how do i get a saved game to attach for pbem?

@plasmaboy You need to create a game thread and then follow this instruction:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1236499

This play-by-forum setting however is just for posting your turn and savegame. With this topic ID the software “knows” where on the forum the posting has to go.

Loading savegames only works as described above. You download them manually from the respective forum game thread (or email) and open (load) them in TripleA using the above described workflow.

@plasmaboy
Ah ok. Your topic started as being about Play By Email.
Now it appears that you are already playing a Play by Forum game. There appears to be a thread where you downloaded the savegame from. This thread already has a game-id then and you don’t need any Play by Email settings at all.

You might want to check
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/33080/turn-entry-errors
again, where I layed out in detail the differences when dealing with two different forums and two different usernames especially in this posting for you:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1262814

Now please point me to the thread/topic where you got your savegame from, and we will continue from there step by step. We will get that sorted for you!

@plasmaboy

To be clear allow me this question:

Are we talking about Play By Email ?
In that case you have received the file by email. The savegame is all you need then. You don’t need a topic ID then, as you do not fill in the Play By Forum settings, as I explained here. You just load the savegame as described in the workflow at the very beginning of this thread. Be sure that the Play By Email settings are correct then.

Or are we talking about Play By Forum?
In that case you have got the file downloaded from the game thread you talked about in one of your last postings. In that case you only fill in the Play By Forum settings, where you need a topic ID then.
You don’t fill in the Play By Email settings then.

It is either Play By Email or Play By Forum that you play. Not both. Depending on what it is, you only fill in the respective settings. Never both like you did as your screenshots show.

In case you Play By Forum I simply need the link to your game thread.
In case you Play By Email you have got all you need.

Just tell me what it is and we move on from there.

@plasmaboy I really need an answer to my latest posting. (https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1280278).

In other words:

• do you want to send your savegames to the opponent by email
  or
• do you want to post your savegames to the forum so that the opponent gets it from there?

How did you get that savegame that you have loaded?

Concerning your latest screenshot:

In case you got the savegame by mail then remove all of the Play By Forum details and enter the Play By EMail settings instead.
You don’t need a topic ID then as you don’t need the forum settings at all. That’s is what I said above (https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1279642).

In case you got the the savegame from a forum, then you get the topic ID from your game thread. See your last forum game that you played here;
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/33146/plasmaboy-vs-aldoraine-bm3/

Look at that link and identify “33146” as topic iD. Of course this is not the topic id for your current game, just an example of how to identify the ID.

As you said the game was opened on the TripleA site I went to forums.triplea-game.org and searched for any game you might be involved with but could not find any.

Again - how did you get that savegame that you have loaded above? What do you want to do?

@plasmaboy OK, so you decided for Play by Forum. What I see now is that you have correctly set up the game to post in your old thread
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/33146/plasmaboy-vs-aldoraine-bm3/45
It posted completely as you can see when scrolling the turn post window down.

So you did the entire turn and posted it completely to that old game thread.

Now again - where is the thread of your current game? Whom are you addressing? Who is going to download your savegame that you have posted? Whose turn is it next - who continues the game?

Or, as you now said …

@plasmaboy said in how do i get a saved game to attach for pbem?:

I got the game from my saved game file on/in triple a. open it picked play email/forum game

… don’t you actually have a thread for your new game? In that case go to the Play Boardgames category and create a new topic. You will get your new topic ID then. Add that new ID to the PBF-settings. Do your turn and post to that new topic. You just need to point your co-players to that new topic, then.

@plasmaboy Sounds good. Usually, when playing against different opponents, you would definitely create a new game thread for every game. When playing consecutive games against the same opponent, sometimes players agree to use the same game thread.
Creating a new thread for every game is surely the “cleanest” solution.

Now enjoy gaming :slightly_smiling_face: