Free wargame-rules for army men wargaming by ChatGPT

The free AI-service by ChatGPT have created a lot of headlines in the news recently, as students use it for 'cheating' and a debate if AI it self is 'dangerous' for us and can be trusted. I got a little curious about GhatGPT, but I don't have any homework anymore to ask for helping. -So I asked the ChatGPT the following question to see if this AI-service could make any sensible free wargaming rules for army men:

"Can you write a free fast playing easy wargame rules for army men. with movement in inches and reduction for obstacles. Can you make it with a firing chart for pistol, smg, rifle, siper rifle, lmg, hmg, bazooka, flamethrower and mortar with different ranges and d6 hit probability. It also would need some hitting chart to calculate effects on fire with a d6. Can you also make a d6 based morale chart. I want the rules to contain rules for hand to hand fighting. I also want to have rules for vehicles like soft skins, armored and tanks regarding range and firing and how to calculate hits."

The ChatGPT instantly replied:

"That's it". -If you're not happy with them, you can use the chat-function to ask for further details and give specifications for the rules and get even more details for your rules. -But these rules first suggested by my request seems surprisingly pretty playable to me, so I'm happy with the ChatGPT's inital suggestion. I wonder how well the rules work, so I'll have a testplay of these rules soon. A battle report will therefore shortly be posted on this blog so stay tuned. Please subscribe and follow this blog for updates.

Go to ChatGPT if you would like to have a go for your self. If you manage it to suggest some sensible rules, I also hope you share them somewhere (on your blog, in a Facebook group or in the comment-section here). A 'warning' though; Using ChatGPT can be very addictive. Enjoy!

Disney - An Army Men supplier?

After Pixar became a subsidiary company of Disney, Disney released several Pixar items thru their shops. - Even the green Army Men from Toy Story. I guess they were made to look like classic Tim-Mee's. And even Tim-Mee made a bucket of soldiers looking confusingly like the Disney/Pixar one.

During a family vacation to Disneyland Paris this summer we visited some of the numerous shops there, and all of them were offering the same more or less. But I did not find the same 'Bucket of Soldiers' a licensed Disney/Pixar product earlier reviewed on this blog.

I did find one of the poses from the 'bucket', but he was super expensive, covered in crystals from Swarovski:

I also found some tubes, no buckets, of soldiers in the shops. They did not look like anything from the Toy Story movies, as they looked more knock offs of old Airfix 54mm British Paras, copied to the unrecognisable, priced at €15 (!)

I don't know why they sell these clones and copies instead of 'the real deal', but unless the Toy Story classics in the bucket are back, I don't think Disney will be amongst my future suppliers of Army Men.