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AGregory28 Nov 2024 7:48 a.m. PST

I have always been intrigued by the quote from the Earl of Orrery, who wrote in 1677 "We make warre more like Foxes than Lyons; and you have twenty sieges for one battel."

A few years ago I wrote a simple computer app which runs a mapless mini-campaign depicting a Vauban-style siege, where players are free to choose their own rules and armies to fight out the significant tabletop actions, but everything else is handled by the computer. The app essentially generates the narrative of a siege, and tells you what kind of scenarios to fight. All you have to do is command the troops in each particular action, and report back to the app who won – you can use skirmish-level rules, full battle rules, or any combination.

There are a set of random events, and between those and the outcome of various actions, the morale of either the besieger or the defender will eventually collapse. The siege can involve one single battle (an escalade up the walls) or involve several tabletop actions (the average is probably 3 to 6). The app generates a running log of the siege, which you can use to create your own after-action account with a little creative editing.

I have finally published the app for others to use (free of charge) – you can find it at:

link

(You can check it out by clicking through the game and just dicing for who won the tabletop actions – the whole thing will take less than 10 minutes, and you'll see how easy it is to use.)

Andrew Walters30 Nov 2024 6:30 p.m. PST

This is a great project, I wish I had the opportunity to play a campaign with it. Thanks for sharing the result of a lot of hard work for free!

mghFond02 Dec 2024 1:38 p.m. PST

Very clever idea! Next time I do a siege, I will give that a try. Thank you.

Personal logo Old Contemptible Supporting Member of TMP11 Dec 2024 2:13 a.m. PST

Can the app be downloaded so I can have it on my hard drive?

AGregory11 Dec 2024 5:40 a.m. PST

If you simply do a "Save As" from a browser, you should get everything you need. This might ness with the image paths, however.

If a save as doesn't work, e-mail me through ilg21 [at] yahoo.com and I can send you the files. (It's a lot of images for e-mail, though…)

AGregory11 Dec 2024 5:43 a.m. PST

Also: if you run it locllym when you ssave the game it will take you back to the online version. Once it does that, you should just be able to open up the local one using the same browser and be working off your own hard drive. (It loads the game settings into local browser memory when you use the link in the saved game page.)

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