Timotheus
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This is versus Normal AI with all default options on, full FOW. I am definitely learning. AI is NOT that bad, actually. AI likes to create defense lines and for 5 turns it has run away from me. From previous games I noticed that the Soviet AI does run away for first few turns (smart) but then tries to make a stand. If enough units are present it tries to create a continuous front, from Leningrad - Pskov - Vitebsk - cover Dnepr as much as it and rely on the Pripet Marshes to be impassable (again, smart) - down to Kiev - Kishinev - Odessa. This game AI make three blobs and decided to make a stand at Pskov and Vitebsk and Kiev. Up north 1 Panzer group versus all the mud is IMO NOT enough to break through into Leningrad - I can see why the Germans failed there based on this game. Nicely done, devs! Vitebsk blob will get the same treatment (I hope) as the Kiev one - the yellow panzer/mech group of AGC were in HQBU and are now ready... My previous 2 games my blitzkrieg bogged down on this line and it turned into WW2 with more modern tanks. This time, before I hit the Kiev line, I spend the turn moving infantry into contact and the two Panzer Groups waited in HQBU. The results were spectacular (to me... I know it is Normal AI with no bonuses but it was/is playing very well and doing its best to run away/stall). I think the AI is a bit TOO TIMID the first few turns and too afraid to lose any units. Sacrifice a few to cut off supply of the most forward spearheads (but truth to tell, I have been keeping all my mech/panzer units close to HQ and each other, no opportunities for AI or perhaps even human to do that). My previous games the AI started attacking from roughly turn 8 or 9-ish, it started attacking now for some easy victories with great odds but those were on the periphery and not important to the strategic situation. Anyway, I think the AI is great, best AI I have seen in a war game by far. AI is the hardest thing to program, and that's why the biggest game companies go for flashy graphics or focus on multiplayer. I realize all you vets of this game can probably win vs normal AI in 3 turns but for me this is an achievement
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