attacker_blast_isolated_synchronized_rel

Idea: Field FEWER strikers than the ring can hold -- exactly 26 spaced just past one blast width at the defender's engagement radius -- then park them on a staging ring and release all at once so the exchange is forced to a strict 1-for-1 the interceptor magazine cannot win.

Why this is not the obvious counter ----------------------------------- The obvious reply to convergence_blast_scheduler is to spread harder, desync, or pile on MORE strikers / decoys so a 10-unit blast cannot catch pairs. Every ring attacker on the ladder maximises striker count (30) on a wide ring and lets it converge; that is precisely the shrinking ring the scheduler was built to feast on -- below r~48 neighbours fall inside one blast and each interceptor scores doubles or triples, so 20 interceptors clear all 30.

This bot does the opposite of "more": it UNDERCOUNTS on purpose. The scheduler plans its blast groups at RD1 = asset_radius+15 = 40. The arc length between neighbours on an evenly filled circle at r is 2*pi*r/N. For the kills to stay single, that spacing must exceed the coverage radius CR = 0.9*blast = 9 at r = 40, which caps useful strikers at 2*pi*40/9 ~ 27. We field N = 26: spacing at r=40 is ~9.66 > 9, so the scheduler's own grouping math can only ever cover one striker per aim point, and with 26 live threats it has no spare stock for its secondary (RD2=31) layer. The clever multi-kill engine is reduced to a plain nearest-shooter.

From there it is arithmetic the defender cannot escape: 20 interceptors at pk 0.85 kill ~17, the single-target gun cleans up only a few, and the rest leak. To stop the gun from grinding the leakers down over their 19-tick walk through gun range, every striker is first flown to a common staging ring at r=130 (outside the r<100 auto-"closing" flag and the gun's 100 reach) and held there by chasing a point 0.3 rad ahead on the circle, so radial speed reads ~0 and the scheduler -- which ignores non-closing tracks and engages "as late as feasible" -- holds its entire magazine. When all 26 are staged they are released on the same tick; identical remaining range makes them arrive together, so the gun gets only ~one window of shots across many simultaneous impactors. Trading raw numbers for a guaranteed blast-isolated, time-synchronized 1-for-1 is what nothing else on the ladder does.