Round 3: Japan's air attacked Pearl Harbor and damaged the U.S. Navy. Germany continues to push east. Germany's income (170) and Soviet income (171) are now virtually tied. In the research phase Germany gained a star towards Panther tanks tech. One star left to go. In the Soviet research phase, the Soviet player gained Advanced 1 tech. A very good advance for later. It also had a randomly chosen tech give it one star towards Improved Sub. Useless. The Soviets must withdraw from Smolensk, as the Germans in that area are too strong. If the Germans stack Smolensk, they will be only two moves away from Moscow. The Soviet Union loses all its cash when Moscow falls for the first time. But after that, the Soviet Union is allowed to collect income normally. All the same, the Soviets would strongly prefer not to lose Moscow. If Moscow does fall, the Soviet Union would be reduced down to one research center, at least until it can be restored. Japan continues conquering southeast Asia and building factories there. However, Tonkin is under pressure from the British. Japan chooses not to build a factory there as it would be too much risk. Japan has finished off the fleet at Pearl Harbor. Also it has conquered Manila, despite the trenches the U.S. had been building there. This was important, because now the U.S. no longer has a good spot to build a factory in that region. The U.S. is prevented from building any factories while at peace, which is why there was no American factory built there thus far. Japan continues to make slow progress in China. It conquered Hong Kong. It would have liked to begin its invasion of the East Indies, but its local transports were needed to ship units to Tonkin, or to invade Manila. Japan built four more transports, because there were too many units not being shipped off Japan.

@husky81 said: One thing that worked well on the minimap, was showing it examples of "Good" play, and having it try to extract rules from what it saw. If you have any save files of completed games on world_war_ii_v5_1942, they could be useful. That's a great idea! Unfortunately, I've never played that map beside maybe once against the AI when @zjelcop was doing those AI challenges many years ago (and I don't kown anyone who plays it). I remember that it was one rare map which the Hard AI was playing quite well, whereas the same AI was much worse at playing V6 (which is the closest map to V5 by rules). To be clear, "world_war_ii_v5_1942" is a map, so you cannot play it unless in the sense of playing either of its games, but I know that you mean the "World War II v5 1942 SE TR" game of that map (not the other one) unless maybe you actually meant that you are interested in game-saves of either "World War II v5 1942 SE TR" or "World War II v5 1942 Second Edition" (probably not)? On a second thought, if this AI is optimized on V5, maybe it will be better to call it "WW2v5 AI" or something like that. Anyway, I'm overreaching.

@ubernaut said: @malmessi no reason to be playing 2.8 imo I am playing 3.0 But still checking old 2.8 pdf manual and I was looking for a place to find all the changes joined together, the online game help is perfect