Basic combat

README.org

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   ./bitter-duel
 #+end_src
 
-* Design & Gameplay
+* How To Play
+First to 3 hits wins.
 
-In Bitter Duel, you control a single character on a 5 by 5 grid. There is a single opponent facing off against you.
+You are blue.
 
-Each character has a stance and hand position, and can move, attack, or assume a stance on their turn.
-Each character has 3 health.
+Each unit on the board has a stance and a hand position.
+
+The stance can be high, mid, or low. You can change your stance each turn.
+
+Hand position can be high-right, high-left, mid-right, mid-left, low-right, low-left --- forming a circle.
+Each turn you can choose to attack from your current hand position, or from an adjacent one on the circle.
+For example, from high-right, you can attack from high-right, high-left, or mid-right.
+After the attack, your hand moves to the opposite position.
+For example, attacking from high-right, your hand becomes low-left.
+
+You can move 1 square on each turn.
+
+Build your order: move, change stance, and attack.
+
+Orders are submitted simultaneously and then resolved: movement first, then stance change, then attack if in range (neighboring squares).
 
 ** Stances
-Stances are initial striking positions, and provide some intrinsic bonus offense and defense on the turn that the stance is assumed.
+Your chance to hit is higher if your attack matches your stance. A mid-right attack has a lower chance of hidding from a high stance than a high-right attack.
 
-After attacking or moving, your stance is broken until you next assume it.
-
-There are 4 stances:
-- High (Up-Left/Up-Right)
-  - The High stance has a higher defense (70) against High and (60) Stab attacks, but low defense against Low attacks (30).
-  - The High stance adds additional offense to your High attacks (80).
-- Low (Down-Left/Down-Right)
-  - The Low stance has higher defense (70) against Low and (60) Stab attacks, but low defense against High attacks (30).
-  - The low stance adds additional offense to your Low attacks (70).
-- Side (Mid-Left/Mid-Right)
-  - The Side stance has higher defense (70) against swing attacks, but low defense (30) against High and Low attacks.
-  - The Side stance adds additional offense to your Swing attacks (70)
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-** Hand Position
-Your hand position adds defense against attacks coming from that direction (60) and dictates what next attacks you can perform.
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-The hand positions are:
-- Up-left:
-  - Defense against top and right attacks.
-- Up-right
-  - Defense against top and left attacks.
-- Mid-right
-  - Defense against mid and left attacks.
-- Mid-left
-  - Defense against mid and right attacks.
-- Down-left
-  - Defense against bottom and right attacks.
-- Down-right
-  - Defense against bottom and left attacks.
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-** Attacks
-Each of the hand positions is also a type of attack. You may perform an attack from the 3 positions near the hand position.
-For example, Up-Left can attack from Up-Left, Up-Right, or Mid-Left.
-After an attack, your hand position changes to the opposite of the attack. So Up-Left becomes Down-Right.
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-** Attacking and Turns
-Both players lock in their actions, then the turn is resolved like so:
-1. Handle any stance changes
-2. Handle any movement.
-3. Resolve attacks.
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-To resolve an attack, get the offense of the attack and defense for that attack from the defender.
-Subtract Defense from Offense, divide by 10, and add 5. Call this the "target number".
-Roll a number between 1 and 10. If the roll is lower than the target number, the attack goes through and the defender takes a hit.
-Characters always attack and defend from the hand position they start in at the beginning of the turn.
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-* Credits
-- https://sethbb.itch.io/32rogues
+Your stance also determines your defense.
+A high stance has bonus defense against high attacks, but weak defense against low attacks.
+A low stance is the opposite.
+A mid stance has bonus defense against mid attacks, but weak defense against high and low.