@colin VGG

@colin cool sounds good our games are always fun and i am looking forward to getting another shot with axis. this weekend was kinda bad for me too went to a russian festival yesterday and drank too much and today i get to clean my house bc the landlord is showing up tomorrow.

@Hepps note he is "teaching" again this means he has returned from his hiatus?

Here is a fun one where the AI Allies have been keeping us on our toes... Axis went with the slow push to expand carving up the conquests between the various minors along the way, but got stalled up in the Urals and the Russians had us fighting tooth and nail to take out Siberia. AI Soviets meanwhile have been launching some effective counter attacks using their bomber stack, with few furious bombing runs to sweep Japanese production on the mainland. Yakutsk is still kicking and British fighter support has kept the far east fairly active. US pacific fleet just did an end around towards Tokyo when the Japanese fleet finally launch from Truk , and AI Stalin has used the opportunity to re-established a final stronghold in Vladivostock! The Americans are stacking fighters to the ceiling! Germans just bought their first nuke to deal with the situation... hehe good times. Elk vs Allies 20 synth fuel per starting factory flat bonus Japan round 12.tsvg AI Australia felt better after the increase on starting fuel, they've been keeping Japan on edge bouncing defending fighters around. South Africa was knocked off and British-India is near collapse, but the rest of the gang is still up to no good in West Africa. Think it could go another half dozen rounds A pretty Epic battle vs AI Britain for control of Mexico City! hehe been taking this one full invasion USA, but the North American air fortress is pretty impressive. Japan didn't have enough strength at the ready after the long campaigns vs India and Russia to turn around and directly take on Australia or USA. So instead they blew past Hawaii and the West Coast and headed to Panama. Axis are sweeping across the South America now, with German tanks leading the way and a massive Italian army finally ready follow along for the Atlantic crossing. Even with tactical nuke strikes by both Germany and Japan over several rounds, the British and Americans are determined to bloody us still. US AI has fifty some odd fighters defending the homeland. Good times! This one might go into the 1960s lol Elk vs Allies 20 synth fuel per starting factory flat bonus Germany round 20.tsvg

@colin once again great game, look forward to our future wars.

@colin almost forgot the mention go for

@ghostronin Thanks. Appreciate the thoughts.

@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

TripleA Turn Summary: Russians round 1 TripleA Turn Summary for game: WWII Europe 1940 Original SeaLion-Balanced, version: 2.6 Game History Round: 1 Purchase Units - Russians Russians buy 1 armour, 2 artilleries, 3 infantry and 1 mech_infantry; Remaining resources: 1 PUs; Combat Move - Russians 1 fighter moved from Novgorod to 115 Sea Zone 1 fighter moved from Russia to 115 Sea Zone 1 tactical_bomber moved from Russia to 115 Sea Zone Combat - Russians Battle in 115 Sea Zone Russians attack with 2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber Germans defend with 1 battleship, 1 cruiser and 1 transport Russians roll dice for 2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber in 115 Sea Zone, round 2 : 3/3 hits, 1.67 expected hits Germans roll dice for 1 battleship, 1 cruiser and 1 transport in 115 Sea Zone, round 2 : 2/2 hits, 1.17 expected hits 2 fighters owned by the Russians, 1 battleship owned by the Germans, 1 transport owned by the Germans and 1 cruiser owned by the Germans lost in 115 Sea Zone Russians win with 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 19 Casualties for Russians: 2 fighters Casualties for Germans: 1 battleship, 1 cruiser and 1 transport Non Combat Move - Russians 1 infantry moved from Novgorod to Belarus 1 infantry moved from Novgorod to Belarus 1 infantry moved from Novgorod to Belarus 1 infantry moved from Novgorod to Belarus 1 infantry moved from Archangel to Belarus 1 infantry moved from Novgorod to Baltic States 1 infantry moved from Novgorod to Belarus 1 infantry moved from Karelia to Novgorod 1 infantry moved from Karelia to Novgorod 1 infantry moved from Vyborg to Novgorod 1 infantry moved from Vyborg to Novgorod 1 artillery moved from Western Ukraine to Bryansk 1 infantry moved from Caucasus to Rostov 1 infantry moved from Russia to Bryansk 1 infantry moved from Russia to Bryansk 1 artillery moved from Russia to Bryansk 1 armour moved from Volgograd to Bryansk 1 infantry moved from Volgograd to Rostov 1 mech_infantry moved from Volgograd to Bryansk 1 tactical_bomber moved from 115 Sea Zone to Novgorod 1 submarine moved from 127 Sea Zone to 112 Sea Zone 1 armour moved from Russia to Bryansk 1 mech_infantry moved from Russia to Bryansk Place Units - Russians 1 artillery and 1 infantry placed in Novgorod 1 armour, 1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry placed in Russia 1 infantry placed in Volgograd Trigger Russians 3 At War With Axis: Russians has 2 infantry placed in Novosibirsk Turn Complete - Russians Russians collect 27 PUs; end with 28 PUs Trigger Russians 1 Lend Lease: Russians met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 33 PUs Combat Hit Differential Summary : Germans : 0.83 Russians : 1.33 Savegame

