Non-symmetric discrete General Lotto games

We study a non-symmetric variant of General Lotto games introduced in Hart (Int J Game Theory 36:441–460, <CitationRef CitationID="CR7">2008</CitationRef>). We provide a complete characterization of optimal strategies for both players in non-symmetric discrete General Lotto games, where one of the players has an advantage over the other. By this we complete the characterization given in Hart (Int J Game Theory 36:441–460, <CitationRef CitationID="CR7">2008</CitationRef>), where the strategies for symmetric case were fully characterized and some of the optimal strategies for the non-symmetric case were obtained. We find a group of completely new atomic strategies, which are used as building components for the optimal strategies. Our results are applicable to discrete variants of all-pay auctions. Copyright The Author(s) 2013