FileMaker as a Wargaming Engine
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Firstly, Federation & Empire, Star Fleet Battles are trademarks and copyrights of Task Force Games. Please do not ask me for source code. This was done purely for personal interest whether FileMaker could handle a turn based strategy game of moderate complexity (hint: it can).
The hexagon shaped map is dynamically populated using repeating fields in an alternating arrangement. Values for 'terrain' can be built into a table along with other attributes. The phased nature of gameplay (gameplay in discrete segments that must be completed before the next event can occur) makes design much easier than a real-time strategy game.
This could also have been ported out to a web-based interface to draw maps, counters, units on a website.
