I appreciate that you say you like my UK strategy. I remember you saying in the gamerman interview video that you had a talent of recognizing ideas that work out… so that probably means it is a good strategy!

I am a little bit scared about the situation in the mainland though. You have a lot of units and it feels like Italy and Germany can work together very well, by making can-openers or moving supply to the front for the other. And I don’t have a lot of reinforcements coming because I invested in naval units. So I hope Cairo holds!

Here is an overview, copied directly from the modules main thread: https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/4074/north-africa-triplea-module/2

• Fixed a bug by changing the way fighters are kept alive in the Assign Convoy Escorts phase (using carrierCost instead of an invisible carrier unit).
• Updated the game notes
• Renamed and added several units so that the edit mode screen does not contain generic units (e.g. submarine, fighter, bomber, battleship) when adding units
• Removed the transport unit as it will most likely not be used during gameplay

You can download it here (link is always the same): https://github.com/VictoryFirst2/north_africa
WARNING: this new version WILL break our game unfortunately. So you can download it but you have to put it somewhere else than downloadedMaps.

If the units are in a different territory than the truck, you can move the truck to the territory with the units, then click on the truck and the units again to move everything.

You only need to use edit if you pick up multiple land units from different territories. Let’s say there is one truck and one infantry in Tripoli. You can click on both of these to move them. Let’s say there is an infantry in Sirte you wish to pick up as well. You first have to move the truck and the infantry to Sirte. Then you’d have to enter edit mode and click on “Perform Move and Other Actions”. Then you can select the truck and the (now) two infantry and move them to somewhere else.

That is because the moment you stop a truck that is carrying a land unit, the game thinks you end the movement for that truck and prevents you from continuing to move the land unit. If you didn’t enter edit mode in the previous example, the infantry that came from Tripoli will stay in Sirte and not move along with the truck.

It might be worth to put this stuff in the game notes. Will do that along with the next update :)

Also, I noticed you used edit to move five infantry to Benghazi. Did you forget to move them with the truck or did it not work and you had to use edit?

That was me noticing I had a better move and fixing it after the fact. Not the fault of TripleA. That was the fault of the good captain, hah!

TripleA Turn Summary for game: North Africa - Rommel’s Last Push

Game History

Round: 2

    Combat Move - British

    Non Combat Move - British
        Trigger AddCoastRoadMersa Matruh: British has 1 coast_road placed in Mersa Matruh
        Trigger AddCoastRoadTobruk: British has 1 coast_road placed in Tobruk
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Removing units owned by British from Gibraltar: 1 5-supply
        EDIT: Adding units owned by British to Gibraltar: 5 1-supplys
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
        Trigger RemoveCoastRoadTobruk: has removed 1 coast_road owned by British in Tobruk
        1 UK-truck moved from Mersa Matruh to Tobruk
        1 1-supply, 1 5-supply and 1 UK-truck moved from Tobruk to Cairo
        1 UK-truck moved from Mersa Matruh to Tobruk
        3 1-supplys and 1 UK-truck moved from Tobruk to Cairo
        1 UK-aaGun moved from Mersa Matruh to Bir Hacheim
        1 UK-scoutcar moved from Desert Zone J to Bir Hacheim
        1 UK-antitank and 5 infantry moved from Mersa Matruh to Tobruk
        1 UK-aaGun and 3 infantry moved from Cairo to Mersa Matruh
        3 UK-destroyers and 1 battleship moved from Sea Zone 3 to Sea Zone 12
        1 UK-destroyer, 1 UK-submarine and 1 battleship moved from Sea Zone 23 to Sea Zone 12
        EDIT: 5 1-supplys moved from Gibraltar to Malta Convoy

    Place Units - British
        1 UK-fighter placed in Malta Convoy
        4 infantry placed in Atlantic Ocean Convoy

