Creating a (hopefully) competitive bot using Claude Code.
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@husky81
Does the Claude bot have some simple stacking rules like the following?
Infantry > Artillery
Infantry > Armor
Destroyer > Cruisier
Destroyer > Battleship
Destroyer > Carrier
Destroyer = Transport
As this determines what to buy/place and then move.If attacking it should have Armor in the stack
If attacking 66%+ chance of success, otherwise don't attack.Also if Defending 50%+ chance of success, otherwise retreat
Just so you know , this is not a clone of what the TripleA AI does. It just me putting stuff on the page, for a starting point.
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The above is only for that map.
It should be based on the units xml contents, not their unit names.So like
Infantry 1-2-1, 3pu as cheapest land unit
Artillery 2-2-1 with artillery" value="true as support/mixed unit
Armour 3-3-1 with Blitz, so an Attack/mixed Unit
Destroyer 2-2-2 8pu as cheap surface sea unit -
@TheDog Currently it a values units by TUV (so cost), but also by "combat power" which is pips + 2.6* hit points, so an infantry is worth 2+2.6=4.6 in a defensive stack, 1 +2.6=3.6 in an attacking stack.
BB's are 4+2*2.6=9.2. This formula was arrived upon by simulating thousands of medium sized (6-12) unit per side land battles, and fitting the value of m in the equation pips + m * hitpoints that best predicted the favorite in the most circumstances. The simulation said that m was pretty flat between 2 and 4, so you could multiply hit points by anything from 2 to 4, then add pips to get a units approximate combat power when in a medium sized stack. (according to Claude)
the attack threshold is 70% to win I believe. Eventually, I want to have this become adjustable by the current board state. Every turn there is a function that the bot runs to test which side is winning, %to win estimate. (currently this function is not great since my training games only involve weak players). but my idea is that the bot will look for trends in the % to win, and if it notices that it's trending downward, or is really low, the bot will lower it's % to win threshold for attacks, choosing the most impactful ones.
So if I can ever get it to work right, it will 1-2 yolo on berlin or Karelia if it thinks it's getting close to the point of no return.
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@husky81
What do think of having temporary hard ratios for Land, Sea, Air for each nation?
Losses are replaced in these ratios.
For example
Germany Land:80%, Sea:0% Air:20%
Russia Land:80%, Sea:0% Air:20%
Italy Land:50%, Sea:30% Air:20%
You get the idea.This is to see if you can beat your current scores, as maybe your bots focus is too wide?
Ideally these ratios should be dynamic, perhaps based on the nearest VC objectives.
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n these ratios.
For example
Germany Land:80%, Sea:0% Air:20%
Russia Land:80%, Sea:0% Air:20%
Italy Land:50%, Sea:30% Air:20%
You get the idea.This is to see if you can b
I am not completely opposed to this, but currently the buys don't see to be the problem so much. I think the main issue is having it not leave exposed forces that then get cleaned up cheaply. so the biggest gap is on move planning.
I suppose hard coding objectives could get there, like Japan Maximize pressure on india round 3, Germany take West Russia Round 4. but I would like to not do that if it can be avoided.
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@husky81 said
like buying all infantry and turtling in moscow,
As Moscow (A capital and VC) has been secured, its 'objective' value should be reduced(halved) , so that the bot AI gives priorities to adjacent TT to secure it even further so it cannot be directly threatened.
the attack threshold is 70% to win I believe
Maybe I'm too aggressive/optimistic, I would reduce this to 66% to see if this is affecting the win ratio.
In the past, this is one of the TripleA improvements I have asked for. In simple terms Germany/Japan is more aggressive than USA/Britain, so a map maker could pick a nations Aggression level to simulate this. -
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@beelee Yes, Ideally it will be customizable, but all current bots that I am aware of are pretty stupid, mine included.
The developers of tripleA did a great job coding a bot that can play reasonable games (better than mine) without benefit of AI tools, and one that can work on a wide variety of maps. Impressive.But let's face it, at the end of the day, the bot plays some stupid moves. My goal is first to make it play less stupid. At some point it will have tunable agression.
If I ever distribute it, I could look into having some settings that users could control. As is, there are lots of settings in the code that Claude tries to optimize, so I think it would be easy ish to make some of them user facing in a public version.
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World War II v5 1942 SE TR
Sorry, I didn't see this. Yes, my bot plays 'World War II v5 1942 SE TR'
For development and testing I play in a Python engine that Claude built for that purpose. In those cases I played without bids. The only major rule difference is no landing on allied carriers, since that's not in the Beamdog game. Claude also built a bridge that allows my bot to play the bots that ship with Triple A. I've not changed the rules in Triple A, just my own engine and my bot's logic, so for the games played through the bridge, the Triple A AI could use allied carriers, but mine never will.
Guessing that you have the skills, I guess that, if you push a program update so to have a property to forbid landing on allied carriers (and maybe also loading onto allied transports) and then add that property (false as preset but of course editable via Game Options) to the game in question, everything will be accepted by the developers (I certainly do not speak for them, so CC @lafayette). Done that, you would just be able to put that property as true before starting the game (so to enforce it for all players, human and AI). This seems to me to be a lot better than enforcing it on the AI itself. (I do think that this property would be valuable in itself.)
Of course, it's your project (and I have no idea how much work would be to do that): just suggesting, not saying you are doing it wrong.
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