Re: DSII Vehicle creation page

I remember that system.  Very interesting.

However, another "robot" system comes to mind.	The old Metagaming's
"Rivets"
had a simple system.

For those who don't know, it was a "basic wargame"  (ie: odds combat
system,
ect),
with a handfull of unit types on each side.  Each type of unit was
"programmed"
to
attack a single unit type on the enemy side.  To change programming,
required a
ll

units of that type to return to the player's control base.  The object
was to
distroy
the other player's control/manufacturing base.

Very odd, and interesting.

Donald Hosford

Colin P wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 devans@uneb.edu wrote:
>

(snippage)

>
> I seem to recall a system by which automated machinery is given a
> flowchart 'program' to follow depending on its function.  This would
> severely restrict the actions available to an 'automated' tank.  But
it
> would make for silly situations - a 'feature' of your flowchart causes
it
> to fire at an enemy that is out of range, whilst a 2 man team pops the
top
> with an anti-tank weapon. :)
>
> If I remember correctly it actually got printed in a 'White Dwarf'
some
> time ago.
>
> --
> Colin Plummer (colinp@imhotep.org.uk)