JTS Reporter

[zaxhutchinson]

I have a little project going called the JTS Reporter. Right now it's very barebones. In my current game I wanted to be able to view the strength and fatigue levels of formations, but only include units which are in play. The larger goal is to make something that can do data visualization of ongoing JTS games. I have only tested it for PzC titles. It might work with other JTS series. I'm not sure how similar the save game files are.

Interesting! I'm working on similar tools for the Squad Battles games, which don't t even have a turn report and some of the bigger scenarios could use something like this.

I started with Python, but the .exe generated by Py2exe triggered Windows Defender every time. As my goal is to be able to distribute a w32-only small executable file with no other requirements or dependencies, I eventually switched to Lazarus (Pascal).

I'll check out your project.

Cool. I don't own any squad battles games, but from a few Let's Plays I've watched, I'm guessing the save file format would be different given the equipment aspect. But I suspect some of the other campaign titles might work with my project (Civil War, Panzer Battles, etc). Haven't tried.

Yeah, making executables with Python is always a chore. Keeping things dependency free is important, but I'll probably break that rule when I starting adding graphs, etc. Up until recently I played all JTS games on linux through wine, so I wanted something cross platform in case I go back to that. And Python makes reading and chopping up text files so easy. :) If this gets beyond a personal pet project I'll start bundling things.