@redrum I am working on a generic system for randomly shifting alliances, so the foreach will be very useful. I hope you can add it for initializing as well.

I used to play the Classic (1984) version with a friend using no luck rules. The game was different but quite interesting.

The biggest problem with using a "global email" is that if we did that without any authentication, one could use our service to spam another ones email account and create something like a dos attack. So in any case we'd need authentication, which might defeat its purpose already.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G0KNlUGWN56hAwUrdu7M7gFvzxS7lCE6/view?usp=sharing

@Cernel Thank you very much, Cernel. I'll try and check if it's working that way.

@CrazyIvan The 2nd post here is pretty helpful. It's a little hard to find. Be nice if there was a link in the PBF section [link text](https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/43/how-to-play-online-and-pbem-videos/2

@CrazyIvan As @redrum says. We have a dedicated category for appointments: https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/category/27/find-online-players

@CrazyIvan I have not played Classic in so long I kinda forget how the engine works but you might want to try World War II V3 1941. (Anniversary Edition Map) Shared fleets work better in V3/Global rules.

Sort of like an industrial complex is not usable until a turn owned at the start of the turn kind of thing? Gotcha. Welp, so much for going all out USN hunting, lol.

@redrum Just saves a prompt, as if you want to reinforce, you should do it in non combat. But I guess since the engine illegally allows you to "redeploy" during combat move, I guess that would be consistent. I disagree with units being unable to move during combat move, in general, and would prefer not using that option in a custom map ever. The main reason is that, for general consistency, I believe I should be able to Combat Move units not intended to be sent into battle as part of combined combat operations. For example, I should be able to load a AA gun on a transport, send the transport in a sea battle, and then offload the AA gun into a friendly territory, or load 1 infantry and 1 AA gun into a transport, then offload the infantry into combat and retain the AA gun on board. All such moves are forbidden in the basic rulesets, and I believe this restriction is based on nothing, thus dumb (also since both moves would be legal if the AA gun is already on board). If a unit is not meant to be sent into battle, I'd rather set its attack stack limit to 0 (this is what I did with the general of a Napoleonic Empires variant of mine).

That is interesting, and might change things around quite a bit.

@CrazyIvan You could create this map using TripleA. You would just need to take a base image of the classic map and stitch 4 of them together. Then rename territories to be like Germany1, Germany2, Germany3, Germany4. That being said while its an interesting idea, I'd say most players would rather have a larger world map where you say instead split each of the classic territories into 4 smaller territories rather than stitch 4 world maps together. I would recommend that you try some of the other existing maps that TripleA has to see what is possible and what others have already done.

Thanks to Scouse for asking the question and RoiEX for answering The culprit was Avast anti virus

I think the hard AI can be pretty enjoyable. For the standard WW2 maps that don't have complex objectives and features the AI doesn't 'understand' or tech wildcards and the like, it does reasonably for itself. One place where it can be instructive is seeing how airpower and bombers in particular can be pretty effective at covering vs fleets once the AI is amassing a big stack of 'em. Seen some brazen strikes from the machine there. But it still struggles with transports and naval, over-purchasing or spreading things too thin too quickly. You can also back it off a sea zone more effectively whereas a human would probably fight it out or make a trade to force a resolution. Right now it doesn't prioritize things like VCs, so it wouldn't play well vs a PvP strategy where victory is determined that way. Still its useful to have for showing the ropes, and getting familiar with maps beforehand.

ok ready for real-time battle whenever you are here is the saved game going to Germany's first combat: autosaveBeforeBattle.tsvg autosaveAfterGermanyCombatMove.tsvg not sure which of those is best

@Ondis said in I'd be up for a new PBEM in Civil War or TWW: tripleapbem@protonmail.com sorry for the delay, got through my log jam should be able to do at least one round per day. https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/1280/tww-3-0-0-4-ubernaut-ax-vs-ondis-al

