AARHE: TripleA project

This is a project to add AARHE support to TripleA.
TripleA is an open-source game engine and axis and allies clone.
AARHE is one of the most substantial house rules or variant for Axis and Allies and this will be a long road.

Screenshots

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/1023/menupi1.png
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/6319/mapkd9.png

version 0.2 requires latest tripleA repository code
http://www.mediafire.com/?bh4ymxsxh1j

version 0.1
http://www.mediafire.com/?41vxjp1gwmi

version 0.2 xml changes

*added Bosphorus canal
*added VCs
*infantry now built at VCs
*added capacity of VCs
*all other units built at ICs

version 0.1 xml map changes

*use <info name=“LHTR 4th Edition” version=“1.02”>as starting point
*Balkans and Turkey now connected
*cost to enter neutral territories set to 0 IPC
*all neutral territories (except for Himalayas) now passable
*added AARHE neutral territories’ income and units

version 0.1 xml unit changes

*destroyer cost changed to 12 IPC
*battleship cost changed to 20 IPC
*battleship changed to 2 hit by default
*carrier changed to 2 hit by default
*transport defense changed to 0
*destroyer attack changed to 2 and defense changed to 2
*carrrier defense changed to 1
*carrier movement changed to 3
*destroyer movement changed to 3
*battleship no longer repair at end of round

version 0.1 xml game sequence changes

*moved collect income phase to start of turn
*player starting IPC changed to 0
*round sequence changed to all axis followed by all allies game sequence
*round sequence has team member turns interlaced
*first round sequence has Russians player first

file changes (installation instructions)

*copy TripleA\images\units*\carrier.png TripleA\images\units*\carrier_hit.png
*new TripleA\images\units*\victoryCity.png
*renamed images\Neutral\transport_.png as images\Neutral\transport.png</info>

I have started a feasibility test of adding AARHE support to TripleA.
This is what I could do so far with version 0.9.0.2 of the game engine.

I’ll be attempting to contribute to the project with a goal of AARHE support.
(eg. At the moment TripleA only allows one canal per sea zone. So the Bosphorus Canal can’t be added as sea zone 15 is already part of Suez Canal. I might look into that feature first thing.)

Of course, this is only the tip of an iceberg. A lot more and more has to be done such as Combat. (Air units must retreat without land support. Air units can’t be hit by ground units.)

Technologies, netural diplomacy, national advantages, and national victory might never make the scene.

Fortunately game sequence is done without code changes. I thought this is quite significant to gameplay and should be fun.
So today I release this as version 0.1.

Yeah I am giving it a go since Java was the main programming language back in my Engineering Bachelor.

Note you need to perform the version 0.1 file changes in order to try it out.
Copy the xml file to the triplea/games folder where all the other xml files are.

This project is a big call. 4th edition LHTR support has only been added a few months ago.

It is starting to take form. Can start to taste AARHE. Still a long way to go of course.

version 0.2 xml changes

*added Bosphorus canal
*added VCs
*infantry now built at VCs
*added capacity of VCs
*all other units built at ICs

Ok added some pictures at first post.
Just looks like normal TripleA.

You could make icons for me if you want.
Then we can have different tanks/planes/etc pictures for each country.
Someone is coding a skins manager. If you are interested I can give you more information.

yes you can have our own map

this is the structure

map_name/baseTiles/*
map_name/capitols.txt
map_name/centers.txt
map_name/map.propertires
map_name/name_place.txt
map_name/place.txt
map_name/polygons.txt
map_name/smallMap.jpeg
map_name/vc.txt

Check out this file to see the structure.
http://www.mediafire.com/?8ydgmee9gum

They have a program called “polygon grabber” to make the polygons.txt.
polygon.txt is a file full of pixel positions.

I don’t know what you mean.
TripleA is compelete and playable now. Last release was 0.9.0.2 at end of last 2006.

Its shoudn’t be too hard. I’ll check out the polygon grabber later.

by the way, its buggy at the moment

*some units can move in both combat and non-combat

*not landing friendly air units (which you can’t control) would render them destroyed
(eg. Japanese planes in the axis collided “turn”)

*you can SBR victory cities (which is not too bad since in AARHE SBR is not restricted to ICs)