Feature request: Combat Move Matchup

Yeah, the current system is pretty annoying. Even after having worked a management-level position in a game development company I’m still amazed by the odd UI quirks that end up in games. I’m always running across things that make me think ‘how did the developers themselves not find this immediately annoying and try to fix it’?, like having your ships decide to move to the ‘wrong’ (from your view) SZ by default.

@buckleyourchinstrap said in Sever down for computer moves?:

@Panther

TY!

Can you tell me where you moved this post to? As you can see I am new here, and from digging around there seems to only be one location for all posts relating to Axis & Allies 1942 2nd Edition.

We have this category for it:

Play Online Axis & Allies - > Axis & Allies 1942 Online

So that is where it has been moved. You can verify this by looking at / scrolling to the top of the page. Right under the Axis & Allies .org logo you see the place where your thread is.

The category you originally posted in is for the boardgame. For computer/online games we have dedicated forums.

Gonna file the two glitches I found in two separate threads.

First, the QoL changes and addition of ranked mode have breathed new life into this game for me. Thanks a ton for implementing both.

Anyway, this glitch is something I call “Phantom Fighter Move”. Allow me to explain:

Scenario: I have two separate stacks of German Fighters. One in Karelia, the other in Germany. During Combat Move Phase I move both of them to attack Caucasus (2 moves away from Karelia, 3 moves away from Germany).

Battle Occurs, all of my air units survive.

NCM Phase: I should only be able to move my Fighters that started in Germany one more space, and my Fighters that started in Karelia two more spaces. If I individually make my moves, this will work as intended. After I’ve individually moved each of my Fighters with two moves left, I will only be able to move the remaining Fighters one space.

However, if I use the new “SHIFT+CLICK” feature to move the entire Fighter Stack at once, the glitch comes into play.

For whatever reason, SHIFT+CLICK"-ing the Fighter Stack in Ukraine lets me move all of them 2 spaces, even though some of them should not be able to move that far. This trick allows for illegal Fighter Movement that is earth-shatteringly overpowered in arenas like the Pacific, where fleet positioning is entirely based on the limited air range of opposing FTRs/Bombers.

NOTE: I do not know if this occurs for Bombers as well as Fighters. I have not tried it because building additional Bombers is usually poor play and I am only playing Ranked Games at the moment.

If this bug is not reproducible on your end, it may have just been a one-time thing for me. Sorry for the false alarm if that’s the case.

Not a huge bug, but a bug nonetheless.

Thanks for listening.

One thing I keep doing is missing one or two units here or there. It would be nice if I could hit a checkbox when I complete a phase to preview the state of the board before I move on to the next step.

@djensen heh heh :)

yea picking battles can be important. Especially for the really good players. I almost always just power through though. Speaking of A&A games in general

First, I really like the new system. I just do, it’s not perfect yet but it’s good.

When you move all of a unit out of a territory, especially via transport, I find it confusing and I have to think twice about it.

I saw this below and I thought, oops I forgot to load the units. But I did. I’m wondering if a unit count goes down to zero if that icon should be grayed out to indicate they all have moved.

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@JuliusBorisovBeamdog Thank you for doing the analysis. My curiosity has been answered and it just turns out that my observations were simply anecdotal and coincidental.

Please pass along my thanks to the team for taking the time to do the analysis. I think a future request will be for low-luck style rolling. :wink:

@Striker I like Global the best, possibly among all wargames. But 42.2 has a faster, chesslike appeal.

I try to play 5 games at once and very quickly, which improves my skills but also leaves plenty of room for me to make mistakes…like speed chess at the renfest where 1 member of the KC chess club takes on 15 all-comers at one time, one move after the next then back to the first game…