RE: Steel Warriors

I just happen to have the book in question (the WH40K Compendium) on my
desk right now(don't ask why I need the book at work, it's a long story
...).

Anyway, I'm trying to dream up an easy way of making the six A4 pages
easily accessible via the web, other than just scanning them in and
posting the resultant (huge) jpegs.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Kirke [mailto:richardkirke@hotmail.com]
> Sent: 29 April 2002 10:05
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: Steel Warriors
> 
> 
> Now that is soooo cool
> 
> I guess you just have to make the Robot's mission complicated 
> enough that 
> "Find nearest enemy and kill it" isn't a sufficient program. 
> But that's a 
> cool idea. You don't have the details in a non-copyright your 
> A** into next 
> week shape do you?
> 
> 
> Though for a less complex feel just make the robots a wlaking 
> "Cybertank" 
> (DSII page 19)
> 
> Richard
> 
> >Old, old, old WH40K (White Dwarf #104) had a really cool 
> system whereby you
> >built flowcharts of the robot's control program out of 
> little blocks.  You 
> >paid
> >points for the control program based on how many steps it 
> had, so a more
> >flexible program cost more.	Neatest bit was when a robot 
> took severe 
> >damage to
> >its 'brain,' you'd remove random program segments, causing 
> the robot to 
> >behave
> >erratically or worse.
> >
> >
> >--
> >Ray Forsythe - erf2@gte.net - www.wombatzone.com
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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