steveh11Matrix
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I find playing the ai fun. Better yet, letting the ai play itself for the first 5 months was interesting. Essentially historic path, but only Repulse got sunk, I've still got POW! Bataan is still holding (21st May 1942), most of the DEI has been swept up. As Allies intervening in late April 1942 I was able to rescue some of the Dutch AF. Sadly almost all of the base units have had to be written off. Buna and Gili Gili have gone, but I've held Port Moresby - actually, no serious attempt on it's been made. The Japanese had already taken everything up to Lunga, but haven't seriously attacked there (yet?) There's some anomalies. Lots of 'bits-n-pieces' of units around. Ships from both sides being routed through combat areas with little or no escort - or apparent need, come to that. But broadly it played out quite historically. For all of you PBEM fanboys, please consider that not everyone want to play that way. I rather imagine - given the apparent sales - that most, in fact, are playing against the ai. I'd also believe that they're enjoying it too! The answer to "What's the ai like" is not "Play by Email", it's play reasonably historically against it, and it works. BTW saying "Never re-load a save game" is like saying "Don't cheat". If you have to cheat to beat the ai, you're only cheating yourself, anyway - so what's the point? Steve.
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