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larryfulkerson -> RE: Directive 21 turn 19 (4/20/2010 4:01:10 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Ribak
Hows the AI doing in your opinion?
The AI doesn't think things through before moving I don't believe. Sometimes it moves into pockets that are shrinking and makes 'impossible' attacks and I've seen some AI moves that a human would NEVER do like moving out of supply into rough terrain just to gain a worthless hex. In short, it's fun playing against the AI because sometimes it's easier to defeat.
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ORIGINAL: Ribak
EDIT: By the way, I forgot to ask how you usually progress: Movement and then launch the attacks, or do you split it up in as many possible turns per round as possible (so that would be: a little movement, then attack and on and on)?
I usually move just enough to set up some round 1 attacks, attack, then move just enough to follow up on the attack, attack again, then move a little bit again, attack etc. Rinse and repeat. I usually get more than one combat round doing this and it's working pretty well for me. But your milage may vary. I usually attack at minimize losses settings to get as many combat rounds as possible. Sometimes I have turn left over and no attacks left to do and I just end the turn then. Too many rounds in one turn tends to wear your aircraft down though so I usually rest 1/3 of them until the halfway point of the turn and then 'turn them on' to do CS. Combat Support makes a difference and it's valuable to my attack plans and I'd rather not have to play without it. I'm told that after about turn 30 or so the Soviet airforce starts to gain air supremacy and the Axis air power starts to suffer major losses and the only way in D21 to 'turn off' the Soviet air power is to capture all the airfields on the map. This happens because the production rate for Soviet aircraft is high and the number of Soviet planes skyrockets.
I've never played D21 this far ( turn 19 or so ) before so I'm not sure what happens but I follow the AARs and threads for D21 and have picked up a lot of useful information about gameplay and so far it's been fun to defeat the AI in the little battles that occur by surrounding and destroying the little groups that come at me. Later in the game when the Soviets can actually build a front line and he has lots of units in reserve the story will change.
Thanks for keeping up with this AAR. I do my D21 work when I don't have any moves from my PBEM opponents so it's slow going so far. Sorry about that.
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