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Korsun German AI - 9/8/2003 11:34:48 PM

Brindle

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I played my first campaign game as the USSR with a +1 computer opponent. I'm wondering if I have a strange game or if the German AI is acting too "rational" for its own good. It's turn 21 and I have Korsun airfield and the major VP city (forgot name) just south of the airfield. I "cut off" a tiny group of no more than 15 axis units in the "pocket", mostly garrison forces still in the east-side fortifications. The odd thing is the total lack of resistance the axis put up. They pulled almost all their forces south where they are attacking and making a spirited defense. The problem is, I now have a huge decisive victory point total and it's climbing since I own the main VP towns in the north. Sure, the axis army is in great shape, not trapped etc... it's acting rationally as if saving units was hitler's desire. I guess, I'm just having a hard time making a "pocket" since the axis are so strong south, it was just much easier to cut the USSR army directly to the airfield and those VP's. It would seem that the German AI needs to be tweeked to defend the north more and 'allow' a more easier southern strategy for the USSR to simulate the incirclement?

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You're just too good! - 9/10/2003 7:20:55 PM

Matthew Urch

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Brindle

The AI is only a good opponent for a short while. Once you learn its style it becomes easy to beat. The real fun in this game is against a human opponent of equal (or a little bit better) skill. If the AI is no match for you anaymore then start looking for some PBEM opponents (here, or the Blitz or a the WAR website)!

Matthew

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- 9/21/2003 11:11:40 PM

Arbiter

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Thought I should correct myself, it was the 1st assault. I played the scenario a second time and the AI abandoned one city (the northern one, which was Boguslav) at the end of the game but otherwise held its ground quite well. It had pulled back from Medvin as well, but I had it outnumbered and almost encircled there anyway.

In two games at Computer+, I still was unable to get past Tichonovka. The Computer AI builds up a huge defense at Lisyanka, there are Stugs burrowed like ticks all around eastern Tichovka, and the tough line at my flank at Ribenyi Most that sees massive panzer reinforcements later - has anyone been able to successfully drive for Zvenigorodka? By the time I had armor poised to shoot the gap between Lisyanka and Tichovka, I was only a few turns from the mud rounds and the southern panzer reinforcements, and my armor would have been on an isolated suicide mission if I had pulled the trigger.

Curious if anyone has fared better than I have.

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