@ishan triplea_2496_8russ.tsvg

@zaroph said in combined condition attachment for triggers:

<option name="players" value="Germans:Italians:Japanese"/>

Thanks, tested - it works, had to remove the ..attach to.. of course

I check the http://www.starlords3k.com/XOB.html
out frequently, however sometimes the examples are not clear enough or too unspecific. despite that a very fine site.

Just doing another run, this time as Germany solo with everyone else controlled by the hard AI.

I think the strongest play from Germany is to slam into Russia, either pressing the Leningrad pocket via amphib or darting to Stalingrad with mech, then redirect West after the Russians are handled. The runner up would be doing it in the reverse order, with Sea Lion first to control the western approach by sea, then redirect East to focus entirely on Russia before they gain the upper hand. But just for kicks, and since it was a solo, we opted for a third way: launch an expeditionary force to mess with the minors! haha

Takes probably 4 or 5 transports to have much impact against any of the other Allies, and a fair amount of fuel just to move the transports, but its pretty entertaining. Fuel management I think is the most important thing to pulling it off, without just handing the game to the Soviets on a silver platter lol. I tried to build up the synth stockpile early on with a dozen or so additional green barrels to keep from burning out, since the first few rounds will tap all the reserves for sure.

After the North Sea Zone I think the Freetown Sea Zone is maybe the strongest for Axis to occupy with a transport fleet.

Takes a few turns to set up, but from that position Axis can threaten 6 Allied Factories and a couple Rally Points from a single sea zone. Hard for the Machine to defend all of them, so whichever ends up the weakest, Germany can just sweep them and then use production to set up a little colony to mess with Team Allies heheh.

In this one we sent 5 transports and the Battleship out to the South Atlantic and used the rest to shuck units towards the Soviets since we knew they'd be fierce. G had just enough juice to crash the party in Stalingrad, but then had to strafe back home to safety in East Prussia. Our AI Axis buddies are bit unreliable, so we've been planning to go it alone for the most part. Finland is probably toast without some reinforcements at the last possible minute. We'll probably have to save them, or maybe not lol. But anyhow you can see the lanes down there off the coast of West Africa in the save below... Basically gives G the choice to disrupt South America or Africa, whichever is the more weakly defended. Here I think South America looks like the juicier prize, so probably will go that way to stomp! But its fun for a change of pace on this map.

I noticed that AI Japan did purchase a new factory in Shanghai, so that's good to see. Probably most AI nations have more production than cash on hand so they don't really buy new factories, but I like how the rally points open up more possibilities and make some regions of the map and minor powers viable even if their main factory gets smoked hehe

2021-4-8-Iron-War Germany Solo Transports G5.tsvg

@zlefin Sorry it is confusing, forums is for players, issues is for developers. Use the forums to work out the details of how something should work, use issues to discuss with other developers how to code it.

This might be a difficult one to tackle, maybe not. I suspect it might be difficult due to the general cludginess of how the history is rendered. I will commend any effort, though you might be about to get knee deep in the swamp on this one : )

Do feel free to post any coding help/question/discussion items as needed, we will be eager to help you, help the project.

Of particular note in terms of behavior is the combat screen - you don't want it repeatedly coming up when you're trying to look at history; but if you're playing one of the nations in the game, and your input is needed, that's a much higher priority than if you're just a spectator.

FWIW - There is an option to show combats as an observer. It's somewhat hidden in the settings window and would do well to have a second home (a place to also toggle it) on the battle window itself.

@jljl62040 I sent you a private message using the chat feature. I am ready to start when you are.

@Numetalfan

You are probably right. I was thinking collect income, which is done at endTurn.

Cheers...

@malmessi trevan has a PR to fix the error

https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/pull/9098

trevan created this issue in triplea-game/triplea open Show the sub retreat step even if a destroyer is present #9098

@iratoric My concern is that 2 turn battleship builds will never be built by the AI. It is worth mentioning that the Americans had no need for more battleships by the time they entered and neither British or Germans build any battleships during WW1 (British finished off ships already under construction), so perhaps the AI is correct in not building battleships.

Actually 5 sea zones between America/Canada-Europe is better since it is easier to calculate movements.

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So I am starting to examine AI suitability for some randomly picked scenarios.

Great Lakes War All these scenario are fine for AI

Great War The only problem for the AI is the odd blockages for the US. This is an old scenario before events were introduced into TripleA. The large numbers of units and sprawaling map also slow the game. The actual units are straight-forward and the game can be played with Fast AI. Combat movement is before purchase.

@djabwana @GenerationKILL Any possibility to reconsidering some of the unit images? As much as I like the unit images, I would want to see slightly altered versions of some of them.

For example I would definitely prefer infantries that points their gun to a direction parallel to the floor as much as possible like Russian (my favourite infantry image on TripleA) and American ones while standing shooting/assault position.

I would prefer to see artilleries with the same aspect.

Also I would prefer all nations having their state flags. The Ottoman flag was actually different than the Republic of Turkey's flag. Though never standardized in the Ottoman era as much as I know but

Ottoman Flag

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Turkey flag

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@indycris This is part of the .xml file that describes the game. It will be in a folder called games within the zip file or folder that contains the mod.

