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New Module - Bananagrams

news_bot — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:26:28 -0700

Bananagrams! - The anagram game that will drive you bananas! - is now available as a Vassal module.

New Module - Capone Says

news_bot — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:00:34 -0700

Capone Says is a solitaire game that was entered into the Solitaire Print and Play Contest on the BoardGameGeek contest last summer. Full rules are inside the module.

If you like the game, please rate it on the Board Game Geek

Update - Federation Space v2.5

news_bot — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:28:00 -0700

Federation Space is the precursor to Federation and Empire.

Version 2.5 has been submitted with minor issues fixed from the last update.

Update - Small World v4.0

news_bot — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:04:12 -0700

Small World has been updated to version 4.0.

The 'Help' command on the race and power tokens has been disabled because:

1) It duplicated the functionality of the help charts.
2) Unlike the help charts, it obscured the race/power token for all players while one player was using the help command.
3) Because it was visible to all players, it telegraphed the player's interest in a race without a clear indication that it was doing so.
4) I didn't want to bother doing the image processing for the added Be Not Afraid... races/powers.
5) It was not implemented for all existing race and power badges anyway.
6) It would rarely, but occasionally, cause pieces to disappear. I suspect this was merely a design error, not a Vassal bug, but because of the other 5 reasons I didn't really investigate. Probably mostly number 4.

Other changes:

- Token tray pieces are now in decks, and support the 'draw multiple' command.
- Game pieces are now in layers, such that, e.g., fortresses or lairs always appear underneath race tokens, and dragons and heroes always appear on top.
- Victory points are still manipulated as in the tabletop game - that is, by moving coin tokens around - but they are actually stored as a single number, which is shown above your victory point bag. This total can be hidden or revealed.
- Map regions are all defined for better reporting: i.e. 'Player 1 moves Dwarves from Region 12 to Region 16' instead of 'Player 1 moves Dwarves from offboard to offboard'.

New module - Eclipse

news_bot — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:46:56 -0700

A module for the 4X space empire building game Eclipse - New Dawn for the Galaxy (published by Lautapelit.fi) is available for download.

Eclipse is a burning hot space civilization game that has been skyrocketing in BGG rankings for a few months.

A big Thank You to the game designers, Touko Tahkokallio and Sampo Siki, for letting us publish this module freely!

Update - Vassal Designer's Guide 1.2

news_bot — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:07:42 -0700

The Vassal Module Designer's Guide has been updated to version 1.2.

The revised version includes several corrections and clarifications.

Update - Stalingrad v2.3

news_bot — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:05:40 -0700

Version 2.3 of Stalingrad fixes an issue with the erroneous course of some river hexes.

Update - Battlelore v3.0

news_bot — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:26:24 -0700

G'day all,

To commemorate the 5th anniversary of Battlelore's release, I present the Battlelore module version 3.0.

This version includes all the officially released expansion packs (units as well as scenarios) as well as all the official web exclusive scenarios.

New Module - Sentinels of the Multiverse

news_bot — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:42:04 -0700

A new module is available for the superhero co-op game, Sentinels of the Multiverse.

Submitted by permission of designer Christopher Badell, this is a limited module which includes 6 heroes, 2 villains and 2 environments.

New Module - Turkenkrieg & HGH Expansion Set

news_bot — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:39:33 -0700

New Module for Red Sash Games' Turkenkrieg is now available.

Also included are 2 extension files covering the "Heirs of the Golden Horde" expansion set.

New Module - Nordwind 1945

news_bot — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:22:57 -0700

A Vassal module for Nordwind 1945 - A game from Vae Victis #98 - is now available.

Module authorized by Nicolas Stratigos for Vae Victis.

New Module - Micro Space Empires

news_bot — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:56:29 -0700

A new module for Micro Space Empires is now available.

This is a solitaire print and play game that was submitted to the Quick Print and Play contest in the Board Game Geek design contest forums.

To rate the game, go here.

New Module - Shenandoah

news_bot — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:42:07 -0700

A Vassal module for Shenandoah - A new block game by Columbia Games - is now available.

Update: Memoir '44 v10.6 & Extensions

news_bot — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:30:04 -0700

Memoir '44 Module has been updated to 10.6. Scenario extensions also updated.

What's new:
- 78 scenarios added (300+ total)
- all included scenarios retro-fitted for 10.6
- Added Veteran Star marker
- Added infantry Raft marker
- Added 3 badges (CB2)
- Added Japanese and Polish reserve markers
- Extra shortcut keys help sheet
- New custom terrain tiles
- New custom setup markers
- New BreakLord format
- Added buttons to hide labels/units
- Added Invasion of Crete
- Updated Scenario Chooser dialog

VASSAL 3.1.18 Released

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:13:35 -0700

The VASSAL Team is happy to announce the release of VASSAL 3.1.18, which fixes several problems found in earlier versions

Download

Changes since 3.1.0

Changes in 3.1.18

Windows installer now suggests JRE 1.6.0_30 for Java upgrades.

The following bugs are fixed in 3.1.18:

4126: PieceMover.dragDropEnd() does not remove DragSourceMotionListener
4106: Send to Location to a counter using a Property Expression not working
3457: Corrupt JPEG causes ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
2815: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in Stack.insertPieceAt()
2798: ConcurrentModificationException in PrefsEditor.save()
2715: NPE in Map.setup()

Changes in 3.1.17

Windows installer now suggests JRE 1.6.0_27 for Java upgrades.

The following bugs are fixed in 3.1.17:

4054: Inserting a GamePiece Layer generates an OutOfBounds error
4051: Allow Cut and Paste between Decks and GamePiece Palette
3987: Updated server fallback IP address to game.vassalengine.org
3986: Counters disappear during Undo
3915: IOException in BrowserSupport when opening PDFs
3910: IOException in BrowserSupport when opening web pages
3280: IllegalArgumentException in StackMetrics.relativePosition()
2798: ConcurrentModificationException in PrefsEditor.save()

For changes prior to 3.1.17, see the change log. For feature changes from 3.0 to 3.1, see the release notes for 3.1.0.

VASSAL has a new User's Guide! You can view the User's Guide by selecting "User's Guide" from the Help menu in any of VASSAL's components.

The recommended minimum Java version for VASSAL 3.1 has changed. A bug in versions of Java prior to 1.5.0_08 (a.k.a. Java 5 Update 8) prevents some images from loading properly. We now recommend that anyone using a version of Java older than 1.5.0_08 upgrade to at least 1.5.0_08. Furthermore, we recommend that Windows users in particular upgrade to at least Java 1.6.0_21 (a.k.a. Java 6 Update 21), in order to avoid bugs present in earlier versions of Java. Windows users installing VASSAL 3.1.18 with the Windows installer will be prompted to update Java if what they have is older than 1.6.0_30. After upgrading Java on Windows, you must restart your computer in order for Java programs to work properly.

Please report all bugs, even if they are bugs which you've already reported against other versions. We take your bug reports very seriously—they're the reason we're able to find and fix bugs.

Help us test

Should you find any problems/oddities/bugs, please tell us so that we can fix them for the next release of VASSAL. Report bugs here in the Technical Support & Bugs category at the VASSAL forums or by email.

Cheers,
The VASSAL Team