@Ramon I believe by default tech dice use the dice sides specified on the top of the XML (by default 6). So if you want to give tech a dice of 4, you'd be changing the dice sides that regular combat units use as well. If you want tech to be rolled with 4 dice sides and the other rolls with 6 dice sides, I think theoretically it would possible, but would it would be insanely complicated and require the use of a user action phase with a lot of nested triggers/conditions. Also, some of the stuff you want to implement that is currently not possible can be made possible by making changes to the engine. So if you'd like to see this happen, feel free to post a feature request here: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues (click on "New Issue" and select the top option "Feature Request")

@TheDog said: Claude-AI/NavalAgent needs guidances (helping hand) as to what is important to players. Then o It knows the value of capitals, and of production points per territory (it uses 1 inf per pu). it doesn't really concider vc's yet. those are tricky, because they aren't worth anything until a VC snipe is on the cards. for example, if I'm Germany and besieging moscow, on pace to take in say 2 turns turns. I don't care if USA can trade Italy, France and Karelia, unless they also have a bunch of VC's on the other side of the map. The bot does check the win condition ahead of its turn so it will try to retake a VC if it is about to lose, but will not plan around VC Play.

@RogerCooper said: more sense to have the executive module set a broad plan and then the other modules figure how to execute the plan. I was thinking that the plan would be more emergent rather than preset if it was set by local processes, but maybe you're right. I will try both ways. The issue with global plannig i think will be getting the nescessary information to the executive and have it analyze that info appropriately without just simulating all possibilities (which isn't possible.) My account is drained of tokens now, so progress is on temporary hiatus.

@ubernaut cloudflare is comprehensive, IIRC you can toggle it so any new IP needs to do a captcha style challenge first. If we get attacked for real, then setting up cloudflare would likely be the only thing to restore the forum. OTOH, our data is what most people really want, I doubt very many really want to simply DDOS TripleA

I'm looking into how to fix the problem of the ships moving less than they should when they are placed. More details in: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/15013

@VictoryFirst I replaced all references to "placeNoAir" to "place" and added <attachment foreach="$All-Players$" name="rulesAttachment" attachTo="@All-Players@" javaClass="RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="placementAnyTerritory" value="true"/> </attachment>

@craigviau Nice you got it working xml work can be frustrating, unless you were born with a large amount of patience I try to look at it as a puzzle anymore, as opposed to wanting to throw my computer down the driveway lol PactofSteel2 xml is still the best information source, next to wc

@GREGOREK Yah, scrolling both edges sure is cool. I wish this could be possible in an actual (spherical) world (like ours) with some sort of projection, but unfortunately it is not (as far as I know).

Update: new unit scroll option in the settings. (needs to be activated) lets you scroll trough all units with moves left. Units can also be put to sleep fixed issue with the loading of tiles in landscape (horizontal) mode that lead to tiles not rendering correctly. fixed issue where planes that had no movement blocked others that could still move. this was done in 2 ways first tapping on the unit now selects the ones with the most movement first. second the unit selection screen now splits units that have different movement left. (if you didnt know you can open it by double tap or holding on a province) Thank you @ben.h.11 for pointing this one out. the about section now shows the testers, that helped improve the game. if you provided feedback and want to appear you can send me the name you want to have there. newest Release can be Downloaded from Github.

Updated to 2.63 [image: Screenshot from 2026-09-25 20-20-09.png]

@beelee I would suggest erasing the flags which is easy to do in Paint. There is no reason to have flags in unit images, as you can turn flags on with View/Flag Display/Small.

@TheDog thanks

Step 8 Balancing the Game Balancing Axis & Allies style games is a difficult task. For example in V3-1941 the Allies are ahead in every measure, but the game is reasonably balanced. Production 120 to 58 Starting PU 113 to 58 Units 124 to 105 TPV 696 to 645 Objectives 12 to 6 This is typical of A&A games, that units and TPV are close between the sides. However income obviously matters in the long run. Furthermore, vulnerable territories of the Status Quo players may actually work to the benefit of the Aggressor. As a starting formula I have: Production x 3+ Starting PU's + Units + TPV - vulnerability penalty - delayed entry penalty The vulnerability penalty is x3 the income of vulnerable territories + factories in vulnerable territories. A territory is vulnerable if they are owned by Status Quo country that is active at the game start and that is adjacent to an Aggressor country that is active the game start. The delayed entry penalty is 10% of the TPV for each turn past 1 of delay. To balance the game additional units (and starting PU's) are added to the aggressors if they are behind and additional income to the lead status quo power if they are behind. Units will be randomly added to territories with a weighting equal to value+1. The chance of a specific unit will be proportional to the inverse of its cost. In either case units will have the build caps equal to 120/cost to prevent ridiculous builds by the AI.

Thanks! Tidied up that first section to make it current.

@captain0 said AI may have issues moving the 2 hit tanks, as they start off with stacks of 9? per territory in the game. Part of the problem might be me leaving the Armor-Inf stacked in 9s. I will destack them and that might alleviate the problem, they should be in 5s Regarding reduced incomes. I like this idea, but I also like spending PUs, so it's a balance, hopefully currently it feels about right? Did some testing, reduced each of the 3 Industries PU production by -2, I got mixed results, so I will have to do more testing.