WIP: HOMM3 battle simulator
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.