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2001 · Grand strategy · Strategy

TripleA

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

Released
1 October 2001
Platforms
Java Platform, Standard EditionLinuxWindowsmacOS
Genres
Grand strategyStrategyTacticalTurn-based strategy
Developers
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Publishers
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Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Side view
Themes
Warfare
Languages
English

Keywords

  • war
  • geography
  • customization
  • real world

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

TripleA features multiplayer and several AIs for single-player mode. For live multiplayer games, the community maintains two lobbies for the most current Stable and Unstable versions. There is also a Play by Email multiplayer mode.

A wide variety of map scenarios have been developed for TripleA (e.g. World War II, Punic Wars and Napoleonic Wars) 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.

Development

TripleA is developed in Java and can run on personal computers with Java SE installed. Some TripleA designers also worked on FreeCol, and Open General. Originally set up on SourceForge repository in 2002, development was in 2016 migrated to GitHub. In February 2018 the game's GPLv2 license was re-licensed to the GPLv3.

Reception

TripleA has been compared to Axis & Allies and also Risk.

de review called TripleA a "well done copy of Axis&Allies" and ranked it 30 of 238 in their strategy game ranking list. de named TripleA also among the "Best free 30 strategy games" in 2011. 5 of 5 and noted that "TripleA offer a level of complexity and detail that is reminiscent of the real thing [...] ]".

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows1 October 2001Worldwide

Editions and related releases

Based on
Risk

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Collections5 collections

Platform libraries

Licensing

Description adapted from its source, CC BY-SA 4.0.