Winning as Austria against bots?

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Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by DougJoe » Mon Nov 02, 2020 2:45 am

Swede03 wrote:
Wed Oct 28, 2020 4:32 pm
Here is a game I won when Italy went full out against me from day one. This took a lot of patience.

https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=329455

7 different turns, Italy attacked Trieste with three units, and another 4 turns they attacked with 4 units. I'm surprised I survived the start. After that, every time I reloaded the page, I had that brief moment of worry that Turkey would stab me, since that would mean game over. They did annoyingly prevent me from ever getting to Moscow or St Petersburg, but other than that, they stayed loyal to the end. It still took 18 years to win though. I didn't even get a sixth sc until 1908.
A very interesting game!

I haven't been able to have a good game yet as Austria when Italy attacks right off the bat like that, my efforts to ally R or A usually seem to fall on deaf ears... I think that the German move to Silesia in Spring '03 really helped - while you didn't benefit directly, that let T get the upper hand on R... and then watching T build fleet after fleet after that to get the was kind of fun.

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by Sploack » Sun Nov 01, 2020 1:53 pm

Swede03 wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 1:10 pm
Sploack wrote:
Sat Oct 31, 2020 4:47 pm
First (and only) time I played as Austria with bots, I won with a crushing 20 centers solo. I didn't even realize it was so difficult to do!

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameI ... #gamePanel
It's harder against bots than in real games because all the bots are convinced that they should get Austria's centers. 90% of the time, Russia moves to Galicia, Italy stabs in the first two years, and Turkey goes for your scs first chance they get.
I guess I was lucky the Italian bot decided to ally Austria (so to speak) and go for a Lepanto then. And Turkey opened to Armenia!

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by David E. Cohen » Sun Nov 01, 2020 1:28 pm

Swede03 wrote:
Sun Nov 01, 2020 1:10 pm
It's harder against bots than in real games because all the bots are convinced that they should get Austria's centers. 90% of the time, Russia moves to Galicia, Italy stabs in the first two years, and Turkey goes for your scs first chance they get.
And how exactly is that different from going up against human players? ;)

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by Swede03 » Sun Nov 01, 2020 1:10 pm

Sploack wrote:
Sat Oct 31, 2020 4:47 pm
First (and only) time I played as Austria with bots, I won with a crushing 20 centers solo. I didn't even realize it was so difficult to do!

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameI ... #gamePanel
It's harder against bots than in real games because all the bots are convinced that they should get Austria's centers. 90% of the time, Russia moves to Galicia, Italy stabs in the first two years, and Turkey goes for your scs first chance they get.

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by Sploack » Sat Oct 31, 2020 4:47 pm

First (and only) time I played as Austria with bots, I won with a crushing 20 centers solo. I didn't even realize it was so difficult to do!

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameI ... #gamePanel

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by Swede03 » Wed Oct 28, 2020 4:32 pm

Here is a game I won when Italy went full out against me from day one. This took a lot of patience.

https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=329455

7 different turns, Italy attacked Trieste with three units, and another 4 turns they attacked with 4 units. I'm surprised I survived the start. After that, every time I reloaded the page, I had that brief moment of worry that Turkey would stab me, since that would mean game over. They did annoyingly prevent me from ever getting to Moscow or St Petersburg, but other than that, they stayed loyal to the end. It still took 18 years to win though. I didn't even get a sixth sc until 1908.

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by Swede03 » Sat Aug 01, 2020 11:31 am

Ogion wrote:
Fri Jul 31, 2020 4:02 pm
I went back through my bot games and I've won twice as Austria. Both times coming on the back of an Italian Lepanto.

http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=311896
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=312530
Interesting. The only time I won was with no Lepanto. By the time I got Constantinople in 1906, Germany was in Vienna. It then took ten years of beating Germany in stalemate lines he could have held and a last turn Italian stab to finally win in 1917.
https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?game ... nocache=88

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by Ogion » Fri Jul 31, 2020 4:02 pm

I went back through my bot games and I've won twice as Austria. Both times coming on the back of an Italian Lepanto.

http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=311896
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=312530

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by Bark » Wed Jul 29, 2020 9:01 pm

Ogion wrote:
Tue Jul 21, 2020 6:41 am
Ironically, I just discovered the bots and working my way through the powers to win with each. I just started with Austria, but this last game, I was attacked by Italy, Russia, Turkey AND GERMANY! in Spring 1901. In fact, the thing that saved my bacon was that Germany and Italy were fighting each other over Tyrolia, a key position for Austria-killing. I have to say, that made for some long odds. Apparently, it was some kind of Wester Triple, which France would have won having stabbed a completely empty Germany and England, which Germany reacted to by.... disbanding all its units in Germany while keeping Serbia, Galicia and Tyrolia. Hmm. That was, shall we say, an unusual game.
Don't bring it up. They don't want feedback on the bots. All is well. All is well.
Mercy wrote:
Thu Jul 23, 2020 2:19 am

Found the game: https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?game ... #gamePanel

Why did you attack both Russia and Turkey while they were already fighting each other and you were under attack from Germany?
I think the more realistic question is, "Where is Germany's blood lust for Austria coming from?" . . . Sorry, I ended it on a preposition . . . "From where does Germany's blood lust for Austria originate?"

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by Mercy » Thu Jul 23, 2020 2:19 am

Ogion wrote:
Tue Jul 21, 2020 6:41 am
Ironically, I just discovered the bots and working my way through the powers to win with each. I just started with Austria, but this last game, I was attacked by Italy, Russia, Turkey AND GERMANY! in Spring 1901. In fact, the thing that saved my bacon was that Germany and Italy were fighting each other over Tyrolia, a key position for Austria-killing. I have to say, that made for some long odds. Apparently, it was some kind of Wester Triple, which France would have won having stabbed a completely empty Germany and England, which Germany reacted to by.... disbanding all its units in Germany while keeping Serbia, Galicia and Tyrolia. Hmm. That was, shall we say, an unusual game.
Found the game: https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?game ... #gamePanel

Why did you attack both Russia and Turkey while they were already fighting each other and you were under attack from Germany?

