AE-Cooperative

[Darkson]

I have been playing a few different cooperative style games lately and was thinking it might be kind of cool to have a cooperative game with AI for the creatures/enemy like Gears of War.

Thoughts?

[CmdrKiley]

It can be done. Several ways that come to mind.

1) The new D&D board games have each player activate a monster that's active on the board and must play them based on rules on the monster's card. These rules are usually a series of If-Then statements which describe a condition (i.e. nearest model, most powerful model, etc.) and what do against them (ranged attack, charge, special power etc.). So when a player is to activate one of their models, they must choose a monster first, play out that monsters orders then activate their own model.

2) The Reaction System with 2 Hour Wargames, uses a series of charts based on a monster's reactions. The monster activates on certain triggers (shot at, model moves within LOS, etc.) and dice are rolled with a series of logical statements that would dictate it's actions. Tables are different for each monster or race which then model their behavior.

[varagon]

Some simple mechanics like the AI moves towards closest gun shot, or friendly model in line of sight.

AI cards from Gears of War when a crit happens or something else- So, you roll a crit, draw an AI card and enemy models do something like charge, burst fire, double damage, etc.