alan_le_cowboy - Your welcome. You seem to notice just about everything that goes on which helps me to ensure that I do check I am being consistant, for which I thank you. Operation Komodo doesn't strictly follow my naming policy but as its for a specific reason you shall get your wish and that will be the next operation
Fgorginator - At least the Brazilians still have a Battleship unilke the USN
Bloodlance - Thank you and welcome. Your AAR looks interesting and I am following along. Don't expect too many comments from me though as I am fairly well set as a lurker more than a commenter
BobaFett696 - Thank you. I was a little surprised the airfield appeared as, like many others, I did not think the AI knew how to build them.
thatguy - You came very close to having one operation. Operation Subtle did not quite have the right ring to it however
Lascars - Banzai and Imamura might have to defend the jungles of Kauai for a while as marines are the best for the job. Something crops up in the next update which causes a few small problems.
Inner Circle - Manchukuo are doing a fine job and its one reason why it should be clear as to why I didn't puppet China. There is already an 11 sized army created by Manchukuo in Ulan Hot and a fair number of the troops in Harbin are also Manchurian. Imagine the army China could throw out under similar circumstances. Its a little amusing that you said Divine Wind as I was in a guild in another game called Ethereal Zephyr which means the same thing depending on how you translate it.
Mythos1978 - Nike is a fairly well known brand name as well which sort of makes it unusable.
Murmurandus - Lucky for you I didn't want to call an operation Operation Stuff. Welcome back
Kanitatlan - I can't think of any time I have seen them build an airbase before either. We know they build AA and forts so it must be possible for them to build other stuff as well.
Sokraates - I miss some updates too
I am a little undecided if I approve of that airbase being built. I certainly would not have done it as its far to easy for the Soviets to take it. I can hold it for as long as possible and in the mean time my CAS can rain down death from it. Ektoras correctly states that it was a 25% penalty so I gained 5% in upgrade times.
stnylan - I try to cover most things that are not normally covered and it does give a chance to add some dialogue between people we don't see too much of on occasion. Did you create the word 'dealth' in the hopes of it being named as an operation?
Ektoras, cjwet - Thank you
Thurak - Unfortunately the bombers are receiving more damage than the Subs in Somoa which is a little bit uncalled for. They will need to take frequent breaks in between bombing runs. Well the troops in Sinkiang do have a HQ but its in Lanzhou. Higashikuni decided to stay out of Sinkiang himself as he expected to lose it fairly quickly. I can spare one for India easily enough as I have one in Beiping doing nothing right now. Still leaves me with some spares though. I won't disband anything unless I have to.
No combined arms formations yet no. You may have noticed that all the Japanese forces in Sinkiang and western Mongolia are in corps formations and all the ones in Manchuria are singles. I am using Manchuria as a training ground for my commanders, particularly the lower level ones with defensive traits. Combined arms bonus would certainly help a little as I could split one armour with two infantry to get the bonus. I don't like grouping tanks with infantry much but I may do it.
robou - The CAS are going to make quite a mess until I lose Harbin. I still think I will lose it eventually.
germanpeon - Infantry are always nice to have but I will forgive them the airfield on this occasion. They had gained some org after flying back from the Pacific and are not at zero after moving to Harbin. I have a limit on my aircraft of 5%. They don't fly below that number.
Ruodnane - They were very determined to build the airfield and as I have said I am not sure I approve all that much.
Maj. von Mauser - I like adding dialogue on occasion as I have been. It does slow down my updates as I have to think a bit more but its not too much of a problem. The CAS spend a fair amount of time grounded as they only fly one mission a day. They gain just over 1 org a day and are force rested until 0000 hours over night. I have to upgrade them which means I am currently manually targetting all my CAS at 0000 hours and manually stop them flying at night. It is not exactly fun doing that for over a month but I can't let them just sit there doing nothing.
Nathan Madien, Metroid17 - Jilin is empty for a couple of reasons. If I move troops into it they will be kicked out immediately as I can only send six divisions. Even if they withdraw on contact I still lose some manpower. The Soviets don't appear to be interested in moving more troops in there which means I can more or less safely ignore the threat it poses. If they moved a large army into Jilin I would probably have no choice but to abandon Harbin so I won't make the AI look at Jilin if I can avoid it. Kind of an exploit if you want to look at it that way I suppose. I could advance into Jilin to make the AI see where it should be advancing I guess. Even though v1.3a is supposed to have improved the AI with regards to empty areas it still doesn't do that good a job of it.
It seems I was not quite clear on operational names and how I arrive at them for which I apologise. I will give an example.
Panzer6 said:
Now I must ask, if you get the impulse to do more of these tests, please don't make me search the whole thing for it (which could have an extra 20-50 pages by then), it's tedious enough.
Panzer6 replied to the last contest using this as part of the reply. The two words highlighted were both suitable names for an operation and Tedious was chosen by both Panzer6 and myself for the name. I don't think the wording he used was in any way deliberate but thats how I picked a name.
In the beginning operational names were supplied by something Hirohito said in meetings, this progressed to how I chose the one for Panzer6 and similarly for previous operations. You don't need to directly supply a name, which is always a one word name by the way, just reply as you normally do to updates and when a word jumps out at me I will select it and let you guys know.
You can of course feel free to embelish your normal replies to try and influence the decision
My replies above to thatguy, Murmurandus and stnylan are somewhat reflective on how I would pick a name. They just made normal replies to events and the words I picked from their replies, which I won't use, but I replied in that way to demonstrate how I go about it.
Oh and no one has mentioned the word that I already have in mind for an operation and as I said before it is highly unlikely to be guessed at but could easily crop up in a reply one of you make.
There will be an update a little later today once I have finished editting the screenshots and writing it, which I am sarting on right now. I just wanted to clear up the operation naming thing early