Updated a few more categories to now be visible to guests. Rationale: SEO, letting google crawl the maps section is good maps can link to their forums page, and with visible to guests random players can see those pages without having to be members first. It's generally better to see those pages as guest users rather than 404 or otherwise hide them, which makes things look broken. I'm still not sure whether to move the AI, Development, and Feature Request sections back to being visible to 'guest' users.

@RogerCooper The wiki option was looked at some time ago, you may recall the thread. 'fandom' uses an older wiki syntax and would make a transition to it not awesome. We'd have to rewrite all of our docs in the that syntax. Axis and Allies meanwhile is a trademarked term owned by Hasbro and we can not, should not, have anything official for TripleA that is associated with that trademark. Hosting our documentation under a URL with a trade marked term that we do not own could create an incorrect perception of an affiliation.

@rogercooper i like your collages

@desmond Hi Desmond. There's a long-term gaming group here on Triple A who plays A&A G40 HRE. If you are ever interested in that. Beelee on this forum is our unofficial leader of that group.

@odor i can add u to the site but it is unclear how much longer it will be functional

I have been away from this game for a while.. but recently got back into playing against AI. I tried a strategy for Saruman that includes taking Tharbad, and found one that worked well. It does require a LOT of help from other factions, and is likely not a good PvP.. but here it goes. So on round 1, Dol Guldur... one orc marauder blitz north and south undeep... draws some Lorien/Rohan attention which Rhun will clean up later. Saruman... I take all the lands to the west of Isengard except Tharbad... Orcs.. I attack Tharbad with 4 Warg and the Balrog for 1 or 2 rounds (depending on hits recieved).. this takes out all units and damages wall. I also advance 1 orc marauder to Cerin Amroth, Naith, Nimrodel, Limlight, North Fangorn... all other troops in Moria go to Methedras Angmar... focus most forces towards Anor's Capital, and defending Mount Gundabad Rhun... pretty much ALL calvary units and the 5 Archers clean up the neutrals to the west of Dorwinion.. and continue on into Rohan territory... Round 2 forward Dol Guldur purchase Uruk_swordsman and Snaga.. and work north to take out Northmen, Woodland realm and/or Dale Saruman.. take Tharbad.. and every round you have it you MUST place 5 Urak Swordsman there.. and 3 in Ost in Edhill (orcs will need to 'block' the path for a Freefolk counter-attack at least 1 round) Mordor focus Gondor.. (they or Harad can take by round 6) then continue west to clean up.. and North to take out Dale/Dwarf Harad.. focus Gondor... take southern portions of Gondor and head west to clean up Orcs.. focus force to taking Wellinghall and surrounding forest.. this weakens Rohan/Gondor/Lorien significantly, and Lorien isn't much of an offensive threat to Moria... defend Goblintown... and after Wellinghall area secure Saruman should be able to clean up the region, so focus to take out Caras Galadhon/Rivendell Angmar.. take out either Annuminas or Thorin Halls or High Elves lands (whatever is easiest based on what AI defends).. this weakens Amor and gets Amor/freefolk defending on 2 fronts which helps Saruman and lessens pressure on Carn Dum Rhun.. I purchase nothing but Axeman and archer or two here and there all game, and focus going north to pressure Dwarf/Dale from the South/East.. the calvary group carefully advances to Rohan territory to take out Gondor/Rohan troops and territory Wold to Edoras region. Later rounds.. Once Tharbad is secure.. don't worry about Bree with Saruman.. go right towards the lands of shire and if all went well near Isengard you should be able to capture Edoras from Rohan about sametime Mordor/Harad take Minas Tirith .. (support from Rhun in attacking Edoras to weaken it) the bonus PU you get for those shire territories and Edoras are a huge boost.. and you may actually be the faction to take Bree and Annuminas as well It's a cool strategy.. probabaly not for PvP, but makes Saruman, who is typically in survival mode all game, one of the most successful land/capital owners from the Evil faction.

idk if this is necroing but I hope this is fine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJzo0lWyq5c I know it sounds insane but yes this hits hard IMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TdOEu5DOVQ Idk why but I really like this war song in particular. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSdtjb2xOow This is one is a more traditional war song but still really great to hear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKMlRXgr9M Another banger IMO from a pretty great sound track for an overhated game imo

@ondis there is https://discord.gg/PRtexuSprq already, but it's not very active

@kindwind I am not into playing online. For me, either FTF or against the AI.

@zlefin Thank you. I remember that the first one has been available for years, at least I recall myself having used it quite a long time ago. Has there been any work on it recently? The second one is new to me, too. Nice!

Im not sure what the revised board is, but the units in those maps will be bigger.

@sculpt @Cernel Does the same thing happen in the latest 2.6 ? https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases

@kindwind I don’t have access to a PC at the moment so cannot check that out. However I was looking up previous posts on the topic as I knew there are plenty. new-dice-server In this topic there’s a screenshot of some dice-stats. The funny thing I noticed is that the given median is different, either 3 or 4, for different players. It should be exactly 3,5 for all players I think. So while I’m confident the actual given dice in the game are fair perhaps the calculated dice statistics are off. @Kindwind perhaps you can check if you see a relation between given median and the deviation in your stats and if perhaps the given median is side dependent (for example: first alliance gets median 3, second gets 4).

@david09 Thanks glad you enjoyed it! Every time I try it I am always amazed at the fact that even though the elves can't make new units, they hang around so long in the north east. Those troops in Lorien and Mirkwood are tough to handle. Plus I feel like Goblins should steamroll the Freefolk, and they kind of do but it takes a bit of time to recover from taking Rivendell.

@ice1 For the sake of argument, where in the written rules is the "save" function listed as a game feature? Since it is not discussed in the rules, if you have to save the game, do you lose and is that an "illegal game function?" By your logic, use of game tools to accomplish legitimate purposes is not allowed. If you think using edit feature to move units you forgot during your turn is illegal, I am sorry, but that is not reasonable in my opinion.