A next idea that i want to try is having a sort of message board amongst my bot modules, so purchase, combat move, non combat move, ect. they can share requirements or requests with each other. Each module would run recursively on a loop and try to reach a consensus about the shape of the turn before doing anything. There would have to be some type of executive module to harmonize everything to prevent infinite recursion. The bot would therefore formulate a plan for the turn before doing anything. After combat, non combat move and placement would have to run again, going off of the actual battle results and decide where the plan needs changing. I'll ask Claude if he can build something like that the next time I get some more tokens.

@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).

@husky81 said: @Cernel said: World War II v5 1942 SE TR Sorry, I didn't see this. Yes, my bot plays 'World War II v5 1942 SE TR' For development and testing I play in a Python engine that Claude built for that purpose. In those cases I played without bids. The only major rule difference is no landing on allied carriers, since that's not in the Beamdog game. Claude also built a bridge that allows my bot to play the bots that ship with Triple A. I've not changed the rules in Triple A, just my own engine and my bot's logic, so for the games played through the bridge, the Triple A AI could use allied carriers, but mine never will. Guessing that you have the skills, I guess that, if you push a program update so to have a property to forbid landing on allied carriers (and maybe also loading onto allied transports) and then add that property (false as preset but of course editable via Game Options) to the game in question, everything will be accepted by the developers (I certainly do not speak for them, so CC @lafayette). Done that, you would just be able to put that property as true before starting the game (so to enforce it for all players, human and AI). This seems to me to be a lot better than enforcing it on the AI itself. (I do think that this property would be valuable in itself.) Of course, it's your project (and I have no idea how much work would be to do that): just suggesting, not saying you are doing it wrong.

Cernel said: should be matter of like a day or a couple days. Underestimated. I guess I still need about two days also because I want to document the fixes and tweaks well enough in a changelog.

@beelee not that many times, there have been a number of updates though.

@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.

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.

As if by magic they are back, please ignore.

@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

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.

@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")

@pgsquig I am a non-graphic non-artist I use this https://greenfishsoftware.org/gfie.php Crop those images above, then paste them into greenfish and shrink them into 48x48px or 72x54px or whatever size you want.

@TheDog thanks

@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