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Courtesy of Arkhantheblack!.

Finally, the new AI for DowPro 3.58 is finished!

Every race has between 2 and 4 starting strategies now.
In addition I made lots of changes to improve the core AI code.

Unfortunatley DE are broken because of the buggy soul essence resource.
They should work mostly fine in T1, but usually they won't survive the war of attrition in T2 and can't replace their losses anymore.
Though I still hope that the bug can somehow be fixed or the race design fixed so that they don't require soul essence anymore to build units.
In dev test games it's possible to let the AI take over a human player.
In this case the soul essence works for them and the AI performs as good as the other ones.

A slight overview of the race strategies:

Chaos Space Marines:
- CSM rush (default)
- Berserker rush
- Raptor rush
- Horror rush

Dark Eldar:
- Warrior rush (default)
- Wych rush
- Hellion rush

Eldar:
- Dark reaper rush (default)
- Warp spider rush
- Banshee rush

Imperial Guard:
- Kasrkin rush (default)
- Weapon team rush
- Mad priest rush

Necrons:
- Necron warrior rush (default)
- Flayed one rush

Orks:
- Shoota boy rush (default)
- Ard boy rush
- Storm boy rush

Space Marines:
- SM / Grey knights rush (default)
- Assault marine rush

Tau:
- Fire Warrior rush (default)
- Kroot Karnivore rush
- Vespid rush

The default strategy is usually the most efficient one and has a higher chance to happen.
The other ones are rarer and sometimes a bit more risky but can be quite successful.
I tested each of them and made sure that they are not too risky.
Further, the AI has a varying defensive behaviour. They 'might' build turrets at the end of T1 or not. In general, I wanted the AI to be less predictable.
Though, although I tested all strategies, their success might depend a bit on opponent, map etc.
If they might perform poor in one game just try it again and they might perform a lot better.

The new AI is attached. You can download it and try it out or wait until Korbah gives his blessing and adds it to the DowPro installer.

Have fun!

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