@beelee Yes, very disappointing. Time to start looking for a new QB. Not sure his confidence will recover. Game History

Round: 10 Purchase Units - Russians Russians buy 1 AirLL, 3 Mass_Tankss, 3 TotalWar_Tank_2s, 1 elite and 3 guard_infantrys; Remaining resources: 2 PUs; 2 AirLendLease; 3 TankLendLease; Place Units - Russians 1 AirLL placed in Volgograd Turning on Edit Mode EDIT: Adding units owned by Russians to Volgograd: 1 fighter EDIT: Removing units owned by British from Volgograd: 1 uk_fighter EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode Combat Move - Russians Trigger Russians RemoveLendLeaseFee: has removed 1 AirLL owned by Russians in Volgograd Trigger RailMovementAutoPlaceRussians: Russians has 1 R_Europe_Rail and 2 Russian_Rails placed in Russia 2 infantry moved from Rostov to Ukraine 1 fighter moved from Volgograd to Ukraine 1 FighterAce moved from Russia to Ukraine 4 fighters moved from Smolensk to Ukraine Combat - Russians Battle in Ukraine Russians attack with 1 FighterAce, 5 fighters and 2 infantry Italians defend with 1 armour and 2 artilleries Russians win with 1 FighterAce and 5 fighters remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7 Casualties for Russians: 2 infantry Casualties for Italians: 1 armour and 2 artilleries Trigger Remove All ItaliansParaBoost: has removed 1 italian_paraBoost owned by Italians in Greece Trigger Remove All Wolfpack: has removed 1 Wolfpack owned by Germans in 92 Sea Zone Non Combat Move - Russians Trigger Wolfpack at92 SeaZones: Germans has 1 Wolfpack placed in 92 Sea Zone Trigger ItaliansParaBoost atGreece: Italians has 1 italian_paraBoost placed in Greece Turning on Edit Mode EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode Trigger RailMovementAutoPlaceRemoveRussians: has removed 1 R_Europe_Rail and 1 Russian_Rail owned by Russians in Belarus Trigger RailMovementAutoPlaceRemoveRussians: has removed 1 Russian_Rail owned by Russians in Sakha 1 FighterAce moved from Ukraine to Russia 5 fighters moved from Ukraine to Russia EDIT: 5 armour moved from Novgorod to 1st Tank EDIT: 1 1stTankArmy moved from 1st Tank to Belarus EDIT: 1 Tank_General3 moved from Novgorod to Overflow 1 aaGun moved from Novgorod to Belarus 1 infantry moved from Novgorod to Belarus 2 aaGuns moved from Bryansk to Belarus 4 armour moved from Western Ukraine to Belarus 1 elite moved from Western Ukraine to Bryansk 2 armour moved from Rostov to Belarus 5 armour moved from Bryansk to Belarus 2 infantry moved from Bryansk to Belarus 1 Elitearmour moved from Russia to Belarus 1 armour moved from Urals to Novosibirsk 4 armour moved from Russia to Belarus 1 Russian_Rail and 1 armour moved from Russia to Sakha 1 Russian_Rail moved from Russia to Sakha 1 Russian_Rail and 1 infantry moved from Sakha to Belarus 1 R_Europe_Rail moved from Russia to Novosibirsk 1 R_Europe_Rail and 1 infantry moved from Novosibirsk to Belarus 1 armour moved from Russia to Novosibirsk Place Units - Russians 3 Mass_Tankss, 3 TotalWar_Tank_2s and 3 guard_infantrys placed in Russia Turning on Edit Mode EDIT: Adding units owned by Russians to Samara: 1 elite EDIT: Removing units owned by Russians from Russia: 1 elite EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode 1 elite placed in Russia Trigger MassTanksPlace3: has removed 3 Mass_Tankss owned by Russians in Russia Trigger RussiansTotalWarTankPlaceRussia6: has removed 3 TotalWar_Tank_2s owned by Russians in Russia Trigger MassTanksPlace3: Russians has 3 armour placed in Russia Trigger RussiansTotalWarTankPlaceRussia6: Russians has 3 armour placed in Russia Turn Complete - Russians Russians collect 32 PUs; end with 34 PUs

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@beelee still did not read all rules but i think it was not bad move 😄

