Colonel Blotto

[Braque]

This is a bit of a weird one. A game of strategy.

"There are 10 fields and 100 soldiers. You must specify how many soldiers to send to each of the 10 fields. You don't know what the opposing general will do. Then, in each field, the soldiers face off: whoever has more soldiers wins the battle. Whoever wins more battles wins the war."

Game link:
http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/~aalemi/blotto/index.php

Strategy Analysis (maths):
http://thevirtuosi.blogspot.com/2010/08/wrath-of-blotto.html

 

[Braque]

FYI just had a few tries, best I managed was rank 143 (with strategy name: "stl4").

 

[Jazende]

Rank 110 under "KDR"

 

[Braque]

Nice!

I am working on an Ultimate Plan to Dominate Blotto, but unfortunately, I have work to do now, and my lunch break is over, so it'll have to wait until tomorrow.

 

[Bani]

I wrote my thesis on evolutionary algorithms and think they'd dominate this, but unfortunately I am a lazy git!

 

[Lonei]

Rank 71 Pokemonftw. This game is way too easy.

 

[Braque]

The problem with that, Bani, is that you'd have to seed your test environment with existing strategies you don't have access too. The pool of opponents weighted by human psychology vs what you'd generate with an algorithm.

PS: I have a simulation of the game running now in the background on my PC using a GA, it very quickly hits a 6-high, 4-low strategy, but beyond that it's just wandering randomly around variations on that theme. The real problem is guessing where people put their "high" numbers, and how "high" you need to be to beat most *people who play*.

 

[Braque]

Rank 71 Pokemonftw. This game is way too easy.

The guy sat next to me got rank 51. YOu can't really say it's easy if you don't make the top 10.

 

[Lonei]

Top 100 is good enough for me!

 

[Plog]

With 2 of my strategies I used to same numbers in different places and it varies quite alot. Rank 263 compared to 150.

 

[Lebuff]

I got rank 71 on first try. Gonna try some other strats now!

 

[Vessy]

56 is the best I've got so far

 

[Plog]

I got 38

 

[Braque]

The best my offline GA could come up with came in top 50, it's much more about human psychology than maths/logic. My plans for Ultimate Domination of Blotto have failed, but it was a fun diversion anyway.