Iron vs Letabot
Games of Iron against different versons of LetaBot have been entertaining me. Iron has learned the same trick as Tscmoo of killing tanks by laying mines next to them. LetaBot often suffers unnecessary mine hits when it sieges up just as a mine triggers. On the other hand, LetaBot also has micro skillz and likes to kill mines after they trigger—I’ve seen it kill a mine with two fast-reacting SCVs!
The games go back and forth, but Iron has the upper hand for now. Iron has become strong against other bots. LetaBot could improve by sieging more cautiously, which is part of the terran technique of inching units forward to force a minefield. Or it could scan for mines. Scanning intelligently for mines is not that easy because the bot has to keep track of where mines are likely or possible, which seems like a lot of coding work to support a single skill.
in other news
Rob Bogie has uploaded MaasCraft (originally written by Dennis Soemers) to SSCAIT, and it plays like the replays I watched last month. MaasCraft is scoring poorly—the opposition is a lot stronger than in 2014. He also re-uploaded it, which sounds like an update. Is MaasCraft going to see major updates under its new ownership? I haven’t yet noticed any changes to its play.
PS Making slow progress on the website improvements. I chose a hard road for myself.
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