;redcode ;name In Valen's Name ;author Steve Gunnell ;strategy Submission for round 3 of Ian Oversby's tournament. ;strategy It is a hacked over HSA with a spiral clear grafted ;strategy onto the end and the constants optimised with a GA. ;strategy I've tried several times to add a Qscan but every ;strategy time the score drops right away. *sigh* ;strategy HSA bomb changed to not trigger its own scan. ;strategy Spiral clear bombs with spl for a while to reinforce ;strategy stunning. (paper heavy warriors were breaking out). ;strategy Scan to head at kill-1 causes much better stunning. ;strategy Lucky it doesn't have to face serious djn streams 8-). ;assert 1 ; OACT 1998/3 STEP equ 6519 COUNT equ 14 PSTEP equ 2000 ptr equ (bomb-5) bomb spl #0 ,#0 jmn.f #0 ,ptr ,>ptr jmn.f kill ,>ptr a add #STEP+1 ,@mptr scan jmz.f a ,