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ORIGINAL: KG Erwin

Anyone else ever notice that the AI never buys an ammo carrier? It may make no difference, as the AI's off-board support never seems to run out of ammo, but for the ON-board arty, that's a different story.

Still, I took great pleasure the other day in slipping a couple of German motorcycle platoons, reinforced by some armored cars, a couple of flak-wagons, and a couple of Pz IVs down a side road and coming up behind the attacking Poles' mortar positions. Within three or four turns, I'd virtually wiped out the enemy's 81s and a couple of ATGs in their deep rear.

In any case, though, does the AI have any clue about how to replenish ammo, even if you add ammo carriers to the AI purchase list?

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ORIGINAL: Alby

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ORIGINAL: KG Erwin

Anyone else ever notice that the AI never buys an ammo carrier? It may make no difference, as the AI's off-board support never seems to run out of ammo, but for the ON-board arty, that's a different story.

Still, I took great pleasure the other day in slipping a couple of German motorcycle platoons, reinforced by some armored cars, a couple of flak-wagons, and a couple of Pz IVs down a side road and coming up behind the attacking Poles' mortar positions. Within three or four turns, I'd virtually wiped out the enemy's 81s and a couple of ATGs in their deep rear.

In any case, though, does the AI have any clue about how to replenish ammo, even if you add ammo carriers to the AI purchase list?

Exactly why I removed the On board Nebels from the German AI picklist and gave them something with more ammo, in the FV HTH mod.
[:)]

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ORIGINAL: Orzel Bialy

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ORIGINAL: Alby

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ORIGINAL: KG Erwin

Anyone else ever notice that the AI never buys an ammo carrier? It may make no difference, as the AI's off-board support never seems to run out of ammo, but for the ON-board arty, that's a different story.

Still, I took great pleasure the other day in slipping a couple of German motorcycle platoons, reinforced by some armored cars, a couple of flak-wagons, and a couple of Pz IVs down a side road and coming up behind the attacking Poles' mortar positions. Within three or four turns, I'd virtually wiped out the enemy's 81s and a couple of ATGs in their deep rear.

In any case, though, does the AI have any clue about how to replenish ammo, even if you add ammo carriers to the AI purchase list?

Exactly why I removed the On board Nebels from the German AI picklist and gave them something with more ammo, in the FV HTH mod.
[:)]

It's the little things (like this) that you think of in advance Alby that make us refer to you as the "wise ***" when it comes to these matters my friend. [:D]





So...did you guess "wise one" or jump right to "wise @ss"? [:'(]

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ORIGINAL: Twotribes

Actually while you have a point, the placement of AT and artillery ( and AA) can be hurtful and suprising, to say the least, when one is involved in clearing operations in an assault or advance. You round a corner and wham out of the blue some gun opens up on you, where you had no reason to expect it to be.

The only problem I have then is when the AI puts some such weapon system in a spot where it has almost no field of view.

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ORIGINAL: Korpraali V

Yes, that's very surprising. Once dropped a company of German FJ's to Belgian rear area town. There were something like twenty bunkers [X(] Was a _bit_ tough to try to keep my men alive without any reasonable AT-weapons.