@hepps The Germans in WW1 had assumed that they could knock France out of the war quickly (like 1870) but attacking Russia's vast territories was pointless (like 1812). The reality was opposite, greater firepower meant that the French could hold (and French generalship was much better than 1870), while the backwardness of Russia meant that their armies were much weaker relative to the advanced nations than in 1812.

This is a common problem in war games, that the historical strategies were misguided, so either you compel the player to execute historical strategies or have a war very different from the historical struggle.

Make sure that you don't have zipped & unzipped versions of the same mod.

Added article on Tiberian Conquest EU to wiki

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Scenario World in Conflict-1941
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Description A WW2 scenario on a new map

Good Points

• Interesting Map
• Plays fairly fast

Bad Points

• Too many unit types
• Unit types not well balanced
• Sea Areas show black
• No victory conditions

@schulz Saudi Arabia and Yemen have about the same population, which is relevant to the Saudi failure. As the Saudis have not really mobilized for war and their local allies are only interested in securing an independent South Yemen, the Saudis lack the resources on the ground to win. The Houthis are fully commited to the conflict and can win by defending.

@cernel said in Axis & Allies & Zombies & TripleA:

@hepps said in Axis & Allies & Zombies & TripleA:

@rogercooper What is a unitKill trigger?

I thing @RogerCooper might be misunderstanding the rules, if not the way triggers work. My best guess is that he means adding zombies with triggers for as much dudes were killed in combat in a territory. However, this is not the way it works. The way it works is that the dead rise at the end of each combat round (while triggers fire only before or after phases), so the best way to do this, in my opinion would be expanding the option that changes a unit into another one when damaged to support also:

• Changing the unit to another one when the unit reaches 0 hitpoints.

• Defining a new owner for the new unit.

I understand the AAZ rules. I don't think that the engine changes required for full support of zombies would be made, but it could be approximated with smaller changes.

Added to Wiki, World War II Global 1940 Balanced Mod3

@cernel I don't see this game be implemented directly into TripleA (except for the no Zombie variant), but there are 2 features which could be implemented and useful.

1. A unitKilled trigger
2. A generalized cannotHIt unit property

A problem with a unitKilled trigger is that it needs to pass a location value to the action, which I don't think TripleA supports and might require more significant code changes.

I have opened and played the Axis & Allies & Zombies (AAZ). Leaving aside the Zombies for now, AAZ is similar to AA41 (World War II v6) with a bit more detail. There are some minor rules changes most of which are easily supported in TripleA. There are now Recruitment Centers (Infantry-only factories) in India & China, which I think adds something to the game.

The Zombies themselves would be tricky to handle in TripleA. Zombies basically act as infantry, put they only conduct 1 round of attack on their own. In a 3-way battle Zombies target both players and vice versa. Zombies can only control territories it there are no human units there. To support all the Zombie rules would require significant changes to the TripleA engine.

Zombies can be placed by Zombie cards (easily handled by TripleA as random events) but are also created when infantry are killed in battle.What is really needed is a unitDestroyed trigger. This would be useful other scenarios as well.You could have destroyed units be replaced by partisans, give money to either side or even result in triggered victory.

@cernel said in How would you rate countries and territories considering realism in big WWII maps.:

@rogercooper Can you give a link to that and wherever it says stuff like that (also relatively if the Soviet Union includes the Baltics). I've been unable to find anything the like, till now. Anyways, I should have guessed, since of the population drop in 1947. Editing.

I can't give you a link. It was in the printed book. ISBN-13: 978-9264022614.

As they are using PPP (purchasing power parity), the conversion process is complex. I am working on interpolating all the new data. However, it seems reasonable to say that India's military potential was half that of Great Britain itself, but much of that potential went unused because of Indian nationalism and British fear of Indian nationalism.