    Assign Convoy Escorts - British
        Trigger SetBritishAircraftToKamikaze: Setting isKamikaze to true for unitAttachment attached to UK-fighter
        Trigger SetBritishAircraftToKamikaze: Setting isKamikaze to true for unitAttachment attached to bomber
        Trigger ReduceMovementBritishAircraft: Setting movement to 2 for unitAttachment attached to UK-fighter
        Trigger ReduceMovementBritishAircraft: Setting movement to 2 for unitAttachment attached to bomber
        Trigger RemoveSupplySaharaDesert: has removed 20 1-supplys and 5 5-supplys owned by Uncontrolled in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1British5-supplyCairo: Uncontrolled has 1 5-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 4British1-supplyCairo: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 2British1-supplyMalta Convoy: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 3British1-supplyMalta Convoy: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1British1-supplyCairo: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 4British1-supplyMersa Matruh: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 3German1-supplyEl Agheila: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 3German1-supplyTripoli: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1British1-supplyMalta Convoy: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1German1-supplyTripoli: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 2British1-supplyCairo: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1German1-supplyMersa Brega: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 3British1-supplyMersa Matruh: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 2German1-supplyEl Agheila: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 2German1-supplyMersa Brega: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 6British1-supplyMersa Matruh: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 5British1-supplyMalta Convoy: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 2British5-supplyCairo: Uncontrolled has 1 5-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 2German1-supplyTripoli: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1German1-supplyEl Agheila: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1German5-supplyTripoli Convoy G: Uncontrolled has 1 5-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 2British1-supplyMersa Matruh: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1British5-supplyMersa Matruh: Uncontrolled has 1 5-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1Italian1-supplyTripoli Convoy I: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1German1-supplyBenghazi: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 4British1-supplyMalta Convoy: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 3British1-supplyCairo: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 5British1-supplyMersa Matruh: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1British1-supplyMersa Matruh: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger IncreaseAircraftMovementTo4: Setting movement to 4 for unitAttachment attached to UK-fighter
        Trigger RemoveKamikaze: Setting isKamikaze to false for unitAttachment attached to UK-fighter
        Trigger RemoveKamikaze: Setting isKamikaze to false for unitAttachment attached to bomber
        Trigger IncreaseAircraftMovementTo6: Setting movement to 6 for unitAttachment attached to bomber
        Trigger AddCarrierToSea Zone 12British: British has 1 carrier placed in Sea Zone 12
        1 UK-fighter moved from Malta Convoy to Sea Zone 12

    End Turn - British
        British collect 0 PUs; end with 7 PUs
        Objective British Base Income: British met a national objective for an additional 6 PUs; end with 13 PUs
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Removing units owned by Germans from Tripoli: 2 coast_roads
        EDIT: Removing units owned by Italians from Benghazi: 1 coast_road
        EDIT: Removing units owned by Germans from Tripoli Convoy G: 1 G-fighter
        EDIT: Adding units owned by Germans to Sea Zone 13: 1 G-fighter
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Savegame

Reading through pact_of_steel_2.xml, which is the code of a game that contains a bunch of comments explaining almost every setting and thing you can do in the XML, essentially a guide for TripleA map-makers, I saw this:

carrierCost values: the space this unit takes up when sitting on a carrier. if set to 0 then air units can even land on sea zones without a carrier being present (think sea planes)

Setting carrierCost to 0… I didn’t know that was possible. You can change this value using triggers. A trigger can be used to change this value from 0 to 1 at the start of the Advance Convoys phase. If you have separate aircraft units for every power (e.g. G-fighter, G-bomber, I-fighter, I-bomber), that allows you to only change the values of Italian aircraft on the Italian turn, meaning only the Italian aircraft are not able to land on their turn, and the German aircraft are able to stay in the sea zone! Once it is the German turn, the carrierCost of their aircraft can be set to 1, preventing them to land on their turn. At the start of the Assign Convoy Escorts phase, their carrierCost can be set to 0 allowing them to stay in sea zones again.

Will start working on this and upload it to the Github. If I didn’t miss anything, this should definitely work!

When you assign aircraft from two different powers as escorts in the same sea zone in the same round, the aircraft from one side will be kept alive when they shouldn’t be.

Last turn you moved Italian aircraft to Tripoli convoy, and then on the German turn you moved German aircraft to Tripoli Convoy. Because of this, there is an Italian invisible carrier as well as a German invisible carrier. If it’s now the Italian turn again, in the Advance Convoys phase, your aircraft will be kept alive because of the GERMAN carrier. The Italian carrier is correctly removed at the start of the phase. If there was no German carrier, your aircraft then wouldn’t be able to land and if you end the turn without doing anything, the engine will tell you: “Air units cannot land in: Sea Zone 13”. But now that there is German carrier, this will not happen. The engine won’t show a message and your Italian aircraft will be kept alive if you forget to land them.
This is because the German carrier is only removed on the German turn. It can’t be removed at the start of the Italian Advance Convoys phase, otherwise the German aircraft will be removed in this phase, even if it’s not their turn. They will just vanish without a warning or chance to land them. That’s why this carrier-solution was necessary. So the German carrier is necessary to prevent the German aircraft from dying in other player’s Advance Convoys phases, but that inadvertently prevents other aircraft from dying on their own turn.

The only quick solution to this is to prevent aircraft from landing on friendly carriers. They should only be allowed to land on your OWN carriers. The problem is that I don’t know how to do this. I’ve looked and there seems to be no setting that does this. So I asked it on the forums. Hope that there is a way to do this, but if not this bug is probably not fixable…

Click on the green button that says “code”, then “Download ZIP”. Unzip, delete the subfolder and remove the “-main” from the name. Then put it in your downloadedMaps folder.

Again, it will not work for our game but it will work if you start a new game!

• Submarines are not coded correctly at all. They block enemy movement and air units can hit them without the need of a destroyer. This can be very easily fixed.

