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guerrilla step not being executed - 12/4/2009 4:23:44 PM

ndrose

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I haven't had time to experiment with this from the Spanish side to see exactly what's going on, but playing France against Spanish AI, I was able to invade and garrison much of Spain without seeing any guerrillas. Eventually some did appear, but reviewing the log it seems that there had been no guerrilla step previously.

Judging from when it finally happened (after the first field combat), I'd say the problem is that the guerrilla step is only being invoked after such a combat. But even if Spain fights no battles, it should happen at the end of the land phase in response to the mere presence of enemy corps or garrisons.

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RE: guerrilla step not being executed - 12/4/2009 8:45:08 PM

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I tried it playing both sides, and found that the guerrilla step worked normally. But a scan of the log of the game played against the AI confirms that the game in that case did not try to generate guerrillas for over a year. Since the guerrillas spring up automatically (at least they do for a human player) I presume this is not just poor decision-making on the AI's part, but an actual bug in the sequence that only applies for some reason to AI players.

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RE: guerrilla step not being executed - 12/5/2009 3:45:12 AM

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I've played with it a bit more, and this does seem to be the pattern. For a human Spain, guerrilla creation works as it should. For AI Spain, it only happens after Spain plays a land combat phase.

More particularly, it happens after Spain fights a battle or besieges a city. It doesn't happen when Spain just has forces being besieged during its land phase. For a human player, this alone would trigger a land combat phase, since you would get the option of attacking the besiegers. But perhaps the AI isn't offered that alternative, or it doesn't count as a land combat phase if it doesn't exercise it. (I've never seen the AI attack besiegers, even when it would make sense.)

In any case, guerrilla creation should happen at the end of the land phase if there is no land combat. (And indeed for a human player it seems to do so.)

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