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    💥 1941 Global Command Decision - Official Thread

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Maps & Mods
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    • TheDogT Offline
      TheDog @beelee
      last edited by TheDog

      @beelee
      No change to the images and no change to the place.txt images.

      It fixes the truncation of units, especially on the territory move panel.
      Its more important for the allies, as the ships face the opposite way, so you can tell the difference between a Battleship & Cruiser.
      The HQs 66x66px and Capital ships 96x54 used to get truncated, now they dont.

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      .
      However there is a downside, overflow spacing uses this same value, so TripleA gives with hand and takes with another. 🙄

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      https://forums.triplea-game.org/tags/thedog
      https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/3741/curated-best-top-maps-triplea-guides

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        beelee @TheDog
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        @thedog

        Cool That still seems an overall improvement though. Probably why you did it 🙂

        I'm not sure what to set the dimensions to. I guess I'll start by trying yours. I'm pretty sure we use the same Frostion units for the most part.

        Hmm ... i can't quite remember what Elk and I used for sizes during place. I guess I should probably try that too.

        Maybe that doesn't matter though. It's just so the the stuff doesn't crop as much.

        Well, I'll mess with it. Thanks for sharing this 🙂

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        • TheDogT Offline
          TheDog @beelee
          last edited by

          There is a problem with TripleA version
          2.6.14806

          In the Battle Calculator/Ctrl+B it duplicates some units and might have unintended combat results.

          For those on 2.6.14806 or any 2.6 version higher, please upgrade to the latest 2.7 version, yes 2.7 here.
          https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases

          https://forums.triplea-game.org/tags/thedog
          https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/3741/curated-best-top-maps-triplea-guides

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          • JohnnyCatJ Offline
            JohnnyCat
            last edited by

            CRASH

            I downloaded the new TripleA and the New 1941 GCD

            And The new mods LOOKS GREAT!!!

            But my first game went barely 2 moves before crashing so here is that file. Please let me know what you think.

            CheersCRASH.tsvg

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              Cernel Moderators @Black_Elk
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              @black_elk To summarize what I said previously, the following ones are some suggestions for the HQ images.

              "Ettore Bastico" for the Italian land HQ.

              "Rino Corso Fougier" for the Italian air HQ.

              "Angelo Jachino" for the Italian sea HQ.

              "Moritz Albrecht Franz Friedrich Fedor von Bock" or "Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein" for the German land HQ.

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              • wc_sumptonW Offline
                wc_sumpton @JohnnyCat
                last edited by

                @JohnnyCat

                Launched a bombing raid with 4 bombers into Rostov, along with attacking with another 3 tac-bombers and a air-transport with 1 infantry. Nice!!

                Don't know whether it messed with the AI, because it said it was intercepting the 2ed air-battle, or the order of battle with 2 air-battles in a single territory.

                Still, it was a nice move!! 👍 :astonished_face:

                Cheers...

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                • JohnnyCatJ Offline
                  JohnnyCat @wc_sumpton
                  last edited by

                  @wc_sumpton Nice move or not though, I sure am hoping I can help track down bugs. I often find myself customizing scenarios significantly so I tend to end up with battles that the devs probably never had reasons to test... Again ALL PRAISE to the creators of this one! I mean no offense.

                  So who would take this file and actually figure out the fix for this? I am curious because I started a software company years back and have a Ph.D. in Computer Science but now find myself wanting to get back into the latest and greatest software tools.

                  -Johnny

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                  • Black_ElkB Offline
                    Black_Elk @Cernel
                    last edited by Black_Elk

                    @cernel I think I remembered doing Manstein. Might be buried in one of the sub folders or in the UHD one. I can't remember where he ended. Here's a Bock if you want, just from a wiki photo cropped into the circular motif. If it's from a painting or a color photograph tends to look alright. I did them mostly at 68 px for those

                    germany.png

                    For the others if it's from BW photographs it's possible to do a recolor, like I did in a couple cases. Here's an example with the wiki for the suggested sea HQ. Basically just like a quick duo tone similar to what I did with some of the inf units. So like if you take one section of the image around the face with the lasso tool and give that a tone, then maybe like dominant color of the uniform (in this case navy blue) and then another color for the background. Sorta holds up alright if they're not too large.

                    italy.png

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                      Cernel Moderators @Black_Elk
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                      @black_elk Well, it is up to @TheDog to make any such changes, but surely I advice to substitute Rommel with Bock and Badoglio with Jachino.

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                      • Black_ElkB Offline
                        Black_Elk @Cernel
                        last edited by Black_Elk

                        If I get some time over the weekend I can just bang out a few more probably. For the main 5 nations coming from Classic I supplied the generals that were used in Iron Blitz mostly, then a couple others to hit 6. But since Italy wasn't around for that game just kinda randomly chose some. I thought it would be cool to have a few for something, but didn't really know how they might be used. Might be possible to have a couple Land types perhaps, like one face on the eastern front another in the west or North Africa, but then purchase screen might be kinda hard to parse I think was the issue. Still kind of a placeholder faceholder here, cause trying to create a unit design I just couldn't come up with anything better. Could probably shrink them slightly and use a colored ring or something to match the national tints perhaps, but then when I tried that the first time around using the HEX colors somehow looked kinda weird. Probably needs another pass I'd wager.

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                        • TheDogT Offline
                          TheDog @Black_Elk
                          last edited by

                          @black_elk
                          The problem with a ring is that it uses pixels up that could display the face, also the ring is lost if the HQ is on its own land territory and/or map is zoomed out to about 50%.

                          So on balance, for me no ring around the HQ gives the best results.
                          Also please dont tint the face/hat.
                          If you really wanted to, tint the HQ background.