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post: Japanese round 2 TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: World War II v3 1941, version: 1.7 Game History Round: 2 Purchase Units - Japanese Japanese buy 2 armour, 1 artillery, 1 bomber and 3 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 0 techTokens; Combat Move - Japanese 1 infantry moved from Yunnan to Burma Japanese take Burma from British 1 infantry moved from Fukien to Kwangtung Japanese take Kwangtung from British 1 fighter moved from French Indo-China Thailand to 37 Sea Zone 2 infantry moved from Borneo to 49 Sea Zone 2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 49 Sea Zone to 39 Sea Zone 1 cruiser moved from 49 Sea Zone to 39 Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from Philippine Islands to 50 Sea Zone 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 50 Sea Zone to 60 Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from Okinawa to 60 Sea Zone 2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 60 Sea Zone to 61 Sea Zone 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Philippine Islands to 50 Sea Zone 1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 50 Sea Zone to 39 Sea Zone 1 artillery and 3 infantry moved from 39 Sea Zone to Australia 1 battleship moved from 50 Sea Zone to 39 Sea Zone 1 destroyer moved from 50 Sea Zone to 38 Sea Zone 2 fighters moved from 61 Sea Zone to 38 Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from Buryatia S.S.R. to Soviet Far East Japanese take Soviet Far East from Russians Combat - Japanese Battle in 37 Sea Zone Japanese attack with 1 fighter British defend with 1 transport 1 transport owned by the British lost in 37 Sea Zone Japanese win with 1 fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7 Casualties for British: 1 transport Battle in 38 Sea Zone Japanese attack with 1 destroyer and 2 fighters British defend with 1 destroyer Japanese roll dice for 1 destroyer and 2 fighters in 38 Sea Zone, round 2 : 1/3 hits, 1,33 expected hits British roll dice for 1 destroyer in 38 Sea Zone, round 2 : 1/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits 1 destroyer owned by the British and 1 destroyer owned by the Japanese lost in 38 Sea Zone Japanese win with 2 fighters remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0 Casualties for Japanese: 1 destroyer Casualties for British: 1 destroyer Battle in Australia Japanese attack with 1 artillery and 3 infantry British defend with 1 aaGun and 2 infantry Japanese roll dice for 1 battleship and 1 cruiser in Australia, round 2 : 2/2 hits, 1,17 expected hits British roll dice for 2 infantry in Australia, round 2 : 0/2 hits, 0,67 expected hits 2 infantry owned by the British lost in Australia Japanese win, taking Australia from British with 1 artillery and 3 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6 Casualties for British: 2 infantry Non Combat Move - Japanese 1 fighter moved from 37 Sea Zone to French Indo-China Thailand 2 infantry moved from 61 Sea Zone to Fukien 1 transport moved from 61 Sea Zone to 62 Sea Zone 2 infantry moved from Japan to 62 Sea Zone 2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 62 Sea Zone to 61 Sea Zone 1 carrier moved from 61 Sea Zone to 50 Sea Zone 2 fighters moved from 38 Sea Zone to 48 Sea Zone 1 carrier moved from 50 Sea Zone to 48 Sea Zone 1 fighter moved from Kiangsu to French Indo-China Thailand 1 transport moved from 62 Sea Zone to 59 Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from Iwo Jima to 59 Sea Zone 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 59 Sea Zone to 62 Sea Zone 1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Japan to 62 Sea Zone 1 artillery moved from 62 Sea Zone to Manchuria 2 infantry moved from 62 Sea Zone to Buryatia S.S.R. 1 infantry moved from 62 Sea Zone to Manchuria 1 carrier moved from 62 Sea Zone to 60 Sea Zone 1 fighter moved from 62 Sea Zone to 60 Sea Zone 2 infantry moved from 61 Sea Zone to Kiangsu 1 carrier moved from 60 Sea Zone to 61 Sea Zone 1 fighter moved from 60 Sea Zone to 61 Sea Zone Place Units - Japanese 2 armour, 1 artillery, 1 bomber and 3 infantry placed in Japan Turn Complete - Japanese Japanese collect 36 PUs; end with 36 PUs Objective 2: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 41 PUs Objective 3: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 46 PUs Objective 1: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 51 PUs Combat Hit Differential Summary : British : 0,00 Japanese : 0,50 Savegame

Thank you all, TripleA maps offer little in the field of historical reenactment as Cernel said, but one thing I have noticed is how the original game (and versions close to it on TripleA) often have you enacting similar ww2 events. It's rather funny, lets say you play America (the old shuffle strategy in Algeria and up) or you play Germany (Operation Barbarossa) is inevitable. I made a video before talking about Japans two strategies presented prior to attacking the USA (Northern army strategy to attack Siberia vs Southern Navy strategy to attack the pacific islands), both of these play out in a normal game. In the end I think the original creators of Axis&Allies were pretty good at real WW2 military tactics and always found how game's play out interesting! Disclaimer: its not posted yet but there will soon be a video in which I used the idea "if the US never joined WW2". I used pact of steel 2 again and made the US isolate itself not influencing anything except for giving 6 dollars per turn to Britain (as the US was doing so in reality prior to ww2). Surprisingly, I won against the Hard Ai Axis haha, so those people who say the USSR could have eventually defeated Nazi Germany single handed will be happy.