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RE: Allies Set-up Spreadsheet for AE - 4/29/2010 9:12:34 AM   
Galahad78

 

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Status: offline 		Just a quick question as I'm afraid I've made a (yet another) mistake:

On Airgroup orders, when you say: ASW Patrol, Search: 20-60, Level: 50...

This Search arc is for ASW or for Naval Search? And the level refers to this Naval Search?

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RE: Allies Set-up Spreadsheet for AE - 5/12/2010 6:48:43 AM   
Kull


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Status: offline 		Sorry I missed the question - hadn't been here for a few weeks. Anyway, I never assign ASW and Naval Search to the same units, so the description you cite means:

1) "ASW Patrol": Unit is on ASW, and all the descriptions that follow pertain to this mode
2) "Search: 20-60": The ASW Search arc for this unit
3) "Level: 50": My shorthand for the percentage of aircraft assigned to this mission

The only "mission sharing" I assign to aircraft is a combat mode of some sort plus training. In those cases you will see a "Level" listed for each mission type.

Edit: One major exception is Carrier Air. It's usually a good idea to have some of your Dauntlesses assigned to Naval Search (20% or so). The spreadsheet has several examples of this.

< Message edited by Kull -- 5/22/2010 11:43:26 PM >

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RE: Allies Set-up Spreadsheet for AE - 5/13/2010 8:47:26 AM   
Cornstar

 

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Status: offline 		Thanks a lot for the spreadsheet, it greatly helped me in starting a full game for the first time. Just by implementing your moves you learn the game and it's mechanics. Manuals can only tell that much. December 21st now, and I'm actually playing with some sense of what I'm supposed to do. Still a terrifying piece of game though :-).

Cheers, Martijn

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RE: Allies Set-up Spreadsheet for AE - 5/22/2010 11:44:37 PM   
Kull


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ORIGINAL: Cornstar

Thanks a lot for the spreadsheet, it greatly helped me in starting a full game for the first time. Just by implementing your moves you learn the game and it's mechanics. Manuals can only tell that much. December 21st now, and I'm actually playing with some sense of what I'm supposed to do. Still a terrifying piece of game though :-).

Cheers, Martijn


As always, glad to be of assistance. And yes, it really IS scary the first time you sit down and have to put all your units into motion on Day 2!

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RE: Allies Set-up Spreadsheet for AE - 6/20/2010 2:38:34 PM   
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RE: Allies Set-up Spreadsheet for AE - 1/4/2011 10:34:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		curious if this app is up date with all the data base patches? guessing not, but may not make any difference...

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RE: Allies Set-up Spreadsheet for AE - 2/12/2013 4:24:31 AM   
Sorta

 

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Status: offline 		Many thanks Kull for this just starting first full campaign. I was going to read the manual first but now I have this I wont. I believe in 'intuitiveness'!

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RE: Allies Set-up Spreadsheet for AE - 2/14/2013 2:22:15 AM   
Kull


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ORIGINAL: Sorta

Many thanks Kull for this just starting first full campaign. I was going to read the manual first but now I have this I wont. I believe in 'intuitiveness'!


If I even hinted that this spreadsheet was a replacement for the Manual, Alfred would remove my head with a rusty hacksaw! I highly recommend that you do take a few hours and go through the manual - this game will consume vast quantities of time, so it's well worth a few on the front end to save far more on the back. Do that KNOWING that there's a wealth of detail and it's impossible to retain all (or even most) of it. However, once you begin following the spreadsheet's recommendations, some of that reading will come back to you in the form of "Ah! I seee why he's doing that!" And you'll get even more once you start playing. If anything, that first read through really helps your intuition!

One caveat on the spreadsheet. Most of the recommendations are still good, but in the aspect of air unit training, ignore the spreadsheet percentages and set your units at 100% trainig, 0 Range. The results will come faster that way.

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RE: Allies Set-up Spreadsheet for AE - 2/16/2013 1:53:56 AM   
Alfred

 

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ORIGINAL: Kull


If I even hinted that this spreadsheet was a replacement for the Manual, Alfred would remove my head with a rusty hacksaw...!


You would be lucky if I restricted myself to being so merciful as to use a hacksaw.

First you would be subjected to watching THAT movie in order to, ahem, learn the "true history" of what should have transpired. Only when you could repeat from memory every line of THAT movie from memory would we proceed to stage two.

Next you would be kept back at school to write out, in long hand, 100 times the entire AE manual. Any misspellings or inaccuracies would result in immediate decapitation using a fish knife.

Having successfully completed stage two, you would be required to compile the updated manual, incorporating all the changes introduced through the various patches. Once that was completed, your access to post in the forum would be reinstated.

Alfred

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RE: Allies Set-up Spreadsheet for AE - 2/16/2013 2:45:43 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Alfred


... you would be required to compile the updated manual, incorporating all the changes introduced through the various patches. Once that was completed, your access to post in the forum would be reinstated.

Alfred

We need a volunteer for this one ...



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RE: Allies Set-up Spreadsheet for AE - 2/16/2013 6:10:05 AM   
Kull


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ORIGINAL: Alfred

You would be lucky if I restricted myself to being so merciful as to use a hacksaw.

First you would be subjected to watching THAT movie in order to, ahem, learn the "true history" of what should have transpired. Only when you could repeat from memory every line of THAT movie from memory would we proceed to stage two.

Next you would be kept back at school to write out, in long hand, 100 times the entire AE manual. Any misspellings or inaccuracies would result in immediate decapitation using a fish knife.

Having successfully completed stage two, you would be required to compile the updated manual, incorporating all the changes introduced through the various patches. Once that was completed, your access to post in the forum would be reinstated.

Alfred


Hacksaw is startin' to look mighty appealing!


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RE: Allies Set-up Spreadsheet for AE - 4/12/2013 8:16:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		Day 2 nightmare. That's a good way to put it.

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