auto fight utility

[norbert]

I created a little scenario (more of a utility) that automatically starts fights between preselected units on preselected terrains. I put it here because it's somewhat/vaguely related to unit balancing. It's attached to this message (I won't upload it to the addon server). By default, 204 units fight each other and themselves on 13 terrain types, but this can obviously be changed. I use this utility from the console (./WhoWins.sh 0) to check the outcomes (WML messages) of fights between certain units. It's a pretty useless package, but who knows, maybe someone thinks it's usable in some way.

[norbert]

To give you better understanding of what information this scenario/utility can provide, see the attached image about Rebels fighting the Knalgan Alliance on Forest ground.

I (removed the 50 turn limit and) ran the script 10 times, which provides 20 results for each unit vs unit combination (10 where the elf starts attacking, 10 where the dwarf starts attacking):

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for (( l=1; l<=10; l++ ))
do
  ./WhoWins.sh 0 2>> results.txt
done

Next, I can grep on the resulting results.txt (187K) for, for example, "Elvish Scout" and "Dwarvish Fighter" to see how they fought each other. Before running the bash script, I changed the array files.

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{VARIABLE units[1].name "Elvish Archer"}
{VARIABLE units[2].name "Elvish Fighter"}
{VARIABLE units[3].name "Elvish Scout"}
{VARIABLE units[4].name "Elvish Shaman"}
{VARIABLE units[5].name "Mage"}
{VARIABLE units[6].name "Merman Hunter"}
{VARIABLE units[7].name "Wose"}
{VARIABLE units[8].name "Dwarvish Fighter"}
{VARIABLE units[9].name "Dwarvish Guardsman"}
{VARIABLE units[10].name "Dwarvish Thunderer"}
{VARIABLE units[11].name "Dwarvish Ulfserker"}
{VARIABLE units[12].name "Footpad"}
{VARIABLE units[13].name "Gryphon Rider"}
{VARIABLE units[14].name "Poacher"}
{VARIABLE units[15].name "Thief"}

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{VARIABLE terrain[1].name "Forest"}
{VARIABLE terrain[1].code "Gg^Fet"}

[pauxlo]

Ulfserker wins against shaman only 13 of 20? I suppose this are ten where the ulf started and 3 where the shaman started. This shows shamans on forest terrain are not to be underrated, if they have a chance to slow their opponent. (OK, and ulfserker's 30% also help.)

[Caphriel]

Probably strong shamans vs. not-strong ulfs, especially strong/res shamans vs quick/int ulfs?

[Golbeeze]

I find this quite amusing and I think it would be fun to see other comparisons.