JTD/WDS Combat Map Tools

The tool is used to draw combat images similar to pretty combat maps on Wikipedia like Waterloo Map, Leipzig Map . Now it just parses OOB and save/scenario file data from JTS/WDS Napoleonic Battles and summary their detailed battalion/company data at the brigade level. Players and readers of AAR can use it to get a grasp of the current situation more easily. Otherwise, this style of image required manually drawing some lines and labeling the organization name and strength of units on a screenshot, which is tedious and not looking good . So I made this tool to automate this procedure.

In the future, it may support other JTS/WDS titles (especially Civil War Battles) and division/Corp summary and more control.

Control

Right dragging to move the camera

Scroll to zooming

Hover to show the detail of the units

Load builtin & custom scenario/save files from the left bar. (Some samples are included in attachments)

Algorithm

Units are grouped by brigade and do simple clustering, then fit a 2d normal distribution to create a description for their shape.

Source:

https://github.com/yiyuezhuo/JTSCombatMapTool

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