riddler-castles/castle-solutions: 958
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rowid | Castle 1 | Castle 2 | Castle 3 | Castle 4 | Castle 5 | Castle 6 | Castle 7 | Castle 8 | Castle 9 | Castle 10 | Why did you choose your troop deployment? |
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958 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 21 | 25 | 0 | 32 | 0 | Instead of comparing all options, I compared all combinations that sought to defend 4 castles and promoted the best 10 combinations to an 'a-league'. These combinations were subject to constraints: the total points being defended by at least one army was 28 or more and the armies were allotted to the castles proportional to the number of available victory points for the number of castles I decided to defend. I then did the same for all combinations that sought to defend 5 castles, 6 castles, and 7 castles, 8 castles, and 9 castles. I then ran these a-league combinations (60) against each other and found that this combination won 43 fights, tied 16 fights, and lost none. http://imgur.com/a/TUJmZ. Interestingly, this wins at most 28 points and is thus vulnerable to 0 7 0 14 0 21 25 0 32 1 and the like. I suck at game theory and I'm counting on not everyone coming up with this optimization and having one person specifically beat it. |