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Alby -> RE: FlashFyre Demonstration Long Campaign (9/23/2006 11:42:35 PM)
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ORIGINAL: vahauser
Erwin,
I think FlashFyre's intent was to create a simple Long Campaign format that provides the most difficult challenge.
Playing with C&C ON is clearly more difficult than playing with C&C OFF.
Did FlashFyre get everything right? No. But I think most of the errors/oversights/omissions he made were due more to time pressure since he was getting ready to leave for India.
He did get many things right, though, in terms of creating very difficult and challenging Long Campaign format.
Here are the main issues/problems I see in the FlashFyre template:
1. Reduced Squads should be OFF because playing with Reduced Squads ON actually favors the human player and not the AI.
2. Reduced Ammo should not be used because it hurts the AI way more than it hurts the human. Limited Ammo ON is the most difficult challenge for the human player.
3. Instead of all 6 major nations, the Long Campaign should only be played with Germany, Britain, and US Army. Japan and USSR and USMC don't really have any allies and so should not be allowed. Further, the concept of playing only with minor allied units of the major nation selected needs a LOT of clarification and refinement.
4. The issue of what to do with build points between battles (in terms of unit changes and unit upgrades) has not even been addressed and needs some serious attention.
5. The issue of core composition needs some serious attention in regards to questions like: should there be limits to the amount and kind of artillery allowed in the core? should there be limits to the amount and kind of specialist units allowed in the core? etc.
6. Non-standard tactics (airdrops, infiltration, etc.) should be prohibited for the human player.
7. Mines and barbed wire and dragon's teeth should be prohibited for the human player. Mines should be ON, though, to allow the AI to use them (but never the human player).
8. Airstrikes and on-map heavy artillery and rockets should be prohibited for the human player.
all good points except
"3. Instead of all 6 major nations, the Long Campaign should only be played with Germany, Britain, and US Army. Japan and USSR and USMC don't really have any allies and so should not be allowed. Further, the concept of playing only with minor allied units of the major nation selected needs a LOT of clarification and refinement."
USMC doesnt have any allies?
How about the Phillipines Or Anzac.
May not be historically correct per say, but still could be used.
USSR can use the Polish LWP forces in 43, or Romania in 44 and even the Bulgarians late in the war, altho it would not be that 'long' of a long campaign using the Bulgarians.
[:D]
Alas Japan is on their own.
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