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Originally Posted by francoisD
hi don
thx for the anxwers. at least i know you are aware of that problem.
i do not know how the game engine is, but i thought it was sufficient to just buy the most expensive tanks when the game engine decides to buy a tank compagny or platoon and the allocated points were higher than 15000 for 500 units left.
if the game engine decides to buy a AT gun or anything else, do not change anything...
anyway i do not have the code at hands, and besides i am not a good code writer...
well i have to constraint my army to fight only americans with heavy on, or to to reduce its size to 9000 pts vs russians.
this problem will occur only in several months.
and for the guy who said that one battalion is not sufficient, i will reply that if i could, i would play games at the divisional level with platoons 
more seriously 2 battalions vs 2 battalions, i think the game can perfectly handle this type of battles, except for the ai when it purchases unit |
The AI even with tank heavy set on will buy a balanced force - with infantry, scouts, snipers and other low value units.
When buying tanks it simply decides if it is a company buy or platoon buy based on remaining points, and then it buys the company based on
radio code for rarity, out of any such tanks of that class
currently available. There is no way to tell it "hey buy a medium tank company and make sure they are panthers" - it will buy P3 sometimes even if rare. Soviet heavy tank formations will buy KV instead of IS series, since they are available.
The western allies don't have expensive tanks anyway - they use Shermans and Cromwells, with maybe 1 in 4 a Firefly if Commonwealth. (One could always take the UK answer to Nazi armour and buy a divisional artillery allotment (3 bty field, + 1 bty mediums) every time through the AI purchase loop if it had 10,000+ points remaining ...
)
You really do not
need Panthers, Tigers or such stuff fighting the USA and Commonwealth. The 75L48 does fine in the West. Maybe have a section of Tigers or Panthers, or the jpz4/ L70 to do long range sniping or deal with pesky Churchills or the 1 in 4 Firefly that Commonwealth Sherman platoons have. But I stop upgrading with a Nazi core when I have P4H (the version with sabot, the later ones with HEAT are a
downgrade) if fighting in Italy/NW Europe.
Andy