TotalBotWar: A New Pseudo Real-time Multi-action Game Challenge and
  Competition for AI
  This paper presents TotalBotWar, a new pseudo real-time multi-action
challenge for game AI, as well as some initial experiments that benchmark the
framework with different agents. The game is based on the real-time battles of
the popular TotalWar games series where players manage an army to defeat the
opponent's one. In the proposed game, a turn consists of a set of orders to
control the units. The number and specific orders that can be performed in a
turn vary during the progression of the game. One interesting feature of the
game is that if a particular unit does not receive an order in a turn, it will
continue performing the action specified in a previous turn. The turn-wise
branching factor becomes overwhelming for traditional algorithms and the
partial observability of the game state makes the proposed game an interesting
platform to test modern AI algorithms.
