• Map closest to Axis and Allies Anniversary Edition?

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    @SkyGawker v3
  • TripleA - a request from a player to a designer

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    @The_Good_Captain said in TripleA - a request from a player to a designer: First, in both '41 and '42 versions of Anniversary, the official errata optional rule regarding SZ 16 (the Dardanelles rule) was omitted. The problem here is that the TripleA program doesn't allow for having a direct setting that enables/disables a canal. This could be hacked in a number of ways, but probably should rather be a feature request for the program to support such a possibility, before changing any maps (so, one would need first to find a developer to add the feature to the program, another developer to review such feature, then someone willingly to modify the map's games, and, finally, an administrator accepting the changes (all this besides any considerations about copyrights over the existent map, whose creators are likely not all active any longer)). Meanwhile, you can use my "WWIIv3 1941 Tech Advance" variant. Just be sure to customize it back to standard WWIIv3 rules, before enabling the "Canal Turkey" option. Second, I know this is a map in development but the destroyer units in Europe '99 (“Europe - Alpha” map as its called in TripleA) This (as well as "Pacific") is more like a map abandoned during development. It may be more than 10 years nobody is working on it.
  • "Bad-Ass" 4 Nation FFA

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    @RogerCooper This scenario has been fixed can be downloaded
  • Amsterdam_met_de_bois

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    @Hidde2k You need to change the B in the version number to 2.
  • Diplomacy like modification?

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    @Cernel Not necessary. Providing the link like you just did is absolutely fine. @Marc-Sarzi Yeah it's a real bummer that simultaneous movement is not possible. You can do a lot with the xml, but there are just some core concepts that can't be changed. As developers we're in a long process of modernising the code and TripleA itself in multiple areas, but core gameplay is simply not a priority. There are tons of more pressing problems to solve and simultaneous movement isn't just something one can implement in an afternoon. TripleA is open source after all, so if you're ambitious enough, at least in theory, you could contribute for this to eventually become a reality.
  • Axis & Allies Zombies (AA42-2)

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    @Cernel For example, if I'm making a game that is not exactly "chess", I would call it "chess" if the ultimate aim is for it to be exactly like "chess", and maybe this is just impossible, due to the limitation of the program. On the other hand, I would not call it "chess" if it is a game inspired to "chess" but deliberately made different in some ways.
  • Adding a map to the repository in one category or another one

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  • best WW2 map?

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    The best WWII maps are New World Order (European theater), Rising Sun (Pacific), and World at War (the whole world). They are all part of the same series. I'll focus on New World Order, as this is the one with which I'm most familiar. The attached picture shows New World Order at the start of a game. Germany is supposed to expand quickly, conquering Paris on G3, and conquering most or all of neutral Poland by G3 as well. Early in the game Italy is supposed to conquer southern France, the Balkans, central and western North Africa, and potentially Greece. It's also supposed to expand into eastern Spain. Britain is supposed to expand in the Middle East, conquering neutral Iran, Iraq, and possibly neutral Turkey. There are no diplomatic or other penalties whatsoever for attacking neutrals. Axis nations are Germany, Italy, Finnland, and Romania. Allied nations are U.S.S.R., France, Colonial France, Britain, and the U.S. Contested areas are Scandinavia (if UK or US go north) France (if UK or US go middle), Spain (if Britain or US go south) or northern Africa. Over in the east, Turkey can be contested between Britain and Italy. If Britain wins that struggle it will seek to advance into Greece and the Balkans. If Italy wins it will seek to take Iran/Iraq from Britain, perhaps even conquering Britain's factory in Cairo and driving Britain out of the east Mediterranean entirely. Sometimes Allies will go Kill Italy First, in which case Axis will often respond with Kill Soviet Union First. In this map Italy is at least as important to the Axis as the Soviet Union is to the Allies. To give you a feel for the scale of this map, it's perfectly normal for Germany to have an income of 130 and Italy to have an income of 80, and for Allied incomes to balance out Axis. Starting on round 4 you will be able to build special, more technologically advanced units: harder hitting, long ranged bombers for Britain and the U.S., Katyushka for the Soviet Union, jets for Axis, big armor and bunkers and super subs for everyone. This map includes some land and air unit types not seen in Larry Harris maps. [image: alt text] [image: alt text]
  • Existing A.I options and A.I modding

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    @felizardo You should also check out the Fast AI. It plays almost as well and it usually much faster.
  • Steampunk 1915

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    @RogerCooper Hi Roger, Actual Cernel answered my question for me. I had inadvertently left some of the original authors units in the unit folder. That is why they were appearing in "unit help". I think my version is ready to go.
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    @Michael-Hoover Very well spotted! () This is now fixed if you remove and redownload the map. There were actually 3 dragon notification mix-ups that I had to fix.
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  • Total World War Diplomacy?

