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pzgndr -> RE: 1.06.00 issues (5/3/2009 3:18:27 PM)
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FWIW, some feedback, several of the previously reported AI issues supposedly fixed continue to haunt the game. I played yesterday as Austria into 1810. Had an interesting war with Turkey for a couple of years and then turned west against France in late 1808, who was peacefully sitting tight all game. France should be more aggressive, and it still is not! (Another issue.) After DOWing against France (to make the game interesting), La Grande Armee was mobilized into action and initially 1809 was a dicey year with heavy attrition on both sides. However... I caught Napoleon with a single corps when he overreached. I caught the French Guard corps on its own and beat them down. Murat was entrenched in Bavaria with 2 infantry corps and 2 cav corps and I agonized over how to deal with them until the AI decided to move the 2 cav corps out leaving the infantry on their own. Nappy, Murat and Davout are in a POW camp, the Old Guard is destroyed, and the road to Paris is relatively clear...
A few principles (among many) should be reinforced for the AI:
1. Leaders should stack with multiple corps and rarely expose themselves with a single corps and risk capture.
2. Guard and artillery corps should also stack with multiple corps with leaders.
3. Infantry and cavalry corps should stack together when practical, rather than as separate stacks.
If the French AI had at least adhered to these basic principles, it should have done much better and Austria would be in much worse shape. The initial French AI strategy was sound enough, Austria took considerable losses and was forced to withdraw, but these avoidable weaknesses really hurt the French AI in the long run. I did have an exciting 1809, while it lasted.
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