Mission: Battle analysis of hexagon based wargames using wargame calculators.
Design Issues
Components: Wargame, Terrain, Force, Map
Wargame Sequence of play that records turns, phases, victory conditions and modes of play
Terrain with terrain types that affect movement and combat
Force combat units involved represented by counters placed on the map
Map of the battle with hexagon grid for unit placement
Rules and Calculators
- HEXAGON LIBRARY with :
- Hexagon Map Calculator How to convert pixel (x,y) to hexagon (x,y)
- Hexagon Grid Calculator How to move from hexagon (x,y) to hexagon (x,y)
- Hexagon Name Calculator How to convert hexagon (x,y) to hexagon name
- Line of Sight Algorithm using the cartesian grid
- Line of Communication using the cartesian grid
- A* pathfinding using the cartesian grid
- MOVEMENT RULES with:
- move calculator with TEM terrain effects
- lines of communication calculator
- stacking calculator
- zone of control calculator
- COMBAT RULES with:
- combat calculator with TEC terrain effects chart
- combat results table calculator
- line of sight calculator
- WARGAME RULES with:
- wargame calculator game phase, game mode, turn count, weather, morale, panic
- victory calculator
Model View Controller Design Pattern
View - web page with mouse events
Controller - convert events into commands, apply commands using wargame rules
Model - data
- wargame data stores information about the status of the wargame (e.g. phase, mode, turn, weather).
- terrain data for hexagons (e.g. city, forest), hexsides (e.g. rivers, streams) and hexagon edges (e.g. slopes) and paths (e.g. roads)
- force data stores information about the forces and the units
- map data stores information about the maps coordinates
Model View Controller Design Pattern
Wargame Commands
Wargame commands can come from the web interface, scripts or AI- reinforce: start, reinforce, stop
- move: start, move, moveOver, stop
- retreat: start, retreat, stop
- advance: start, advance, stop
- place
- move forward
- backup
- turn
- load/unload
- stack/unstack
- formation change
- combat
- combat setup with combat resolution phase
- fire combat
- fire combat setup with fire combat resolution phase
- restart
- reset units to ready