tools/datc.py turns the Diplomacy Adjudicator Test Cases into a fixture: the
orders and their annotated outcomes, not the document's prose. 139 movement
cases run; 107 pass.
Three real faults so far, none of which the hand-written cases had caught:
Orders were never validated. An illegal order has to be refused and the unit
left holding -- still standing there, still in everybody's way -- and a fleet
told to go to Spain has to be told which coast when both are reachable.
There is now a validation pass, and ordering another country's unit is
refused without disturbing the order its owner actually gave.
The paradox rule did not terminate. Settling only what was already in the
dependency cycle resolves nothing in a real paradox, so the resolver asked
the same question forever -- Pandin's Paradox was a stack overflow rather
than an answer. It now restarts the whole resolution with the convoyed army
held still, which is inelegant and provably finite: each restart forces one
more army to stand, and there are only so many armies.
A held army kept its path. Szykman's rule stops the army; it has to stop the
army's weight too, or the paradox re-forms on the next pass and the restart
never converges.
Seventy-five provinces as two graphs, because an army and a fleet do not move
on the same one, and three provinces whose two coasts do not connect.
The topology is a fact about a published game and free to use; the artwork is
not, and there is none here -- the map will be generated from this data the
way the cave game's dodecahedron is. The name is a working one for the same
reason the starship game is not called what you expect.
The tests check the board against itself, and symmetry is the one that pays:
it found the Skagerrak wired to the Baltic, which would have opened a back
door into the Baltic and made Denmark worth nothing.
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