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# Iron

Iron is a StarCraft AI based on the BWEM library (same author).
Iron can be seen as an extension of Stone.

Like Stone:

- Iron is Terran bot.
- Iron is Agent Oriented.
- Focus has been on individual behaviors: Agents are highly autonomous and versatile.
- These behaviors have been carefully designed to avoid indecisiveness, one of the most common and frustrating issues of AIs.
- Iron aims at robustness and doesn't contain any code specific to a particular bot.
- SCVs play an important role.

Unlike Stone:

- Iron is a complete bot that can deal with most types of threats.
- Iron can expand.
- Iron is a hybrid system: alongside the Multi-Agent paradigm, it uses a bunch of global strategies and algorithms.

Iron competed in the following tournaments:

- the IEEE CIG 2016 StarCraft AI Competition.
- the AIIDE 2016 StarCraft AI Competition.
- the SSCAIT 2016 Tournament.

Iron is still under developement.
To see its progress, go to SSCAIT Tournament.

## Iron's FAQ

### Why this name?

Iron is Stone's successor...

### How strong is it?

Iron placed 2nd in the IEEE CIG 2016 StarCraft AI Competition, and 1st in the AIIDE 2016 StarCraft AI Competition, making it one of the strongest StarCraft bots.

### What is Iron's style of play?

Like its father Stone, Iron used to be a pure conservative bot. This comes from how each unit normally behave.
Iron now uses a fight simulator which can make its units look like very agressive.
Autonomy of Iron's units gives its play a general guerilla aspect.
In general, Iron favours the army race, rather than the tech race or the economy race.

### I'd like to watch some of its games...

Iron is currently playing games against other bots in SSCAIT Tournament's ladder.

### How to play against Iron?

To play against Iron you need:
- a proper Brood War installation.
- the last release of the BWAPI library.
- Iron's binaries: available here.
A tutorial is available here: Starcraft Broodwar: Play vs custom AI .

Check also: Interactive Iron

### Which version of BWEM does Iron use?

Iron uses the latest version of the BWEM Library.

### Which version of the BWAPI does Iron use?

Iron uses BWAPI 4.1.2.

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