• coast_road is used to give movement bonuses to coast road units. One coast_road unit is added to each coast road territory containing only your units. However, in some cases they are not removed. To be more precise, that happens if you move all of your Coast Road units OUT of a coast road territory (which happened on the UK turn in Benghazi, and on the Italian turn in Tripoli). This can also be easily fixed. Fortunately the bonuses will not stack up, although it will just look weird on the map.

I think I can fix both of these without breaking our game. It will just not work immediately, it will look like nothing has changed. But when you start a new game it should be fixed.

Game History

Round: 2

    Place Submarines - Germans
        1 5-supply, 1 G-fighter, 2 infantry and 1 mech placed in Tripoli Convoy G
        Germans undo move 1.

    Combat Move - Germans

    Non Combat Move - Germans
        Trigger AddCoastRoadTripoli: Germans has 1 coast_road placed in Tripoli
        Trigger AddCoastRoadMersa Brega: Germans has 1 coast_road placed in Mersa Brega
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
        Trigger RemoveCoastRoadMersa Brega: has removed 1 coast_road owned by Germans in Mersa Brega
        1 G-antitank moved from Mersa Brega to Benghazi
        1 tank moved from Mersa Brega to Benghazi
        1 mech moved from Tripoli to Mersa Brega
        1 truck moved from Tripoli to Benghazi
        1 UK-truck moved from Mersa Brega to El Agheila
        1 artillery moved from Mersa Brega to Benghazi

    Place Units - Germans
        1 5-supply, 1 G-fighter, 2 infantry and 1 mech placed in Tripoli Convoy G

    Assign Convoy Escorts - Germans
        Trigger SetGermanAircraftToKamikaze: Setting isKamikaze to true for unitAttachment attached to G-fighter
        Trigger SetGermanAircraftToKamikaze: Setting isKamikaze to true for unitAttachment attached to G-bomber
        Trigger ReduceMovementGermanAircraft: Setting movement to 2 for unitAttachment attached to G-fighter
        Trigger ReduceMovementGermanAircraft: Setting movement to 2 for unitAttachment attached to G-bomber
        Trigger RemoveSupplySaharaDesert: has removed 20 1-supplys and 4 5-supplys owned by Uncontrolled in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1British5-supplyCairo: Uncontrolled has 1 5-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 2British1-supplyTobruk: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 4British1-supplyMersa Matruh: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 3German1-supplyEl Agheila: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 3German1-supplyTripoli: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1German1-supplyTripoli: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1German1-supplyMersa Brega: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 3British1-supplyMersa Matruh: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 2German1-supplyEl Agheila: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 2German1-supplyMersa Brega: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 6British1-supplyMersa Matruh: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1British1-supplyTobruk: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 2German1-supplyTripoli: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1British5-supplyTobruk: Uncontrolled has 1 5-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 3British1-supplyTobruk: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 4German1-supplyTripoli: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1German1-supplyEl Agheila: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1German5-supplyTripoli Convoy G: Uncontrolled has 1 5-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 2British1-supplyMersa Matruh: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1British5-supplyGibraltar: Uncontrolled has 1 5-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 4British1-supplyTobruk: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1British5-supplyMersa Matruh: Uncontrolled has 1 5-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1Italian1-supplyTripoli Convoy I: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 5British1-supplyMersa Matruh: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Trigger 1British1-supplyMersa Matruh: Uncontrolled has 1 1-supply placed in Sahara Desert 1
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Removing units owned by Germans from Tripoli: 5 infantry
        EDIT: Adding units owned by Germans to Benghazi: 5 infantry
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Removing units owned by Germans from Tripoli: 1 1-supply
        EDIT: Adding units owned by Germans to Benghazi: 1 1-supply
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
        Trigger IncreaseAircraftMovementTo4: Setting movement to 4 for unitAttachment attached to G-fighter
        Trigger IncreaseAircraftMovementTo4: Setting movement to 4 for unitAttachment attached to G-bomber
        Trigger RemoveKamikaze: Setting isKamikaze to false for unitAttachment attached to G-fighter
        Trigger RemoveKamikaze: Setting isKamikaze to false for unitAttachment attached to G-bomber
        Trigger AddCarrierToSea Zone 13Germans: Germans has 1 carrier placed in Sea Zone 13
        1 G-bomber and 1 G-fighter moved from El Agheila to Sea Zone 13

    End Turn - Germans
        Germans collect 0 PUs; end with 2 PUs
        Objective Germans Base Income: Germans met a national objective for an additional 25 PUs; end with 27 PUs
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Removing units owned by Germans from El Agheila: 1 UK-truck
        EDIT: Adding units owned by Germans to Tripoli: 1 UK-truck
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

G2.tsvg

You have spent one supply from Mersa Brega to move into Benghazi, right? So there should be two supply there at this point?

Gonna roll for the mine:

[dice 3d10<=3]