Description:
G40 Alt-Universe is for those who love Axis and Allies, but are looking for a new strategic experience. The war is the same, but occurs in an alternate universe where the Earth’s land formation happened differently. It’s a return to the early days of pouring over the map and developing strategies in an unfamiliar setting.

YouTube Video Introduction:
https://youtu.be/deLJfHznEms

TripleA Game File Link:
https://triplea-game.org/map/g40-alt-universe/

Rules File:
G40 Alt Universe Rules.pdf

Summary (National Objectives) File:
G40 Alt Universe Summary.pdf

Unit Placement File:
G40 Alt Universe Unit Setup.pdf

General:
G40 Alt-Universe is designed to be played with the components and basic ruleset of Axis and Allies Europe 1940 Second Edition and Axis and Allies Pacific 1940 Second Edition.

For in-person play, if you already own Europe and Pacific 1940, all you need is a printed map file. If you’re interested in getting the map file, please private-message me or use the email mentioned in the YouTube video.

If you want to try the game electronically, I’ve also created a TripleA game file, available at the link mentioned above.

Note that the game is in a beta phase and might still be subject to minor changes, however, no map changes are anticipated and would be done only as a last resort in order to fix an exploit.

@surfer said in Using Game The TripleA Game Stats:

One I would like to see is have the same info but presented on a bar/line chart that shows the trend over time easily. Perhaps it would have “zoom” / “expand” buttons that allowed you to change the time scale to show fewer (zoom) or more (expand) turns at one time.

I gather there’s already been some work on a similar idea that’s in the Beta features…

Try going: Game -> Engine Settings -> Testing -> Show Beta Features = True

Then restart Triplea and go: Game -> Game Statistics

You can also read more here:
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/2563/aftermath-statistics-with-game-info-achievements?page=1

I’m looking to entice (bribe?) some players into giving this map a try on TripleA for purposes of playtesting feedback.

I’m going to be doing a draw for a 72”x33” physical map printed on banner vinyl to be shipped to the winner.

To be entered into the draw, complete a TripleA game of G40 Alt-Universe and submit feedback on game balance and any potential exploits found. All participating players will be entered per below:

1 draw entry – Complete a solo TripleA game where you play both sides and send me the TripleA file.
2 draw entries – Complete a Play by Email game with one or more opponents and copy me on game emails.
3 draw entries – Complete a forum game in the “Play Boardgames” section of axisandallies.org with one or more opponents

Other Details:

• Multiple entries from the same player are welcome
• A full game is considered at least 8 rounds
• Cut-off date for entries is TBD

Forum Thread with TripleA link, rulebook links, etc.
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/36740/1940-global-alternate-universe-g40-alt-universe

YouTube Video about the Draw:
https://youtu.be/nBXaOk7d1zw

Hey @Grinchveld

I’m also in Kitchener/Waterloo area. I mostly play G40 Global but am open to others.

Send me a private message and we can try to set something up.

@waxenhen4

I think two things can be true at once, and there’s probably some combination of the below:

1. The OOB (out of box) game heavily favours the Axis, especially as a gaming group gains skill/experience
2. Your group’s Allied play is probably lacklustre

On the first point, there’s a consensus among skilled players that OOB favors the Axis. Sometimes it takes a while for a new gaming group to gain enough skill/experience that this starts to show up, and it’s not uncommon for the Allies to win >50% of games in a very inexperienced group.

Mind you, the progression to a high Axis win rate can happen very quickly because the Axis are much easier to script a potent opening for. This appears to be what’s happening in your games, as Germany seems to be using a scripted Moscow crush that your allied players haven’t developed an answer to yet.

Here are some items that are suggesting to me that inexperience is, at least, part of the problem:

• You’ve only played 4 games, and these were split between Global and Europe
• Japan wasn’t rampaging even though the US was ignoring it
• Moscow appears to be falling on turn 5/6 – I would consider this early, although turn 6 isn’t completely unreasonable, it should be a huge, all in, gamble for Germany

Some things that aren’t clear:

• Did you check the odds in the Moscow battles?
• Is Russia bringing all their forces back to Moscow, or leaving them haphazardly to die elsewhere?
• What is Russia purchasing?
• Is the UK sending support to Moscow via the middle east, especially fighters? (Persia factory?)
• Is the UK doing a proper Taranto Raid or 92 stack? Or something less effective?