I've been having fun experimenting with different alliances. Here's the best I came up with. It's a balanced game that makes for way more strategy options, including the Western part of the map. I've been running it with AI on Hard and the teams seem fairly balanced. Second Darkness: Dol Guldor, Mordor, Angmar, Orcs Arkenstone Pact: Dwarves, Woodland Realm, Northmen, Freefolk Voice Oath: Saruman, Rohan, Ruhn, Harad Last Alliance: High Elves, Lorien, Arnor, Gondor I plan to play this set-up over the next few weeks with my sons. I'd like to know what other players have experienced with this or different alliances. (Just go into Edit mode change the alliances and save the game with the new alliances in place.) BTW, I tried a few alternate alliance concepts with Gondor and Rohan aligned, but it was always very imbalanced. Gondor is very strong and has great geographical advantages. In addition, I found that Rohan was too weak against Gondor if not given a partner to keep it afloat; hence the Voice Oath -- Saruman using his enchanted voice to deceive lesser men to buy into his vision of a new order. Also, In the Northeast, Esgoroth, Erebor, and Elvenking Halls are too weak and in too close a proximity to survive battle against each other -- I believe that they must all three be aligned together for each of them to have a fighting chance and for each to maintain a presence long term.

Little one is a galley, big one is a man of war. Both can fight, I really dislike the instantly killed dedicated transports of some games.

ignore that sorry

@Gully I'm going to resign our game as I just haven't had the time to play. Definitely quite an interesting game especially after the Tokyo capture.

@Name Just checking in to ensure you're ok.

@Handsome its pretty good once you get your head around it. i will be in touch after i wrap up this game ill be upgrading to 2.0 after that.

@prastle What it lacked in motivation it more than made up for in personal job satisfaction.

@redrum kk Japan and NewJersy bots run the latest pre and have maps updated

@beelee might try "TransportC8 D1 (already available) " if subs get out of Line. Seems ok so far though, ( U-Boats just took a beating as I type this ) but "Those Boys been in Dry Dock too Long". : ) With a C5 DD it'd no longer be the Fodder Unit. Also, just noticed, if a DD is fired on in CM while going to another SZ, You cannot move through that zone in NCM due to it have been being in a "Combat Zone". Another boost for the DD : ) Oops ! Sorry just realized probably not the right spot for this : )

@LaFayette Well, that was really more on the side of the user, as it would be the one adjusting the right bar wideness, but I've no idea if it is an easy thing to do or not. For example, the optimal size of the buttons is probably not the same if you are on a full hd or on a ultra hd, but of course there are many more items that go the same way, so I guess it's consistent. What the mapmaker would gain is the ability of setting a minimap dependent right bar wideness independently. Minor note, I would actually distribute the buttons this way, left to right: Previous-Next-Skip-Sleep-Alert.