Did You Know I Used to Drive a Rollercoaster?: Apbarog(A) vs OPilot(J)

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Did You Know I Used to Drive a Rollercoaster?: Apbarog(A) vs OPilot(J)

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"I don't know where I'm goin'
But I sure know where I've been
Hanging on the promises in songs of yesterday
An' I've made up my mind, I ain't wasting no more time
Here I go again, here I go again

Tho' I keep searching for an answer
I never seem to find what I'm looking for
Oh Lord, I pray you give me strength to carry on
'Cause I know what it means to walk along the lonely street of dreams

Here I go again on my own
Goin' down the only road I've ever known
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
An' I've made up my mind, I ain't wasting no more time

Here I go again..."
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Did You Know I Used to Drive a Rollercoaster?: Apbarog(A) vs OPilot(J)

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OPilot will be my Japanese opponent. Here's the game setup:

Latest AE Official Patch ver. 1.01.24 25 December 2014
Latest Beta Patch ver 1126b 09/17/2016 (game version will show
1.8.11.26b Sep 17 2016)
Big Babes_B_AEScen28_V15.zip
Babes and Extended Map Art Hexes 05_12_14.zip
Babes Extended Map Data with SL 05_12_14.zip

These are the game settings requested:
Fog of War - ON
Advanced Weather - ON
Allied Damage Control - ON
PDU - OFF
Historical First Turn - OFF
Dec 7 Surprise - ON
Reliable USN Torps - OFF
Realistic R&D - OFF
No Unit Withdrawals - OFF
Reinforcements - +/- 60 days
Combat reports - ON
Auto Sub Ops - OFF
TF Move Radius - OFF
Plane Move Radius - OFF
Set all facilities to expand - OFF
Auto Upgrade ships and air - OFF
Accept Air and Ground replacements - OFF
Turn cycle - 1


We're not in a hurry to start. OPilot could take a week or so to do the first Japanese turn. It is his first non-historical game, so he will be experimenting with the start.
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Good luck to you both looking forward to reading and seeing how this contest goes.
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Pass this info on to him.

Do orders just for your Japanese airplanes. Save in Slot 10 and label it "Air."

Save the same file in Slot 20. Then, hit the "E" to end orders phase.

Open the game as Allies PBEM and create PW (I use 'test'). Don't change or do orders for any units. Save in Slot 21. Then, hit the "E" to end Allies orders phase.

Have Japan open slot 21 and run turn using his actual PW. Take notes of what orders need to be changed. Exit game and open slot 10. Make changes and do this until he is sure his air attacks are correct. This is how a Japanese player can test his non-historic orders. So, now that Air is correct, save in slot 10 and in slot 11 (label Navy). Slot 10 is the fallback file until he does the same for his new Navy orders. He can reuse slot 20 & 21 over and over again as they are just place holders for the Allies as test. He then does ground (slot 12) and some economy stuff (slot 13). When I first played japan, I broke down orders and testing into 4 parts.
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Info passed to OPilot. Thank you.
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"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip,
That started from this tropic port,"

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"Aboard this tiny ship."

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"The mate was a mighty sailor man,"

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"The Skipper brave and sure,
Five passengers set sail that day,
For a three hour tour,
A three hour tour."

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"The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The Minnow would be lost.
The Minnow would be lost."

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"The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle"

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"With Gilligan,
The Skipper too."

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"The millionaire and his wife,"

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"The movie star"

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"The professor"

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"and Mary Ann,"

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"Here on Gilligan's Isle."

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Nicely done
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This makes me happy. Now hurry up and get to it.

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OPilot is making progress on his first turn, and has learned how to use the Japanese teleporting TFs for a non-historical start. He says that he'll finish the turn sometime this week. Then, my first turn will be very short, only moving existing TFs and checking settings on bases, not much else. My long turn will the the second turn, after viewing the first combat.

OPilot says that he is inclined to go after Singapore, much as Aurorus did. We'll see. I do hope to save Prince of Wales and Repulse, but if KB comes very close to Singapore, with Allied TFs only moving in one phase of the first non-historical turn, my ships can't go far.
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