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"ref": "2000 August 28, Ghost, “Request for opinion: curious about the massive villager concept”, in alt.games.microsoft.age-of-kings (Usenet)",
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"text": "2008 June 12, Kresten Toftgaard Andersen, Anders Buch, Dennis Dahl Christensen & Dung Tran, \"Reinforcement Learning in RTS games\" (master thesis), page 51.\nThe strategy of the rusher is to build a small army very fast in order to destroy the enemy early in the game, whereas the aggressive/boomer builds a larger army, which is not necessarily an advanced army, to attack the enemy.",
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"text": "2008 July 13-15, Jin Park, Du Zhang & Meiliu Lu, \"An intelligent agent for the game of Age of Mythology: the Titans\", 2008 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, page 93.\nOnce the Heroic Age is reached, the boomer is able to generate a superior army at an explosive rate due to the advanced economy.",
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"ref": "2015, Melvin Delgado, Baby Boomers of Color […], page 4",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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