@duffer:
|> Also, would it be anywhere near the realm of possibility for Fizzer or someone else to make a locally runnable and possibly reduced version of Warlight to which you could plug in your own AIs to play each other?

Not only possible, it's already been done, see the blog post "[WarLight as a candidate to the Google AI Challenge](http://blog.warlight.net/index.php/2011/04/warlight-as-a-candidate-to-the-google-ai-challenge/)".

Just a small warning if you've never done any AI programming... I consider myself a pretty competent coder, but I'm not even going to attempt this; writing a decent AI is *incredibly* hard because there's *so* many corner cases to worry about. If you want to try, by all means, please go ahead, but be prepared for it to be quite a challenge...
Best of luck! :)

Thanks for your input everyone

Not knowing anything about AI coding i did fear that it would be difficult to correct

However this below quoted by RvW does sound like a viable option

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2) Such a tweak could be a simple post-processing step: after the AI runs, look how many move/transfer orders it has issued. If none, then attack the least-unworthy bonus (the one where that evaluation function returns the value closest to zero).
Other options could be to attack "something" with the biggest available stack, or performing the attack with the best attackers-per-defenders ratio.
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All this being said i would now like to show you even stranger AI movements regarding the blockades

I set back up the same game style but this time less blockades to see if I could avoid the stalemate
however around turn 17-20 we hit the dreaded AI stalemate However something very strange happens on turn 39.... The AI Decides to knock down pretty much all the Blockades in one turn. very strange

This is great but what made them decided to do that rather than stay behind them?

[Link text](http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer.aspx?GameID=2380358)

oh im not sure why it made one section of my text bold...that was un intended :)

@RvW: Thanks for the link.

I am not thinking of devoting a lot of time into making an AI myself (I know it is hard :-), but I'll at least try to get more people interested in the idea of making a Warlight AI and play with the tools a bit.

It would also be great to see Warlight in the Google AI challenge.