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chiroho -> RE: Axis forces not attacking (7/16/2010 12:57:02 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Scotters1976
Playing in the grand campaign as the Germans several times in the tactical battles the Allied AI has not attacked even when it has had overwhelming force, and some victory points were not even protected. At the Southern most point where 30th corp attacks, the first battle I got smashed. In the second and third battles on that same map I had 2 units holding up in the very north of the map, and the allied A.I did nothing. No shots were fired! In the second battle one of the victory points was left unguarded, and it was never taken. After the battle I lost that victory point automatically. During the 3rd turn nothing happened at all. So my two weak units are holding off the entire 30th corp, who won't even attack on the tactical map.
I've had a similar situation on the Valkenswaard map (the first one which XXX Corps attacks). Basically what I found was that the Allied AI would send only a couple of infantry squads up the map so long as I had the StuG and the PaK 40. As soon as I lost both, mostly by chance, they were storming up the map like there was no tomorrow - even though they had always held an overwhelming advantage in force numbers and quality.
It seems like, based on my experience on other maps, that the AI will attack aggressively if it thinks it can win, but will often sit tight and do nothing if there is even a small chance of losing - regardless of whether it has a numerical advantage. I've been able to whittle down Allied groups of 12 or more squads with German battle groups of 6 or 8 poor quality squads by fending off the initial charge of the Light Brigade (and they do seem to come straight down the middle) which cost a lot of Allied units, and then gradually taking all the remaining victory points because the AI sat and did nothing.
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