Mission: Battle analysis of hexagon based wargames using wargame calculators.

Design Issues

Components: Wargame Rules, Map, Force, Terrain

Wargame Rules Sequence of play that records turns, phases, victory conditions and modes of play

Map of the battle with hexagon grid for unit placement, line of sight and lines of communication

Force combat units involved represented by counters placed on the map

Terrain with terrain types that affect movement and combat

Algorithms, Rules and Calculators

• WARGAME RULES
• wargame calculator game phase, game mode, turn count, weather, morale, panic
• victory calculator


• MOVEMENT RULES
• move calculator with TEM terrain effects
• lines of communication calculator
• stacking calculator
• zone of control calculator


• COMBAT RULES
• combat calculator with TEC terrain effects chart
• combat results table
• line of sight calculator


• Hexagon map algorithms
• wargame grid cartesian coordinate system to place units on map and record terrain data
• hexagon name calculator to convert hexagon names to coordinates
• line of sight algorithm.
• lines of communication algorithm

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