@husky81 So now you have your initial baseline results, Im hoping for now, that you stop using your Tokens verses Hard-AI, Easy-AI and Does Nothing, and just concentrate on using them, against Fast-AI ? What are your plans for testing for improvements to Claude-AI ?

@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")

Just posted a suggested fix for an inconsistency between the rule-book and the game's behaviour about newly recruited lords moving into or ideally out of a fort controlled by the enemy if anyone wants to weight in: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/15013

@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

@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

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

Special Units Special units cannot be purchased with PUs. Each Advanced Production Center (APC) you own produces one special unit a turn. You must research tech to be able to build APCs in the first place. Also, you must research the tech for the units you would like to build. In the above lists, heavy tanks, Panthers, King Tigers, early jets, jets, Superfortresses, and flying wings are all special units. Superfortresses and flying wings take 2 turns to build. Whose tank tech tree is the best? That all depends on what you want. If your focus is on building tanks with PUs, Britain's tank tech is probably the best. Its Comet tank tech adds +1 to the attack and defense of British tanks. (A Comet was rather similar to a Firefly.) If your focus is on special unit tanks, Germany's King Tiger tech allows you to build the best special unit tank in the game. With the right tech, each German APC can produce a free Panther each turn in addition to its normal production. Expect late game German armies to have their share of Panthers, and the occasional King Tiger. The Soviet player has access to good tank tech. He or she can research the ability to buy tanks at reduced cost. The IS-2 tech gives an upgrade to Soviet heavy tanks. Japan is the odd man out. At the start of the game it can build light tanks only (no medium tanks). It can research tank tech to let it buy normal tanks. But no heavy tanks for Japan. As if to make up for this, Japan's Yamato battleships are the most expensive and the most powerful in the game. A Yamato battleship gives you more bang for the buck than a normal battleship would.

@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.