GARGANTUA's K.I.S.S. TripleA Instructions

@Lozmoid:

Ah, that’s really helpful, Panther, thank you again. Normally, when I’m playing alone against the AI I just click save at the beginning of my turn, but I’ve never seen it come up with an option to ‘send the turn/new savegame’. Does this only appear if I’m playing a PBEM game then?

Right, when you play by email or play by forum after the unit placement you will find this option on the right side of the program window - I believe it is in the Action tab (I’m not at home at the moment so i cannot check it).

@Lozmoid:

With regards to the dice situation, I understand what you mean now about using the dice servers. However, I think what I would like to do (ideally) is to continue our game in a live sitting; so not necessarily playing turns by email. Therefore we would just bee using the built-in dice, as if we were playing it ‘hotseat’ style on one computer. Is it possible to do this? I expect I would have to click on a play different option - I will explore further…

Thanks again for your help.

You can play live in the so called “lobby”. Or you and your friend can play via Internet with one of you hosting the game.

Brilliant, thanks again. I will try this all out when I get home tonight.  :-)

@P@nther:

@Lozmoid:

Ah, that’s really helpful, Panther, thank you again. Normally, when I’m playing alone against the AI I just click save at the beginning of my turn, but I’ve never seen it come up with an option to ‘send the turn/new savegame’. Does this only appear if I’m playing a PBEM game then?

Right, when you play by email or play by forum after the unit placement you will find this option on the right side of the program window - I believe it is in the Action tab (I’m not at home at the moment so i cannot check it).

I have checked this now. You will find a button “Post Turn” then. When you hit that button you will be asked if you want to post the turn summary and the savegame to the email adresses you have configured before.

HTH :-)

Nice one, cheers for that, Panther.

gamerman, you should make it very clear that these problems only affect Global 1940 2nd Edition, and do not affect any other A&A game or TripleA game.  If any of these things you’ve listed affect other versions, you should make it very clear which A&A games it affects.

you probably also should not post it in a million places (i count at least 4…), because if one or two these items gets fixed, will you be updating each copy? 
will you remember where each copy is and to update each copy?
if you don’t update, you are just serving to discourage new players with your out-of-date info.

just post it once in the bug tracker (i think you did already), and post it once in a separate thread just about your list.  you can then keep these 2 copies updated.  any other posts you make should just be links.

lastly, you should also mention which of these can be “player enforced”, and which require a more involved solution or can not be solved at present.
For example, “all SBR battles should be done before all Amphibious, which should be done before all other battles”, is something that players can easily do by simply picking their battles in the right order.  This is no different from playing using an actual board in real life, or using battlemap or vassal.

Points taken - sorry for my clumsiness
I removed the upload and post on this thread and will instead post a link to the new, single, thread for my list.
The reason I had even posted it here was because P@nther suggested I post it in the software section (in its own thread - I didn’t consider the problem of old versions hanging out there  :oops:)

Everyone - please visit this thread
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=31667.0
for my ongoing list of issues that you should be aware of.  This is a player aid for alerting you to exactly what rules Triple A does not follow or does not enforce.  You might learn a few rules you weren’t aware of just from reading this list!
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me any time.

If there’s any thing on here that needs to be updated on this thread it would be helpful to those of us that have never played by forum.

Garg, this is a fantastic thread but there is no link on the “third post” to download other than the test pic. I hand keyed the “27015” and was able to “test” post but was unable to download any game I just kept getting the test post icon on my HP photo browser.

I’m not great with computers, anyone who could help? It’d much appreciated.

OK, so several months ago I started a web document that contains all the current issues with Triple A - where Triple A does not correctly follow the rule book.

You can review this document any time here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cS3hFwoBP0rWr3208jw1LAtCvHYa9Ji9uU8PwbCMIwM/edit

Thanks Gamerman, I know there’s glitches. I think I’ve got this figured out though. I’ve been digging through threads trying to figure out how to get up and running with TripleA. Some of the tutorials are a bit old and things change pretty fast in TripleA. I’m going to have to experiment with it though I think maybe I might actually get a game going.

Thanks.

i just stumbled across this thread.

great work garg.

and as always, thank you veqryn for all your work on triplea.

Great set of instructions for PBF! But how does one start a PBeM game? I couldn’t find the info for this anywhere.

@Zombie69:

Great set of instructions for PBF! But how does one start a PBeM game? I couldn’t find the info for this anywhere.

It is nearly the same as PBF. Instead of choosing “Play by Forum” enable “Play by Email” by filling in the required data.

Want to add my thanks to Gargantua on this thread. I do not know how I would ever have got to my first triplea forum game without his guidance.

Cheers
PP

TripleA has a new Website.

http://www.triplea-game.org/

Get information and download new releases from there.  :-)

Can we update the link in the OP to go to the triple-game.org download rather than the sourceforge one?

Also maps need to be downloaded using the ingame-downloader, as they are no longer provided with the TripleA installation.
This introduces a (new) step between starting TripleA and choosing a game (into the first post).

Thank you for this… Just got it today.

Is this link still accurate?: http://dice.tripleawarclub.org/register.php

A mate just tried to use it with no luck.

Thanks

@Slip-Capone No, it is https://dice.marti.triplea-game.org/

@Panther

Thanks a million