Right on! I updated the reliefs just now with a little more noise reduction on the borders. Should make it a bit cleaner when scaling hopefully. We can fine tune that stuff if we want. I tried to kinda optimize it for displays at 75% and 50% as much as at 100%. It's a bit of a trade off there, cause sharper borders display somewhat cleaner when zoomed out, but softer borders looks better when you're right on top of it at 100%. I went with noise reduction 4 for the lines on these, but maybe 5 or 6 would be better? Kinda hard to say till I see how it displays in-game, but I think this should work to get the ball rolling.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pcvl7jjpenpld7t/World_War_II_Global 1940 relief 25 opacity.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/x1qei5rhc137hip/Domination_1940 relief 25 opacity.png?dl=0

Let me know how it goes or if there's anything I need to fix lol

Fingers crossed!

TripleA 2.6 has a lot of cool stuff going on already. I think if we get to TripleA 3.0, having a bunch of trick new stuff for the G40 package would definitely be a draw hehe

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I think I'have made a decent relief for sea zones. But creating a relief for land territories is a whole other beast for me right now.

Here is the new base image

https://i.ibb.co/ZG2zgyM/fortress-world-sea-relief.png

And an incomplete relief with stroked lines only.

https://i.ibb.co/xMT8KW0/fortress-world-transparent-stroke.png

Below is the latest Game Notes that match the current code, just to give a direction to where 1941 Command Decision is going.

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While I haven't played it in awhile; I generally do it the same way I do most games: play continues until one side concedes, and generally a player concedes once their defeat is inevitable. When people reach that conclusion varies, but generally once you're several rounds in, the income needs to be close to parity, if it's not, then the side that's behind is generally doomed unless they have a much stronger board position (note that you can't just directly compare tuv values for board position, because a lot of it represents infrastructure that doesn't affect things much, you have to make an estimated adjustment that varies by map).

The concession happens long before the caps would finally be captured, it's just a recognition that you're being badly outproduced, and that though it might take 10 or 20 more turns, you will lose.

@rogercooper Interesting. I might implement some of it for a few of the tech but not all. I prefer the Global War 1936 tech system because it's less rng (lowest is 33% for a stage of tech) and you needing more than 1 roll is a good thing because it's more likley they will even out in luck (you need 4 rolls). How you get a die roll of tech in that game was through heavy factories which would just be factories on territories with 3 Pu's.

The events is an interesting way to fix the nemo pirates. I didn't thought of that so thanks

@luhhlz The Hard AI actually simulates battles, so it can handle a wide variety of rules in combat effectively. Combat rules too different from the V2/V3/Global norm will throw off purchasing decisions.

Overpurchasing of given unit type by the AI or human players can be prevented by build caps. Underpurchasing by the AI can be dealt with by events which give units (and remove PU's).

deja vu no wai

@ebbe It looks rad!!!

Beautiful work!!!

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Of course Ran is the better movie hehe, but I'm going to go 1990s style Takeda march - for the battle magic and the Heaven and Earth high score!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex-h3f2peqE

I'll play it this week when I get a few hours!

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heheh Aces!

@zlefin yeah it looks like the bid placement is out of order for all countries. But unplaced units don't expire so you can still place the units during your round 1 placement.

Current:

<step name="germansBidPlace" delegate="placeBid" player="Germans" maxRunCount="1"/> <step name="germansBid" delegate="bid" player="Germans" maxRunCount="1"/>

Should be:

<step name="germansBid" delegate="bid" player="Germans" maxRunCount="1"/> <step name="germansBidPlace" delegate="placeBid" player="Germans" maxRunCount="1"/>

Edit- to clarify, this is an issue with the WaW map xml

@beelee Thanks - first time really getting to look again, then life beacons again...

I agree it was the first map I played.

Been playing this map a bit again, and found a minor visibility issue to add

issue 13 - unit visibility in Taiwan can be poor. I missed some Jap dive bombers in Taiwan; they really blend in due to how the territory and unit placements are setup. The unit border ends up in the same place as the territory border which means its outline doesn't really show, and it overlaps with the text of the province name.

Update now available from [Download Maps] button listed in the Experimental tab as Arena of Death, includes;

New Arena Map - as the post above

4 Placeable Terrain pieces
column - one stack
hill - Adds 1 range to Archers-shot or Archer-Shot-1 - by trigger
impassable - Impassable to all
marsh - Slows movement by 1 when leaving hex. WARNING do NOT enter with a 1 move hero

ToolTips
Fix some minor bugs

@ninjawolfhybrid Hello. The link to the map seems to be broken. Could you please reupload it?

Thanks!

@Cernel: Since I want to start my next game soon, I was curious, if you want to share the map in its current state, so we can test it by playing it.

Are they in your Triplea downloadedMaps folder, dated today?

If your not sure use the link below and paste it into your windows explorer
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\triplea\downloadedMaps

The map is on, special thanks to@RogerCooper who made this possible. Feedback appreciated 🙂