I just preordered it - $1.99 is extremely low (I would have expected something around $10 - but I won't complain
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Furthermore, I guess that the release date (Feb. 20th) is wrong.
I look forward to this, but I am a little surprised that you have choosen operation Coronet as Battlescenario - IMHO very difficult to realize.
I think that the planned start date of March 1946 would not have happened.
- Olympic was planned for November 1st, 1945. The operation would have been delayed due to a very ugly typhoon (
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq102-6.htm)
This would surely have delayed the start of Operation Olympic, thereby probably delaying Coronet, too.
- Japan concentrated far more forces on Kyushu then the allies expected. The fighting on Kyuhu would most likely have taken longer then planned, delaying Operation Coronet. (I am aware that the allied land forces on Kyushu were not expected to take part in Coronet, but still.....all the air and naval units that would suffer great attrition....)
And lots of questions.
Regarding Coronet:
- You wrote about 184 starting brigades. Will there be a suicide event when the Japanese mobilize their home militia units? Millions of men and women, forming many hundreds militia or partisan units?
- What about the atomic bomb? Will the US receive 0.something bombs/months or will there be a bomb every week?
- What about other allied units? Will they be there under the player's control? (However, there were so few non-US units, that this might be ignored - not worth the effort)
The Doolittle bomber unit - will it be expendable like a rocket/flying bomb (The bombers would not be able to land on a carrier)? Or, will they take heavy losses each time and being rebuilt (to represent that many pilots survived and went back via China/USSR)?
What about the US submarine force? Will the Mark-14 desaster be represented via events? Or will it be represented by giving the US a very low torpedo tech in 1936, so that the player can research fine torpedos by 1941?
What if Roosevelt loses the elections in 36 or 40? How will this change the very sophisticated pre-war game system?
Can't wait to play this animal,
Roland