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game based on the

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Gameplay

features multiplayer and several

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for single-player mode. For live

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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 (e.g.

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, Punic Wars and

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)Moddb review
on moddb.com (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

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with

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installed. Some designers also worked on

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, 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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license was re-licensed to the

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Reception

has been compared to

and also

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. A

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review called a TripleA
on

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by Michael Humpa (in German, retrieved on 16 May 2017) and ranked it 30 of 238 in their strategy game ranking list.

named also among the in 2011. A cnet.com/

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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

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2007 / 12 praised the Linux version of TripleA as and .

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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

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in 2012. As is fully free and DFSG conforming in software and

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, it is included in many Linux distributions, for instance Ubuntu OS, Gentoo, or Debian.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

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. 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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* * * {{commons category-inline, TripleA Open-source video games Strategy video games World War II grand strategy computer games Freeware games Linux games Java platform games

Gameplay

History

Reception

See also

References

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