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Yaho,

I wasted hours on the 7th ed version, 8th is ever so much simpler :|

Baked this up in perl; simulates 1-n iterations of any attacker you want shooting whatever weapons (currently known weapons included) at any Toughness, Save and Wound profile you want to a CSV file using the 8th edition shooting system. Example files provide a tricked out Leman Russ shooting a Terminator.

Shows wounds and when applicable difference in models removed in total and for each weapon.

How to use:
0. Install perl if you don't already have it. Strawberry Perl is the typical version to use for windows.
1. Download all the files to a working directory.
2. Edit config.csv to set the details of the simulation, the most important one being the 'iterations' value which decides how many volleys to run. Significant options supported include Rapid Fire and Melta, which triggers the extra roll effects of the respective weapons.
3. On Windows, right click on MathHammer-O-Maticv5.pl and choose 'run perl script' or similar.
4. Open the newly written data.csv file and VisualiserV3.ods in your spreadsheet application of choice, copy all the data as is to the 'data' sheet in VisualiserV2.ods, starting in cell A1
5. view some slightly more useful results and charts in the 'averages' sheet of VisualiserV3.ods

Advanced:



Questions, comments, feature requests etc are most welcome.

No warranty offered or provided, use at own risk, etc etc. Ryza is not responsible for your computer overheating if you use too many iterations. This is free to use, modify and redistribute for any and all non commercial purposes.

Awesome

Cool. Similar to what I did with AOS. Though my data is read-only

www.louisvillewargaming.com/AOSStats.aspx

V2 Updated to include rubric marine weapons, and a much simpler attacker/defender/weapon entry system.
V3 Tidied up warning code and added visualisation spreadsheet.
v4 Introduced configuration file and wound <-> model separation. Introduced melta and rapid fire options. added charts to visualisation spreadsheet.
v5 Updated to perl 5.26 compatible

Visualisation v3 - expanded summary chart to show 1,1+,2+,3+ result summaries

I'm getting this when trying to run the Perl script on Perl 5.26.0:

Experimental keys on scalar is now forbidden at MathHammer-O-Maticv4.pl line 218. Type of arg 1 to keys must be hash or array (not hash element) at MathHammer-O-Maticv4.pl line 218, near "})" Execution of MathHammer-O-Maticv4.pl aborted due to compilation errors.