CombatWiz is a combat simulation intended to determine the victory probabilities of combatants using Monte Carlo simulation methods.

Current Status: Allows combat between two sides, and produces simple output.

Next Steps:

• Creature editor
• Graphical output
• Map-awareness in which only one object can occupy a block
• Missile weapons
• Intelligent manuevering
• Surrender, Panic, Fleeing
• Changing weapons
• Multiple attacks per round
• Special effect attacks

Its objectives include:

• run on linux or mac
• web front-end
• run multiple scenarios (each many times) to determine best tactics

Example Run:

$ combatwiz_runner.py --sidea 1 3 --sideb 4 --charfile --iterations 1000 ../data/creatures.csv

----------------------------------------------------------------
fighter_num:        fighter1    side:           side-a    
critter_id:         1           name:           orc                 
hd:                 1           hp:             6     
ac:                 8           race:           orc                 
class:              monster     class_level:    0     
attack_thaco:       20          attack_damage:  1-8    
vision:             Infra-6     move:           8     
fighter3

----------------------------------------------------------------
fighter_num:        fighter3    side:           side-b    
critter_id:         4           name:           giant               
hd:                 0           hp:             50    
ac:                 4           race:           giant               
class:              monster     class_level:    10    
attack_thaco:       6           attack_damage:  11-20  
vision:             standard    move:           12    
fighter2

----------------------------------------------------------------
fighter_num:        fighter2    side:           side-a    
critter_id:         3           name:           gilgion             
hd:                 0           hp:             86    
ac:                 -3          race:           human               
class:              paladin     class_level:    8     
attack_thaco:       10          attack_damage:  10-17  
vision:             standard    move:           8     
----------------------------------------------------------------

For: gilgion
Battles:               1000
Total Wins:            864
Total Damage Taken:    29672
Total Rounds Required: 5488
Mean Rounds Required:  6.4
Percentage of Wins:    86
Mean PCT HP Taken:     39%

For: giant
Battles:               1000
Total Wins:            136
Total Damage Taken:    4383
Total Rounds Required: 1058
Mean Rounds Required:  7.8
Percentage of Wins:    13
Mean PCT HP Taken:     64%

For: orc
Battles:               1000
Total Wins:            12
Total Damage Taken:    0
Total Rounds Required: 42
Mean Rounds Required:  3.5
Percentage of Wins:    1
Mean PCT HP Taken:     0%

Installation

• Using pip (preferred) or easyinstall:

  ~~~
  $ pip install combatwiz
  $ easy_install combatwiz
  ~~~
  

• Or install manually from [pypi]:

  ~~~
  $ mkdir ~\Downloads
  $ wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/combatwiz/combatwiz-0.12.tar.gz
  $ tar -xvf easy_install combatwiz
  $ cd ~\Downloads\combatwiz-*
  $ python setup.py install
  ~~~
  

Dependencies

• Python 2.6 or Python 2.7

Licensing

• Gristle uses the BSD license - see the separate LICENSE file for further information

Copyright

• Copyright 2013 Ben Farmer, Ken Farmer