First Encounter with TripleA, a noob's first games.

So, currently attempting yet another new game of ‘classic’ using the astounding and amazing TirpleA platform, and running into some problems. In my latest abortive attempt, I tried to capitalize on a rather strange situation, where the Hard German AI left both Western Europe and Finland/Norway wide open, but when I went and attempted to land forces in both places, it was disallowed. Is this a setting that I need to fix somewhere? Or have I just been mis-remembering being able to drop infantry in two different enemy controlled territories at the same time?

Help?:relaxed:

@The-Pripet-Martian Gotcha! For some insane reason, I was under the impression that one transport could drop in two different land territories as long as they were both bordered by a common sea zone. I have a lot to relearn before I can play.

I think I need to try the easy AI, as the hard kicked my butt, but also I couldn’t really keep track of what was going on…

I’ve been having a blast, but I obviously need to play quite a bit to get used to how the new game works.:relaxed:

@Panther You’ll get a good laugh out of this one, but what you just showed me is the way about three of my first attemps ended. I clicked somewhere I should not have, and accidently entered “Show History” and didn’t know how to get back to “Show Current Game”, and so ended many attempts to conquer the world, lol.

I’m still learning how things work, and once I have some ‘good’ ideas to share, I’ll be launching my youtube channel, which is already set up HERE. I started posting really limited A&A videos at my current site, but I’m putting that on hold till I have my questions answered and know how to make a really good video.

Anyway, thanks once again!

@Panther Will do. I’m currently perusing the site, and familiarizing myself with how things are setup and how to navigate. Main problem right now is, there is so much interesting content, and I end up reading whole threads instead of just skimming to find out what is where.

After that, I plan to see if FRAPS works with TripleA, and if so, then small parts of the game can be shown easily.

If you were willing, could you go to my current site and answer some of the comments posted to the three videos I have up? Not all that big a deal, really, but interested in what folks might want to see when I launch my Crazy Ivan youtube channel.

Ok, so a couple of images from what I’m doing right now:

And, how my map looks:

I was just messing around with this, and decided this was the best look for me, at least for now…

So, Russia R1 with a limited attack, just trying to playtest having a surviving sub stack with the UK fleet.

Trying to get a good series of shots, but a video is probably what I really need, cause the steps don’t show up in FRAPS.

So FRAPS video is useless, as the program doesn’t capture images except on the active window. Just screen shots, then:

Trying to get the German AI to attack Karelia on turn one, and lose fighters taking it…

But then the AI does this instead:

Is there any interest in this kind of thing, and is this ok? I don’t want to post massive numbers of images, in case that eats up to much bandwidth, and I’m not really sure just how linking to imgur hosted images works, so stopping now and awaiting a stop/go comment…

A couple of things I was thinking of doing, but with the way FRAPS works and TripleA runs, I’m probably better off trying to just use a regular game board and pieces, as then I can post the exact situation where a choice needs be made. I don’t know anything {YET} about using the save game file posting, other than that it is possible. Are there some saved games posted in threads that I could look at and then post about, and where exactly should such comments be made?

I love the look and feel of TripleA classic, and even if I don’t get why the AI is doing what it is, it’s still a fun and enjoyable playing experience, but as a way of playing/demonstrating real-board situations and such, I’m not sure it is going to work well and easily. Maybe once I experiment with the editor feature, I’ll be able to set up some of the exact situations I’m looking at.

I was looking at some excerpts for a couple games played by @AcesWild5049 and wanted to make comments, but not in the game thread itself, so folks that don’t want to be reading my noob questions don’t have the game thread cluttered up.

Eventually, I’m going to want to start posting my ideas for things, and some things are simple, like changing the tech system, and others are far more sweeping.

One of the simplest things I want to do, is put in my ideas for multi-board A&A classic, and with the ability to publish my own custom maps into TripleA, I can get folks to easily see what I’m talking about. I’ll do the part that I can do, right now, and then folks can tell me what they think and how hard to actually implement my ideas will be.