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From: c60b-4av@web-4f.berkeley.edu (Gary Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Help w/designing board wargame
Summary: BattleTech
Keywords: BattleTech
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Date: 5 Sep 90 00:52:13 GMT
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Could anyone help me out in designing a BattleTech game on the Mac?
(For those who don't know (99%) what BattleTech is, it's a
boardgame/RPG that takes place in the 31st century.  Players take
teams of 40-foot tall armed and armored "robots" and just beat the
h*ll out of each other...great fun!  It's made by FASA).
To be exact, I need help with ways to display/manage a hex grid
(including computing distances, fields of fire, and moving players
around it) and some simple pseudo-AI for the computer to play.
I'm going to program it in Think C, and I'm new to the language,
so take pity... :-)
If you've got any suggestions or questions, please email me!
Thanks!

Gary Arnold                  "Dead bodies everywhere"
c60b-4av@WEB.berkeley.edu     -- The Revolting Cocks, Union Carbide