Comments on: TI3: Javascript battle calculator http://www.scienceofboardgames.com/2008/09/ti3-javascript-battle-calculator/ Rants and raves about board games, cards, randomness, and stuff Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:41:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: tom http://www.scienceofboardgames.com/2008/09/ti3-javascript-battle-calculator/comment-page-1/#comment-227 tom Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:32:41 +0000 http://www.scienceofboardgames.com/?p=79#comment-227 Nice program, I wrote one in java, but it didn't compute the actual probabilities like yours, it just simulates battles and tabulates the results. Your program seems like it takes a LONG time to calculate larger battles (eg 1 warsun, 6 fighters vs 2 carriers, 12 fighters), and doesn't seem to take into account destroyer's anti-fighter barrage, not that it mattered too much, since fighters just own everything else. :-) It also seems like TI combat follows Lanchester's square law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanchester%27s_laws), which basically means the more powerful side will generally increase their lead over the weaker side (so if you lose the opening round of a closely matched combat, retreating immediately may not be such a bad idea) I've linked my program below for anyone who's interested. http://cybergoon.com/games/ti/TICombat.java http://cybergoon.com/games/ti/fight.xml Nice program, I wrote one in java, but it didn’t compute the actual probabilities like yours, it just simulates battles and tabulates the results. Your program seems like it takes a LONG time to calculate larger battles (eg 1 warsun, 6 fighters vs 2 carriers, 12 fighters), and doesn’t seem to take into account destroyer’s anti-fighter barrage, not that it mattered too much, since fighters just own everything else. :-)

It also seems like TI combat follows Lanchester’s square law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanchester%27s_laws), which basically means the more powerful side will generally increase their lead over the weaker side (so if you lose the opening round of a closely matched combat, retreating immediately may not be such a bad idea)

I’ve linked my program below for anyone who’s interested.
http://cybergoon.com/games/ti/TICombat.java
http://cybergoon.com/games/ti/fight.xml

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