@hale Looks like most of these rules are not something players can self-enforce, but would require changes to the map (or more realistically making a variant), so I'm moving this to "Maps & Mods".

Anyways, good luck, but being Great War a high quality map currently not owned (and rarely played), it is going to be tough getting any gamechanging updates accepted (up to @redrum or @Lafayette).

@Mike-Baker Iron War uses a mix of “real” historical / national orchestral music from the different countries as well as random music I found on the WWW. I would say that it is about 50/50 real historical music mixed with new music from various sources. Besides me tracking down national anthems and military marches and such, I used a lot of time searching for like Indian style/themed orchestral music, Asian style music etc. I didn’t really keep track on where exactly I found the music, but it is from places like YouTube, free game resource sites, free music sites, sites that listed the music files of old computer games etc.
To me the Music_Germany_13_3 sounds like some kind of game music. I really can’t remember where I found it.

@Captain-Crunch
I'm specifically referring to the WAW v3 variant game when I am saying that the AI plays a much better game without the "defense" unit . I assume that the same thing would occur with the other WAW variants that have the "defense" unit.

It is listed as World War II v3 in the maps depot

@PortableDoor I use a combination of paint . net and GIMP. But there are lots of different programs.

As far as a map choice... that is for you to explore... I would not rob you of the joys of making what you want. 😃

@redrum No one has done anything like that. Take a look at Steampunk 1915 for how to handle alien invaders.

@Cernel Yeah, can probably repurpose that thread to be the official one and should probably move the conversation there since this was really about fixing some of the bugs in the map.

@Cernel I don't see the current patchwork is a problem (it rewards the minor allies for participating). But you could easily create an event that triggers in the current version of the engine, changing ownership to reflect the assigned sphere of influence.

Here is the reference from POS2

changeOwnership values: This will change the ownership of the territory, either directly or by conquering the territory (there is a difference). Format is "territoryName:oldOwner:newOwner:booleanCaptured?". territoryName can be "all", and oldOwner can be "any". Can have multiple instances. examples: <option name="changeOwnership" value="South France:Germans:VichyFrench:false"/> or <option name="changeOwnership" value="all:Mongolians:Russians:true"/> or <option name="changeOwnership" value="Danzig:any:Germans:false"/>

So there doesn't appear to be an appetite to rebalance this map based on the territory differences between RTW and 270BC. So I've taken the improved unit images and dice images and merged them into standard 270BC: https://github.com/triplea-maps/270bc/pull/4

I will also be reviewing the changes in 270BC variants to see if any balances adjustments should be added from those.

New official map thread: https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/1448/270bc-official-thread

@Schulz Moving to Maps & Mods.

@runman Sadly, I don't think anyone fixed anything. It's many years that several people talk about the Game of Thrones map, but nothing has ever come out of it (I may be interested in playing that map if well remade).

If you are interested in learning mapmaking and fixing it yourself, you can do it (whatever changes are probably going to be accepted, I assume, the map being just largely broken).

I have added total mobilized:

35360048-954c-449f-984e-7a611e94440c-image.png Country Manpower on Entry into War End of War Peak Number Total Mobilized
Albania 13,000 13,000 13,000
Australia 91,700 575,100 575,100 993,000
Belgium 600,000 650,000 650,000 900,000
Bulgaria 160,000 450,000 450,000 1,011,000
Canada 63,100 759,800 759,800 1,100,000
China 2,500,000 5,000,000 5,700,000 14,000,000
Denmark 6,600 6,600 6,600
Finland 127,800 270,000 270,000 270,000
France 900,000 437,000 2,680,000 2,680,000
Germany 3,180,000 7,800,000 9,500,000 17,900,000
Greece 430,000 540,000 540,000
Hungary 80,000 210,000 210,000 210,000
India 197,000 2,159,700 2,159,700 2,581,800
Italy 1,899,600 259,100 2,563,000 2,563,000
Japan 1,700,000 7,200,000 7,200,000 9,100,000
Netherlands 270,000 400,000 400,000 400,000
New Zealand 13,800 192,800 192,800 192,800
Norway 25,000 25,000 90,000
Poland 1,200,000 250,000 250,000 2,400,000
Rumania 686,000 370,000 1,225,000 1,225,000
South Africa 19,000 198,000 250,000
UK 681,000 4,683,000 4,683,000 5,896,000
USA 5,413,000 11,877,000 11,877,000 16,354,000
USSR 9,000,000 12,400,000 13,200,000 13,200,000
Yugoslavia 150,000 800,000 800,000 1,500,000

@redrum Wow that is seriously Ethnic oriented. There is that single "Slavs" players that groups together Pomerania, Bohemia, Polonia, almost all Russia, Serbia and Bulgaria. Tho, in this case, they got the name "Britons" wrong, as those are, rather, the "Anglo-Saxons" migrants, since also "Brittany" ("Little Britain") I see it is not part of the "Britons"...

Have you ever beaten the Union militarily? 😄

So who made the map?

Also wondering if there is any negative consequence for having negative manpower?

@LovePlayingAAA Good catch, it appears we missed a few updates on some of the HeavyDestroyers and will fix that in the next minor version.

ImprovedDestroyers and AdvancedDestroyer techs still exist and have been updated to make different improvements for destroyers now. This post outlines the sub/destroyer changes: https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/493/total-world-war-december-1941-beta-2-8-0-5/392 (there were a few adjustments to that original vision).

The notes haven't been updated yet for 3.0 but are in-progress and hopefully be added shortly.

Please use the new TWW 3.0 for discussing the new version: https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/1181/total-world-war-december-1941-3-0-0-0-now-available

UBr Update:

WARNING using this update will require scenarios to be reloaded. Added sorting options. Added a list of game properties used in the scenario. Better handling of complex support attachments. Fixed off-line issues. Production frontiers are now dealt with as groups in the unit list, rather than having them as separate items in the empire list. This allows one to view and filter the frontiers so one can compare. Initial placement units are placed in a group as well as sometimes they are not in a production frontier.

Newest version : UBr Link 1.002.003