---
name: "conqstrat"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "conquest"
version: "8.3-3"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/conqstrat"
---

# conqstrat(6)

modify Robot strategy tables

## NAME

conqstrat — modify Robot strategy tables

## SYNOPSIS

**conqstrat** \[**-v**\]  \[**-d**\]  \[**-U**\]  \[**-o** *file\]*

## DESCRIPTION

*This manual page documents briefly the*  **conqstrat** *command.*

**conqstrat** *is a utility which reads rules from stdin to update* *Robot strategy tables.  It's normal use is to update the common block* *(the game's current 'state') with a 'compiled' robot AI state,* *defined by a file such as conqrule.*

*If you want to modify the robot's AI, you can do so and use* **conqstrat** *to either update the common block (running game) with* *the new AI directly, or generate a conqdata.h file that can be compiled into* *Conquest and used as the default when the universe is initialized.*

## OPTIONS

- **-v**

  *Be verbose about everything.*

- **-d**

  *Turn on lots of debugging.*

- **-U**

  *Update the common block directly.  This is the most common use for* *non‐conquest developers.  NOTE: If you then use conqoper to* *initialize the common block, your AI will be lost and replaced with the* *compiled‐in default, so you will need to re‐run this command to* *re‐install your own AI again.*

- **-o** *file*

  *Output to file.  Without this*  *option, output will go to stdout.  The normal use of this option is to* *generate a header file that is compiled directly into conquest* *(conqdata.h).*

## SEE ALSO

*conquest (6), conqai (6), conqoper (6).*

*See the conqrule and conqrule.easy files for two robot* *strategies supplied in the conquest distribution, and installed in* *\<install\_prefix\>/share/doc/conquest/.  conqrule is the original* *AI (with minor fixes) supplied in the original VAX/VMS conquest* *distribution.  It is also the default AI compiled into Conquest.* *conqrule.easy is an AI that is a bit easier on new players :)* *You can install it in an initialized game with conqstrat -U* *\<conqrule.easy.*

## AUTHOR

*Jon Trulson \<jon@radscan.com\>*

*This manual page was originally written by Clint Adams* *\<schizo@debian.org\> for the* **Debian** *system (but may be used by* *others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this* *document under the terms of the GNU GPL. Conquest is*