@beelee said in factory placement issue:

@fatoumas yea just needs to be worth 2 bucks or more.

Ty!

@aagamerz13 sounds interesting, do you have any skills to help in this request? i always had problems with dice, even using "low luck".

@ebbe it's interesting i kinda like the way it is tho 😛

@beelee Ah, okay.

@Numetalfan

I am sorry for being unclear. The attachment name 'territoryEffectrussinawinter' may be causing the problem:

<!-- <attachment name="territoryEffectrussianwinter" attachTo="russian_winter" javaClass="TerritoryEffectAttachment" type="territoryEffect"> --> <attachment name="territoryEffectAttachment" attachTo="russian_winter" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TerritoryEffectAttachment" type="territoryEffect"> <option name="noBlitz" value="armour:mobile_artillery"/> <option name="combatOffenseEffect" value="armour" count="-1"/> </attachment>

You are creating an attachment for 'russian_winter'.

Cheers...

TripleA Turn Summary: Germans round 6

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II v3 1942, version: 1.7.0

Game History

Round: 6 Purchase Units - Germans Germans buy 3 armour, 2 fighters and 5 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat Move - Germans Germans captures 25PUs while taking Russians capital 2 infantry moved from Eastern Ukraine to Caucasus 7 armour moved from Eastern Ukraine to Caucasus 1 artillery and 3 infantry moved from Belorussia to Karelia S.S.R. 4 fighters moved from East Poland to Karelia S.S.R. 3 infantry moved from Germany to Northwestern Europe 1 artillery moved from Germany to Northwestern Europe 5 armour moved from East Poland to Russia Germans take Russia from Russians 3 bombers moved from Germany to Caucasus 1 bomber moved from Germany to Caucasus Combat - Germans Battle in Northwestern Europe Germans attack with 1 artillery and 3 infantry British defend with 1 infantry Germans roll dice for 1 artillery and 3 infantry in Northwestern Europe, round 2 : 1/0 hits, 1,00 expected hits British roll dice for 1 infantry in Northwestern Europe, round 2 : 1/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits 1 infantry owned by the Germans and 1 infantry owned by the British lost in Northwestern Europe Germans win, taking Northwestern Europe from British with 1 artillery and 2 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0 Casualties for Germans: 1 infantry Casualties for British: 1 infantry Battle in Karelia S.S.R. Germans attack with 1 artillery, 4 fighters and 3 infantry British defend with 1 armour and 2 infantry; Russians defend with 2 armour and 1 factory Germans roll dice for 1 artillery, 4 fighters and 3 infantry in Karelia S.S.R., round 2 : 3/0 hits, 3,00 expected hits Russians roll dice for 3 armour and 2 infantry in Karelia S.S.R., round 2 : 3/1 hits, 2,17 expected hits 1 armour owned by the Russians, 3 infantry owned by the Germans and 2 infantry owned by the British lost in Karelia S.S.R. Germans roll dice for 1 artillery and 4 fighters in Karelia S.S.R., round 3 : 2/1 hits, 2,33 expected hits Russians roll dice for 2 armour in Karelia S.S.R., round 3 : 1/0 hits, 1,00 expected hits 1 armour owned by the Russians, 1 fighter owned by the Germans and 1 armour owned by the British lost in Karelia S.S.R. Germans win, taking Karelia S.S.R. from Russians with 1 artillery and 3 fighters remaining. Battle score for attacker is 2 Casualties for Germans: 1 fighter and 3 infantry Casualties for British: 1 armour and 2 infantry Casualties for Russians: 2 armour Battle in Caucasus Germans attack with 7 armour, 4 bombers and 2 infantry British defend with 2 fighters; Americans defend with 2 bombers; Russians defend with 1 aaGun, 3 armour, 1 factory and 3 infantry Russians roll AA dice in Caucasus : 1/1 hits, 0,67 expected hits 1 bomber owned by the Germans lost in Caucasus Germans roll dice for 7 armour, 3 bombers and 2 infantry in Caucasus, round 2 : 6/1 hits, 5,83 expected hits Russians roll dice for 3 armour, 2 bombers, 2 fighters and 3 infantry in Caucasus, round 2 : 4/1 hits, 4,17 expected hits 3 infantry owned by the Russians, 1 armour owned by the Russians, 2 infantry owned by the Germans, 2 armour owned by the Germans and 2 bombers owned by the Americans lost in Caucasus Germans roll dice for 5 armour and 3 bombers in Caucasus, round 3 : 5/1 hits, 4,50 expected hits Russians roll dice for 2 armour and 2 fighters in Caucasus, round 3 : 2/1 hits, 2,33 expected hits 2 armour owned by the Russians, 2 armour owned by the Germans and 2 fighters owned by the British lost in Caucasus Germans win, taking Caucasus from Russians with 3 armour and 3 bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 30 Casualties for Germans: 4 armour, 1 bomber and 2 infantry Casualties for Americans: 2 bombers Casualties for Russians: 3 armour and 3 infantry Casualties for British: 2 fighters Non Combat Move - Germans 3 fighters moved from Karelia S.S.R. to East Poland 2 armour moved from Germany to East Poland 3 infantry moved from Germany to France 3 bombers moved from Caucasus to East Poland Place Units - Germans 3 armour, 2 fighters and 5 infantry placed in Germany Turn Complete - Germans Germans collect 43 PUs; end with 68 PUs Objective 1: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 73 PUs Objective 3: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 78 PUs Objective 2: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 83 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Russians regular : 0,33 Germans regular : 0,33 Russians AA : 0,33 British regular : 0,67

