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Re: Brikwars 2000 troop scorer
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lugnet.gaming
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Wed, 20 Jun 2001 20:41:08 GMT
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, David Eaton writes:
> For all you Brikwars players out there who are like me-- writing down your
> stats all by hand, crossing this and that out, writing 1+3=9, realizing it
> equals 7, and having to go back and change it again, this one's for you.
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> The troop scorer is a little CGI I wrote recently to aid with NELUG's
> upcoming Brikwars battle, since I thought I might provide some help to
> others by pre-scoring some of my "extra troops" and donning them out to any
> lacking in TL2 figs... and reading my handwriting would be hard, at best. So
> this program will take all the equipment, attribute upgrades, etc, and tally
> up a trooper's score & statistics for pretty much everything. But I figured
> I'd go ahead and make it public:
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> http://www.suave.net/~dave/bw.cgi
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> It should be complete-- the problems I know of are:
> - it doesn't calculate mass of the troop wearing excessive things.
> - the "Throw Range" listed is for throwing a "typical" 1-blok sized object.
> - no maximum damage is calculated.
> - battering rams are still really screwed up.
> - it doesn't tell you that you only get 1 shot if you forgot to buy a quiver.
> - it'll let you wear skis & flippers, quivers & plate armor & epaulets &
> containers at the same time.
> - it doesn't let you add/subtract extra dice/etc to your character's
> statistics, or allow for "custom" weapons.
> - attributes like "pacifism", "targeting", "robot brain", "piloting", etc
> aren't included for standard troops.
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> However, despite all these problems, the next thing I'll try and work out
> will probably be some way for you, the viewer, to "store" an army so that
> you can tally together an army, and print more than 1 of these undersized
> tables per page and not kill excessive trees before a game :)
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> Otherwise, it should work correctly-- let me know if you find any problems
> with it! :)
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> DaveE
Neato! What a useful tool. Thanks, Dave.
-Marc Nelson Jr.
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| For all you Brikwars players out there who are like me-- writing down your stats all by hand, crossing this and that out, writing 1+3=9, realizing it equals 7, and having to go back and change it again, this one's for you. The troop scorer is a (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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