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@salocinx The factory’s air defense is not affected by damage.

@Faramir said in Transport vs Sub:

Can a transport make an amphibious assault where there is an enemy submarine if an air unit escorts the transport?

No, as an air unit is not a “warship belonging to the attacking power”.

Rulebook, page 13:

“However, a transport is not allowed to offload land units for an amphibious assault in a sea zone containing one or more ignored enemy submarines unless at least one warship belonging to the attacking power is also present in the sea zone at the end of the Combat Move phase.”

@AndrewAAGamer

AFAIK the Marti-Mail-Code within the software has not been touched for years. It ist not even proven that TripleA / Marti is the culprit. However I am not a developer.

Unfortunately no one has ever looked deeper into it.

@djensen Thank you very much. I would be happy to have a searchable data dump of my PMs for sure. But if you at any time feel it is too much of work, then let me know. :slightly_smiling_face:

Starting with my own answer:

I will “maybe” recommend the online game.

Why maybe? While I don’t care much for example about graphics, sounds and cosmetics or the felt “randomness of dice results” I really do care about rules compliance. As other topics in this forum category indicate the game is somehow leaving the original idea of being as rules compliant as possible.

So in order to recommend the game, to me it needs

• either some rework to go back to full rules compliance
  or
• a clear statement, that the online game is not a 1:1 adaption of the OOB/LHTR game but a variant instead - ideally expressed by a dedicated rulebook or at least a fact-sheet that clearly points out all the differences from the boardgame.

To me the online version could be an ideal way to create enthusiasm for the boardgames. But when coming to play the boardgames, online players will need to learn and accept the differences. That is somehow counterproductive, IMHO.

Concerning the tablet version I would definitely buy it. We do not have any serious implementation of an A&A game, however it might be called.

FYI:

The developer(s) of TripleA decided to call version 2.6.14752 ‘stable’.
So this is the version you get when you move to
https://triplea-game.org/download/

Also please note
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1699993

@ABWorsham4
If that feature was available you would find a respective button above the editor-box (marked yellow) when creating a topic.

However, as that specific button is missing it looks like this feature has not been enabled (yet).
Any plans, @djensen ?

@captainjack1410
This game needs Windows (at least Windows 7 64bit) as underlying operating system.
Chromebooks use ChromeOS as operating system, which is a Linux derivative.
So Windows software typically is not compatible with ChromeOS.

Are you a computer geek? I that case you might want to google for “run windows programs on chromebook”. But only in that case, as I would recommend ;-)
Personally I have never tried any of those ideas…

@FlyingBadger said in League General Discussion Thread:

When setting up a game, I’d suggest checking with the opponent what major version of TripleA is to be used. I’m not sure about the backward / forward compatibilty of 2.6 with 2.5, but you can have both installed on the same machine, just have to make sure to load the right one.

Any one using the Post to Forum function in 2.6? Is it working well?

2.6 and 2.5 are NOT compatible. And PbF works just fine.

Currently TripleA throws out an error when you try to post to the forum.

Until this issue will be resolved please attach your savegame file manually to your posting in your game thread. Just write something and upload your savegame file.

For the purpose of uploading klick the symbol marked red above and choose your savegame file.

Thank you.

@JaxsonConnor said in Larry Harris gencon 3.0 axis start?:

Playing the new A&A online game and having trouble as axis. Does anyone know what exactly the larry harris gencon 3.0 start changes compared to out of the box 1942 2nd edition?

See the first posting here:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/29339/larry-harris-semi-official-tournament-game-patch

I have moved the topic to the 1942 online category to further discuss the online version.
The online game is different from the boardgame in some aspects.

@Martin said in League General Discussion Thread:

@crockett36 @dawgoneit

Question on Technology (1940 Global):

Does anyone know what the message means “removing all Technology tokens after unsuccessful research”?

If you already have gained some tech, you will certainly never lose it. So this message is somewhat confusing. It appears after an unsuccessful research, meaning that the purchased tech rolls did not have a 6.

So I guess the actual question is what a “tech token” is. Maybe it just stands for purchased and yet unrolled tech dice.

This wording is a remnant from Anniversary Edition. There you bought Research Tokens that represented the research dies. In Anniversary when rolling for research failed you kept the tokens for the next turn.

The server temporarily ran out of RAM. The issue should be fixed for now.

Topic locked. You guys have already been told to discuss that by PM.
Reference:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1470730

@Private-Panic said in Attacking multiple territories in one combat move?:

Also subs not involved in combat can move into hostile sea zones in which there is no enemy destroyer present.

A small correction: Subs can even move into seazones containing an enemy destroyer:
Rulebook, 1941, page 20:

Submarines: Unlike other sea units, submarines can move through and even into hostile sea zones during this phase.
However, a submarine must end its movement when it enters a sea zone containing one or more enemy destroyers.

@jwarf Welcome to the forum :slightly_smiling_face:

@AndrewAAGamer said in SS GEN changed to GEN MANSTEIN:

Does that mean we should never reference the SS again? Not in my opinion. Erasing history means making the same mistakes again.

Of course not. How do you come to think so?

What type of reference actually is a user name? A user name is a symbol rather than a reference. Choosing this organization as a user name might be (and comparable cases actually have been) interpreted as a statement rather than a substantial reference (though we know that it has not been in this special case).

No one forbids a critical reference, no one erases history.

For example you want to reference the SS in any context in any topic? Feel free to do so. All we ask is to respect the forum rules (as we do at any time).

@Taewakan
Welcome to the forum :slightly_smiling_face:

You are likely referring to the China placement restriction in the Anniversary Ruleset.
So I have moved your topic from the Website/Forum discussion category to the appropriate forum category, that would be Anniversary. The A&A games have different rulesets including different rules. So it is always good to know about which game we are talking.

This restriction is not a movement restriction. So yes, you can do that during the Chinese Noncombat Movement Phase.

In case you meant something totally different or a different game please indicate that.

HTH :slightly_smiling_face:

@djensen I definitely agree with the idea of “Play Axis & Allies Online (description will mention TripleA)”. I have been maintaining the Software section for quite some time now and I would say that 95% is about TripleA, 3% (if ever) is about the totally outdated “Hasbro CD” (actually hardly valid content), and the rest are some lonesome threads about some Apps here and there, actually without further discussion.

In this context I am not convinced that an additional category would add any value here, given that you intend to re-organize and clean up a bit.

So my idea would be to take the not very frequently and sometimes redundantly used “Player Help” category and merge it with your “Software and Tools”-idea. What is in “Player Help” today is most of the time related to software, to tools, to calculation, etc.
I think that would match perfectly.

A merged-this-way category could be named “Player Aids, Tools and Software”, for example.

@gargantua said in TripleA posting to Forum currently does not work:

Please tell me what I must do, in simple terms, to fix this crime against humanity.

Either

1. wait until the TripleA developers might release a 2.5 (current stable) fixed version

or

2. wait until the TripleA developers might release a new 2.6 stable release

or

3. go with the latest pre-release version (2.6.621 as of now). For being able to download maps you need to alter a setting in the Engine Preferences. In the tab “Testing” switch “Lobby URl Override” to “Pre-Release”.

I am not sure if and when 1. or 2. will be realized anytime soon.

So in case you want to test a pre-relase version (download from https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases) be sure to install it into a different target folder to run it side by side with your current version.

But be warned - there may be other issues related to a pre-release - which may eventually not be resolved quickly - and where support or a workaround or a fix might not be in sight, either.

I mention @JuliusBorisovBeamdog here, to please take a look.