@djensen Thank you for all what you are doing for us.

Myself, I have spent an unusual amount of time on the forum and in front of my PCs before, during and after the migration, in order to identify problems, deal with feedback, provide information, give support, suggesting my ideas as regards content and organization, sorting threads, cleaning-up topics… just to name some activities. (Thank you to my family for their understanding )

Now, I don’t even do this as a business, I do it just for fun. As Dave with this site gives me the chance to ideally combine my hobbies: I love strategic boardgames, I am an IT-interested autodidact, I love to moderate discussions and deal with change management. Doing all of this and the feedback I sometimes get from the community is “salary” enough.

Instead, I will be happy to donate another 50 USD for my next 2019 Gold patronage in some weeks.

I don’t expect that everyone takes the same fun out of this site as I do. And I am aware that only a fraction of users even reads the topics in this category including this thread. But in case you read it, and in case you take some fun out of this website and have not donated so far - please consider doing it now!

Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and a big Thank You to all of you, who make this forum a great place to be!

Panther

@captain-walker
If users upvote your posting by klicking the heart symbol

this adds to your “reputation”.

Additionally there appears to be a “reward system” that adds for example 200 “points” once your post count exceeds 20,000, regardless of what you have posted (including for example TripleA turn postings).

So “reputation” is the sum of all upvotes (maybe subjective quality, maybe a simple confirmation of taking notice) and quantity (mass posting reward), which - benevolently - might be interpreted as reward for long time membership.

@jgbarg Welcome to the forum.
I have moved your topic to the Anniversary category.

As long as the Chinese territory is controlled by China, allied planes may land there.

@Tahweh
Welcome to the forum

I have moved your topic to the appropriate category, as you posted in the category dedicated to the boardgame.

You will notice that we have a dedicated forum for the online game.

Here are the links to the rulebooks of

“Classic” 1984 - edition:
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/34483/mb-axis-allies-1st-edition-rules

“Classic” 1986 - 2nd edition:
http://www.axisandallies.org/resources-downloads/axis-allies-2nd-edition/

For 2nd edition there are two FAQ-sheets/clarificarions that are considered to be official and complement each other:

Created by Larry Harris and @Krieghund :
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/33760/axis-allies-classic-faq

Created by MB:
http://smo63.fatcow.com/pdf/ClassicSuppDoc.pdf

@barnee said in How does chat work?:

I hit space for a paragraph break and the msg has already paper airplaned out. : )

For a paragraph break hit “Shift + Enter”.
This will start a new line/paragraph instead of immediately send out the text when only hitting “Enter”.

@MillCreek said in AA50 Rules Errata and Q+A:

@Panther Yes, thank you for the rule clarification. But my issue is that it doesn’t seem to make sense. I understand the rule. I just don’t like the rule.

I did not intend to teach you things you already know. I just thought the best way to explain the difference was by the rules.

@MillCreek said in AA50 Rules Errata and Q+A:

In both cases, your team has control of the territory. In one case, that control was gained after the fall of the capital. In the other case, you had control before the fall. It seems a poor rule that your team is punished for owning a territory longer. Sorry, you don’t get those IPCs or use of the factory, unless you let the enemy capture it, then recapture it.

One can well argue about liking or disliking rules, for sure.
But here we are not talking about an isolated rule but about a concept behind:

Every power can only use Industrial Complexes owned by itself and it gains only income from territories controlled by itself. And all of this only if its own capital is not in enemy’s hands.

It must hurt to lose a capital: So if SU loses Russia while controlling Karelia it cannot use the factory and it does not gain income.
Why should UK be enabled to use a Russian factory then? Why should UK gain SU’s income then? Simply because of being there? UK does not control anything there at that moment. It is still SU’s control. And “team rewards” are not part of the game. There is no concept of “team control”.

If UK captures Karelia from Germany while Russia is not in SU’s hands, it can’t liberate that territory for the SU but gains control instead. It is the concept of the game that you can use fabrics and gain income from territories you control. This is a fair reward for the efforts of conquering it back from the enemy - in case this rule was not part of the ruleset, Karela would simply be liberated for a capital-less SU. No one would receive anything for that effort, so why risk anything here?

Usually when you liberate a territory for an ally controlling his capital himself, you don’t get anything either, you just strengthen your ally - that must be reward enough.

There is nothing that bothers me, personally, with the rules here. I think the concept is pretty logical and straightforward. But as I said above liking and dislinking can and will always be subject to discussions…

@Midnight_Reaper Thank you for posting this. I have forked this posting to a separate topic.

Let me just add that it would be great if everybody noticing spam would refrain from commenting on spam postings.
Flagging the spam is totally sufficient to bring admin/moderators into action to remove and purge the dirt.

Further commenting on spam means that we unneccessarily would have to deal with those comments too, that remain somehow isolated when the spam/the spam accounts have been removed.

Thank you all for your help to keep this forum clean.

Let me welcome all of you, too.

In case you are not familiar with the forum software or want to learn more about its features, please check out this list of topics, containing all the Tips and Tricks that we have collected so far:

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/tags/tips&tricks

Enjoy the forum

The follow up conversation has been moved here:

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/36451/submarine-movement-and-customized-map

@marshmallow-of-war

Yes you have pointed out that, but I asked you to try first with dashes but without capitals and second without ‘space’. For the second option you need to change your forum user name before using the “Edit Profile” settings.

You can see behind the @-symbol that the forum software “translates” your username to
marshmallow-of-war

What I would additionally like you to ask is to provide a screenshot with your Play By Forum settings, maybe there is something I did not think about right now.

Your issue might not be related to TripleA but maybe to the forum software, that is constantly worked on, too.

Somewhere you mentioned TripleA 1.9 - so you could try to post with 1.9, too, please, just to help investigating for a reason.

@marshmallow-of-war

Je suis désolé…

Please try to enter

marshmallow-of-war

In case this does not work either, please change your username and avoid special characters, maybe to

MarshmallowOfWar

and try again.

Let us know what happens.

Good luck!

@marshmallow-of-war

The solution should be easy. See
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/36430/unable-to-post-forum-game

@marshmallow-of-war

In the “Play by Forum” settings you need to choose the correct forum. The setting defaults to “forums.triplea-game.org”, where you obviously are not a member.

So change the setting to “www.axisandallies.org/forums” and your issue should disappear.

Good luck!

@ksmckay

There is no partial retreat. In case you want to retreat you have to retreat all units, because retreating ends a battle. So you can never retreat some units and continue the battle with the remaining unit(s).

So in case the attacking submarines failed to establish a retreat route before (maybe they could simply have left and entered back the seazone during combat move phase), they are not allowed to retreat.

This prevents the attacker from retreating (any unit). The attacker simply has to continue the battle.

@pejon_88
I suppose the error is related to the recent update of the forum software.

There is a thread in the TripleA support category:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/36329/java-error

I suppose the error is related to the recent update of the forum software.
We need to wait for @djensen to take a look at it.

@simon33 said in Welcome Dicebot:

Has this been broken with the latest upgrade?

It looks like … @djensen ?

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