Grognard.com: Wargame Assistance Software/Player Aides

Wargame Player Aides: Windows 7/8 Software

• Grognard Game Assistant for Washington's Crossing helps speed up game play by tracking Leader troop levels and calculating combat results with just a few click/taps.

Wargame Player Aides: Macintosh Software

Note - Unpack the Mac files with StuffIt Expander v3.07 or later.

• 2x_blind.sit (28672 bytes) Contains the Doubleblind II Hypercard stack for doing a small hexmap campaign doubleblind for miniatures.
• Aslmaper.sit (21248 bytes) A HyperCard stack for making maps for ASL, has the hexgrid on the background, you paint terrain on the foreground, and there is a button for putting in the hex codes.
• Dipaidbc.sit (174336 bytes) Diplomat's Aid was originally designed as a HyperCard stack to facilitate the play of PBeM/PBM Diplomacy games. It can keep and adjudicate every move for a single game, for up to 18 years, and you mave save the game to disk for later retrieval. This version of the software is a stand alone application and features a computer "General" to move the fleets/armies of 1-5 countries.
• Dip-log.sit (17024 bytes) This stack keeps track of an infinite number of Diplomacy games at once. It provides notes, and will count units for each country. Requires HyperCard 2.0.
• Genquart.sit (20608 bytes) Contains a pair of stacks for General Quarters, one does a nicer set of ship records, and has some ships from one of the Guadalcanal battles entered. The other is a movement plot sheet for printing.
• God of Mini Wars PBEM aide/computer opponent (6Mb) (Mark Ainsworth)

Wargame Player Aides: MSDOS software

• Aamap.zip (203088 bytes) A PBEM game mapper for Axis & Allies.
• Acivhelp.zip (19,574 bytes) This program eliminates the manual calculation of card cost in Advanced Civilisation by taking into account bonuses from previously purchased cards when displaying card costs. The author is Wray Ferrell.
• Aide de Camp Gamesets:
  • Ahd96_r0.zip (28080 bytes) GDW's A House Divided IMPORTANT: please read the documentation.
  • Batofhue.zip (21275 bytes) SDC's Battle of Hue
  • Monmouth.zip (11573 bytes) TSR's Battle of Monmouth
  • Bluegray.zip (46423 bytes) SPI's Blue & Gray I quad, Blue & Gray II quad and Road to Richmond
  • Borodino.zip (15115 bytes) SPI's Borodino
  • Cedar.zip (37955 bytes) SPI's Cedar Mountain
  • Cromvic.zip (11987 bytes) TSR's Cromwell's Victory
  • Napwar.zip (38464 bytes) SPI's Napoleon at War quad and Napoleon at Waterloo
  • Neyvwell.zip (13581 bytes) SPI's Ney v. Wellington
  • Tarawa.zip (14132 bytes) DG's Red Beach One
  • Turningp.zip (127780 bytes) SPI's Turning Point: Stalingrad
  • Wie.zip (79048 bytes) SPI's War in Europe
  • Wintrwar.zip (13394 bytes) SPI's Winter War

  Note: if you have a gameset to contribute please read this before sending it.

• Axis.zip (34273 bytes) A Axis and Allies battle simulator. It offers detailed single battles, unit variation and optimization. Optimization will work with up to six battles.
• Basic.txt (2373 bytes) A BASIC program to create HPGL hexes. Author Kerry Anderson.
• Bb.zip (68160 bytes) A card player for AH's Blackbeard. Author Doug Adams.
• Dipgm2.zip (81074 bytes) DiplomacyGame Manager (2.0b) for managing postal games and map variants.
• Eiazdz.zip (42810 bytes) Empires in Arms battle calculator. Documentation is available.
• Ufpbem13.zip (132764 bytes) This program (version 1.3) has been designed to facilitate the playing of Up Front, Banzai, and Desert War by electronic mail.

