Rainer
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Joined: 11/21/2000 From: Neuching, Bavaria, Germany Status: offline
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I cannot commit myself to a PBEM game, for a variety of reasons. Therefore playing against AI is my only option. I'm doing this since the day WitP has been released, and I have great fun doing this (Allied against Japanese AI). I only play scen 15 at level Very Hard, and I leave the British and Chinese Forces in the hands of AI. I see AI handle especially the British Forces (Land, Air Sea) fairly poor, so the British make no real progress in Burma. It looks like the AI script handling that area is faulty. A lot of LCUs are moved quite meaningless back and forth (without any interaction by the Japanese). LCUs based in Karachi every couple of months start to walk towards Malir. When they reach Malir they turn around and march back to Karachi. They are doing this since (about) mid 43 and never came beyond Malir. Same is true for some units in Madras. Really looks like an error in the script. I also saw, especially in 1942, several Japanese (AI controlled) Carrier Task Forces attacking Port Moresby, and it was quite clear these TFs were out of fuel and - more important - out of planes. They never retreated or took any other means to replenish (as far as I could see). Thus the Japanese Task Forces were - way too easily - beaten and sunk. The major factor seems to be that those TFs were not replenished, and the AI routines don't realize those TFs were not combat ready anymore. If ONLY two those issues mentioned above, and especially the second one, would be somehow improved the fight Allies against Japanese AI would be a lot more interesting, tougher and way more challenging than it is now. Edited for spelling and clearification (hopefully).
< Message edited by Rainer -- 11/29/2007 10:38:18 PM >
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