Little Java Wesnoth attack calculator

[Cherub]

Hi,

Since i've been playing Wesnoth I have noticed, that many players really have a lot of problems judging the chance of killing an enemy unit with an all out attack. In my experience one can observe this most commonly when there is a perfectly nice defensive line, but one unit can be reached by up to three attacking units. A lot of players now attack this unit without thinking much about it and often find themselves inable to kill the unit, left stranded without any cover for the enemies turn.

Now I found myself with a bit of spare time on my hands, so I thought I could just program a little Java app that illustrates this problem and raises awareness a bit. The application is still not finished but it already works fine, so here it is and I would really apreciate feedback and other ideas.

How it works: You have to enter at least the number of attacks, strength and life for the unit on the left side and the defender. You can drag around the units to swap them in position. The attackers always attack in order from left to right. Every unit that is supposed to be considered for calculation has to have lifepoints attacks and strength greater than 0.

Have fun with it!
Cherub

Edit: New version in attachment where ranged calculation works better and i moved the defender results to the right and made it larger.
Still ugly though

[ParadiseCity]

It seems like a great idea, though my computer is having trouble with the .rar file for some reason. I'll be sure to check out the next version if you make it available otherwise .

[Anonymissimus]

use zip
it is an open format as opposed to rar and thus better supported on Linux systems

[Yoyobuae]

use zip
it is an open format as opposed to rar and thus better supported on Linux systems

Yep, I can't open it even with the unrar program I do have.

[Anonymissimus]

I need that non-free unrar package to open rars on Debian...
You'll probably also need Sun's jre to run .jar executables.

[brserek]

This file is a zip!. Just change the extension and unpack it. Then start it with:

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java -jar WesnothCalc.jar

It works. I mean I didn't try it for real, but it starts and does some calculations.
But... the results are a little bit confusing. I have problem interpreting them.