@djggml
Short answer no,.
Please post these files
map.yml
pact_of_steel_233.xml
here.

@TheDog --- hey thanks for the reply.
Yes
in the map.yml

i had this

it is still not working with my modified .xml that i put in
triplea\downloadedMaps\the_pact_of_steel\map\games -

here it has Pact_of_steel and Pact_of_steel 2 and my modified xml that I call Pact of_ Steel_ 233

so I and added this in the map.yml file

it is now loading my game- but when i try to play it- i get this error message
Failed to find game file: pact_of_steel_233.xml, within directory tree rooted at: C;\Users\djggm\triplea\downloadedMaps\the_pact_of_steel\maps\games

any other ideas ?
Thanks

@iratoric Oops, I did miswrite that. Artillery has 1 movement as well.

There will already be 8 historical and permanent sea mine zones. I'm mostly concerned about how to represent the Battle of the Atlantic. One idea is that 6 sea zones could each have a 1/6 chance to spawn a German submarine every round. But playing that kind of whack-a-mole game as the Entente sounds frustrating.

The laziest solution is simply giving the Germans an unhistorically large number of submarines in the Atlantic from the beginning.

@Schulz I assume that this is attack/defense/movement? It definitely looks like attacking on land will be hard, which gives a good impression of WWI. A few points: