Anybody know of any good RTSs with nicely mod-able AIs?
I know of three so far,
Command and Conquer 3 Vanilla (nice and easy XML files)
Starcraft 2 (though it is rather involved to do it)
Almost any game made on the Spring RTS engine (even more involved, as it is basically a separately compiled dll/shared library)
I remember having great fun with Command and Conquer 3's modding kit and messing with the AI. I managed to actually get my AI to consistently beat the vanilla AI. (Sadly, I don't know any intermediate to pro players to try it out against, so I have no idea how competitive it was)
Sadly, Command and Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath modding kit has never been released.* Even more sadly, I have lost all my work on the original's AI stuff.
*There is a fan project to reverse engineer the corresponding XML files needed so that the modding kit can work with Kane's wrath.