Global 1940 and 1943 Expansion for use with TripleA

@barnee

I meant that that you can choose between ‘does nothing AI’ to ‘Easy’, ‘Fast’ and ‘Hard AI’. I also meant what @redrum mentioned that you can give extra money (or units) to the AI nations to make it more interesting and harder to play vs the AI in general.

The only way to improve the AI in my opinion would be making it self aware, so it will learn from playing vs a human opponent, and improve itself by doing so. I guess there are already good computer programs (chess) that are beating human opponents, even chessmasters. So to be fair there is hope for A&A fans around the globe ;)

P.S.
“Making it self aware might be dangerous, and we might get a SKYNET (terminator) situation on our hand ;)”

Indeed, it is the good one!
My problem when searching for it was that the map was not looking the same as the boardgame; but you are right, when looking at it closer, I could see that the connections are the same…
Thanks a lot!

Thanks Barney. Will need to wait 12 hours to check, as I am an idiot and my wife will need to do it and she won’t be free until late tonight. Will report back when she has tried it.

welcome

@Gargantua:

TripleA is cheat-proof

That’s not entirely accurate.  There is a scenario I can think of in which some shady circumstances can occur - in a particular scenario.

It’s safer to say - Axis and Allies is cheat proof, as long as your dice are done through a server - and you pay attention to the actual game mechanics.

Well I’m mostly comparing it to Battlemap, where it would be easy to add units here or there.  If extra units are discovered, there’s no way to tell if it’s cheating or an unintended mistake.

In my experience, it’s the unintentional mistakes that most often mar Battlemap games.  Consequently, many players spend alot of time checking maps and moves for accuracy.

With TripleA the above scenarios don’t happen, because you’d have to use edit to add in units that shouldn’t be there.  And any edit is clearly visible in the game history.

This is copy paste post from the TripleA main site, in case new players are not updated on how the “new” TripleA works:

Here is a list of places where you can get popular maps for TripleA (version 1.2 and later):

All you have to do is start up TripleA 1.2.X.X (Yes that means run the .exe or .sh) and click on the “Download Maps” button. A dialog box will open where you can add links to “Map Repositories” (sites that host maps.) Here’s are a few to add:
http://sites.google.com/site/tripleawarclub/tripleawarmaps.xml
http://sites.google.com/site/veqryn/documents/TripleA_Maps.xml
http://sites.google.com/site/tripleaerniebommel/home/mods/TripleA_Quality_Mods_EB.xml

Just take the second link (the long http one that ends in .xml), and copy it.  Then open up TripleA, click on Download maps, then PASTE it into the blank box there, then click “list games”.  (clicking the links to the .xml below will do nothing for you).  Here is a Slideshow showing how to do it.

Veqryn’s Website just for Hosting Maps:
http://sites.google.com/site/veqryn/documents/TripleA_Maps.xml
Maps by this link:
World War II v1
World War II v2 (3 diff startups)
World War II v3 (2 diff startups)
World War II v4 (3 diff startups, including 6 Player Free for All)
New World Order 1.7EB
Pact of Steel
270BC
Middle Earth 12 player (lord of the rings)
Twilight Imperium
Battle of Aventurica
Small Balanced (4 game variants)
Greyhawk
First Punic War
Great Lakes War
Sleeping Giant
Peninsula Campaign (civil war)
AA Enhanced Revised

TripleA Supply Depot contains many tutorials and help guides for TripleA
TripleA Supply Depot:      <– has tutorials and slideshows for beginners
http://sites.google.com/site/tripleaerniebommel/home/mods/TripleA_Quality_Mods_EB.xml
Maps:
New World Order 1.7EB
Pact of Steel
270BC
Middle Earth 12 player (lord of the rings)
World War II Classic
World War II Revised
World War II v3
World War II v4
Twilight Imperium
Battle of Aventurica
Small Balanced (2 player, 4 player, and FFA variations)
Greyhawk
Big World Variations
WW2V2 Variations
Pact of Steel Variations
a bunch of maps still under development

TripleA War Club website contains a Ladder and Tournament for playing games:
The War Club:
http://sites.google.com/site/tripleawarclub/tripleawarmaps.xml
Maps:
World War II Classic
World War II Revised
World War II v3
World War II v4
Small Balanced

The Main Website for TripleA:
http://sites.google.com/site/tripleadownloadexamples/home/triplea_games.xml
Maps by this link:
First Punic War
Great Lakes War

Roger Cooper Scenarios Website:
Maps:
There are ton of maps listed at his website

For instructions on setting up your own map repository see http://n2.nabble.com/Hosting-Maps-and-mods-tp3916686p3916686.html

I would also like to provide links to a browser accessible battle calculator, and if you are in need of strategy please check out the Forums of AxisandAllies.org.  TripleA also has a wiki site.

If you are new to War Games, I highly suggest you go and read a Rules Book for a certain popular war game that happens to be very generic in manner.  Slightly more advanced rules may be more complex, but are more rewarding too (though they may require some help).

If you have a map or a link you would like me to include, pm me and i’ll add it to the list.
Thx
Veqryn

PS: if you have made a map for tripleA 1.2.1.0 or later, it works and runs, and you would like me to host it, please pm/email me or post below.  I will upload it to my site and include it in my .xml for downloading through tripleA.
This list is edited, so check back often.

I decided to put together some nation specific navy units for TripleA.

Download Here:
http://www.savefile.com/projects/808724519
customships.png

Sounds like the version you are using is still the “hacked” version that was never part of the sourceforge project.  Therefore, nothing is supported in your version, and nothing will ever be fixed in your version.  The unstable version at triplea.sourceforge.net are at least supported by the tripleA development team, so there may still be bugs with them, but at least any bugs will be fixed in future releases.

I’d recommend running (not walking) to triplea.sourceforge.net and downloading the lastest unstable release 0.9.4.1 (since no stable releases yet have support for PBEM).

Convince your opponent to use the same version - it shouldn’t be hard if they were using the same version you had (that you say doesn’t work any more).