Territory Summary for Germans :

Baltic States : 1 flag Belorussia : 1 flag Caucasus : 1 flag, 1 aaGun, 3 armour and 1 factory East Poland : 1 flag, 2 armour, 3 bombers and 3 fighters Eastern Ukraine : 1 flag, 1 aaGun France : 1 aaGun and 10 infantry Germany : 1 aaGun, 3 armour, 1 factory, 2 fighters and 6 infantry Karelia S.S.R. : 1 flag, 1 artillery and 1 factory Northwestern Europe : 1 artillery and 2 infantry Russia : 1 flag, 1 aaGun, 5 armour and 1 factory Ukraine : 1 flag

Production/PUs Summary :

Japanese : 40 / 57 Russians : 12 / 0 Germans : 43 / 83 British : 33 / 45 Italians : 9 / 9 Chinese : 1 / 0 Americans : 40 / 57

Dice Statistics:

Total 1 was rolled 41 times 2 was rolled 26 times 3 was rolled 29 times 4 was rolled 41 times 5 was rolled 30 times 6 was rolled 34 times Average roll : 3,473 Median : 4,000 Variance : 1,008 Standard Deviation : 1,004 Total rolls : 201 Null / Other 1 was rolled 1 times Average roll : 1,000 Median : 1,000 Variance : ∞ Standard Deviation : ∞ Total rolls : 1 Germans Combat 1 was rolled 6 times 2 was rolled 9 times 3 was rolled 9 times 4 was rolled 7 times 5 was rolled 8 times 6 was rolled 4 times Average roll : 3,326 Median : 3,000 Variance : 0,448 Standard Deviation : 0,670 Total rolls : 43 British Combat 1 was rolled 7 times 2 was rolled 5 times 3 was rolled 2 times 4 was rolled 7 times 5 was rolled 2 times 6 was rolled 7 times Average roll : 3,433 Median : 4,000 Variance : 1,034 Standard Deviation : 1,017 Total rolls : 30 Italians Combat 3 was rolled 1 times 4 was rolled 5 times 5 was rolled 4 times 6 was rolled 3 times Average roll : 4,692 Median : 5,000 Variance : 1,903 Standard Deviation : 1,379 Total rolls : 13 Americans Combat 1 was rolled 6 times 2 was rolled 2 times 3 was rolled 2 times 4 was rolled 4 times 5 was rolled 1 times 6 was rolled 3 times Average roll : 3,056 Median : 3,000 Variance : 0,941 Standard Deviation : 0,970 Total rolls : 18 Chinese Combat 1 was rolled 3 times 2 was rolled 2 times 3 was rolled 3 times 4 was rolled 1 times 5 was rolled 2 times 6 was rolled 3 times Average roll : 3,429 Median : 3,000 Variance : 0,256 Standard Deviation : 0,506 Total rolls : 14 Russians Combat 1 was rolled 6 times 2 was rolled 4 times 3 was rolled 7 times 4 was rolled 7 times 5 was rolled 5 times 6 was rolled 4 times Average roll : 3,394 Median : 3,000 Variance : 0,297 Standard Deviation : 0,545 Total rolls : 33 Japanese Combat 1 was rolled 12 times 2 was rolled 4 times 3 was rolled 5 times 4 was rolled 10 times 5 was rolled 8 times 6 was rolled 10 times Average roll : 3,571 Median : 4,000 Variance : 1,017 Standard Deviation : 1,009 Total rolls : 49

Savegame

@wc_sumpton @Hepps

TO REPAIR OR NOT TO REPAIR that is the question...

Okej, personally in my ideal map, repairing all constructions as well as 2 hit units is done by a pop-up at game start, so that one has the choice to spend PU's on that and certainely not done for free. .
For now constructions can be Repaired by this popup and Battle Units have the option to be autorepaired in the presence of a repairing unit.... for free?

There are situations that for example a battleship is involved in battle and automatically takes in the first hit to avoid loss of other navy. I like the consequence used in f.e. Hepps Total War where the ship gets a less powerfull damaged stand-in.

But if this ship would lay next to a home factory it would immediately be auto-repaired for free , in end of this turn or start next turn , depending on setting. That seems to out of ballance for me.

For this I started making a Repair Damage -token, which can be bought to repair 2-hit units. (in my case Battleship carrier geavyArmour and Heavy Battleship )

Works fine : I let a trigger replace the damaged unit and the repair token with a healed unit.... but with one exception: I don't manage to get it functioning in PLACEMENT PHASE, for BOTH sea and land units. ( to avoid too many options / units to choose from in Purchase screen.

And placementAnySeaZone' option only seems to work player connected, not unit. 😞 Any idea anyone?