who is playing vs elite ai?

[francoisD]

when you plan big battles, you reduce any randomness in it, because individual and highly randomn fights add to each other while filtering any unlikely fights.

you can be very lucky in one area, but very unlucky in another one. so overall the outcome of a battle is the result of you skills only.

this is why i prefer big battles. with smaller one, the result of a battle can change dramatically with the result of one dice...

big battles have the serious drawback of being lenghtier too...


currently i play the germans in 1942, june, vs the russians... a single battle is played in several weeks...

i have to add that i am now a better player than before...

my core is already worth 9000 pts. it will grow further when i will upgrade my tanks, plus the exp of all the troops. indeed you do not need uber units to reach 10000-15000 pts armies, if you buy 200 units plus the raising exp...this is why i need to play vs an elite ai.

when i will have finished the campaign i will redo many individual battles with the generator to allow the ai to have monstruous armies. indeed i ve read somewhere that the germans fought at 1:5 odd vs the russians in 1945.

i have computed that i will be able to define a slightly reduced army worth 10000 pts (at 90 exp), and i plan to buy the ai armies worth 65000 pts just to see what happens
something like 30 panthers vs 200 elite kv85

do not know what will happen, but this will be a real challenge, for sure...

anyway do not hesitate to play vs elite ai, the game really changes

[Imp]

when you plan big battles, you reduce any randomness in it, because individual and highly randomn fights add to each other while filtering any unlikely fights.

This is why you like high exp to all the time spent creating randomness goes as units pass all there roles. We are all diffrent & for me its this built in randomness that quite possibly makes the game. They should be able to pull it off but instead I am going Oh **** what to do now or laughing as it all goes inexplicably wrong.
With high exp guys you virtualy know how they will perform with units in the normal range the game has many more risk vs reward choices when you are unsure & these make the game to for me.

[Lt. Ketch]

Originally Posted by imp

this built in randomness that...makes the game. They should be able to pull it off but instead I am going Oh **** what to do now or laughing as it all goes inexplicably wrong.

I love those moments! It's so much fun (as well as argivating) to see your hinge pin, your keystone, you most critical unit to a defence or attack fail and leave you with a bunch of pieces that you now have to use to stop the enemy at all costs. Those are the moments you really learn how to play. Granted, playing against a bunch of guys that don't supress, don't run and don't miss would take some skill.

As Esme Weatherwax says in Pratchett's Witches Abroad, "If you play Cripple Mr. Onion with someone that was a detached retina in her second-sight, you learn to play fast!" Or translated for non-pratchett fans, pretend you learned to play pocker with someone that could look over your shoulder in the future. At that point, bluffing doesn't work, you've got to "Get 'er done!"

[francoisD]

my last battle was an advance, and i set up the exp of the ai at 70. i confirm that the game is easier at that level, although i was sometimes overconfident ;-)

i think that the next step in difficulty is to play vs true humans...

[gila]

Originally Posted by francoisD

i think that the next step in difficulty is to play vs true humans...

It's amazing how much more i've learned through playing human opponents,even when i lose.
What you gain is some their experience and strategies.

I highly recommend it

[Kartoffel]

Originally Posted by gila

It's amazing how much more i've learned through playing human opponents,even when i lose.
What you gain is some their experience and strategies.

I highly recommend it

If you don't mind me asking how do you stand waiting all day to play one turn? when I mangage to find time to play, I want to Play!

[gila]

Originally Posted by Kartoffel

If you don't mind me asking how do you stand waiting all day to play one turn? when I mangage to find time to play, I want to Play!

That is a drawback with PBEM,but playing a human opponent is so much more a challenge and interesting.

I've not played one player yet who didn't surprise me in some way.

That's why "I" and others have several games going at the same time.

Everyone is different able to think out the norm and change stratagies depending on the current play that's makes for more exciting play IMO.