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    Oh, that fixed it! I feel dumb now haha
  • Game of Thrones & A Song of Ice and Fire - Official Thread

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    Sorry for not posting in a while. I'm currently quite busy. I'll post again when I finish the units, as there are a few things to iron out.
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    Thanks @Michael-Hoover for the notification. I appreciate that you came here to the forum and not just fixed your own local copy Yes, there was a flaw in the XML. Actually there were two connections in the XML between the two territories. But this was not the problem. There has recently been an implementation of “Air connections” to the map as an alternative to bridge connections. (Credit to @Cernel :thumbs_up:) The two territories had gotten an air connection (even though it shouldn’t) and this was preventing normal unit movement. You probably flew over the connection but could not walk over it with another unit. It should be fixed now when v1.2.8 Dragon War is downloadable/updateable. I hope you return and notify if you find other flaws. :winking_face:
  • Broken Mods in Scenario Repository

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    The hope was that we'd have an army of map owners/makers taking care of the maps in repositories. In practice the maps in repository tend to be a last step and a bit of 'fire and forget'. That is not the case for all maps, there are some certainly being actively maintained, though that can't be said for the bulk as we have over a hundred and just a few people maintaining the whole project (code, servers, maps). If you have fixes, it would be great to see them get uploaded, let us know where you are running into trouble and/or what you are trying. Any scenarios you have that can be uploaded are certainly very welcome additions.
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    Thanks for the ideas I'll check that out!
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  • Latest version v020 ready for download with in TripleA.

    In TripleA
    Click Download Maps Button
    Click Installed tab
    Click 11 Rings of Power
    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 *11 Rings of Power
    Click Install button

    Enjoy!

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    v020

    Improved sounds Improved unit in place.txt & PUs pu_place.txt more sounds in notifications.properties file

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    🔻🔻 v005 unchanged 11 Rings of Power Manual here; 🔻🔻
    11_Rings_of_Power_Manual.pdf

    🔻 Suggested latestTripleA version 🔻
    https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases
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    Link to 1st post that has;
    Downloads for new Players
    https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/4444/11-rings-of-power-official-thread

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  • This all beside the fact that, of course, a sea borne assault of Gibraltar would be suicidal with land units only: the guns at Gibraltar would sink whatever thing which can transport land units before it reaches the shoreline. (I'm not an expert, so I do not know if there is any blind spot anywhere, but I doubt that there is any one or that would make a difference in this case.)

    The question, in this case, would be whether or not the guns can be silenced with battleships and/or huge bombs, to make the landings possible at all.

    Of course, this would be even more special rules for Gibraltar: I'm not proposing them, just saying.

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  • @KurtGodel7 said:

    If Gibraltar's garrison is limited, that means it can't be defended against Allied attack.

    To be clear, if you can have at most X land units in Gibraltar (which would need to be decided based on a guess of how many infantrymen is an infantry units and the broad assumption that the other land units take about the same space when deployed or in reserve but ready for immediate deployment), you can also attack Gibraltar with at most X land units. (No other rules for land units here.) This would make Gibraltar actually more defensible, possibly much more defensible.

    (Obviously, this is an approximation: you should realistically be able to attack with infinite land units but only Y at the same time, with Y lower than X, then, when you win, every land unit exceeding X goes back to the transports (because it never left them), but I'm not proposing front-line based limits or anything else other than a max X both stacking and attacking for a few very small territories like Gibraltar and Midway. Ideally, every territory for which X would be greater than 10 gets infinite - so no limit - for simplicity (yes, an arbitrary upper limit over which not to bother): this would likely include Malta and every island bigger than Malta depending on how many men an infantry unit is representing.)

    Moving on to air limits, Gibraltar would also have a maximum air unit limit to land (like an aircraft carrier) (again, arbitrary and limited only to a few extremely small territories like Midway etc.). In this case, however, there is no limit for attacking air units over Gibraltar. (Again, I'm not claiming this is very realistic.)