@panzerstahl-helm-0 Game History

Round: 5 Purchase Units - Russians Note to players Russians: It is Early 1942 and Comrade Stalin has Ordered Mass Conscription for the Red Army ! Up to 26 Army Conscripts are Available This Turn Only. Trigger Army Conscript: buyArmy_Conscript added to productionRussians Russians buy 26 Army_Conscripts; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 3 AirLendLease; 3 TankLendLease; Combat Move - Russians Trigger RailMovementAutoPlaceRussians: Russians has 1 R_Europe_Rail and 2 Russian_Rails placed in Russia 1 infantry moved from Kansu to Suiyuyan Chinese take Suiyuyan from Japanese Combat - Russians Trigger Russians Conquer Japanese Territory By Mongolia: Setting switch to false for conditionAttachment_Mongolia_May_Change_To_Russians_Control_Switch attached to Russians Trigger Remove All Wolfpack: has removed 1 Wolfpack owned by Germans in 110 Sea Zone Trigger Remove All Wolfpack: has removed 1 Wolfpack owned by Germans in 92 Sea Zone Non Combat Move - Russians Trigger Wolfpack at110 SeaZones: Germans has 1 Wolfpack placed in 110 Sea Zone Trigger Wolfpack at92 SeaZones: Germans has 1 Wolfpack placed in 92 Sea Zone Trigger RailMovementAutoPlaceRemoveRussians: has removed 2 Russian_Rails owned by Russians in Yakut S.S.R. Trigger RailMovementAutoPlaceRemoveRussians: has removed 1 R_Europe_Rail owned by Russians in Belarus 3 guard_infantrys moved from Russia to Belarus 1 armour moved from Russia to Belarus 1 Soviet_Commisar moved from Russia to Belarus 1 armour moved from Urals to Russia 1 Russian_Rail and 1 guard_infantry moved from Russia to Yakut S.S.R. 1 1stCorps, 1 aaGun, 1 artillery, 1 elite and 15 infantry moved from Buryatia to Yakut S.S.R. 1 2ndCorps moved from Kansu to Shensi 3 infantry moved from Kansu to Shensi 1 infantry moved from Kansu to Olgiy 1 elite moved from Russia to Bryansk 1 guard_infantry moved from Russia to Volgograd 1 guard_infantry moved from Russia to Belarus 1 russian_para moved from Caucasus to Bryansk 1 russian_para moved from Caucasus to Bryansk 1 Russian_Rail moved from Russia to Belarus 1 Russian_Rail and 1 artillery moved from Belarus to Yakut S.S.R. 1 R_Europe_Rail moved from Russia to Caucasus 1 R_Europe_Rail and 1 infantry moved from Caucasus to Belarus 1 infantry moved from Belarus to Bryansk Place Units - Russians 5 Army_Conscripts placed in Volgograd 1 Army_Conscript placed in Ukraine 3 Army_Conscripts placed in Novgorod 17 Army_Conscripts placed in Russia Trigger RussiansReplaceConscriptsNovgorod: has removed 3 Army_Conscripts owned by Russians in Novgorod Trigger RussiansReplaceConscripts17: has removed 17 Army_Conscripts owned by Russians in Russia Trigger RussiansReplaceConscriptsNovgorod: Russians has 3 infantry placed in Novgorod Trigger RussiansReplaceConscripts17: Russians has 17 infantry placed in Russia Turn Complete - Russians Russians collect 33 PUs; end with 33 PUs

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@panzerstahl-helm-0

Guten Tag

Idk if it matters but I only have the two addresses for you and Trout

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Idk if that will affect Alex and I from posting or not. I guess I will try it sice ANZC a easy turn 🙂

Game History

Round: 2 Purchase Units - ANZAC ANZAC buy 1 air_transport, 1 artillery and 1 infantry; Remaining resources: 5 PUs; Combat Move - ANZAC Combat - ANZAC Trigger Remove All JapaneseParaBoost: has removed 1 japanese_paraBoost owned by Japanese in Jehol Trigger Remove All Wolfpack: has removed 1 Wolfpack owned by Germans in 110 Sea Zone Non Combat Move - ANZAC Trigger Wolfpack at110 SeaZones: Germans has 1 Wolfpack placed in 110 Sea Zone Trigger JapaneseParaBoost atJehol: Japanese has 1 japanese_paraBoost placed in Jehol 1 transport moved from 42 Sea Zone to 45 Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from Dutch New Guinea to 45 Sea Zone 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 45 Sea Zone to 44 Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from 44 Sea Zone to Celebes ANZAC take Celebes from Dutch 2 infantry moved from New South Wales to Queensland 1 air_transport moved from New South Wales to Queensland Place Units - ANZAC 1 air_transport, 1 artillery and 1 infantry placed in New South Wales Turn Complete - ANZAC ANZAC collect 17 PUs; end with 22 PUs Trigger ANZAC Liberates Celebes: ANZAC met a national objective for an additional 1 PUs; end with 23 PUs Trigger ANZAC Liberates DNG: ANZAC met a national objective for an additional 2 PUs; end with 25 PUs Combat Move - French Combat - French Trigger Remove All JapaneseParaBoost: has removed 1 japanese_paraBoost owned by Japanese in Jehol Trigger Remove All Wolfpack: has removed 1 Wolfpack owned by Germans in 110 Sea Zone Non Combat Move - French Trigger Wolfpack at110 SeaZones: Germans has 1 Wolfpack placed in 110 Sea Zone Trigger JapaneseParaBoost atJehol: Japanese has 1 japanese_paraBoost placed in Jehol Turning on Edit Mode EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode 1 destroyer moved from 81 Sea Zone to 96 Sea Zone EDIT: 1 infantry moved from French Central Africa to Egypt 1 infantry moved from Trans-Jordan to Egypt Turn Complete - French

