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Naomi -> RE: AI reinforcing (11/8/2005 3:38:52 AM)
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Winning out on your rivals is not hard in land QBs. Nonetheless, there are often quirks (or wide deviations from an average person's expectation) in naval battles, only quick-resolution versions of which can be fought now.
Let me raise an example. When one of my merchants encountered a privateer, and I called for an adjacent fleet of 10 vessels composed mainly of ships to its succour. The fleet reached with half of it entering in the battle on the defensive portion. The enemy privateer stationed itself - and would do so invariably - on the brink of my line of vessels, in the thought it would challenge its opponents one after one. I tended to place my toothless merchant beside the line of the reinforcement fleet, or simply let it stay on the routed portion as it had started there. Most of the time, my fleet lost to this mere privateer, and an almost-certain defeat happened if my fleet was facing a headwind.
Having drawn a series of lessons, I decided I should place the merchant to the frontline of the battlesea, far ahead of my reinforcement, to brave the menace. And a victory on my side resulted, without any bomb exchange as would occur when my merchant was huddling itself on the backbench. I think it is time to surf archives of military theory and methods for possible explanations. [:'(]
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