So the real question is, how much of your problem is due to the Axis being favored and how much is due to inexperience. The solution to the first is house rules or a bid, the solution to the second is learning.

My best suggestion is to start by downloading TripleA and then view some top tier league games to see what better players are doing as the allies. Then you can mimic/implement some of what you’ve learned. Hopefully that will solve your problem. Sooner or later though, you’ll need a bid/house rule to help, so you could also consider implementing that now.

Unfortunately very few league players are doing OOB these days, so probably the next best option to learn from is BM3 (Balance Mod). It’s a house ruled variant, but at least it’s reasonably close to OOB, so the play is somewhat similar.

@surfer

Good to know. I hadn’t really been using it, I just remembered reading something about it from the TripleA forum. At least it’s in the works though.

Thanks to everyone who participated, the draw is now complete. If anyone missed the draw but still wants to give the map a try, I’d still be happy to hear about your feedback.

YouTube Video of the results of the Draw:
https://youtu.be/IwhD7ZcVS4I

We’re hosting a G40 event around the time of the upcoming Remembrance Day/Veterans Day and we’re looking to have multiple tables of G40 going.

Rumor has it that @Young-Grasshopper may be attending, so don’t miss your opportunity to trash talk him in person.

Short Details:
Date: Saturday November 9, 2019
Location: Waterloo/Kitchener Ontario, Canada
Game Type: Global 1940, Out of Box Rules with Grasshopper’s combined UK Pacific and ANZAC for balance.

Venue address and further details will be sent to those who sign up. Please PM me if you’re interested or have questions.

Grasshopper’s video on combining UK Pacific and ANZAC:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9t8JwxT5Eo4

@Gargantua

You didn’t get a notification from the game engine when you took all of the pro-Allied territories did you? I don’t see it in the history.

It looks like my trigger for this is set to fire after combat move, and since it happened on non-combat it didn’t work. I’ll try to fix that if/when I do another update to the map file.

@Marshmallow-of-War

I don’t think it’s written anywhere but it’s fairly simple so I can explain here.

• All UK units on the Pacific board will be replaced with grey ANZAC units (or another colour, so long as they are unique from other nations)
• UK Pacific and ANZAC starting cash is combined, as is future income
• UK Pacific and ANZAC now operate as one nation and play in the original ANZAC position of the turn order
• The capital of the new UK Pacific Nation is Calcutta
• UK Pacific units function independently of UK Europe units, do not attack together, do not move simultaneously and don’t transfer ownership when crossing between maps
• We will eliminate the Malaya national objective for ANZAC.
• The “maintenance of the empire” UK objective and “Strategic outer defense perimeter” ANZAC objective will remain available for the combined nation.

It’s conceptually the same as how Canadian units and income are joined into one nation with UK Europe, so hopefully fairly straight forward.

So far we have about 12 players confirmed and waiting on confirmation from some others, so hoping to have 3-4 games going.

Hope you can make it, please let me know as soon as you can confirm if you’ll be there.

I’ve updated two of the PDF reference files:

• Summary (National Objectives) File: updated for a couple of minor typos
• Unit Placement File: updated for minor changes to opening setup

Here’s a link to a video explaining the opening setup changes:
https://youtu.be/GIhCVC8Foos

TripleA file is not yet updated for the opening setup changes, but hope to do that soon.

I’ve had a similar experience that they aren’t purchased very often and I think this question comes up every once in a while. My general thought is that there’s almost always a better use for the cash.

If you want them to be a more viable option then you probably need to house rule something for them. On the other hand though, I think they were meant to represent a class of warship that was becoming obsolete, so if you’re more of a historical accuracy kind of guy then you might want to leave them as-is.

Here’s a link to a great video @CorporalClegg did about cruisers, and also the link to some discussion about it on the forum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_P4GK8o2kE

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/34781/are-cruisers-for-losers-a-video-discussion?_=1626269870487

Thanks to everyone who participated, the draw is now complete. If anyone missed the draw but still wants to give the map a try, I’d still be happy to hear about your feedback.

YouTube Video of the results of the Draw:
https://youtu.be/IwhD7ZcVS4I

@trig

I’m not sure if it gets more attention or not but you might also want to try posting in the pinned thread:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/3761/find-opponents-here

BTW I’m doing a draw for a physical copy of the Alt-Universe map, in case you didn’t see that. If you do get a game going I’ll enter you and your opponent if you’re both interested:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/36957/map-giveaway-draw-1940-global-alternate-universe

@Gargantua

You didn’t get a notification from the game engine when you took all of the pro-Allied territories did you? I don’t see it in the history.

