@beelee Yeah I say do what you feel, whichever ones look best to you
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I tried my hand at the Ironman, USA vs computer Axis with 125% income boost to the machine. Didn't quite get there lol

2025-4-21-UHD-WIP-1940-45_USA_vs_Axis_125_Round_11.tsvg

Mostly KJF plan with what felt like a moderate press vs the Med. G went pretty monster with the extra money! I didn't think we'd quite have the juice to liberate France with our computer pals pursuing their own agenda, but we did make a little blast vs the Balkans over there which had us feeling like we made a contribution. Although perhaps not enough to keep the Soviets in it to win it lol.

Japan has been fighting tooth and nail for the home island. It was pretty entertaining on the water hehe

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@beelee said in A New Year and a New Mod:

@rogercooper said in A New Year and a New Mod:

East & West has a rule that allows tanks to move out of a territory in non-combat movement.

You mean after already having been in combat ?

If so, you could suggest players use edit or make a map option they can turn on at game start boosting the Tank if they don't want to.

I like the idea of making it a map option. I will default the defense to 3, which most mods use.

I'll probably begin to play both Steampunk Advance and Camerons version to sort of plan out more ideas

Update to Version 2.35

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Latest version v210 ready for download.

In TripleA
Click Download Maps Button
Click Installed tab
Click 1941 Global Command Decision
Click Remove Button
Click Yes button to remove
Click Ok button (Successfully removed)
Click Close (To force the map list to refresh)
Click Download Maps Button
Find & Click 1941 Global Command Decision
Click Install button
Enjoy!

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v210
(Thanks to Black Elk for most of these suggestions)

Germany, Vienna now a Capital Japan, reduced their number of Convoys as they don't need so many Japan, Bangkok-Siam +1 Bunker Pacific-Allies, Industry-Hvy fixed, only if they own it Pacific-Allies, Port Moresby, Brisbane, Sydney +1 Bunker USA, Honolulu +2 Inf-Elite/Marines USSR, Siberia now a Capital

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Current v205 documentation
1941_Global_Command_Decision_Manual.pdf

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Link to 1st post that has;
Google Drive download link
Latest TripleA version
Latest 1941 GCD manual

https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/3326/1941-global-command-decision-official-thread

Hmmm I definitely found a few lines that jumped lol

For the geometry of the sea zone tiles, the goal would be to find something analogous (where the connections are the same.) Also on a physical table maybe like an extra wide king banquet 36x72 that sorta deal hehe.

I think v3 probably makes the more sense to key it that way than revised though, since that one is so small, but I also wanted to get the white border thing working which is always sorta tricky, mainly on account of wanting something that can be blended as well.

If I pass it through a gray instead of white gives different effects, so like to make it more muted, or the sea zone color doing different blues for player preference. Mainly because for revised it's cool to have the dark ocean light sea zone, but other boards like Classic or v3 might look better with the black line, so just trying to get a way to do both from the same sort of templet.

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@quack_89 Are you using "fast AI"? I also have a decent laptop and encounted the same issue when playing any other type of AI.

@jason-green-lowe said in Limit total number of Chinese fighters?:

I swear I tried hard to think of this on my own and couldn't, but it seems so obvious once you point it out.

I have said the same thing! @beelee, @TheDog and many others have pointed stuff out to me, and I'll just go "WOW! I could have had a V8!" (Head-slap emoji)

Cheers...

I'm afraid if I don't leave this somewhere it will be lost to time forever.

Here is the Pop_1914 folder which I have. It includes a tweak I must have made at some point, to the under image. Probably while trying to get blends to work under the newer scheme, or who knows, it was like years ago now.

This map/game is not in a fully completed state, meaning I'm not sure if meets the specs for the pre-release 2.7 is stuff. It won't autounzip, but if I extract the folder and place that downloaded maps it will launch up. I think perhaps just needs a yaml in the right spot, or to match the new structure for that stuff in the latest tripleA way.

It's missing some elements, unit graphics I believe, as I only had Germany for that from Hepps, and I think the others may need to be worked up. but this is everything I have for it so I didn't want it to be lost. Going like 5 years on my old dropbox links probably will be defunct eventually. Anyhow here it is from the archive on my drive.

Power of Politics 1914 (Map/Game Folder)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16IwfPRBcPzAXTu-F7HN4mYBAobiRq_vU/view?usp=sharing

That includes everything I was given by Hepps and Redrum at whatever point that was back in like 2020. The way Hepps did his design, the Misc folder was used to include all the decorative elements in tiles (basically like same way as using the map tools tile_breaker in map tools/tile_reconstructor in other optional tools. I believe what I did was to isolate out the convoy lanes, and then put it back in a reduced opacity, and changed the base ocean color to a lighter color for blends. This was just me trying to customize what was already there, hence the backups in case anyone needed to restore. Here is an image with blends on and then another blends off, so you can see what all is there.

