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Brood War Bench

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Brood War Bench
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Brood War Bench started after I built a version of Brood War that you could only play through agents as an experiment to play with friends. I played it with a couple friends who did surprisingly well for people who have only played a couple Starcraft games in their lives. When I asked them why, they said they hadn't done much, they asked their agent to attack and it had built a small army and done the full attack for them. This lead me to wonder how far they can go on their own; this is my answer.

Codex's strongest recurring idea was disruption. In Protoss games it often sent a Probe across the map to attack workers or buildings. This worked shockingly well as the opposing agents often spent dozens of seconds thinking about what to do about a probe instead of doing anything else.

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