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by Hominidae » Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:20 am

Just won as Austria, my first time ever winning against bots:

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameI ... nocache=74

To be fair though, the bot playing Italy made some stupid decisions. After a successful Lepanto, it tried over and over again to take Sevastopol (despite this being clearly impossible) while I gobbled up the rest of the Turkish SCs and then moved on to the Italian mainland.

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by DougJoe » Wed Jul 22, 2020 2:09 pm

Ogion wrote:
Tue Jul 21, 2020 6:41 am
Ironically, I just discovered the bots and working my way through the powers to win with each. I just started with Austria, but this last game, I was attacked by Italy, Russia, Turkey AND GERMANY! in Spring 1901. In fact, the thing that saved my bacon was that Germany and Italy were fighting each other over Tyrolia, a key position for Austria-killing. I have to say, that made for some long odds. Apparently, it was some kind of Wester Triple, which France would have won having stabbed a completely empty Germany and England, which Germany reacted to by.... disbanding all its units in Germany while keeping Serbia, Galicia and Tyrolia. Hmm. That was, shall we say, an unusual game.
Game link?

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by Swede03 » Wed Jul 22, 2020 12:12 pm

I thought it was anti German, the continuation sometimes being to attack Munich with Burgundy's support

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by RoganJosh » Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:45 pm

I though Germany opening to Tyrolia was anti-French, no? The natural continuation being Piedmont.

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by Ogion » Tue Jul 21, 2020 6:41 am

Ironically, I just discovered the bots and working my way through the powers to win with each. I just started with Austria, but this last game, I was attacked by Italy, Russia, Turkey AND GERMANY! in Spring 1901. In fact, the thing that saved my bacon was that Germany and Italy were fighting each other over Tyrolia, a key position for Austria-killing. I have to say, that made for some long odds. Apparently, it was some kind of Wester Triple, which France would have won having stabbed a completely empty Germany and England, which Germany reacted to by.... disbanding all its units in Germany while keeping Serbia, Galicia and Tyrolia. Hmm. That was, shall we say, an unusual game.

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by DougJoe » Mon Jul 20, 2020 10:09 pm

DougJoe wrote:
Mon Jul 20, 2020 7:25 pm
Some hard data, if anyone is interested:

I manually went through my 48 bot games where I wasn't Italy and tried to compile some stats about Bot Austria's behavior:

26 times (54%) Austria was the first country Italy attacked (with no move on Italy by Austria, generally an aggressive move in S/F of 1901)
16 times (25%) Turkey was the first country Italy attacked
5 times (11%) France was the first country Italy attacked
1 time (2%) *Germany* was the first country Italy attacked
...and 5 times (11%) Italy was playing defense or it was not clear which country it initially considered its "enemy". (For example, the game where I, as Austria, played Tri->Ven as per the southern 'hog and actually got into Venice when I didn't intend to... Italy played Ven->Tyo and Rom->Apu, so I'm not sure of his intentions. I moved back to Tri in the fall but he tried to kick me out and took Tun with the fleet.)

...so Italy does do a Lepanto more often than it feels like... and the 25% matches pretty closely with my win percentage as Austria.
...Stats about bot Italy's behavior...

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by DougJoe » Mon Jul 20, 2020 7:25 pm

Some hard data, if anyone is interested:

I manually went through my 48 bot games where I wasn't Italy and tried to compile some stats about Bot Austria's behavior:

26 times (54%) Austria was the first country Italy attacked (with no move on Italy by Austria, generally an aggressive move in S/F of 1901)
16 times (25%) Turkey was the first country Italy attacked
5 times (11%) France was the first country Italy attacked
1 time (2%) *Germany* was the first country Italy attacked
...and 5 times (11%) Italy was playing defense or it was not clear which country it initially considered its "enemy". (For example, the game where I, as Austria, played Tri->Ven as per the southern 'hog and actually got into Venice when I didn't intend to... Italy played Ven->Tyo and Rom->Apu, so I'm not sure of his intentions. I moved back to Tri in the fall but he tried to kick me out and took Tun with the fleet.)

...so Italy does do a Lepanto more often than it feels like... and the 25% matches pretty closely with my win percentage as Austria.

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by Claesar » Sat Jul 18, 2020 11:37 am

Bark wrote:
Thu Jul 16, 2020 4:14 am
Italy never Lepantos when you play as Austria. I've seen Italy attack France sometimes in S'01. I usually see Italy just full on attack you in S'01, 9 out of 10 times. I never see Italy play the way 99% of human players play Italy in S'01.

Now will come some rationalizations about the algorithm, but if the bot game is unrealistic, it's merely a novelty.
Your perspective is unrealistic, and proven wrong.

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by DougJoe » Fri Jul 17, 2020 10:24 pm

Bark wrote:
Thu Jul 16, 2020 4:14 am
Italy never Lepantos when you play as Austria.
Most of the time, no, but never say never...
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?g ... #gamePanel

Re: Winning as Austria against bots?

by Bark » Thu Jul 16, 2020 4:14 am

Italy never Lepantos when you play as Austria. I've seen Italy attack France sometimes in S'01. I usually see Italy just full on attack you in S'01, 9 out of 10 times. I never see Italy play the way 99% of human players play Italy in S'01.

Now will come some rationalizations about the algorithm, but if the bot game is unrealistic, it's merely a novelty.

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