RFCM

UPDATE
Saturday 18th October- Entoyment.

1. Simon
2. Miles
3. martin
4. Eric
5. Ben (Weymouth)


martin

Quote from: martin goddard on September 28, 2025, 05:25:27 PMI wonder if we could use GPT (AI) to run a campaign?
Not fight the battles (that is our hobby)  but put the results together in order to create  a story and generate odd randoms?

Just a chat.

martin

Almost certainly - It has managed to gamemaster  RPGs for me with  mot or less success

Ian

That all sounds suitably chaotic.

I'm looking forward to it (after TCR, of course) 

Simon

If we can have an achievable target all will be well(?)

Civilians will not be part of the game as they have no part in the fight. It might also be in bad taste to be massacring  them even if it happened in real life. Although they might be part of the game by interrupting movement?
The assaulters will be all infantry.
The defender will have some non panicking troops and raggedy troops too.
I think maybe a gun might be part of the internal defences?
Possibly some nasty barricades too.

Randoms might include explosions and fires in addition to the usual reinforcements?


martin

Part of the reason I do this hobby is to get away from anything digital...

Simon

Judging by the standard of writing I have seen popularised around AI - it will likely read like an article from the 'Grauniad'... Certainly don't trust it with adding up yet... as you rightly say, that is our hobby!

Neil

Thanks for the insights, Martin.

It's always good to learn how the Piggy Grey Matter is operating 

Simon

I wonder if we could use GPT (AI) to run a campaign?
Not fight the battles (that is our hobby)  but put the results together in order to create  a story and generate odd randoms?

Just a chat.

martin

The figures will be very Napoleonic "Peninsular".
The range cannot be large as there is a lot  of other work I would like to get done.  My problem is time available, rather than which packs to make.

Initially the idea would be two packs of French and two packs of British.
3 poses per pack. Command and rank. Possibly a casualty pack. Possibly a gun pack.
That is all fairly straight forward (?).
Maybe three head packs for variety too.

martin

Because the siege itself is not being portrayed, the rules can be more general.
This means that the aftermath is more similar in comparison to other periods than the siege craft.
I think it could cover Napoleonic and the times around it. Possibly Ancient, medieval and renaissance  fortress breaching.  It would not include smaller  forts such as Maori. The rules assume the internal dimensions of the fortification would allow military command  chaos and troops to wander all over the place out of direct control.

The overall skeleton of the rules is based on the pirate land raids. But that is only the starting points. As always, I am doing  background reading in preparation.

martin