barnee and Cornelis Post G 40 Expansion

@barnee yes I used the code from the photo you send in the previous page

@barnee i will talk to victory first to make it work,
now it is getting late.
see ya

Lol, I would be happy to offer you guys some help, if you are getting stuck :)
Online things are easy only when you know how they work!

First of all, you need to select Play By Email, instead of Play By Forum. It seems counterintuitive since you guys are playing by forum, but this option doesn’t work anymore since last year. What you need to do is select PBEM and fill in the fields to get the game going. The only field that is actually important is the MARTI dice server email - to this address, the online dice emails are sent.

The ‘Automatically Send Emails’ field are not important in your case. You use this when you really play by email, and you want to click on a single button and automatically send an email to the addresses in the ‘To’ field, including turn summaries and the save file.

I guess you can just fill in a random email address in that field since it won’t be used in your case, but just to be sure you can fill in your personal address. No need to write the other one’s address.

Alright, when that’s done, and you’ve made sure the map is correct as well as the map options, you are ready to go.

When you do your turn, load the save file, and always click on PBEM. The fields should be filled in automatically. Then, do your turn like normal. At the end of your turn, after the Collect Income phase, you will see a window to the right of your screen popping up.

Now, you can go ahead and save the game. Call the file whatever you like. Then, click on ‘View Turn Summary’. Copy the contents of the window that pops up. Go to your game thread, create a new post and paste the Turn Summary into this post. Lastly, include the save file to your post.

What you’ve essentially done is what Triplea used to do when you click on Post Turn Summary when PBF, but manually. When you try to click on it now, the game will give you an error message. This is now the standard way of playing by Forum.

I hope this helps you guys. @Cornelis-Post no need to wait in a lobby, just wait for Barnee to set the game up and send the game start file to you. Then, follow the procedure I described and post your German turn to this thread.

If you have any questions, let me know!

@Cornelis-Post

It’s important to know these player-enforced rules. Everything is stated in the game notes, so you can give that one a read as well, but just highlighting here the most important ones:

1. Transports need to be selected last as casualty.

2. Put Edit mode on when doing a combat that includes Paratrooper or U-boat units. What’s the case now is that these units have a first strike roll at ‘1’, and then roll at their normal value when it’s their turn to roll for the remainder of the combat, instead of the ‘3’ on the first round of combat.
   When edit mode is on, you can select any number of casualties you want, regardless of the rolls you made. Ignore this first strike roll, and when your paratroopers/u-boats fire, count up the hits manually, keeping in mind the improved attack/defense value of the units.

NOTE: Manually add the ‘Wolfpack’ unit when having three or more U-boats in a sea zone to trigger the bonus.

P.S. @barnee what we could do is remove this first strike ability of these units since we use edit mode for this anyway. In fact, the wolfpack doesn’t need to be included at all as well then. What do you think?

Another option is to use Axisandallies.org dicebot. That tends to be slower but is less punishing when you make a mistake. For Landmines, you must use dice bot (@barnee unless I am mistaken here?)

3. You have two placement phases - one for units like Waffen units, US marines, etc that are active immediately- and one for your normal units. Don’t place normal stuff like tanks or infantry in the first placement phase.

4. Use edit to move paratroopers over enemy territory and for LCVs.

5. When an Army is active, you should edit a new army-leading unit depending on the units it commands. Barnee should let you know more about this since I don’t know exactly what army-leading unit commands what.

@barnee

Hmm, try filling in Email Username your email address instead of your username, so add @gmail.com behind it. I had this error too and I believe it gets fixed once you fill in your email address instead.

@barnee

Very strange! Why do these things don’t just work out properly lol.

Are you sure the email username you filled in is the one you use for Axis&Allies.org?

Is the password correct?

Don’t know if it will solve the problem but you have to fill in your own dice server address in the To field, and the other person’s one in the Cc field. Right now you have them swapped.

I tried setting up the game myself, using your guy’s email addresses for the dice servers, and mine for the Automatically send email stuff, and it worked :)

The game booted up for me, so Cornelis can download this and do his turn using the procedure I described, and if everything is good it should work out.

Barnee vs Cornelis Exp Game Start.tsvg

These were my settings:

@barnee

Glad to be of assistance :) Wish you guys a good game :muscle:

@barnee

No problem, but I think it’s best if we try one more time to get it to work for you as well. I believe you did not use the email you use for axisandallies.org. If you want to see which email you use, click on your profile icon on the right, and then on the first option containing your name.

Then, you see this screen:

Your email should be visible for you below all those numbers.

@barnee

Also, one more thing, Send Test email isn’t necessary. You guys won’t use that option anyway. What’s important is that the dice emails are properly sent. If you click on play, does the game boot up?