Triple A G40 - Comprehensive list of currently unresolved issues

1. You should delete your previous 4 posts about this and centralize it here, in this thread.  No sense spamming the forum with the document.  And when the bugs are fixed, one by one, who will be updating each copy of your document?  Better to keep this in 1 place.

2. You should make it very clear which games each item applies to. 
ie: does it apply to all A&A games?  Just Global 1940 2nd Edition?
Currently your list could be very confusing to players.  Point 1 about order of battles is valid for all known versions I think, while most of the other points are valid only for Global 1940 2nd Edition.  There are no airbases and paratroopers in Classic, Revised, AA50, etc.

3. You should make it clear which can be solved by the user and which can’t, and what the solution is.  Perhaps use a “table” in the document with a second column for “temporary workaround”.
For example, the solution to pt 1 is just to click the battles in the right order.

Thank you for this very interesting compendium.
I hope this thread will be stickied soon, as it is extremely helpful for all G40-TripleA-players.
At least for those who want to stick as close to the rules as possible.
:-)

Hey Gamer, my suggestion would be to make this a google doc just like you did with the rankings spreadsheet – that’s been working great!

Also, I have an addition to the list.  When ANZAC planes are on U.S. carriers, I have been having very strange attacking results.  For example, I sent an artillery into New Britain, along with 5 fighters and 3 tacs (all ANZAC) during combat movement – all 8 planes were on U.S. carriers (and only U.S. carriers were present in the sea space from where the planes were launched along with a few other U.S. boats).  When the combat was actually rolled, the planes were completely ignored.  After combat, they were still on the space (New Britain) to be moved during non-combat.

This has also been true of sea battles.  One battle in particular, I moved the U.S. carriers carrying the planes into a space with a Japanese transport.  During the ANZAC combat phase, the planes did not attack the transport even when moved a space and back to the space with the transport.  This was also true when attacking a Japanese Battleship with an ANZAC sub and planes from the U.S. carriers – only the sub rolled.

And you are quite welcome!

1. Make sure you are playing with the LATEST version of TripleA.

2. Make sure you keep a savegame and upload it somewhere.  Best case: you have both a “before” and an “after” savegames, and upload them both (ideally to the sourceforge bug list).

I haven’t heard or seen of anything like that happening, so unless you have some savegames to show, I can’t really do anything about it.

Hi Veqryn,

The game thread in questions can be found here:  http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=31397.120

The rounds in question are ANZAC 8 and ANZAC 9, respectively.  You can see in the history of the save that the dice were not rolled.  I gave the link to our league game above so that if any before/after saves are needed in various places that you have access to each and every save (the game is still being played) there.

I have attached the most recent save.  We have been playing in 1.7.0.3, the most updated version at the time that we started the game.

Sorry that I don’t have time to find the sourceforge bug list – if you can forward this I would really appreciate it.  Thanks!

dizz,

there appears to be an issue where if you have allied fighters on an owned carrier, and you attack with that carrier, the fighters on it will correctly not participate in the battle (because they are allied cargo), but will sometimes incorrectly stop participating in all battles for the rest of the game (afaik)

solution for now: if you ever attack with a carrier that has allied air cargo, after all battles are done (or at the end of the turn) use edit mode to delete and replace the allied fighters.

this bug only affects allied air cargo that have previously been cargo during an attack.  this in itself is pretty rare, which is probably why noone has encountered it yet besides you.

i made a note to fix it

@Veqryn:

this in itself is pretty rare, which is probably why no one has encountered it yet besides you.

The above is a perfect description of my Allied strategy….  :-o :-D

Thanks, Veqryn, and yw Gamer!  ;)

This is not really an ISSUE but it should be addressed:

On some screens at least, the ANZAC colors are virtually identical to the American ones.  Perhaps we can switch ANZAC and Italian colors to differentiate better (you know, like how Battlemap has had the colors for these two nations since these two nations existed?)  A little tired of seeing those American ships break off from the fleet after Italy’s turn and attack me. lol

Secondly, that battle calculator is absolute cr@p.  Excuse my Italian mouth there, but seriously, I keep getting odds back that are off significantly from what I am seeing.  I thought maybe it was just me or that maybe I missed a piece here or there that ended up attacking me, but I’ve confirmed that on the offense that calculator is off by a couple dozen percentage points in medium sized battles - compared to actual results and compared to calculators that have been proven over the past few years as accurate.

Also, a way to fix a combat move would be great.  You know, when the game seems to think you said BOMB and you actually punched ATTACK for your planes?  ATM I just nuke the entire file and start it over from that nation’s point of view, but that too leads to mistakes as you may misremember an attack or just straight up forget one in the frustration of redoing the round up to combat movement phase just because tripleA screwed up and sent your pilots on an SBR instead of supporting your ground troops.

So there’s my current wish list.  As for now, I’m going back to real battle calculators, ones that I have seen evidence of being accurate in their results.

I still want the colors switched back to battlemap colors. :P  It just makes sense to make it as unconfusing as possible.

The tripleA calculator gave me 93% odds, frood and dskelly gave me 72% odds for a major battle.  TripleA also speculated that 18 inf vs 7 inf would result in 4 or 5 inf remaining for the attacker - frood and dskelly giggled and said 14 remaining infantry (result was 16 for the record.)  That’s two major strikes for me against tripleA’s calculator and that program has NEVER been on my love it list to start with.  But whatever, this season, for me, is all about learning the game and different ways to do things, next year is the year I plan to be #1 in league. lol!