Total World War: December 1941 3.0.0.6

[Hepps]

@ubernaut Remember... the negative support mechnism is being used as a way to circumvent some of the engine limitations... as soon as you allow Subs to defend when paired with fleets... their defensive rolls become "first strike" shots... giving the defender a huge advantage in the grand scheme of things when you mass Subs with a major fleet.

[ubernaut]

@Hepps maybe i don't fully understand DC rules, don't DC hits circumvent normal first strike rules?

[Hepps]

@ubernaut No. Sub First strike shots take presidence over other AA type shots... but that really isn't what I am referring to.

[ubernaut]

@Hepps here's a thought (sorry if it's already been considered) instead of the negative defense bonus what if mixed fleet just negates sneak attack?

[Hepps]

@ubernaut Would be awesome.

[ubernaut]

@Hepps just to be more specific meaning only on defense the way the current penalty works.

[Hepps]

@ubernaut As I had said... much of the design is done to work within some of the current limitations of the engine. There are some plans to eventually change some of the "is Sub" properties... but currently the solutions are not all that easy.

[ubernaut]

@Hepps gotcha, been a bit out of the loop recently.

[redrum]

@Hepps Well you can have all subs not be first strike on defense all the time by setting the property Defending Subs Sneak Attack to false.

Also just to point this out, its fairly rare that a sub only stack is going to choose to not just submerge as they have pretty minimal defense and are almost always better off submerging and then counter-attacking. Honestly, you could give subs a flat 0 defense and remove the negative support attachment and wouldn't make much difference. I think the only edge cases here are you have just a few capital ships (BBs or carriers) with a large number of subs so that most of the subs wouldn't get their defense canceled out and you'd use them to defend those ships.

[Hepps]

@redrum Oh I had not realized that the sub first strike could be set independently for defense. Guess it has been a while since I have gone through the properties list. Thanks for pointing that out.

[redrum]

@Hepps Yeah, the sub properties are pretty confusing. Here is the thread I did some research and tried to outline everything we have today: https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/355/sub-xml-properties

[redrum]

v3.0.0.3 is now live. The first post is updated and here is a list of the changes:

• Bug fixes:
  • Fix chinese fighters are land units instead of air units bug when disabling neutral players
  • Fix USA start notification
  • Allow marine production in Morrocco, Tunisia, West Africa, Nigeria, Gold Coast
  • Allow alpine production in Nigeria
  • Fix bug where liberating russian or chinese L&L territories you can't reinforce them in ncm as they turn russian/chinese immediately instead of being the territory of the nation on turn
  • Fix bug where L&L UK truck not being removed from Soviet Far East
• Starting unit updates:
  • Naval Fighter moved from Florida to Eastern U.S.
  • British Sub moved from SZ 7 to SZ 10 with the main Scapa Flow fleet.
  • British Naval Fighter moved from SZ 148 onto Java
  • British A.A. Gun added to Sumatra
  • British A.A. Gun added to Papua
• Sub/destroyer updates
  • Update ImprovedDestroyer tech from DepthCharge 2 (+1) to 3 (+2)
  • Update HeavyDestroyer unit from DepthCharge 3 to 4
  • Update ImprovedStratBomber tech from DepthCharge 2 (+1) to 3 (+2)
  • Update HeavyStratBomber unit from DepthCharge 3 to 4
  • Update Sub unit attack from 4 to 3 (3/1/2)
  • Update ImprovedSub tech from +1 attack (5/1/2) to +1 attack/defense (4/2/2)
  • Update AdvancedSub unit from 6/3/2 to 6/4/2
• Add Toulon Exiled Allies fleet save actions for if Vichy's capital falls before North Africa Protectorate

[ubernaut]

is it safe to open a 3002 saved game with 3003?

[redrum]

@ubernaut Yes but it'll not include all the v3.0.0.3 changes.

[ubernaut]

@redrum gotcha thanks

[ubernaut]

i updated but the select map is still showing version 3002.

[redrum]

@ubernaut That would be because I forgot to update the version number to 3003 I'll do that later today.

[ubernaut]

@redrum thought that was what happened just wanted to be sure

[wirkey]

@redrum said in Total World War: December 1941 3.0.0.3:

@wirkey @Hepps AA support is included in the latest pre-release and will be in the next stable.

My plan was that naval fighters have a DC@0 but gives DC+1 for maybe two (or three?) destroyers. That way they can't hunt subs on their own but increase the chances for destroyers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-killer_Group).

[wirkey]

@redrum said in Total World War: December 1941 3.0.0.3:

v3.0.0.3 is now live. The first post is updated and here is a list of the changes:

• Bug fixes:
  • Fix chinese fighters are land units instead of air units bug when disabling neutral players
  • Fix USA start notification
  • Allow marine production in Morrocco, Tunisia, West Africa, Nigeria, Gold Coast
  • Allow alpine production in Nigeria
  • Fix bug where liberating russian or chinese L&L territories you can't reinforce them in ncm as they turn russian/chinese immediately instead of being the territory of the nation on turn
  • Fix bug where L&L UK truck not being removed from Soviet Far East
• Starting unit updates:
  • Naval Fighter moved from Florida to Eastern U.S.
  • British Sub moved from SZ 7 to SZ 10 with the main Scapa Flow fleet.
  • British Naval Fighter moved from SZ 148 onto Java
  • British A.A. Gun added to Sumatra
  • British A.A. Gun added to Papua
• Sub/destroyer updates
  • Update ImprovedDestroyer tech from DepthCharge 2 (+1) to 3 (+2)
  • Update HeavyDestroyer unit from DepthCharge 3 to 4
  • Update ImprovedStratBomber tech from DepthCharge 2 (+1) to 3 (+2)
  • Update HeavyStratBomber unit from DepthCharge 3 to 4
  • Update Sub unit attack from 4 to 3 (3/1/2)
  • Update ImprovedSub tech from +1 attack (5/1/2) to +1 attack/defense (4/2/2)
  • Update AdvancedSub unit from 6/3/2 to 6/4/2
• Add Toulon Exiled Allies fleet save actions for if Vichy's capital falls before North Africa Protectorate

sounds good.
I have an issue going on for years and I think I've addressed it several times. In my latest game (round 20 atm) it might become a huge problem. If the capital(s) of one nation is occupied and territories are liberated by allied nations, those territories revert to the original owner after one round, making it impossible to build any infrastructure. That is really bad in China and Far East Russia