__NOTOC__ ''TripleA'' is a free and open-source turn based strategy game based on the Axis & Allies

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Gameplay

features multiplayer and several AIs for

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mode. For live multiplayer games, the community maintains two lobbies for the most current Stable and Unstable versions. There is also a

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multiplayer mode. A wide variety of map scenarios have been developed for (e.g.

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and

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(archived) with a variety of rules, units and many options, such as "low luck" which reduces the number of dice rolled making game depend more on strategy.

History

is developed in

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and can run on personal computers with Java SE installed. Some designers also worked on FreeCol, and . Originally set up on

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repository in 2002, development was in 2016 migrated to

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. In February 2018 the game's

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was re-licensed to the

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Reception

has been compared to Axis & Allies and also

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. A Chip.de review called a TripleA
on chip.de by Michael Humpa (in German, retrieved on 16 May 2017) and ranked it 30 of 238 in their strategy game ranking list. Chip.de named also among the in 2011. A

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/ download.com staff review rated it 4.5 of 5 and noted that . A Games4Mac review of the

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version rated the game 70 of 100 in 2006. giga.de rated TripleA 3 of 5. Other reviewers of TripleA include Macworld, Ghacks, and O'Reilly Media, Inc.TripleA was ranked 2 in 2008 FreewareGenius' ranking of turn based strategy games
on Freewaregenius (archived) A review in German computer print magazine LinuxUser 2007 / 12 praised the Linux version of TripleA as and . Linux Format magazine in December 2011 reviewed the game and called it and . was also used and mentioned in

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related scientific publications due to its open source nature and project size and maturity. The Polish game magazine CD-Action included on a cover disk in 2012. As is fully

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and DFSG conforming in software and content, it is included in many Linux distributions, for instance

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, Gentoo, or

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.java-dev
on blends.debian.org/games became a popular

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title which was offered by multiple download outlets, including digital distributor Desura. Alone from SourceForge.net the client was downloaded between 2002 and 2016 over 1.2 million times. The game's maps are provided via a separate GitHub repository and are downloaded from there after a client (from whatever source) is installed and started, indicating the existence of over 7 million installations between 2010 and May 2017 (prior to the GitHub migration) from SourceForge alone.download stats of tripleamaps
on sourceforge.net (May 2017)

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Gameplay

History

Reception

See also

References

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