@prastle old days lol

@prastle oh I thought you would notice his blatant over-use of commas and now he wants to over-use ( ) brackets ... sorry that I notice obvious things that some have no clue about hmmm I wonder why

(queue the multi-account angry admin abuse - why do I keep getting logged out??)

And to all a good time!

Cheers...

It's annoying as is but it isn't very common on maps I play.

@LaFayette I can't speak to a lot of what you are proposing as I am a Luddist by nature and ignorance... my contributions or scope of contributions is limited to my even more limited skill-set.

But I am eager to help where the axes of time and skill intersect.

@beelee I totally agree with this as the immediate concern when finishing up a turn is generally where the least mobile units need to go.

Great suggestion!

@hepps ( dont ask Ice 😉 )

@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 ?

I'm afraid if I don't leave this somewhere it will be lost to time forever.

Here is the Pop_1914 folder which I have. It includes a tweak I must have made at some point, to the under image. Probably while trying to get blends to work under the newer scheme, or who knows, it was like years ago now.

This map/game is not in a fully completed state, meaning I'm not sure if meets the specs for the pre-release 2.7 is stuff. It won't autounzip, but if I extract the folder and place that downloaded maps it will launch up. I think perhaps just needs a yaml in the right spot, or to match the new structure for that stuff in the latest tripleA way.

It's missing some elements, unit graphics I believe, as I only had Germany for that from Hepps, and I think the others may need to be worked up. but this is everything I have for it so I didn't want it to be lost. Going like 5 years on my old dropbox links probably will be defunct eventually. Anyhow here it is from the archive on my drive.

Power of Politics 1914 (Map/Game Folder)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16IwfPRBcPzAXTu-F7HN4mYBAobiRq_vU/view?usp=sharing

That includes everything I was given by Hepps and Redrum at whatever point that was back in like 2020. The way Hepps did his design, the Misc folder was used to include all the decorative elements in tiles (basically like same way as using the map tools tile_breaker in map tools/tile_reconstructor in other optional tools. I believe what I did was to isolate out the convoy lanes, and then put it back in a reduced opacity, and changed the base ocean color to a lighter color for blends. This was just me trying to customize what was already there, hence the backups in case anyone needed to restore. Here is an image with blends on and then another blends off, so you can see what all is there.

Image (export gameboard image)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TuXZ1ry7nqqyAGiZPphSzo8kmsJ5Yt0S/view?usp=sharing

pop_1914_small.png

Image (export gameboard image blends on)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-sEamonkaYpPcztZAwDnhKEaaeC8f--b/view?usp=sharing

pop_1914_blends_small.png

Unit purchase (screen)

Screenshot 2025-03-07 055506.png

There screen for G1. Right now G is the only faction with graphics, so I think that would need to be the basis, at least for Central Powers. Perhaps the Entante could just be made in the similar style. Graphics for that one all 48px, but might do an upscale if I can find the time. Otherwise I think Hepps stuff all looks pretty badass though, I mean stylistically it's all very visually cohesive with his other tripleA boards, and has the unifying vibes. Not sure what if anything comes of it, I just didn't want to lose all that work that they put in. Map is in a WIP state still. I'm not sure of the ultimate design vision for the politics and such, but wanted to make sure it was saved somewhere at least.

Best

Elk

@g40newb

Hej there, nice that you are playing Oil and Snow...

first of al: it is the game mechanics: I decided that it would be not realistic for a foreign power to produce new units in the enemies conquered factories... so they remain disabled by this...
the conquere receives the terr's extra PU's and more emphasize is put on transporting units newly constructed units to the frontline...
creating logistical challenges once reaching far in conquest as is reality.

Keep sending all feedback and issues... as I am halfway and good update of this project, ( as it was years ago made and my first one )
and I can adapt all issues coming out of your player experience, greetings

Indeed, having the 13066 behavior for the active player was the important part.

The poll does ask Features/Changes. Bug fixes would meet the latter criteria. Given that it isn't particularly easy, I'm not upset that it's fallen into the category of a change that people can vote on.

6 years later, this mod is still great and I believe deserves to be moved up at least to the "good quality" section from where it sits in experimental. I might make a house rules mod for this as practice-

One thing I notice is that Mazdak is almost always the first nation to drop in each game, at least when it is played by AI. IMO, its cultist underpinnings should be represented ingame thru a system that's in mechanically between the Chinese Underground and Grand Armee ones.
Rn, the possibility of Mazdak taking Arcadia is a pipe dream if you're not playing as them.
If I make an upgrade mod for this, I will add a "Global Mazdakism" territory, impassable like Grands. Unlike Grands, it is not their capital, and does not have any IPC value, so they can still be eliminated. However, also unlike Grands, it has a factory in it.

As Mazdak takes more territories, they gain additional locations to which they can deploy units out of their Global Mazdakism pool.
Mazdak only: Can deploy to Mazdak and Aksum

Control =>3/5 of (Aksum, Sudan, Arcadian Congo, Zimbabwe, Korean Congo): Add deploy to Hedjaz and Sudan, free units in Hedjaz and Mazdak

Control =>3/5 of (Khemet, Palestine, Hedjaz, Agrot Republic, Madagascar): Add deploy to Makan and Sumatra and adds some free units in both

Control capital Arcadia: Adds free armies and PUs and declares war against everyone (existing rule). Adds deploy to Bengal and Burma. Adds a Motor Pool building into the Global Mazdakism pool, to speed up infantry exit.

Control =>3/5 of (Bengal, Burma, Sumatra, Dravidia S.R, Arcadia): Adds a free nuke into the pool territory, for use anywhere, no tech required. Adds a few more free units.

First time you capture any nation's capital other than Arcadia's: Also adds a free nuke into the pool territory. Gives a bonus free tech token.

...
Apart from Mazdak, some other nation ideas (possibly only for when controlled by AI):

India / SUFFER gets a single free volunteer added to "Volunteers 5" at their turn end for as long as they don't control all of their original territories.

GRANDS gets a single Infantry added per turn to their Grand Armee pool as long as they are on Total War (i.e losing)

China gets an extra Refinery in Yunnan, to help their Fuel budget. It's removed if the territory is lost, and not returned when regained

I believe this is the only map in download list which displays a "preview" image which does not display the map.
I don't know if it is not any longer mandatory for that image to be the image of the whole map (@LaFayette), but I suggest it to be.
I'm talking of
https://github.com/triplea-maps/twelve-clans/blob/master/preview.png
also displayed in
https://triplea-game.org/map/twelve-clans/
The reason is that a believe it is good to be able to see the image of the full map when you are looking at what you may download.

@cernel I'd rather move towards being consistent with how the bottom bar displays it with the +/- right next to the amount in parenthesis. So other areas in the UI could probably use bold text as well but gotta start somewhere.

I see rampaging scope creep. Can we just get the button?

@lafayette i noticed that 🙂