ORIGINAL: Annagil
Since it has been years and I'm getting confused, I've decided to re-read the whole thread and make an index for this while doing it, listing the main management posts, daily reports and interesting, little know, game mechanics.
With 88 pages of posts, it will take a while, tho, so this will be a work in progress, where I will give update announcements with a link to this post. That is, if Mike agrees.
Thread Index
Pre-game
■■■OOB analysis
■■■Resources logistic plans
■■■Merchant navy analysis
■■■Convoy planning
■■■The Singapore-Japan oil train
■■■Ship conversions and use
■■■Air power analysis
■■■Aircraft production
■■■Oil shuffling in the SRA
■■■Pilots' training
■■■Ships conversions and use 2
■■■Aircraft production 2
■■■]Engine production
■■■Factories and shypyards upgrades
■■■Ports and airfields upgrades
■■■Fleet arrangement
■■■Air HQ placement
Game - 1941
Pearl Harbour (after restart)
8 Dec 41
9 Dec 41
10 Dec 41
11 Dec 41
12 Dec 41
13 Dec 41
14 Dec 41
15 Dec 41 - fall of Wake
■■■Aircraft and Engine production 1
16 Dec 41 - fall of Adak
■■■Engines and Airframes - by SuluSea
■■■Upgrades relative to airframes - by SuluSea
17 Dec 41
18 Dec 41 - fall of Hong Kong and Brunei
19 Dec 41 - fall of Mersing
20 Dec 41
21 Dec 41
22 Dec 41
23 Dec 41
24 Dec 41
25 Dec 41 - fall of Rabaul
26 Dec 41
27 Dec 41
■■■On JAAF BF radars - by awaw
28 Dec 42 - CV Soryu torpedoed
29 Dec 41
30 Dec 41 - CV Hiryu torpedoed
31 Dec 41
■■■End of Dec 41 Stats
■■■Ship losses for Dec 41
■■■Airframe and engine production 2
1942
1 Jan 42
2 Jan 42 - fall of Clark Field
3 Jan 42 - Hiryu torpedoed and sunk
4 Jan 42
5 Jan 42
6 Jan 42 - fall of Guam
■■■CM conversion table
7 Jan 42
8 Jan 42
9 Jan 42
10 Jan 42
11 Jan 42
12 Jan 42
13 Jan 42
■■■Airlift Capacity
■■■On the Helen-Sally and aircraft R&D - by PaxMondo
■14 Jan 42 (and aircraft R&D)
■■■Aircraft R&D and upgrade paths
15 Jan 42
16 Jan 42
17 Jan 42
18 Jan 42
19 Jan 42
20 Jan 42
21 Jan 42
22 Jan 42
23 Jan 42
24 Jan 42
25 Jan 42
26 Jan 42
27 Jan 42
28 Jan 42
29 Jan 42
30 Jan 42
31 Jan 42
1 Feb 42
2 Feb 42
3 Feb 42
■■■On training ships in port
4 Feb 42
5 Feb 42 - Action off Merak
6 Feb 42
7 Feb 42 - Strike on Soerabaja
8 Feb 42 - fall of Rangoon
9 Feb 42 - invasion of Sumatra
10 Feb 42
11 Feb 42
12 Feb 42 - invasion of Java
14 Feb 42
■■■On HQ capabilities- by ny59giants and Correction
15 Feb 42
■■■On repair priorities - by Hanzberger
16 Feb 42
17 Feb 42 - air action off Darwin
18 Feb 42
19 Feb 42
20 Feb 42
21 Feb 42
22 Feb 42
23 Feb 42
■■■On sub deployement
■■■On carrier air composition
24 Feb 42
25 Feb 42
26 Feb 42
27 Feb 42
■■■On ship utilization by class
28 Feb 42
Well, things have finally worked out and I'm ready to start my PBEM with my long time opponent, tc464. Ted and I go way back to 2005 when I returned from a deployment and started our first WitP PBEM. I think it was patch 1 or 2. We played through spring of 43 when AE came out so we decided to start again. That one continued until January of this year, when I was taken away for most of the year. Shortly after I returned my computer died and with it our game. We got a Mac and I lost my job, so I didn't want to spend money on Windows 7 until I found new employment. That just happened today so I thought I'd start my AAR. I plan on getting Windows 7 on Black Friday and will get things running. So, I expect to spend most of a week getting the first turn going and talk my way through it as I did before.
Ted is a very challenging and fun opponent. He does things out of the blue so I have to be on guard always. He definitely makes the game fun. Our house rules are few. I'll list them later. We plan on using the beta, so we'll have all the fun new things in play as well.
PDU will be on, so all of you who complained to me about it being off last time will have to find something else to complain to me about. [:D]
As always, thoughts and input are always welcome.
Happy Thanksgiving Day!