Where the Turrets Go
· 16 min read
If you've ever watched a skirmish AI in Red Alert 2 quietly ring its base with prism towers on exactly the side you were massing tanks, you've seen this week's subject in action. We spent the day dissecting the routines that decide where defensive structures go, when the AI is even allowed to want them, and the ancient trigonometry humming underneath both — the last unmapped pieces of the AI's base-building brain, and the functions standing between us and a bit-exact port of that entire decision path.