Units, Mechanics, etc.

Round 8
janus test europe g8.tsvg

USA certainly should have been more of a threat, but I played this pretty quickly and so was buying on autopilot and not looking at USA’s turns

@The-Janus

About Paris:

The French overshot by almost 2 hits in the first round of combat in your second game. Even so, however, you were still on track to have nearly a 100% chance to conquer the territory and make an IPC profit:

@Stucifer

Wait, how’d you do that? Can you please teach me? Thank you!

@SuperbattleshipYamato open up the game history and right click on any line
Should bring up the menu

I recommend only using it at the start of a round or the end of a turn. End of a turn usually duplicates the income command so you’ll have to edit

@The-Janus I’m using 2.6 which is considered a pre-release version

you can go to github to download it. Most people that play on the forums use it since 2.5 is not compatible with the updated NodeBB API used by the website.

https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases/tag/2.6.14748

@SuperbattleshipYamato said in Units, Mechanics, etc.:

@Stucifer

Wait, how’d you do that? Can you please teach me? Thank you!

Adding a screenshot to make it clear

Open History
Right Click the “Round: X” (whatever start of round you want to save at is)
Use the “Save Game at this point” command

you can also use TripleA to generate board setup charts

and I used the Export Gameboard Picture to print my Path to Victory map I made (league Global 1940 variant)

@Stucifer

Can’t seem to do it on my 2.7 version. Maybe it’s not a Mac thing?

@The-Janus

Your first German turn was pretty great.

I’ll note that the US actually only had an 83% chance of capturing Rome, lower than what I usually do:

I think the toughest obstacle Germany currently faces is the large number of artillery it has stuck in Moscow. Specifically, that giant stack can’t move fast enough to seize the remaining territory Germany needs to win, while there aren’t enough fast movers to accompish the task. Obviously you were doing an experiment, and I’m glad we now know what happens.

@SuperbattleshipYamato Hmm, not sure. I don’t imagine it’s a Mac issue, but the only Macs I used were in grade school when they still only had 1-button mice…

I haven’t tried 2.7, I think everyone on the league forums is using 2.6 until we start getting more features in 2.7 (say, the battle calculator not populating both sides with your units if you’re hovering over your own territory would be nice)

@Stucifer

Really? I like that feature a lot. Much easier than adding each unit.

I agree it’ll be nice as an option.

@SuperbattleshipYamato To clarify I like using the Ctrl+A and Ctrl+D commands, they’re fantastic.

But when you hit Ctrl+B on the version I’m using (2.6.147 something) it adds your units to both the Attackers and Defenders when it opens the Calculator on your own territory.

If I open it up hovering over Crete

Much better than the bug in another version where every single unit was duplicated, but still frustrating.

@Stucifer

yea the latest pre has fixed that. Or 2.7+14895 is what I’m using and it works correctly on linux anyway

https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases/tag/2.7.14895

@Stucifer

Oh, you mean that. Yeah I don’t like it. Just weird.

@barnee Okay perfect! I downloaded and tried saving a test game and that save file still opens in my 2.6 client. So perhaps I can start sneakily using 2.7 soon!! 🤭

@Stucifer

yea I think 2.6 saves will work with 2.7 and vice versa. Just not with 2.5. Some of the new features might not translate if you run it in 2.6 probably.

But for this game, you should be able to play it with 2.7

@barnee

From my experience, games, at least starting from 2.5, are compatible with newer versions, but not vice versa.

@SuperbattleshipYamato

I just played a Europe 1940 game against the Hard AI much like your parameters, except with me controlling Italy as well.

2025-2-16-World-War-II-Europe-1940-2nd-Edition.tsvg

With the exception of some really bad rolls for Italy one turn, the Axis butchered the Allies from beginning to end. Somehow Germany took Moscow on turn 5(!). It was easy strolling after that. Not sure whether the Hard AI was worse than yours, but they really wasted the US mucking around for way too long.