In Twelve Clans (a Shogun type variant heavily inspired by the Samurai Warriors series of games) fight to expand your clan and become the dominant power in Japan. As you conquer rival clans, they will become your vassals (allied to you), but your vassals' true loyalties belong only to their own clan's interests. A clan will become vassal to another for self-preservation. If another clan conquers one of your vassals, their allegiance will change to the conquering clan.
However, if you are conquered, your vassals will join you in switching sides.

This means that no player is ever out of the game. Once you are defeated, you simply switch sides. If one of your allies wins then you win a minor victory. But there can only be one shogun. If a player conquers 7 rival clans that player achieves Total Victory, becoming the shogun. Any players who are not the first 7 to join the shogun have lost.

In the 2 (Sekigahara), 3 (Coalitions), 4 (Triads) and 6 (Bloodpact) player alliance variants included the Vassal system is removed and the traditional alliance system is in place. You can choose to play this like any other game where multiple players can be a part of any particular alliance or one player can control
the entire alliance. Once a clan is taken out in these variants, they are out for good. Victory in these variants is based on alliance control of 10, 9, 8, or 8 clan strongholds respectively (or all 12 if you are feeling frisky).

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Please comment and report any issues here! This is my first map so I hope you enjoy playing it as much as I enjoyed making it! (Hopefully I did all the github stuff right and it shows up in the download list soon...)

Michael

Thanks for all the help everyone. I have four bots up on an Ubuntu server now. 3 are public, one is passworded for my personal use. Let me know if anything is funky. I know I don't have all the maps downloaded yet but I want to let them run for a bit for QC/testing.

I realize you guys probably don't need the extra bots, but this has become an academic exercise for me at this point

@Frostion - thank you for all the advice on sounds. I finally have everything lined out thanks to your tips and tricks! I'll be updating Twelve Clans later with music and sounds.

Update 1.1 has been uploaded:
This update adds the sounds and music that I originally wanted to have for the initial release.

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The next update forthcoming will feature expanded documentation and tweaks each clan to give them a more unique feel and play, hopefully adding a little more balance as well, although I do like the fact that some clans are inherently harder to play...

If anyone has any suggestions please fire away!

(Edit: I thought I posted this in the Dragon war Thread but alas...if a mod could move this for me that would be aweesome)

This game is amazing! Having said that, I have noticed a missing connection hopefully someone can update it at some point: you can move units from Mount Thoril to Dol Ulum, but not the other way. I got into the xml (just messing around with my local copy - purely for learning purposes) and thought I could fix it by adding <connection t1="Dol Ulum" t2="Mount Thoril"/> but I guess the game reads from elsewhere.

Anyway, just thought I would report this. Thanks for making this and keep up the good work!

@Frostion thanks for the info I wasn't sure. Yeah in the yaml its version 1 so I'll pull it now and update it. I've already updated the repository on github (getting used to that as I am a noob there too ).

I've looked around and can't seem to find any helpful tips on hosting a bot from a headless linux server (specifically ubuntu 18.04). Is it possible? If I missed the topic please point me to the right location. Thanks!

Yeah should be in your user area. I use Linux but on Windows I think it is "C:\Users[your user name]\TripleA\downloadedMaps" There should be a dragon war zip file in there. Delete it and then fire up TripleA and go re-download it.

Excellent! Thanks again I'll start messing around with this today.

@Frostion Hey just wanted to let you know I spotted a typo while playing this morning. When the green dragon spawns the dialog says its controlled by the Murlocs but if we beat the Kobolds we can capture it. Not a biggie by any means but just wanted to bring it to your attention.

@Frostion Yes it does, thank you for the additional information.

Thanks for the visual, that really helps!

@Cernel Nice...I think I will experiment with 96px or so (have an idea for a new map). Thanks!

Does anyone know what the maximum unit size supported is? I recall somewhere a conversation about wanting to use 128x128 px units but that it wasn't supported yet, so I was wondering what is the maximum...

Actually, the typo was a side note. The matter is that it says "Improved Teppo Offense", while it should say "Improved Teppo Defense".

I'll get that fixed shortly...thanks! Somehow I completely missed that

@Cernel Thanks for the feedback!

I must admit I didn't give a whole lot of thought into the [2/4 + 4/2] > [3/3 + 3/3] argument. I was looking at it from an offense vs defense perspective, i.e. buy more Teppo if you are getting aggressive or buy more kyudoka to turtle up and defend. Looking at the percentages though I do see your point and will have a think on that for a bit.

I didn't remove any units from the frontiers just because I thought it would look weird. Obviously certain clans would have no reason to purchase certain units given the bonuses but I couldn't bring myself to not allow them to be available.

The units were modified so that nobori only increase ashigaru defense (except the Oda Nobori do +1/+1) and the samurai only increase ashigaru offense (except the Azai samuari do +1/+1) as part of the clan advantages theme.

I also believe the lowering of cost has helped balance them out, as without caps the AI does seem to purchase a variety of units (leaning toward their advantages of course).

Thanks for pointing out the typo. I went ahead and fixed that so if you want you can pull it again that'll be corrected. I also thought i had replaced the chart in the upper left corner but apparently what got released was the old chart, so I fixed that as well.

If you see anything else please let me know. Thanks for all your suggestions too, it is much appreciated.

Update 1.2 has been uploaded:

• More sounds and music
• Expanded Documentation
• Clan Advantages
• Ronin upkeep (rather than having the ronin for one round only, they now stick around but cost 2 PUs per round per ronin as an upkeep value)
• No Unit caps (except on Nobori)
• Modified unit stats and costs for balancing
• Traitor tech added (if a vassal switches sides too many times they will be dubbed a traitor and can be destroyed)
• Minor bug fixes/display errors

Feedback is much appreciated!

Dragon War, Twelve Clans, ww2v5 1942 SE

@Frostion Just read through this whole thread and holy crap this is a magnum opus!
I really like the whole backpack/inventory idea and would love a little insider scoop on how you are pulling that off

Just wanted to point out on the Arthur page shouldn't the skill be spelled "Noble" instead of "Nobel"? (unless I am misunderstanding the skill...)

Update 1.2 is well underway with expanded documentation, some minor sound and graphical tweaks, additional sound bites for the starting clan leaders, and a clan specialty system to give each clan a slightly different play style.

I also wanted to point out for @Cernel that we have removed all unit caps except on Nobori, and to keep the AI purchasing in line several of the units' cost and/or attack/defense have been modified, hopefully bringing things more into balance. With any luck I should be able to roll it out this weekend or shortly thereafter

Stay tuned...