I am a regular player of Axis and Allies 1942 online, and just got a Claude subscription. My perhaps naive idea for a first project in Claude Code is to create a bot that can competently play the Larry Harris Gencon map that is used in AA1942 online.

So far I have been able to set up self play between my bot and the Hard AI in Triple A (my bot loses badly when paying both sides). I have also been able to set up self play between the Hard AI in order to create a database of games.

My current goal is to create a heuristic function that will look at the board state, position, income, units, turn number, ect. and attempt to predict the eventual winner. Initially I will use the games generated through automated self play as my data set, however I would ideally like to get my hands on some saved games from strong human players. I have found that the AI within triple a is not quite up to a human standard, and also that it plays the Axis considerably better than it plays as allies.

I am also interested in whether anyone has developed other ai's aside from the ones that ship with triple a (hard, easy, fast does nothing)

Anyway, if anyone has some saved games that may be useful, that would be great, also if anyone has interest in the project let me know.