An AI-powered Q&A system for Advanced Squad Leader rules

  • • I created a chat bot to answer rules-questions about the wargame Advanced Squad Leader for my personal use.
  • • Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) is a tactical-level hex-and-counter board game covering WW2, published by Avalon Hill in 1985. See Wikipedia entry.
ASL cover
ASL board
ASL Rulebook

Demo

Approach

  • • Website access OpenAI's assistant v2 API
  • • Performs RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) over the ASL manual
  • • Contains approximately 1.49 million tokens of rules content. By comparison, Deep Learning by Goodfellow et al. is approximately 400k–420k tokens.
  • • Uses FAISS vector database for efficient semantic search

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Advanced Squad Leader is a trademark of Avalon Hill Games, Inc.