It looks like my trigger for this is set to fire after combat move, and since it happened on non-combat it didn’t work. I’ll try to fix that if/when I do another update to the map file.

@gargantua @karl7

Excellent, glad to hear it.

@monsieurmurdoch

In terms of putting the vast majority of the land territories in one big continent, I wanted to stray away from that idea because I thought it might lose some of the strategic dimension.

Conceptually, if all of the objectives are available by land, it kind of removes some desirability/necessity to get involved in naval combat. Even if it was still helpful to buy a navy, perhaps to get to an objective more quicky, you still have relatively few options since you’re basically stuck going clockwise around the Pangea or counter clockwise, and once you’ve decided on a direction you’re committed.

In some sense though, the Alt-Universe map is already a bit of a Pangaea map… The entirety of Sea Zone 76 is considered a strait that can be crossed by ground units, so the two major continents are connected by land.

I felt like this was a happy medium since technically you can get to the vast majority the map by land, but the land distance is so far that there’s clear incentive to use a navy to get there faster.

BTW, not sure if you saw it, but I’m doing a map giveaway draw for anyone who submits a playthrough on TripleA. (solo or bonus if it’s a group game) Here’s the link for more info if you’re interested:

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/36957/map-giveaway-draw-1940-global-alternate-universe

I’m looking to entice (bribe?) some players into giving this map a try on TripleA for purposes of playtesting feedback.

I’m going to be doing a draw for a 72”x33” physical map printed on banner vinyl to be shipped to the winner.

To be entered into the draw, complete a TripleA game of G40 Alt-Universe and submit feedback on game balance and any potential exploits found. All participating players will be entered per below:

1 draw entry – Complete a solo TripleA game where you play both sides and send me the TripleA file.
2 draw entries – Complete a Play by Email game with one or more opponents and copy me on game emails.
3 draw entries – Complete a forum game in the “Play Boardgames” section of axisandallies.org with one or more opponents

Other Details:

• Multiple entries from the same player are welcome
• A full game is considered at least 8 rounds
• Cut-off date for entries is TBD

Forum Thread with TripleA link, rulebook links, etc.
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/36740/1940-global-alternate-universe-g40-alt-universe

YouTube Video about the Draw:
https://youtu.be/nBXaOk7d1zw

@koala

Yeah, I hear you on the immersion. It’s something that I’ve thought about but left off for now for a few reasons:

1. My priority has always been on strategic tension/intrigue and variety along with balance. I’m definitely still focusing on that for now.
2. The plan was always for it to be a sort of expansion from the main game for a diversion. I wasn’t really expecting anyone to play it frequently enough to start remembering territory names anyway, but more just mixing it in here and there for variety.
3. It always felt a bit disingenuous to start naming places on an imaginary map since the real game is based on real places that have history and emotional ties.

I could invent some names, but that feels like it doesn’t have any context. The other option is just going with “New London”, “New Berlin”, etc. which could also work.

At any rate, I think the naming is definitely on the back burner and we’ll see if I get there eventually. The current focus is drumming up interest in actually playing it.

Thus far I haven’t gotten any feedback on any completed, human vs human playthroughs. I’m thinking about doing a map giveaway draw for anyone who completes a TripleA game on the forum. I’m having a banner vinyl map printed that could be shipped to the winner.

Also looking into having my print shop be able to print and ship to people, rather than them having to figure out the printing process themselves.

TripleA Turn Summary: French round 1

TripleA Turn Summary for game: G40 Alt Universe, version: 2.0.6

Game History

Round: 1

    Purchase Units - ANZAC
        ANZAC buy 3 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Combat Move - ANZAC

    Place Units - ANZAC
        3 mech_infantrys placed in A4

    Turn Complete - ANZAC
        ANZAC collect 12 PUs; end with 12 PUs

    Purchase Units - French
        French buy 5 infantry; Remaining resources: 1 PUs; 

    Combat Move - French

    Non Combat Move - French
        1 artillery moved from F5 to F3
        1 infantry moved from F5 to F3

    Place Units - French
        3 infantry placed in F3
        2 infantry placed in F13

    Turn Complete - French
        French collect 32 PUs; end with 33 PUs
        Objective French 3 Non Military Spending: French met a national objective for an additional -16 PUs; end with 17 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

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