@Frostion said in Iron War - Official Thread:

@Cernel Idid not think of Kamikaze planes needing to land either, but as I played Iron War as Japan the other day, I wanted to fly my Kamikaze unit from Japan to my fleet and attack with it the next round, but the unit could not land on my carrier, and that was a bit lame. I think it is OK to have Kamikaze units able to land on carriers as they also may land on land.

What I was mainly saying is that I don't believe any intended kamikaze ever took off from a carrier, but I guess it's a legit what-if.

@Cernel

If a permanent fix is planned... then that is great news. However, until then I am perfectly fine with a "hacky" approach that may include some player enforced rules.

Congratulations! Well done riverrat! Thanks to all and particularly to Prastle as organizer, Good job friend! Maybe a new tournament soon with more competitors, with limit of time for a game duration and a possibility that everybody game vs all others (as a soccer league, with points to add)…

@Hepps He's Krieghund

Saw the announcement on the Larry boards, in one of his posts in the War Room section. Then on A&Aorg in this thread, and another linked there...
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=40009.0

Pretty happy news, since I know a lot of people who've wanted to pick up a copy, but don't want to drop several hundred dollars on ebay. I know I got mine originally for only like 80 bucks back in 2008, so hopefully the pricepoint for the reprint is as reasonable.

For the AI, I think it plays pretty well right now from what I'm seeing. At least the AI does a fairly standard opener, and doesn't do anything too crazy in early rounds. Some VC or Objective logic would of course be killer, but even just fumbling about trying to take PU's the AI does a pretty decent job. It makes occasional bombing runs, and sometimes invests in tech (if the option is left on) which can give it a surprise edge. My guess is that a small resource modifier bonus could make it pretty challenging for solo play. I think V3 is at the ideal scale for PvP (whether live or PBEM), but its nice to know that there is a solo option for the AI for those who might like to try it on for size before going head to head.

@beelee Thxs Also i reopened this under a pinned topic to keep improvements separate from wishes. ;)

https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/70/wish-list-for-the-lobby-and-the-new-forum

red sun over china and warlords ffa dont work in the latest version, when i try to open either of them it loads for 2 seconds and then puts me back to the player menu

TripleA Turn Summary: Russians round 1

TripleA Turn Summary for game: Classic: Iron Blitz 3rd Edition, version: 2.0

Game History

Round: 1 Purchase Units - Russians Russians buy 8 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat - Russians Trigger Russians Can Move: Setting movementRestrictionTerritories cleared for rulesAttachment attached to Russians Trigger Russians Can Move: Setting movementRestrictionType to disallowed for rulesAttachment attached to Russians Place Units - Russians 8 infantry placed in Karelia S.S.R. Turn Complete - Russians Russians collect 24 PUs; end with 24 PUs

Savegame

@Black_Elk ExciteMENT! Begins :)

@helsinkiharbour Thanks

@Cernel map update last night worked and your maps of 270 etc in bots nice stuff. Glad they finally there.

@redrum I was going to say something....

If I remember correctly Do nothing buys... but does not move at all.

@theredbaron said in AI Development Discussion and Feedback:

Perhaps something to be considered would be some sort of AI.properties where certain AI objectives could be laid out on a map by map basis without affecting human vs. human gameplay. I've heard it said in the past that AI shouldn't go into the XML (perhaps that isn't true anymore), but it might be nice for some maps to have something to manipulate that would increase the AI's valuation of a territory even if it cannot understand why that territory is valuable. Just some food for thought...

That would be pretty cool. In a lot of instances you could accomplish quite a bit with just few critical tiles flagged as the "key to winning" on a given map. This might be better than making say all VCs a critical priority at all times, since, as was pointed out earlier, they are not always the most important thing going on. But some sea zones or territories are always going to be critical on a map (the choke points, or core production regions) so it would be cool if we could use them to push the AI into certain play patterns. It would also be awesome if you could set a threshold for these, so that the AI would try to hold them even if they are clearly outgunned. Like for Moscow or Berlin, or any capital that is adjacent to another land territory (the AI is better about stacking island capitals, since the they don't have a way to walk off haha.) Then map makers could tune the AI to the needs of the map, or try to adjust opening behavior by tweaking with the priority target territories, to see if they can make the machine play in different ways.

@CrazyG Remember that MacArthur did this exact thing when he escaped from Corregidor. Just food for thought :wink:

@redrum Regarding, the resource list, in the "End Of Turn Report". The detailed information is useful and if possible, ability to minimize/expand this portion would be cool. But more importantly, totals per resource would definitely be helpful.

Additionally, even more helpful to planning, would be the current real-time resource totals on the "economy tab". So after other nations go and before your turn comes again, you can quickly see real-time resource totals and start planning accordingly, versus manually counting the totals. In Iron War and Dragon War particularly, you cant efficiently plan your projected future purchases without knowing ballpark totals, and if you cant project purchases, you cant plan combat, etc.. .

Also, would be cool if via xml properties, the map maker could choose which resources should be shown on the "economy tab", so as to not just create clutter with lesser data. Same concept would be cool for "stats tab" too.

And back to the "End Of Turn Report", I also think the "End Of Turn" portion of text should be removed. So the report/summary and End Turn delegates can be placed at the start or end of turn. And not look like it was repurposed. I have been using it at start of turn for some time now. People seem to like it more, and it is simply most logical position.

Also since I touched on "economy and stats tabs". Would be extremely helpful to use the real-time data on these tabs for conditions, objectives, political attachments. In particular, Production, PUs, VC, but even Units and TUV would be nice. The possibilities and uses would vastly enhance Triple A.