
I used to think a basic problem with WiF and naval combat was the I-go, You-go sequential movement system. There isn't much of a way around such a system...
Brian
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Dec 1, 2006
3:11 pm
88465
Better bring along a Mot. Div. in that case. It is SOP after all. ... What if you have no mot, mech or arm-hq, and the defender choose blitz, and you suffer a...
Herbert Gratz
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Dec 1, 2006
4:35 pm
88466
Don't think it sucks for the Kriegsmarine either. There never was a Jutland-type action in WWII. Only smaller scale. ITPOTE helps in achieving that by tempting...
Herbert Gratz
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Dec 1, 2006
4:38 pm
88467
That's news to me. ... huhh? why the defender? in the absence of mandatory first loss units (winterised, engr or mot etc), the *attacker* chooses any other...
Herbert Gratz
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Dec 1, 2006
4:40 pm
88468
leave the queen in suez, no need to reorg. read the mail. this proposal is to illustrate, that you can get a corps from the uk to tokyo by naval moves within 1...
zpmu061
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Dec 1, 2006
4:45 pm
88469
so you've played it that the defender gets free picking? frex china in mountain hex takes blitz to avoid 2 losses, jp as usual has no mot involved (and most...
zpmu061
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Dec 1, 2006
4:55 pm
88470
never figured *why* the kriegsmarine never sailed out in strength. once the bismark sailed around scapa, then the tirpitz, then some others went through the...
zpmu061
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Dec 1, 2006
4:57 pm
88471
In a message dated 11/30/2006 1:43:40 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, tfancher@... writes: "Some sensible people have a house rule that the required...
devinc@...
devincutler
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Dec 1, 2006
7:27 pm
88472
... I have been following this discussion with interest, and I suspect the naval movement rules are further from its long term equilibrium than for example the...
Are-Harald Brenne
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Dec 2, 2006
2:48 am
88473
Ok my head has been spinning now since my last post. I got more ideas! How about this variant for naval movement: Goal: More dynamics, action and fun to the...
Are-Harald Brenne
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Dec 2, 2006
5:46 am
88474
Hi, In RTB phase it is said that a RTB move is exactly the same as a naval move, but in reverse. As during a naval move a TRS face up can go through a port,...
IA-211-BZ
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Dec 2, 2006
1:07 pm
88475
While I think what you are saying has merit I would consider two things. I'm not sure the scale of the game you are talking about- a WiF turn being 2 months...
lbinflorida42
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Dec 2, 2006
1:13 pm
88476
I do not agree with that analysis. First off you should have a TF in the North Atlantic and Faroes and you can't then reach the North Atlantic (other than the...
lbinflorida42
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Dec 2, 2006
1:29 pm
88477
No problem, this is possible (loading a face-up unit in a port where the TRS passes through, during a rebase naval move). Obviously, such a move must finish in...
Patrice Forno
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Dec 2, 2006
1:49 pm
88478
... I think Victory in the Pacific had nine turns from Dec. '41 to Aug' 45 so sort-of six month turns I guess. A simplistic game yet finely tuned play. ... ...
Brian
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Dec 2, 2006
3:49 pm
88479
Thanks Patrice Hubert ... De : Patrice Forno <froonp@...> À : wifdiscussion@yahoogroups.com Envoyé le : Samedi, 2 Décembre 2006, 14h41mn 54s Objet :...
IA-211-BZ
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Dec 2, 2006
6:15 pm
88480
I agree with Patrice (whew! I was beginning to think that might never happen again:) I guess this means a face-up naval unit aborting due to a combat abort or...
paulderynck
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Dec 3, 2006
8:11 am
88481
In land combat, if there is any choice (ie, more than one ARM/MOT/MECH unit in a blitz attack) the owning player always chooses losses, period. Cheers, Wendell...
Wendell
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Dec 4, 2006
4:02 am
88482
Interesting point about the predictability of naval movement. Maybe to slow down a moving task force, the player with presence in the seazone should have to...
Wendell
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Dec 4, 2006
4:12 am
88483
Seems we are talking at x-purposes: the guy who takes the losses and not the one who causes them always picks which unit to loose. (I.e. attacker's losses are...
Herbert Gratz
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Dec 4, 2006
11:09 am
88484
KM didn' t do anything off WAfrika with surface ships. There was ONE raid early in the war in the North Atlantic which sank two dozend merchant men or so....
Herbert Gratz
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