@frood:

• should LHTR be the default initial ruleset?
• should 1000x or 5000x be the default sim mode, rather than “Once”?
• should the abort ratio start with a default value of say 50% to at least minimize catastrophic results for the attacker?
• any other suggestions for defaults?

My opinion is that you want first time users to have success using your tool for the first time.  I think that would mean:

• leave the abort ratio as is.  If they realize that the results include aborts, they may interpret the results differently than intended.  Besides, for amphibious assaults there is no abort option, and often I want to see what will happen if I keep pressing the attack regardless, so it’s not a terrible default to have even for experienced users
• some users may not know what LHTR is, so I would not use that as default.
• 5000x would be my recommendation as default

Personally, when I go in there, I always run 10 rounds at 5000x (to the death!), then after seeing the results, make changes as needed.  Very nice sim!

I would agree about new users needing an easy to use resource that when you “just run it” gives correct results.

As such, I would leave the “abort if” function defaulted to OFF
Revised ruleset as standard
Run ONCE as default

Those with more experience will “play” with it and experiment with the new features :-)

Drop djenssen a note, he can correct that for ya!

What does frood stand for anyway?  I’m assuming it’s an abbreviation for something of course.

And thanks for the praise.  I’d just like to see it get to the point where you can hit the run button once and get the entire battle run with all the choices a human would make each round done automatically.  But that’s just me. :P

Then again, I’d like a house rule that would allow partial retreats of ground forces….so frustrating when you’re doing much better then expected that you have to leave all those units out in the open or not take the land and finish the battle. heh

Actually, to be honest, I’m a little nervous about trusting the machine to remember my OOL.  That’s why I’ve never used the feature. :)

But my preferences would change on a per battle situation.  Though, a common tactic is the strafe maneuver where you want to reduce your enemy’s stack without taking the land, so something that’d give you a 90% chance NOT to win would be good.  (The best is to always leave em at 1 unit left, but that’s rare, seen it once on a Russia 1 attack on Ukraine and immediately decided that Germany should keep their silly airplane for the good of my tanks!)

Hey how come you are posting this thread under Revised when you can use your calc for many different games?

I posted a message to the mods here about a good place for us to post development stuff…

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=8364.msg146687#msg146687

Dan,

I can’t seem to change defender OOL.

I tried moving BOM- first before inf and rolled 5,000x outcomes.  It resets to default OOL for me.

Check it out I’m either doing something wrong or there is a glitch.

Rob

@rjclayton:

Dan,

I can’t seem to change defender OOL.

I tried moving BOM- first before inf and rolled 5,000x outcomes.  It resets to default OOL for me.

Check it out I’m either doing something wrong or there is a glitch.

Rob

is there a space somerwhere. that happened to me. could barely see it.

I checked for a space but it doesn’t look like it.  It looks like he’s changed this recently, because now each unit is separated by a hyphen ‘-’ when before it was separated by a space ’ ’

I know it was working for me before…

I just checked, worked for me to change OOL…

It works for me, but you have to be sure to move the ‘-’ as well, otherwise it does default to standard OOL.

I too had a problem editiing my OOL. Are you gguys sayings take out the dash or leave it in?  Bcause I used the dash.

Using IE6.  My privacy settings were low, and I changed them to off (allow all cookies).  Still wouldn’t work.  It works fine on my home computer running Firefox.

Attacker OOL:

Inf-Art-Arm-Tra-Sub-SSub-Fig-JFig-Des-Bom-HBom-Car-dBat-LTra-Bat

Defender OOL:

Bom-Inf-Art-Arm-Tra-Sub-SSub-HBom-Des-Fig-JFig-Car-dBat-LTra-Bat

URL:

http://www.frood.net/aacalc/?abortratio=0&saveunits=0&strafeunits=0&mustland=0&aInf=20&aArt=&aArm=&aFig=&aJFig=&aBom=&aHBom=&aTra=&aLTra=&aCar=&aSub=&aSSub=&aDes=&aBat=&adBat=&dInf=15&dArt=&dArm=&dFig=&dJFig=&dBom=1&dHBom=&dTra=&dLTra=&dCar=&dSub=&dSSub=&dDes=&dBat=&ddBat=&ool_att=Inf-Art-Arm-Tra-Sub-SSub-Fig-JFig-Des-Bom-HBom-Car-dBat-LTra-Bat+&ool_def=Bom-Inf-Art-Arm-Tra-Sub-SSub-HBom-Des-Fig-JFig-Car-dBat-LTra-Bat+&round=21&territory=&pbem=&battle=Run&rounds=10&reps=5000&luck=pure&ruleset=Classic

You can see in this URL link it doesn’t kill the bomber on defense first:
[http://www.frood.net/aacalc/?abortratio=0&saveunits=0&strafeunits=0&mustland=0&aInf=20&aArt=&aArm=&aFig=&aJFig=&aBom=&aHBom=&aTra=&aLTra=&aCar=&aSub=&aSSub=&aDes=&aBat=&adBat=&dInf=15&dArt=&dArm=&dFig=&dJFig=&dBom=1&dHBom=&dTra=&dLTra=&dCar=&dSub=&dSSub=&dDes=&dBat=&ddBat=&ool_att=Inf Art Arm Tra Sub SSub Fig JFig Des Bom HBom Car dBat LTra Bat&ool_def=Inf Art Arm Tra Sub SSub Bom HBom Des Fig JFig Car dBat LTra Bat&round=21&territory=&battle=Run&rounds=10&reps=5000&luck=pure&ruleset=Classic&pbem=](http://www.frood.net/aacalc/?abortratio=0&saveunits=0&strafeunits=0&mustland=0&aInf=20&aArt=&aArm=&aFig=&aJFig=&aBom=&aHBom=&aTra=&aLTra=&aCar=&aSub=&aSSub=&aDes=&aBat=&adBat=&dInf=15&dArt=&dArm=&dFig=&dJFig=&dBom=1&dHBom=&dTra=&dLTra=&dCar=&dSub=&dSSub=&dDes=&dBat=&ddBat=&ool_att=Inf Art Arm Tra Sub SSub Fig JFig Des Bom HBom Car dBat LTra Bat&ool_def=Inf Art Arm Tra Sub SSub Bom HBom Des Fig JFig Car dBat LTra Bat&round=21&territory=&battle=Run&rounds=10&reps=5000&luck=pure&ruleset=Classic&pbem=)