Vowel challange: I's (medium)

Created by Brotherdan

(all)
State: Public
AI: Prod 2.0 with randomness
Went public on 8/3/2020
Number of attempts: 336
Number of wins: 150
Number of likes: 26
Record holder: Magic in 14 turns on 2/8/2021

Description

A vowel's challenge in the scrabble map. Each player starts with all tiles of a certain vowel.
This fourth is the only intermediate difficulty: the I's, which follow the very easy A's [https://www.warzone.com/SinglePlayer/Level?ID=1337662] and the fairly easy O's [https://www.warzone.com/SinglePlayer?Level=1288249] and E's [https://www.warzone.com/SinglePlayer/Level?ID=1337666].

The slightly increased difficulty here is given by the fact that I's have no easy conquerable bonuses at the very start, while A's O's and E's have a definite starting advantage. The large number of I's partially compensates.

To make things slightly more exciting, significant (and increasingly more!) reinforcements will inject spice as game proceeds. Another bit of help comes from airlifts, which AI seems to ignore. Few spy cards are also available for the curious lot.
Enjoy!