Frood AACalc Dicey / Sim / Odds Calculator: Updates and Opinions

is there any way you can fix this or no? not reallly a big deal.

8 Inf 3 tank 2 fig 1 tank v. 7 inf 2 fig 1 bmb 1 fig is converted into  8 Inf 4 Arm 2 Fig v. 7 Inf 3 Fig 1 Bom it makes the bomber dies last but there reason why you want it to die after a certain number of figs but before the last one. and also if you may want to have a  certtain number of land units to take the territroy with.

Nice!!!

Wish I had seen this last night when I was doing my US/R turns.

Only comment is now I actually have to think about OOL as I enter the units.  Since in the game I’m playing we have stated that the default OOL from Frood is what we use unless otherwise specified, it would be nice to have that default OOL available.  Is a possible for it to be the default and then a radio button changes it to the order in which the units are entered?

@Baghdaddy:

Nice!!!

Wish I had seen this last night when I was doing my US/R turns.

Only comment is now I actually have to think about OOL as I enter the units.  Since in the game I’m playing we have stated that the default OOL from Frood is what we use unless otherwise specified, it would be nice to have that default OOL available.  Is a possible for it to be the default and then a radio button changes it to the order in which the units are entered?

then you use the regular one and not the beta one then.

I liked Baghdaddy’s suggestion.  Just not sure which one should be the default (ie. the OOL as entered should be default, and only change if you want to use Frood’s default OOL).

I have not had a chacne to work with the new version yet, but first impressions…

Nice for forum style play where folks are used to typing out combat commands (cut and paste would I presume be possible into the dicey)
The self directed OOL without regard to moving hyphens is not a bad idea.

Being able to fully customize the OOL would be a VERY nice advantage with this format.  I would echo those who have said that allowing for more than 1 entry of a unit type to allow for 100% customized OOL would be ideal (being able to list something like 3 INF(US), 2 INF(UK), 2 ARM(US, 1 ARM(UK), 3 FIG(US), 1 ARM(UK), 1 FIG(UK), 1 BOM(UK), even if displayed w/o the national specifiers would allow folk to preserve specific units without very careful (and potentially error creating) changes to the remaining units for rounds 2 and beyond of battle.

For sim purposes, the original version is easier to use.

I would say each has a place, but I personally think the original should remain primary (as the input is what folks who use other diceys such as DAAK, AAMC, RJWare are already used to.

Consistency of format with other diceys
Ease of adjustment of number of units
Ability to switch quickly from one battle sim to another
Tab button and numeric key-pad only operation.

It’s possible you may just have lost a good number of people who are seeking an intuitive interface to a battle calculator.  At the very least, I’d like to suggest keeping the old OOL entry with default values in a separate location as it was before.

Not a matter of whining Dan.

As I said previously, it is what folks are used to…  the format they have with other diceys.

You can build a car with a great new method of steering and acceleration, but if someone gets into it and there is no steering wheel and no gas pedal… they are not likely to know how to drive it, and will likely go purchase a model they are more familiar with.

Dan, if it makes you feel any better, I think your old dicey is the most popular one on this site, including with yours truly.  :-)

But now that you have me playing Triple A, I will now be using it primarily for checking battle odds . . . (which I should have done for the Germany defense – I was just getting lazy with that one).

If it’s the unit entry, blame me :lol:

Don’t get me wrong–I’m a huge fan of the efforts you have made to provide free tools for A&A style gaming.  I also appreciate all the effort you put into parsing user entries for battles in your new calculator.

I’m just saying, it became like staring at a system prompt, rather than a GUI.  Many people wouldn’t have a clue what to do if they had a system prompt staring them in the face.  Now, is a GUI superior to a system prompt?  Not if you’re trying to add a prefix or suffix to several hundred file names in a given directory!  While it may not be nearly as powerful, a GUI is generally considered friendlier (but some GUIs are actually counter-intuitive and pretty yucky).  You just happened to migrate from a no-questions-asked interface to one where people need to figure out how things work–at first glance, people have no idea how forgiving your input field was–it’s only by playing with it that people discover the speedier entry of attack/defend units.  (I’m still not sure yet how one would have changed the OOL for attack vs defense, since I wasn’t looking to spend time figuring that part out)