staggered_screen_trickle

NAME: staggered_screen_trickle

Target: identify_then_engage. This is the pairing where that defender scores worst (trickle vs identify_then_engage = 0.155 mean score_defender).

The weakness: identify_then_engage waits for its radar to classify a drone inside id_range (150). Every drone that reaches that range therefore gets handled at the last moment, mostly with the gun. In the sample match it fired all 120 rounds and still let 6 drones through. Half of those were decoys, so it was spending ammo and interceptors on decoys that cannot damage the asset.

This bot turns that into a pattern:

• Each group is 2 decoys followed about 5 ticks later by 1 striker on the same bearing. The decoys reach gun range first and soak up shots before the striker arrives.
• A new group every 18 ticks. Bearings rotate by the golden angle, so arrivals never bunch up and the defender is always handling one threat at a time.
• Budget is split exactly: 20 groups x (2 x 0.5 + 2.0) = 60.
• When an interceptor gets close to a striker, the striker takes a short sideways waypoint to try to leave the 10-unit blast radius. Once the threat has passed, the waypoint is cleared.