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WitP Battle Generator - 9/1/2004 5:44:05 PM

Captain Cruft

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I was wondering ...

Some people might consider it bad form I suppose but I am considering making a Battle Generator (a la SPWaW) for WitP.

The question is, would anyone be interested? Various models for purchasing or selecting units could be implemented. It would be web-based - you generate a "battle" on a web site using forms. The website then makes a scenario file which you can download to play via PBEM.

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RE: WitP Battle Generator - 9/1/2004 5:46:31 PM

ZOOMIE1980

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Not sure what you are talking about? A 10-20 turn single battle scenario?

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RE: WitP Battle Generator - 9/1/2004 5:47:44 PM

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I woudl be interested, just woudl depend on how it turns out.

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RE: WitP Battle Generator - 9/1/2004 6:03:32 PM

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The number of turns would be one the parameters used to generate the battle.

Basically the idea is to have a map upon which units are then placed to form the scenario start conditions. What those units are can be decided in one of several ways - random, user-"purchased", loaded from "team" file etc. Placing of units and initial base conditions can be decided using the same methods.

The point is, given the data structures you can write a program to automatically create any type of ad-hoc scenario that you want.

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RE: WitP Battle Generator - 9/1/2004 6:05:41 PM

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I think this would be great for performance tests of various equipment like planes, ships etc..or testing different situations, I'm definitely interested.

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RE: WitP Battle Generator - 9/1/2004 6:09:34 PM

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You might want to consider the generated battles as training scenarios. Oh, and they might be fun, who knows ... :-)

P.S. It's quite a lot of work (plus my coding skills are very rusty), that's why I'm trying to get some feedback prior to going ahead.

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RE: WitP Battle Generator - 9/1/2004 6:51:18 PM

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Is a really simple way to do this:

Make an "empty scenario" ie a scenario with all ship classes, LCUs, Air groups etc as in Scen 15 or 16, but with all the units set to arrive at turn 99999 so none are actually in the scenario (actually there are a lot of uses for that scenario. Hint hint. If someone would make it and post it on Spooky's site).

Then all you have to do to have a battle generator is change the location of whatever units you want to see fight to appear on turn 1, all in the same hex. Run the turn and see how these DDs do vs those CAs etc.

Or set them all to appear one to four hexes apart, so you can test them in a night battle or a day battle.

Should get the same effect, no?

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RE: WitP Battle Generator - 9/1/2004 7:02:09 PM

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Perhaps I should have said Scenario Generator ... There are multiple possible uses, it would basically be a non-interactive version of the supplied Scenario Editor.

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RE: WitP Battle Generator - 9/1/2004 9:28:12 PM

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Hi,

Does anybody remember a freeware utility called 'PACLINK' by Rich Dionne circa 2001

linked GG's pacwar with Carrier Strike

You could load and run your pacwar battles into carrier strike, fight the battle and then upload the results back into pacwar.

Could also act as a scenario generator by pulling data from pacwar for standalone battles.

Now if matrix want to revive this little gem for WitP they will get my vote!

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RE: WitP Battle Generator - 9/1/2004 11:02:14 PM

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Carrier Strike!
Rework that baby!
PLEASE!!

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RE: WitP Battle Generator - 9/2/2004 12:26:56 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Beezle

Make an "empty scenario" ie a scenario with all ship classes, LCUs, Air groups etc as in Scen 15 or 16, but with all the units set to arrive at turn 99999 so none are actually in the scenario (actually there are a lot of uses for that scenario. Hint hint. If someone would make it and post it on Spooky's site).

It was done a while ago by Arkady.

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=680239

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RE: WitP Battle Generator - 9/2/2004 12:39:07 AM

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