@ebbe

👍 Thank you!!

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@victoryfirst said in Total World War: December 1941 3.0.0.6:

Hi, I have a bunch of random questions.

Is this game perfectly balanced, or is a bid required?

Why has it been chosen to let Germany go before Russia and add the Russian winter, instead of making Russia go before Germany?

Can I as a beginner have a competitive game against the AI? Should the AI be the Axis or the Allies?

Are you trying to learn 2.8 or 3.0 version ?

@wc_sumpton

You are right, I just noticed I had isAA for the fighters when it did not work, and it is missing when it did work, so isAA caused the issue (I changed a lot of parameters so that's why I didn't know what fixed it). I will try to remember not to use the options you mentioned because they indeed cause a lot of trouble. Thanks!

@rogercooper said in Axis & Allies: North Africa:

The sophisticated supply rules of AANA are at the heart of the game and are not supported by TripleA. It would require a significant addition to the engine to support the supply rules. Such might be desirable, as the rules are good and could be applied to other situations

This "supply" requirement is almost the same as Axis & Allies World War I 1914 "Infantry" requirement, and could be handled in about the same way with unitSupportAttachment. Thus, armor/artillery etc.. have an attack/defense value of 0/0 and can only attack/defend with the presences of the supporting unit, supply/infantry.

These unitSupportAttachment are strait forward, with the exception of the bonusType stacking rules, which at present are quite funky in their workings. (This is why I don't suggest this for WWI '14.)

"supply" cannot move and can only be transported by the truck, which cannot move during combat movement. "supply" could utilize the specialCombatMove to allow these units to enter combat. This would require the attacker calculate the number of "supply" to move.

Just some thoughts..

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@cernel said in Allow income levels to be checked in conditions.:

However, it is good to have PUs as default if a resource is not specified.

Yes, this is how both conditions would/have been designed. "haveResources" is already set up in this manner. Whatever the other condition would be called would follow.

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Hi @prosperity

what email did you use ? Try a protonmail or a gmx.com or.net.

I don't think Gmail works anymore. Idk if yahoo does or not.

Actually, this issue came up recently at the A&A site. See if I can find it.

Here it is https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/38111/current-triplea-marti-pbf-pbem-gmail-issues/2

test test test

@cernel

No, just haven't resubmitted.

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@wc_sumpton

Thanks for your answer. That's unfortunate to hear. I have a LOT of territories in my game so keeping track of how many territories have been lost will be very hard for the players to manage. An income level would be much easier because it is directly displayed in the "Players" tab.

@victoryfirst

Yes. Triggers, like conditions, need to have unique names.

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@jonpfl

yea i think there's a problem with gmail these days. Try using protonmail or gmx.com

I'd love to play you, and I love the WaW modules as well.(Only thing I like more than them is battle for Arda) And I think you can find more players if you join our "Triple A discord group" https://discord.gg/PRtexuSprq

Games there don't go super fast, but its still where I play A&A the most. We already have two ongoing WaW games (one for each module), so a lot of the group would definitely be up to playing that module again.

Most of our games are team games but I'd totally be up for 1v1s as well.

I still think that US's economy isn't reflected well in the version of Steampunk fmc (camerons version). While it does have a good balance of production now, it still needs more regions with IPCS (honestly kind of surprised how every non-city territory is only at most 2 or 3 when in places like Ohio, it should be 4+ ...)

@wc_sumpton

Thank you WC for you answer 🙂

@VictoryFirst

That made me laugh lol

In case you're not aware, v2 changes some other stuff too. Technology tokens i think. Maybe some other stuff. Can't remember

@cameron
Here is the code from 1941 GCD with a foreach all players

<!-- ======================================= GO isAI ======================================= --> <attachment foreach="$All-Players$" name="conditionAttachment_isAI_@All-Players@" attachTo="@All-Players@" javaClass="RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="isAI" value="true"/> </attachment>

There are lots of examples of its use, search the xml for

_isAI_

@wc_sumpton

I believe I finally found out the issue... I was searching online for the answer and I couldn't find it at first, until I finally came across a thread where someone had a similar problem, and the solution was to add the property Damage From Bombing Done To Units Instead Of Territories. That for some reason makes the canProduceXUnits to work.

I have been away from this game for a while.. but recently got back into playing against AI.

I tried a strategy for Saruman that includes taking Tharbad, and found one that worked well. It does require a LOT of help from other factions, and is likely not a good PvP.. but here it goes.

So on round 1,
Dol Guldur... one orc marauder blitz north and south undeep... draws some Lorien/Rohan attention which Rhun will clean up later.

Saruman... I take all the lands to the west of Isengard except Tharbad...

Orcs.. I attack Tharbad with 4 Warg and the Balrog for 1 or 2 rounds (depending on hits recieved).. this takes out all units and damages wall. I also advance 1 orc marauder to Cerin Amroth, Naith, Nimrodel, Limlight, North Fangorn... all other troops in Moria go to Methedras

Angmar... focus most forces towards Anor's Capital, and defending Mount Gundabad

Rhun... pretty much ALL calvary units and the 5 Archers clean up the neutrals to the west of Dorwinion.. and continue on into Rohan territory...

Round 2 forward
Dol Guldur purchase Uruk_swordsman and Snaga.. and work north to take out Northmen, Woodland realm and/or Dale

Saruman.. take Tharbad.. and every round you have it you MUST place 5 Urak Swordsman there.. and 3 in Ost in Edhill (orcs will need to 'block' the path for a Freefolk counter-attack at least 1 round)

Mordor focus Gondor.. (they or Harad can take by round 6) then continue west to clean up.. and North to take out Dale/Dwarf

Harad.. focus Gondor... take southern portions of Gondor and head west to clean up

Orcs.. focus force to taking Wellinghall and surrounding forest.. this weakens Rohan/Gondor/Lorien significantly, and Lorien isn't much of an offensive threat to Moria... defend Goblintown... and after Wellinghall area secure Saruman should be able to clean up the region, so focus to take out Caras Galadhon/Rivendell

Angmar.. take out either Annuminas or Thorin Halls or High Elves lands (whatever is easiest based on what AI defends).. this weakens Amor and gets Amor/freefolk defending on 2 fronts which helps Saruman and lessens pressure on Carn Dum

Rhun.. I purchase nothing but Axeman and archer or two here and there all game, and focus going north to pressure Dwarf/Dale from the South/East.. the calvary group carefully advances to Rohan territory to take out Gondor/Rohan troops and territory Wold to Edoras region.

Later rounds..
Once Tharbad is secure.. don't worry about Bree with Saruman.. go right towards the lands of shire and if all went well near Isengard you should be able to capture Edoras from Rohan about sametime Mordor/Harad take Minas Tirith .. (support from Rhun in attacking Edoras to weaken it) the bonus PU you get for those shire territories and Edoras are a huge boost.. and you may actually be the faction to take Bree and Annuminas as well

It's a cool strategy.. probabaly not for PvP, but makes Saruman, who is typically in survival mode all game, one of the most successful land/capital owners from the Evil faction.