Image (export gameboard image)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TuXZ1ry7nqqyAGiZPphSzo8kmsJ5Yt0S/view?usp=sharing

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Image (export gameboard image blends on)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-sEamonkaYpPcztZAwDnhKEaaeC8f--b/view?usp=sharing

pop_1914_blends_small.png

Unit purchase (screen)

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There screen for G1. Right now G is the only faction with graphics, so I think that would need to be the basis, at least for Central Powers. Perhaps the Entante could just be made in the similar style. Graphics for that one all 48px, but might do an upscale if I can find the time. Otherwise I think Hepps stuff all looks pretty badass though, I mean stylistically it's all very visually cohesive with his other tripleA boards, and has the unifying vibes. Not sure what if anything comes of it, I just didn't want to lose all that work that they put in. Map is in a WIP state still. I'm not sure of the ultimate design vision for the politics and such, but wanted to make sure it was saved somewhere at least.

Best

Elk

Latest version v010 ready for download.

Updated manual New Unit Bridge that can be placed in Rivers and Channels, it is a non moving 'transport' New canal Hellespont & Anatolia Post 2 on 1st page for Code Raiders has a summary of how Winter works Winter is coming, well on turns 4, 8,12, etc (with a Winter symbol . With a popup to warn & remind you of its effects for 1 turn

Winter in a territory and Sea Zone (Arctic, North and Antarctic)
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Winter Terrain Effect for this turn
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Your comments are most welcome.
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Link to 1st post that has;
Google Drive download link
Latest 1888a SAS manual
Latest TripleA version

https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/4056/1888a-steam-steel-official-thread

Prof of concept only, this xml is not game ready.

Units in this xml have been capitalized, "infantry" is "Infantry", also they have been normalized, "matilda" is "LightArmor". The unit:

<unitList> <unit name="Infantry"/> <unit name="FrenchInfantry"/> <unit name="Artillery"/> <unit name="AntiTankGun"/> <unit name="AntiAircraftArtillery"/> <unit name="Halftrack"/> <unit name="Scoutcar"/> <unit name="LightArmor"/> <!-- Represents British/Italian/French Armor --> <unit name="Armor"/> <!-- Represents American/British Sherman/German Armor --> <unit name="HeavyArmor"/> <!-- Represents German Tiger Armor --> <unit name="Truck"/> <unit name="Fighter"/> <unit name="Bomber"/> <unit name="Battleship"/> <unit name="Destroyer"/> <unit name="Submarine"/> <unit name="Harbor"/> <unit name="Supply"/> <unit name="5Supply"/> <unit name="Landmine"/> <unit name="Seamine"/> <unit name="ControlMarker"/> <!-- Not used as of now --> <unit name="Convoy"/> <!-- Not used as of now --> <unit name="AdvanceConvoy"/> <!-- Not used as of now --> </unitList>

There are no required capitals, they are created/removed to put the game board in a location for gameplay. British player starts in the lower right corner, to place units in these three territories. Supplies can be bought in 5-unit stacks, but once placed will convert back to single units.

There is only a single purchase for each player but there are two placement phases so unplaced units will survive, even between turns.

All movement is conducted through mine zones, which should cost zero movement.

RommelScenario.xml

Again, use with caution.

Cheers...

@black_elk It looks to me that those units are about 48 pixels wide. I mean the ones which you uploaded in a single image in this thread.

The image is 4,000 wide simply because of this forum's limits (and because this topic says 4000px). I would go with it being 10,000 on both axis.

This is how it would look with those about 48px units.
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As it is traditional in WW1 games, I assume the game would have frequent stalemates, with enemy units sharing the same territory across turns, so I guess it would be normal to have German, French and English units on the same territory for some rounds.

Actually, the original which I made was 6,000 on both axis, but I shrunk it because forum would not allow it.

@Nothingtoseehere fyi

@panther said in Initial Duplication:

ww2global40_2ndEd_move1st.xml

Found it, thanks! This makes the other posts make sense, talking about the particulars after getting to that starting point.

@thedog said in The First Battle of the Next War:

This might be of interest?
https://www.reddit.com/r/CredibleDefense/comments/108fwga/report_launchthe_first_battle_of_the_next_war/

That thread discusses the same report. There are some interesting comments.

I have played this out in some commercial wargames with same result, any surface ships in war zone are dead within days. Which is a problem for an amphibious invasion.

A&A/TripleA make amphibious invasions much easier than they are in real life.

@beelee

Problem is not with the mod, as it works as it should in 2.5+, as all tech show up in the "Unit Help" window, and the unit "Tool Tip". But in 2.6+/2.7+ the tech info does not show in the display/tip. So, this is a problem with the new release that would need to be reported.

Cheers...