US VS IT rules

These are the rules as e-mailed to me from Dorothy K. for the US vs IT game. This is the link for this game: http://www.stonetronix.com/games/usvsit/.

Us vs It rules
as created by Russell, Hernando and Dorothy

Laser Eye:
Trigger: if a tank is within 3 squares straight ahead
damage grid: 4,3,2,1,0,0,0

Fist:
Trigger: if a tank is within 1 square (radius)
damage grid:
2,2,2
2,x,2
2,2,2

Atomic Mine:
Drop Trigger: if a tank is within 2 squares in a straight line in any direction, including diagonals
Explosion trigger: if a tank is within 1 square (radius)

damage grid:
2,2,2
2,4,2
2,2,2

Rotate trigger: if a tank is within 2 squares, rotate towards it

Move trigger: always move if a move is possible

Death grid:
1,1,1,1,1
1,2,2,2,1
1,2,x,2,1
1,2,2,2,1
1,1,1,1,1

Robot's action list:
Move
Laser
Mine
Fist
Rotate
Move
Laser
Mine
Fist
Rotate

We tried several options, the robot having 10 actions, or 5 actions, but then it lost the ability to rotate when damaged and lost an action.

Another action sequence:
Move
rotate
mine
laser
fist
(and repeat)

and:
Rotate
Move
Mine
Laser
Fist
(and repeat)

We found we could tell what the robot would want to do in a given situation, but it was tricky to figure out ways to operationalize the rules so that the robot would take the optimal action (other than moving forward, the robot was good at that).

We then modified the rotate trigger so that the robot would rotate even if no tanks were around, to give the game some variation, some surprise.

Initial ideas for game map: Great War

This is an initial idea for a game map, for the period of time right after America's entry into WW I. I would want to keep the game play fairly simple and the units easy to understand and identify by the use of the flags. I would need to also include icons to indicate whether a unit is infantry, artillery, tank, or medical.

This is a trace of a map I found at worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/.../ map-room/

I modified it using Gimp and used flags I found on Google Image and shrunk down.

Sounds of the Great War

This is an MP3 of the kind of soundtrack I might want to use for The Great War.

I put together various sound files from a website called Freesound http://www.freesound.org/.

The sounds I used were the sound of a thunderstorm from Erdie, the sound of warfare from Syna_Max, machine gun fire from Matt_G, and sounds of a choir from ERH_Kadel. IF YOU CLICK ON THE TITLE OF THIS BLOG "SOUNDS OF THE GREAT WAR" YOU WILL FIND TWO SOUND FILES, ONE AN MP3 THE OTHER A WAV FILE.