@cernel Personally I'm unaware of any A&A originals that allowed point 1. But It's been a long time since I played the board games too.

Moving to Bug Reports (no matter if valid).

Deltium (Allies) defeats Blackskull (Axis, 10 bid) in Round 9. First, Blackskull is a friendly and good opponent. A fairly traditional game where Germany stacks Karelia early and the Japanese begin the advance to Persia, along with trading in Africa to keep the Allies on the defensive as much as possible. Allies try to play a patient strategy to let the gradual economic advantages outweigh the early tactical gains by the Axis. Kudos to Blackskull for even squeezing in some turns during his brother-in-law's wedding in Italy. If you have not ever been to an Italian wedding before, it is very distracting ! Between the wonderful food, wine, and beautiful Italian women, it is very hard to find any time to play Axis and Allies ! Thanks again for the good game Blackskull and hope that you do well in the rest of the tournament. Cheers, Deltium 0_1537188459951_triplea_Bri9.tsvg

While killable fortifications are helpful vs the ai (because the ai doesn't build to counter them); they seem rather weak vs a thoughtful player; they're too easy to work around, often very vulnerable to strafing, and getting to reuse your siege to take out the fortifications in several different places is great.

Personally I think hijacking an active project without permission is deplorable (whether credit is given or not, although not giving any credit would be even worse) . It is the kind of behavior that can make a map maker not want to be part of this community.

Just noticed that the map name in the zip file is ww2global40_balanced2_0, whereas the mod shown in the game as Balanced Mod3. I know it's not that important but I think the xml should have the same names. I thought someone should know.

It's my 8 week updated war/gaming Youtube pick! kinda a bit like Ozzie; The Story of the Sword by Cryonic Temple; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xxb8g8JbsM

TripleA Turn Summary: Russians round 3 TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Revised, version: 1.4.1 Game History Round: 3 Purchase Units - Russians Russians buy 3 artilleries and 6 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat Move - Russians 1 artillery moved from Belorussia to Ukraine S.S.R. 7 infantry moved from West Russia to Ukraine S.S.R. 2 fighters moved from West Russia to Ukraine S.S.R. 2 infantry moved from Caucasus to Ukraine S.S.R. 2 artilleries moved from Caucasus to Ukraine S.S.R. 2 infantry moved from Kazakh S.S.R. to Caucasus 4 infantry moved from Novosibirsk to Russia 5 infantry moved from Russia to West Russia 2 infantry moved from Karelia S.S.R. to West Russia 1 submarine moved from 8 Sea Zone to 7 Sea Zone Combat - Russians Battle in Ukraine S.S.R. Russians attack with 3 artilleries, 2 fighters and 9 infantry Germans defend with 4 armour and 2 infantry Russians roll dice for 3 artilleries, 2 fighters and 9 infantry in Ukraine S.S.R., round 2 : 4/0 hits, 4.00 expected hits Germans roll dice for 4 armour and 2 infantry in Ukraine S.S.R., round 2 : 3/1 hits, 2.67 expected hits 3 infantry owned by the Russians, 2 infantry owned by the Germans and 2 armour owned by the Germans lost in Ukraine S.S.R. Russians roll dice for 3 artilleries, 2 fighters and 6 infantry in Ukraine S.S.R., round 3 : 4/1 hits, 3.50 expected hits Germans roll dice for 2 armour in Ukraine S.S.R., round 3 : 1/0 hits, 1.00 expected hits 1 infantry owned by the Russians and 2 armour owned by the Germans lost in Ukraine S.S.R. Russians win, taking Ukraine S.S.R. from Germans with 3 artilleries, 2 fighters and 5 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 14 Casualties for Russians: 4 infantry Casualties for Germans: 4 armour and 2 infantry Non Combat Move - Russians 1 aaGun moved from Russia to West Russia 1 aaGun moved from Caucasus to Ukraine S.S.R. 2 fighters moved from Ukraine S.S.R. to West Russia Place Units - Russians 3 artilleries and 1 infantry placed in Caucasus 5 infantry placed in Russia Turn Complete - Russians Russians collect 29 PUs; end with 29 PUs Combat Hit Differential Summary : Germans : 0.33 Russians : 0.50 Savegame

@dr-stein Also be sure to have the latest version of Java 8 installed on your system. Java 8 needs Vista SP2, so you could check this as well.

@gogmosis Using pre-release 1.9.0.0.12035, I tried to reproduce this issue by running several majority Hard-AI games using the World War II v5 1942 SE TR map. I ran these tests using both Java 9.0.4 and Java 10.0.2. The exception you reported above was never raised, so it's possible that the recent Java 9+ fixes also addressed this symptom. Would appreciate it if you could try 1.9.0.0.12035 on your machine (using the same version of Java you used above). It's possible that the issue still exists, but I simply can't reproduce it on my machine. Thanks!