I disagree. In fact, I don’t see any proper hypothesis here as to why TripleA means you’re not playing a serious game. Except for a bug with subs that only comes up once in a while. The ability to play fast does not mean the players are not being serious. If you want to spend the time to type out each game, that is fine. But in the time you spend to do that I can finish an entire round of play.
It allows me to stop wasting time typing and spending more time playing. TripleA enables people to play more games and become better players. What is not serious about that.
Furthermore, you limit yourself when you use BattleMap. It’s only available on Windows and do we even know if it will work on Windows 8? 11% of the people on this site don’t use Windows, this includes some very good players. There are still more that just don’t want to bother with BattleMap, further limiting your
Yes, I’m bashing BattleMap because it is archaic. If your only complaint for TripleA is a bug, let’s pow-wow with Veqryn to get it resolved.
Keep in mind, however, I still think there is fun to be had setting up the physical map at home and playing move-by-move that way (the way NSCSwitch insisted on playing). It’s a long game but it can be fun.
@Yoshi:
Post 10 of this game, you’ll find one thing that tripleA allows and that is not legal, and that required me to point out so that an edit is made. And if you follow the link, you will see that I pointed out this problem a long time ago, and that at this time Kev told me that they would not deal with it…
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=27438.00
A little later you can see the problem on sub that is not allowed to move in ncm because antoher sub is in the same sea zone.
TripleA is great, it enables you to try things very fast. But for a serious game, I definitely prefer ABattlemap ; for instance, it is definitely easier to move pieces to try to plan some turns in advance (and this is critical when dealing against a strong opponent).
I’m playing the current tripleA tournament, but I do not take it as seriously than the ABattlemap one ; yes I do not have to type all my moves… but if I wanted to think properly on my strat, that would require me more time than with ABattlemap (of course, I could keep a map with this last program for that… but then you losse everything tripleA is worth for).