TOCarroll
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Joined: 3/28/2005 From: College Station, Texas Status: offline
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I have been hoping someone would bring this up. For years I have been working on a way to have an AI opponent for a massive WW2 game. I worked something up for Avalon Hill's "Advanced Third Reich". It is a "logic tree" for what the other guy does. While it would not directly apply to TAOW, I believe, that with a lot of work, it could be adapted to any wargame. The key to the system is that it does not use binary logic. "Fuzzy Logic" for better want of a term (which seems to apply to many military decisions anyway), is a good description. It DOES reduce to binary logic, and it incorporates Military logic, The personality of the commander (e.g. Hitler would be less likely to give ground), and a value point system, valuing avaliable forces & reserves, logistics, force concentration, and value of objectives. Weather, terrain, the political situation, research, ect are included. This is a large paper flowchart system only (done for 3R). However, with effort, it could be adapted to a biggie WW2 game. However, it took,a lot of work to get it to go for Advanced Third Reich. Adapting it to Russian Campaign from there was a peice of cake. If done, I think it would be a big jump in AI programming. I would like to give it a go with the TAOW European WW2 scenario. HOWEVER, I would first like some feedback on this from Matrix. It is a broad-spectrum solution (which works quite well for me.....sort of a mix of D&D and Advanced Squad Leader), which would be useful in most military simulations. I'm not asking for money here, just that they would take a look at the idea, and give me an honest opinion of its' feasability. I would estimate it would take me about 3 months work (and a lot of it...I'm disabled, thus unemployed) to get something that would work for Europe Aflame. The Axis is a hell of a lot easier to do, as it is run by one lone nut, but I can also do the allies. One at a time please. What would be your preference, and how much support (e.g. other people who would like an AI like that) do you think this would generate.
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"Ideological conviction will trump logistics, numbers, and firepower every time" J. Stalin, 1936-1941...A. Hitler, 1933-1945. W. Churchill (very rarely, and usually in North Africa). F. D. Roosvelt (smart enough to let the generals run the war).
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