MWGrid - Simulation software for a day's march
A downloadable game
This is a runnable JAR file of the simulation software from the MWGrid project, as detailed in the Modelling the Logistics of Mantzikert book (Murgatroyd et al, 2024).
The book is available as a free download here:
https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803277998
It is important to note that this software is EXTREMELY UN-USER FRIENDLY!!!!!
It is possible to make this software produce results, but it is not easy and it requires a lot of patience and some knowledge of Excel, Blender and Eclipse (or similar IDE). I am currently working on producing a version that a casual user may run simulations which are informative regarding pre-modern military logistics. This software is not that software. This software was created before we achieved a more profound understanding of how useful accessibility is in research software. There are additional pieces of software that are required to make sense of the results over at my Github, here:
If in doubt, read the book linked above. If you still want to run the software, contact P.Murgatroyd@Bradford.ac.uk and I'll do my best to help.
A video showing the process will be uploaded to Youtube and linked here shortly.
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Install instructions
Instructions are in the README, and also in the Usage Instructions document. If you are trying to make this run, all I can say is that I am so sorry.
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