u/cantdutchthis

I am pretty close to recording a review of this board but figured checking in here if people had questions about it that I should try and answer in said review.

This is still work in progress, but I seem to be able to run simulations of the basic AI which lets me have two armies duke it out using basic attacks. I have two marimo notebooks, one that can trigger battles and another that can replay them. I can mix/match login using Python.

This is going to generate a fun dataset and I'll likely also make a video about it but figured I'd ping here to see if there are specific simulations that people thing I should run.

One thing that's tempting to do is to figure out what town is best. So you could buy three weeks worth of units from each town to see what might happen. The AI values can be all over the place, just like the amount of gold that you might spend, so I'm not sure if it's an entirely fair comparison. It's also been a while since I really played the game, so I figured asking here because people might have fun insights for me to check.

This is a continuation of what I shared here.

I intend to share the simulation datasets as well as a step-by-step guide on how to set this up yourself. The setup does require a HOMM3 from GOG so I feel uneasy about sharing the whole setup in a Docker container.

It's not perfect in many ways because it just assumes base attacks. But it shows some interesting patterns across all the levels.

If people want to play around, the Python notebook can be found here:

https://molab.marimo.io/github/github.com/koaning/notebooks/blob/main/h3-units-value.py/wasm

The "Knob" widget from wigglystuff lets you play with this directly. More info here:
https://koaning.github.io/wigglystuff/reference/knob/

You can do a lot with any widgets, but sometimes just writing a bunch of mohtml can also do the trick.

https://github.com/koaning/mohtml

Colorful is nice

The post also explains how to port a notebook into an interactive blogpost on a static site (mine is generated with a Python for-loop) https://koaning.io/posts/widget-dag/

Technically slides had been out for a bit, but we managed some small quality of life improvements out of it just in time for launch week.

Folks will also notice that you can easily host these slides on static websites now via iframes *and* that it's now even easier to add custom styles.

Full announcement can be found here:
https://marimo.io/blog/slides