Especially want one that can be used with just Pacific Edition 1940 2nd edition please:)
Frood AACalc Dicey / Sim / Odds Calculator: Updates and Opinions
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Hey, it seems that the boxes for inputting numbers are reeeeally thin, which only allows for a person to see a single digit rather than double digits if attacking with double digits. Is that intentional? Or did you jsut run out of room on the page? :-P BTW, I think it’s a great calc. Used it a few times myself.
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I have room for 2 digits, but I ahve a large monitor and high res…
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Fixed the issue with battleships not getting damaged, and also the skinny input boxes.
OT: I posted a link to this page over at the harrisgamedesign.com forums earlier today, and a guy named “Larry” replied with " Cool :) " I think that’s probably the main man Larry Harris. I feel so honoured! :) I suppose that a guy like him, much like ourselves, has nothing better to do with his time than troll the forums. Hey, if I invented a multi-million dollar game, I probably would do the same.
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Larry is indeed Larry Harris, the designer of the game.
If Black Watch (the keeper of LHTR) also gives you a thumbs up, consider that a gold plated enforsement!
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Cool.
Fixed two more issues re: rulesets:
1 - in AA Europe, Destroyers support fire on amphibious assault hits on a two, not a three, which they still use in other combat (however, I noticed that they are not working properly in their effect on sub sneak attacks in AA Europe for some reason, I’ll look into that. Also, reading the AA Europe rules, it seems that you need to have a destroyer present for Air units to be able to hit submarines. That sucks, might be hard to make work. All these special rules will be the death of me… (not to mention marines!)
2 - for AA Classic, the sim will automatically shift Bats to the end of the OOL if they have been left at the beginning, because in AA Classic they only get one hit and it becomes unwise to use them to absorb the first hit. So now in AA Classic you can just enter Bats in your battle instead of using the dBat field as a workaround.
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I think I fixed the Sub / Destroyer issues for AA Europe, except for the air units being able to hit subs only if Destroyer is present.
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Hey Jennifer, thanks for the donations. That’s nice. Now I’m getting closer to being able to buy another variant. But no rush, I still haven’t broken in the AA Revised that I bought with the first few funds. I almost feel bad inviting them because I enjoy playing with my sim so much (unlike you, I can easily spend a day or a week staring at code, too bad it’s not my job). Anywho, it’s not for the money. If I divided the hours I’ve put into this by the cash, I’ve maybe earned a nickel for every hour… It’s just fun to make something that others actually find useful.
And you and Switch (who is also a gold-level donor ;) ) sure put in your contributions at this site, and to the sim as well with the rules clarifications and feature suggestions. Heck, if Switch hadn’t pointed out that my page was borked, I wouldn’t have embarked on this latest frenzy of modifying it. And Jennifer’s idea of being able to preserve certain units is a really sweet finishing touch. I think this makes the sim way more useful and realistic in that it reflects decisions a human player would make.
Okay, enough of the love fest. One more question I had is whether I should modify some of the default values, specifically:
- should LHTR be the default initial ruleset?
- should 1000x or 5000x be the default sim mode, rather than “Once”?
- should the abort ratio start with a default value of say 50% to at least minimize catastrophic results for the attacker?
- any other suggestions for defaults?
Also, now that there’s the ability to bookmark scenarios, I could create a set of quick links for preferred settings, or unit combinations. Can you suggest, or even create links for, some of your most common defaults? I know that for R1 anyway there are a lot of battles that could be preset, to be experimented with slight variations for opening strategy.
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- should LHTR be the default initial ruleset?
- should 1000x or 5000x be the default sim mode, rather than “Once”?
- should the abort ratio start with a default value of say 50% to at least minimize catastrophic results for the attacker?
- any other suggestions for defaults?
My opinion is that you want first time users to have success using your tool for the first time. I think that would mean:
- leave the abort ratio as is. If they realize that the results include aborts, they may interpret the results differently than intended. Besides, for amphibious assaults there is no abort option, and often I want to see what will happen if I keep pressing the attack regardless, so it’s not a terrible default to have even for experienced users
- some users may not know what LHTR is, so I would not use that as default.
