Sengoku

Unite feudal Japan in this Risk-like strategy game! (This is extremely alpha and in active development.)

Gameplay

Up to 8 players: play against friends online, the computer, or both.

• Provinces are randomly divided amongst all players at the start of the game.
• Each player receives one unit for every 3 provinces they hold (with a minimum of 3) at the start of each turn.
• Receive bonus units for holding all provinces within a marked region.
• On your turn you may attack neighboring provinces (see below).
• At the end of your turn, you may move units from one of your provinces to one of its neighbors you control.
• A player is defeated when they no longer control any provinces.
• A player wins when all other players are defeated.

Rules for Battle

• Up to 3 units will attack at once, and up to 2 units will defend. A six-sided die is rolled for each.
• Rolls are sorted from highest to lowest and paired off: e.g. the highest attacker roll with the highest defender roll. Defending units win ties. The losing unit is removed from play.
• If all defending units are removed, the attacker takes control of that province and their number of attacking units moves in.

Development

To start your Phoenix server:

• Setup the project with mix setup
• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phx.server

Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser to play!

AI Development

Want to improve the AI? Great! Computer players implement the Sengoku.AI behaviour. The current AI is the Sengoku.AI.Smart module.

1. Copy the current AI module and its tests. From the command line:

   cp lib/sengoku/ai/smart.ex lib/sengoku/ai/smarter.ex
   cp test/sengoku/ai/smart_test.exs test/sengoku/ai/smarter_test.exs
   

2. I’d like to automate this, but with lib/sengoku/ai/smarter.ex manually rename Sengoku.AI.Smart to Sengoku.AI.Smarter, and within test/sengoku/ai/smarter_test.exs rename Sengoku.AI.SmartTest to Sengoku.AI.SmarterTest.

3. Run mix test to ensure everything’s working.

4. Run mix ai.arena Sengoku.AI.Smarter with your new AI module:

   Starting 2000 games with Sengoku.AI.Smarter as Player 1
   against Sengoku.AI.Smart as all other players
   
    Player                         | Win %
   --------------------------------|-------
    1 (Sengoku.AI.Smarter)         |  11.9%
    2 (Sengoku.AI.Smart)           |  11.8%
    3 (Sengoku.AI.Smart)           |  13.6%
    4 (Sengoku.AI.Smart)           |  13.7%
    5 (Sengoku.AI.Smart)           |  12.4%
    6 (Sengoku.AI.Smart)           |  12.3%
    7 (Sengoku.AI.Smart)           |  11.5%
    8 (Sengoku.AI.Smart)           |  12.8%
   

   (With mix ai.arena, at least on the default "westeros" map, win percentages should be even within a few percentage points.)

5. Now change how Sengoku.AI.Smarter works! Continue running mix ai.arena Sengoku.AI.Smarter to test the impact of your changes against the default AI.

6. When you’ve made an improvement, merge your changes back into Sengoku.AI.Smart and consider opening a Pull Request with the improvements!