Wargame Player Aides: UNIX/Linux software

• Dice.txt (6038 bytes) Shell script and C source code for an email die roller.
• God of Mini Wars PBEM aide/computer opponent (6Mb) (Mark Ainsworth)
• Mkhexgrid - A fully-configurable hex grid generator
• Zeus.tar (266240 bytes) Zeus is a PBEM aide and game manager for AH's Civilisation. Information is available on how to compile, set up and use Zeus. Author Roberto Ullfig.

Wargame Player Aides: Windows 3.1 software

• DYO Assistant - Newdata.zip (13K)/Owner30.zip (54K) is a scenario design aid for ASL. Author Tim Kitchen.
• Emamap.zip (297406 bytes) A computer PBEM aid for SPI's Empires of the Middle Ages, which reads in a special format PBEM game summary and produces views of the game, advises on endeavours, etc. This is shareware. The author, John Quarto vonTivadar is happy to answer questions on the package.
• Hexmap45.zip (245475 bytes) produces and prints blank hex maps.
• Hexmaps.zip (129485 bytes) blank hex maps in Corel Draw format.
• Mapper12.zip (339936 bytes) Version 1.2 Displays output from a Diplomacy 'Judge' report as units on a map. See mapper.txt for more details.
• Nab.zip (4964 bytes) A Visual Basic program to compute attrition in Napoleon at Bay (the tables of the original game are quite a hassle to consult...). Author Carl Paradis.

Wargame Player Aides: Windows 95/98/ME/XP/Vista software

• Aide de Camp II A PBEM aide. Gamesets are available including:
  • Turningp.zip (127780 bytes) SPI's Turning Point: Stalingrad
• Avalompro.zip (6Mb) - AvalomHilly game assistance software for playing board games.
• Battlegrounds Gaming Engine (BGE) - PBEM aide
• Berthier Campaign Manager (Tony De Lyall, computer software for miniatures) - website for version version 8.0.6
• Bucketsdice.xls - spreadsheet containing two tables for rolling large numbers of dice to hit on 5,6 or just 6.
• Campaign Cartographer Map Making System.
• Countersv1.zip (zipped files, 123K) An Access database tool that generates counter images
• CyberboardA PBEM aide. Gamesets are available.
• Drawhexgrid - creates hex grid image files. Also includes a tutorial on map graphics.
• Electronic Cardboard (ZIP - 2MB) - PBM/PBEM aide, v2.1 - Resurrected by designer Rich Hogen, "Electronic Cardboard" was originally conceived as a Game Assist Program (GAP) for the Play-By-Electronic-Mail (PBEM) community. It was created to address the need for non-destructive overlay of bitmaps atop bitmaps. Although features are based on gaming needs, EC may be universally useful for overlaying tasks. In the modern computing environment EC can be used in conjunction with Netmeeting or Webex or similar desktop sharing software to play a game in real time, i.e. synchronously. Gaming references in this Help file assume asynchronous play (e.g. PBEM).
• Excel Counter Generator - xlctrgen.zip (zipped file) - Included in the Excel file are two sets of examples, and an explanatory text file. Once the counter layout and color schemes are correctly defined, it makes incorporating any changes to the counters very quick and easy
• Gqhelper.zip (395471 bytes) Game helper for General Quarters (miniatures game). Author is Daniel Cleyne.
• God of Mini Wars PBEM aide/computer opponent (6Mb) (Mark Ainsworth)
• Hexdraw - graphical editor for designing hexagon grid game map.
• Hexover.zip (846k) - creates hex grids on bitmaps.
• Mkhexgrid - A fully-configurable hex grid generator
• Smaz.zip (zipped files) Staff Map Assistant allows you to recreate battles/campaigns on a map. It may be useful for people designing or developing wargames as well as those interested in military history. You create the map and units as .bmps. The units can be moved around the map as you like by simply dragging them and moves can be recorded and played back. You can also maintain an Order of Battle for your units. To see a demonstration, run the sma.exe then open the file WF410622C.mil. Author is Michael O'Donoghue.
  
• WarPlanner A PBEM aide.

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