                          The current style looked good for me. 😁

                          https://forums.triplea-game.org/tags/thedog
                          https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/3741/curated-best-top-maps-triplea-guides

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                          • TheDogT Offline
                            TheDog @JohnnyCat
                            last edited by TheDog

                            @johnnycat
                            From my side nothing appears out, so I will raise this with a Dev on GitHub.
                            Thanks for the saved game, as these really help.

                            From your saved game, I notice that your Resource Modifiers values are less than previous, you are getting better!

                            The AI plays a mean game 😈 😈

                            EDIT: Raised on GitHub

                            https://forums.triplea-game.org/tags/thedog
                            https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/3741/curated-best-top-maps-triplea-guides

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                            • Black_ElkB Offline
                              Black_Elk @TheDog
                              last edited by Black_Elk

                              That was my sense as well. I recall trying to do rings and just never being particularly happy with the results. Like it would look ok, but then units get resized and the interpolation/blur would change the look of the color, or like you mention the color would appear to change depending on the HEX color of the tile or the blue used for the ocean. For the tinted 'WW2 in color' type thing, it just depends on the quality of the source image or how much time one wants to spend noodling around. Like probably more than the few minutes that I gave it yesterday lol. I already used that approach for a couple HQs, mainly for Japan since the image quality there was kinda rough. Some figures were on the cover of magazines or used for national propaganda by one side or the other. You know what I mean, like if they were on the cover of TIME or some equivalent, or had their portrait painted professionally after the war or whatever, those tend to look cleaner. There's a reason why figures like Rommel made it into the mags and the movies, basically cause the Allies found it useful during the war to lionize some generals, or after the war to propagate the myth of 'the good german' or to ennoble the enemy as a way of accounting for victories or losses on the field, things like that. I feel like people who died during the war were easier to retcon in the postwar period so you see that happen a fair bit. Other approach is to stylize everything in the same way, like the Hearts of Iron method, but one kinda needs a real artist for that I'd think. Even then though, we run into some issues probably, like 'is this really the guy we want to be staring at for the next several hours?' probably very similar to the dilemma about who to put on the box cover illustrations for the A&A boards, where the choice there might be fraught. Why I felt fine about the Iron Blitz dudes, but less confident with some of the others. Battling my own laziness is probably the real trick on this one heheh.

                              Anyhow, just let me know. I'm mostly still just playing BG3 these days lol. Catch ya next round!

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                              • JohnnyCatJ Offline
                                JohnnyCat
                                last edited by

                                Hello @Black_Elk @beelee @TheDog

                                AIRBORNE Still Not working correctly - IMO

                                Germany launched airborne from Morroco to Madeira. All good, plane returned.

                                Next turn plane returned to Madeira to land

                                HERE IS THE ISSUE: Next turn Germany wanted to invade Canary Islands but the game would not allow that. However, Germany was able to invade Azores. his makes no sense to me.

                                Am I missing something or is this some sort of bug that went unnoticed because who in their right mind would do this airborne invasion ? LOL

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                                • wc_sumptonW Offline
                                  wc_sumpton @JohnnyCat
                                  last edited by wc_sumpton

                                  @johnnycat

                                  From Morocco to Madeira Is. goes through Sea Zone 091 A, and cost 2 mp, 4 mp for the round trip. From Morocco to Canary Is. would go through Sea Zone 091 A then Sea Zone 087 B or through Sea Zone 091 B then Sea Zone 087 C at a cost of 3 mp. Air Transport only has a movement of 4, thus cannot make the necessary return trip. Even going to Mauritania from the Canary Is. would cost 2 mp so cannot be done. But you could go form Mauritania to the Canary Is. and back.

                                  Cheers...

                                  P.S. Concerning Azores Is. They share Sea Zone 091 A along with Morocco and Madeira Is. So, it'll also only cost 4mp round trip.

                                  Cheers...

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                                  • TheDogT Offline
                                    TheDog @wc_sumpton
                                    last edited by

                                    @cernel
                                    Thanks for taking the time to look at this.

                                    Load the map, untick the first 4 nations, set Japan to Human.
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                                    Load map
                                    Press Enter 3 times
                                    Navigate to 020 Sea Zone or Tepei
                                    Load Infantry onto any ship and try and unload in the Combat phase.

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                                      Cernel Moderators @TheDog
                                      last edited by

                                      @thedog You should be able to offload if "Scramble Rules In Effect" is false.

                                      I do not know why this rule is enforced only when the game has aircraft able to scramble, but I can say that in every supported game you can never offload into any friendly territories during Combat Move (and it is just a case of the program (I assume intentionally) failing to enforce that you cannot do so when it allows you to do so).

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                                        Cernel Moderators @Cernel
                                        last edited by

                                        @cernel Actually, there is one case in which you can do that (legally): the only case when you can is related to rockets, but that is not supported by TripleA either.

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                                        • TheDogT Offline
                                          TheDog @Cernel
                                          last edited by

                                          @cernel
                                          Well I never would have come to that conclusion, thanks!
                                          So as you say, make
                                          "Scramble Rules In Effect" false

                                          and I can unload in the Combat phase 🙄

                                          Shame, in my case its Scramble or unload in the Combat phase, sigh.

                                          Thanks again!

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                                          • cameronC Offline
                                            cameron
                                            last edited by cameron

                                            huh. i thought @Cernel if one didn't include a game rule it defaulted to "false"... so if we don't include "Scramble Rules In Effect" then unloading to friendly TTs in combat move from a contested SZ should be allowed but it's not. at least not in my map.

                                            EDIT: still doesn't allow it even after i added the "Scramble Rules In Effect" = false rule...
                                            maybe i'm just misreading things?

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