    Practically, the land limit would favour the defenders, and the air limit would favour the attackers.

    In case of paratroopers, the limit would be total on land units. For example, if Gibraltar has a land unit limit of 2, you can offload 2 land units, or para-drop 2 land units or 1 of each, no more. (Again, a simplification.)

    My point is not that this would be highly realistic, just that it would be more realistic than nothing, everything else being the same (and it is meant to be limited to Gibraltar, Midway and at most a few other similar cases if not just these two).

    Whether or not something like Gibraltar could be attacked with paratroopers at all is of course a disputable matter. Personally, I would say that a simple rule that Gibraltar can never be attacked with paratroopers unless completely undefended would be a good special rule to add for Gibraltar and anything else about as small as Gibraltar (as an approximation of how insanely borderline suicidal would such a thing be). An arguably more realistic rule would be limiting it to the unused stacking limit. For example, if Gibraltar has a limit of 2, then you cannot para-drop if there are 2 defenders, can paradrop at most 1 if there is 1 defender and can paradrop at most 2 if it is undefended by land units. In any case, the total attacking land units would never be more than 2.

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  • @Cernel said:

    Gibraltar was only 6.8 square kilometres and certainly not plain.

    This means that, depending on roughly how much your infantry is supposed to be in terms of infantrymen and stuff, and assuming that artillery, armour and so on are similarly limited, you can have a very low units limit.

    This would be both realistic and helping with keeping low the needed area of Gibraltar for showing units in there.

    I asked the "AI Mode" of Google "What is the maximum number of infantrymen which could have been defensively deployed in Gibraltar during 1941?"

    This was the answer:

    During 1941, the maximum number of infantrymen defensively deployed in Gibraltar was approximately 7,000 soldiers, organized into two brigades.
    This infantry element formed the backbone of the overall 16,000-man total defensive garrison stationed on the Rock at the time, which also included large numbers of artillerymen, anti-aircraft crews, and Royal Engineers.

    If the question is framed around structural capacity rather than actual troop counts, the British military dramatically expanded the Rock's underlying infrastructure during this period. Royal Engineers and Canadian engineers excavated an extensive 25-mile network of underground tunnels, living spaces, and hidden fortresses.
    Upon its completion, this massive subterranean complex was designed with a maximum theoretical capacity to fully house, protect, and sustain a force of 30,000 men for up to 16 months without external resupply.

    You could say that the physical land area Britain actually owned for Gibraltar was small. Too small to station a large army there. Okay, you're probably right about this.

    But suppose a nation wanted to station a large army in or near Gibraltar. Because of the lack of room for the army, it would need to take some nearby land from Spain. Germany invades Spain on its very first turn. The concept of taking land away from Spain is hardly far-fetched for this map.

    A better example of a space constraint is Midway. Unlike Gibraltar, there is no nearby land for someone to seize if they need more space. The American government stationed planes on Midway--but only a limited number, because space was constrained. If I wanted to simulate this source of realism--which I don't--I would create a small island rule. If something is categorized as a "small island" its garrison must be limited in size.

    It's easy to create a lot of rules, exceptions, and special cases, all in favor of realism. Individually each may seem relatively harmless. Their collective weight burdens the player. Before I say yes to anything like this, I ask, "How does this improve game play?" Suppose the answer is, "this was never intended to benefit game play. Its only purpose was to make the game more realistic." At that point, the idea can be dropped. Added complexity is never justified by realism for the sake of realism.

    WWII saw enormous technological progress. Production capacity greatly increased. Nations' armies were limited by their available manpower. There was an air war. Losing the air war meant your enemy could strafe your armies and bomb your factories. Flames and Steel is intended to do a much better job of simulating all of this than a normal TripleA map would. I embraced realism in those specific areas because I thought it would improve game play. Adding those things would give the player a richer array of strategic choices.

    If Gibraltar's garrison is limited, that means it can't be defended against Allied attack. Which means that America Atlantic's fleet could enter the Mediterranean. Allowing America Atlantic's fleet access to the Mediterranean is a decision about game play. Currently, I believe that the better decision for game play is to allow the Axis to harden Gibraltar, and thus keep the Allies out. If I'm persuaded otherwise--if it turns out that allowing the Allies into the west Mediterranean really would lead to a better game--then I will change rules to allow that to more easily happen.

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