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Post by garrisonchisholm on Feb 26, 2024 20:14:28 GMT -6
Alternatively, my favorite night battle is a night battle I don't fight. They always seem like my ships are torpedo practice for the enemy. I make it a rule of thumb to decline all night actions, however I have to, to avoid handing out VPs.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Feb 26, 2024 11:20:35 GMT -6
My early move that sets me up for easy victories is to have a single division of very large and fast cruisers, hopefully by 1896. They sweep the field in cruiser engagements as their speed and "hull points" are a thing that the AI can't match with legacy designs. I don't consider them useless until 1925-ish. I would call a good CA critical in the early period, and secondly a similar CL.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Feb 23, 2024 8:20:10 GMT -6
NECRO. ...but I'm a Dev, so I'm allowing myself.
Just wanted to say I hope there's a chance of this AAR being resurrected or at least reincarnated in 2024!
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Feb 15, 2024 21:13:51 GMT -6
Yes, a disarmament treaty was just signed- but still, I've never seen this in 6 1/2 years of this game.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Feb 4, 2024 15:17:12 GMT -6
A brilliant engagement! I actually got goosebumps. What type of captains, what skills did they have, on Lepanto & Conte di Cavour?
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Feb 4, 2024 15:04:11 GMT -6
mm, alright then, I'll add it to our WAD? list as well.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Feb 4, 2024 8:58:33 GMT -6
Although Fredrik would be the best one to answer this, I believe at present that the factor determining vulnerable sea-zones is friendly bases, friendly to your foe that is. I'm not aware of any code written for aircraft flying out of 'friendly' bases other than their own though, so if I had to guess your war started with Russia originally and France joined them, so the 'flag' indicating primary foe is thrown for Russia, and when it calls for the detail ID after it determines this randomization of a loss it gets Russian aircraft despite the fact that it should be French.
Another one for the long list. Though I'm sure you could head-canon it that its a small detachment sent for the job, because they had different equipment they wanted to test.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Feb 3, 2024 14:42:47 GMT -6
The percentages you are seeing is what is common to see in the game. It is true that it is impossible at present to get off a strike with even only 1 drop-out from each flight. The percentages were set at this level based upon theater averages from WWII, so it perhaps could be brought up for an adjustment of some kind. There is a lot of work queued ahead of this, but thank you for raising the issue.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Feb 3, 2024 14:23:20 GMT -6
I just captured this one this morning. This captain really believes in himself.
The next enemy division just about to steam onto the bottom of the screen was too easy, he needed to up the difficulty.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Jan 31, 2024 20:55:58 GMT -6
1) I AM DELIGHTED TO SEE YOU FOUND THAT.
2) i am ashamed that after working on this for 6+ years that's the first i've heard of that. Yet I'm sure it's all part of an evil plan or something... ANYWAY, talking about fields/variables like EvilPlan, garrisonchisholm do you know if it is possible to release some kind of updated file regarding what value does what? Like an updated version of what Fredrik created HERE? I've seen quite a few questions regarding that both here on this board and on steam. It is possible, but Fredrik's bandwidth is maxed so it would have to fall to some poor sod like, oh, me.
I'll see what i can do, but let's not give it a time-table.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Jan 31, 2024 20:54:08 GMT -6
Or its the intense magnetic field there from sunken Atlantis.
Worth it if we could capture Archimedes's Heat Ray of Doom. As long as its more useful than Mythbuster's heat-ray of doom!
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Jan 30, 2024 18:35:28 GMT -6
What is EvilPlan in RTWGame1.bcs ? I see it in the line: EvilPlan=0
1) I AM DELIGHTED TO SEE YOU FOUND THAT.
2) i am ashamed that after working on this for 6+ years that's the first i've heard of that.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Jan 27, 2024 12:54:32 GMT -6
Looks like my USA ships are retreating to... I dont know... see crusader castles in the north east of the Med? View AttachmentI had a curious action south-west of Cyprus where I withdrew West but my carriers insisted on traveling east, for the entire battle, through the night when they weren't operating aircraft.. There may be something there.
Or its the intense magnetic field there from sunken Atlantis.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Jan 26, 2024 23:35:51 GMT -6
I didn't see this till this morning, unfortunately. Had I voted, I would probably have picked staying neutral, so would not have influenced your decision at all. Two questions, one of which is completely off topic. Have you had any luck with large, expensive Bs with the "hail of fire" concept like those 17,000 ton, 12x9". I tried that once but had no decisive battles with with them and then chickened out on followup games, reverting to 4x12" and as many 6" secondaries as I could fit. I generally always find more guns are better, at least until 1935/40 when the armor sacrifice you had to make to get more guns runs up against 16"+ fleets. My basic pre-dread is an A/R/Y -2 gun of 9" or more, ideally with 2 extra knots so I can bulge them at first opportunity, though I wait until I "learn" the torpedo lesson in-game; it bugs me to be too 'meta', as illogical as that is.How could you even influence your vote option of entering the war on Britain's side? I am guessing game decision two, invoking that clause. I would have picked whichever of the first two options suited me more after hovering the mouse over them (the way I usually answer game decision questions), but I am not familiar with this question, so don't know which option would tick Germany off enough to break their alliance with me. Well it was basically a choice of honor the alliance with Germany and face a tough war where I may or may not prosper as a navy, or honor the alliance with France and avoid making England my enemy, and have a quite easy war that would allow me to build up my navy even more. I realize taking time off to answer questions can delay getting out a new version that corrects a lot of the issues you are facing right now, but whatever advice you can give would be greatly appreciated
I'm actually very sorry its taken me so long to reply, I've had a very challenging week and my attention was elsewhere. But I'm back to work this weekend.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Jan 18, 2024 8:21:02 GMT -6
Yes, but look how many warships had folks crying for preservation but they just couldn't get the funding. I'm afraid there has to be some RNG to it. I'll admit that the size of the player's economy (and consequently success) could probably be part of that factoring, but there's so much to do. I'm afraid its scrap and hope, though you could always just head-canon it.
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