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

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Looks as if it did 🙂 UK only used 1 Rail so the French dude went to Egypt. He said not much of a improvement from Central Africa and was hoping for London duty 🙂

Edit
Hmm ... 🤔 I wonder if this might affect your game with Trout though ?

@johnnycat you raise good questions:

Is the answer time and programmers? Or just programmers or just time?
Or management ?
Does it come down to Money? If the answers are: yes, no, maybe, and only on weekends, how could I and others help?

Time and programmers is the biggest need. Every bug fix and issue probably takes 2 to 16 hours to fix. This is the biggest gap. Further, TripleA is a larger code base that is very brittle. Making that codebase be easier to work with would help.

Money is useful for keeping the servers running and paying the monthly bills. As much as I would love to be payed for TripleA work, paying any type of reasonable developer wage becomes way too much very quickly.

Additional management would be helpful. Getting issues sorted, cleanly stated, boiled down to a bare minimum would all be helpful.

@kindwind If you want to try a neural net AI for TripleA, you would need to modify TripleA to support repeated self-play. For example of programs that support repeated self-play checkout Ludii & Chess Arena.

Supporting repeated self-play would be project of moderate difficulty in Java. (TripleA already supports self-play). You would need to learn Java (Vibe coding doesn't cut it).. Repeated self-play would also be useful for balancing mods.

I don't know how well a neural net would play TripleA. The number of possible moves in Go is a most 361, far fewer than the number of possible moves in a TripleA game. An effort to get a neural net to play a 2-player Risk variant did not go well.

One advantage is that TripleA already has heuristic AI's that could be used to train a neural net.

@ubernaut I just read that it got shut down... but that's ok

@beelee cool o7

@wc_sumpton

Yeah, the 2.7 version has a lot of visual issues.

I just opened the 2.5 version, it's great.

@thedog You may want to check my wiki for modern scenarios at https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Timeline?from=2001

There are a number of mods and maps they may give you some ideas.

@kindwind It would seem that training against random games would be every inefficient compared to training against the AI that TripleA comes with.TripleA is not Go, random play should be very bad.

@rogercooper
Thanks!

On the roadmap is to change how TripleA represents the state of the game to be a plain text file instead of a binary encoding. Once that is done, it'll be a lot easier to interoperate different TripleA game clients (ie: a mobile version that interoperates with a desktop version).

The level of effort to reach that goal is pretty high though. It's been an uphill battle to tackle our current goals... I do agree it would be pretty sweet to be able to play a turn of TripleA during coffee breaks.

@samurai-jd said in A more challenging AI:

Re: 💥 1941 Global Command Decision - Official Thread

First, for a guy who has played TripleA in the earliest of days and before that all the published versions of the Axis and Allies board games since the 1980s, the GCD map and rules is a true masterpiece. Thank you.

I play solo. Can anything be done to improve the skill of the AI? I have tried both Fast and Hard modes. No matter how I favor the AI (through multiple iterations as either Axis or Allies) the AI is finished by the 7th round. In my most current effort, I start with 2700 units for the Axis and 2400 units for the Allies. Especially when the AI plays as the Allies, I can NEVER get the USA to invade Continental Europe no matter how favorable I set the situation.

I appreciate your time and the incredible game that you have so elegantly created.

Samurai JD

A large, complex mod such as 1941 Global Command decision is difficult for the AI to play properly. More units just makes it worse.

You would need either to change to mod to help the AI or give the US units near Europe each turn using the editor

@mshanaplayerson

Sweet ! Let us know if you need any help 🙂

@sgrom8504

Right Arm 💪

Let us know if you need help