My Corewar

94 Warriors

One-shots

Bomber

Piltdown

A one-shot that doesn't scan (bar QS)

Description (usenet)

Piltdown 2003

There were many variants, mostly beginning with 'Q' once I started adding quickscans. e.g. Quilt, QUI*T

Scanners

Intro

This family shares a common strategy, which is to try and locate the enemy's QS, stun or delay it, then start clearing from approximately 100 (Max Warrior length) locations earlier. The intent is to act as an anti-QS that catches warriors at startup. First in the series was Dire Wolf which was for a tournament round that limited warrior length to 50 locations. The next significant (and my favourite) was LuckyLuke this too was for a tournament round (the rules revented the use of MUL). The warriors are subdivided into jmz and seq scanners.

JMZ style

LuckyLuke

One of my favourites. Tournament rules forbade use of ADD/SUB The scanning gap of 20 locations (the smallest I could find using MUL) was larger than I'd wanted but worked well / was instructive. Came 2nd in R5 of John Metcalf's 2002 Spring/Summer tournament.

TinyLuke

For tiny hill

SEQ / SNE style

DireWolf

R4 entry John Metcalf's 2002 Spring/Summer Tournament My first one-shot.

DR Quinn

Morbid Dread IV

Toxic Spirit

KOTH during much of 2002/2003 yr. [but less so than Recon 2] Loses to basic A K Dewdney imp.

Bubbly Creek B

Toxic Spirit variant. No decoy.

Bubbly Creek A

Imp-safe variant of Bubbly Creek B.

Hungry Jack

Toxic Spirit II Fixes bug in blocker affecting Toxic Spirit/s and Bubbly Creeks. Has Bubbly Creek A imp safety and Bubbly Creek D improvements. Stronger than Toxic Spirit but the 94nop hill is nolonger susceptible.

Luke N'Vader

1-shot for Sal LP hill In at #2 behind The King (handshake assisted)

Vampires

Snail DVD

Bomber with two clears. One slow (for backup) the other named for the original author, David Van Dam. Uses a QB (Quick bomber). Made #17 on 94NOP Jun08 2002.

Slimy Time Vamp

LP warrior entered for R2 of John Metcalf's Spring/Summer Corewar tournament

Exsnail

Snail DVD without 'snail' bomber removed.

KNP range ("Kill NPaperII")

Fat Expansion

This is join 88 and ICWS version. Adaption of Robert Macrae's tournament-constrained One Fat lady. Briefly made the 88 hill. Still on ICWS hill after 3yrs.

Stone

FilchD

R3 entry John Metcalf 2002 Tournament (88 rules)

TrItE Fighter

R3 entry John Metcalf 2002 Tournament (88 rules)

Clears

Intro

Weak warriors mostly for 94m hill fodder.

LoClair

R2 entry John Metcalf 2002 Tournament. Limited process.

Triple Glaze

3 Dclears. Similar Three Bears

Three Bears

Was meant to be Frenzy, Random Rage, entry but relied on CORESIZE

zclear family

Imp-Stone

Entry for R9 Fizmo's Redocders Frenzy round. Rule required all post compile digits to be -1,0,1 This boots and launches an imp spiral. It calculates the required constants in the first round and stores them in p-space. A flaw in the check to see if constants have been calculated can result in every subsequent round failing if a key pspace entry is corrupted. I coded all night and still didn't complete the handshake in time.

Scanner

Edgar Variation

This is slightly changed version of Edgar's great Silver Talon. Included here just incase anyone's curious as it was on 94nop.

Paper

Intro

These were (some) variations on a theme. I forget the order of devleopment and which did best. The Initial idea was to have papers with a gap in them so that HSA style scanners wouldn't wipe the entire paper if they started at the beginning.

Doughnut

Kandias Kan

One of Kandias, Kandias Kant, Kandid

Dodger

Wyatt Earp

Scores 265 vs Toxic Spirit

Earp Jnr

R6 entry Redcode Frenzy

88 Warriors

Fat Expansion

FilchD

TrItE Fighter