- 5000x would be my recommendation as default
Personally, when I go in there, I always run 10 rounds at 5000x (to the death!), then after seeing the results, make changes as needed. Very nice sim!
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I would agree about new users needing an easy to use resource that when you “just run it” gives correct results.
As such, I would leave the “abort if” function defaulted to OFF
Revised ruleset as standard
Run ONCE as defaultThose with more experience will “play” with it and experiment with the new features :-)
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Not to be nitpicky myself, but I just noticed that on the links page of this site (not in the forums) it still says that my sim does not have e-mail notification. Also, it is referred to as FROOD. frood.net is my domain name (and I don’t like to use all CAPS) - my name for it has been AACalc. Call it frood.net/aacalc/, or just AACalc.
So if whoever has the power could fix that I’d appreciate it. Thanks.
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Drop djenssen a note, he can correct that for ya!
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Thanks. I’ve added a new subpage with some links to some preset scenarios - Pearl Harbour etc. You can play with them and tweak them this way or that to see how you like the odds for variations on certain “standard” battles.
Maybe there’s not much point. But now at least if there’s some glitch, I can be sent the link as a sort of “bug report” so I can reproduce the exact error.
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What does frood stand for anyway? I’m assuming it’s an abbreviation for something of course.
And thanks for the praise. I’d just like to see it get to the point where you can hit the run button once and get the entire battle run with all the choices a human would make each round done automatically. But that’s just me. :P
Then again, I’d like a house rule that would allow partial retreats of ground forces….so frustrating when you’re doing much better then expected that you have to leave all those units out in the open or not take the land and finish the battle. heh
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No, frood doesn’t stand for anything. It’s a word from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It refers to “a really amazingly together guyâ€as in “A person who really knows where his/her towel is.†See for example: “Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a frood who knows where his towel is.â€
I was racking my brain for a good short domain name when this one just came to me two or three years ago. Not sure how it came to me at the moment, as I hadn’t read the book in a while – I just suddenly remembered it as I was trying to think of short words that might still be available as domain names.
For more definitions see http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=frood&defid=1247024 although one of them is also “moronic jerk” - oops! Oh well.
As for the defaults you’d like, spell them out exactly and I’ll make a link or a button to preload those options at once. It makes sense to have a quick way to toggle between sim and ADS modes.
Or, I could have it set cookies that would save your preferences, so you wouldn’t have to re-enter them.
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Actually, to be honest, I’m a little nervous about trusting the machine to remember my OOL. That’s why I’ve never used the feature. :)
But my preferences would change on a per battle situation. Though, a common tactic is the strafe maneuver where you want to reduce your enemy’s stack without taking the land, so something that’d give you a 90% chance NOT to win would be good. (The best is to always leave em at 1 unit left, but that’s rare, seen it once on a Russia 1 attack on Ukraine and immediately decided that Germany should keep their silly airplane for the good of my tanks!)
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Some updates:
Fixed bug where AA guns stayed selected in the form after running battle for a single round of combat once.
Added “D. units to be left alive” to simulate strafing attacks.
Added average battle duration to averaging mode.
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Hey how come you are posting this thread under Revised when you can use your calc for many different games?
I posted a message to the mods here about a good place for us to post development stuff…
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=8364.msg146687#msg146687
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Dan,
I can’t seem to change defender OOL.
I tried moving BOM- first before inf and rolled 5,000x outcomes. It resets to default OOL for me.
Check it out I’m either doing something wrong or there is a glitch.
Rob
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Dan,
I can’t seem to change defender OOL.
I tried moving BOM- first before inf and rolled 5,000x outcomes. It resets to default OOL for me.
Check it out I’m either doing something wrong or there is a glitch.
Rob
is there a space somerwhere. that happened to me. could barely see it.
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I checked for a space but it doesn’t look like it. It looks like he’s changed this recently, because now each unit is separated by a hyphen ‘-’ when before it was separated by a space ’ ’
I know it was working for me before…
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