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Philippeatbay -> RE: Opinions on best Napoleonic tactical or operational game (11/26/2017 5:41:18 PM)
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The Tiller series with the weakest AI is the ACW series, though that has been improving of late. The Napoleonic series has decent AI (stronger than the ACW AI), but it won't clean your clock the way a human opponent can. I play mostly solo or solo hotseat and find the AI to be adequate. But you won't really know how to handle troops until you've played against an experienced player, some of whom are playtesters and have been doing it so long that they know wrinkles that never got written up in the rules manual.
Setting up scenarios as solo or head to head is pretty much up to the scenario designer.
I just opened up Leipzig and glanced at the scenario list. There are close to 150 scenarios in there, and almost half of those are head to head. Bill Peters tends to make two versions of his scenarios, one for head-to-head and one for solo against the AI. Solo against the AI usually only works for one side, so the notes will tell you if a scenario is solo one side or the other. There will sometimes be a score of scenarios covering a large battle, each pair covering a different time frame (first day, second day, all three days etc.) or set of what ifs.
My impression is that there are supposed to be head to head scenarios for each historical situation. History tends to be one-sided, so there is often no point in designing a scenario for solo play for both sides (and if you really need to, you can play head-to-head solo hotseat). I think I've seen a few scenarios where you can play solo on both sides. Be aware that nothing prevents you from playing the French in a solo scenario where it's recommended that you play the Russians.
There are a lot of choices, and you end up spending a lot of time scrolling through the scenario list and reading the notes trying to figure out which version of a situation you want to play.
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