PZIVB AP Use

[Charles22]

DRG said:

Artillery priority hexes that a human player is issued with at the start of the game ( the number depends on the battle type and the number of FO's he has ) and can place where ever he want.

And the AI doesn't have an arty "cheat" that can see your units. I think everybody who starts playing this game thinks that at least once. We had one guy complain the AI always targeted his units then found out he played large unit games on small maps and the AI couldn't miss where ever it dropped arty but the AI IS programed to pay attention to road junctions and areas behind hills out of sight just like a human player would and it will detect firing events like mortars just like a human player would.

Don

Ohhhh, I wasn't aware you got more pre-strike spots for every spotter. Hmm, I could have swore I saw a set number per the type of battle on that, but perhaps that's on a spotter per battle basis and I didn't realize it.

Still, you haven't EVER seen the AI attack an unknown hex with air forces have you? It's obvious the artillery is random, though of course it didn't used to be in some SP versions. I sometimes marvel at the foolishness of the AI artillery as it may be wasting away half it's artillery on a totally unknown spot where I haven't something even remotely close, but at such a time it has plenty of units it has spotted and doesn't re-direct it's partial guessing game to focus on what it does see. That's not necessarily bad for the game overall, but does look to be flawed thinking. I don't ever concentrate all my artillery on one spot, but I almost always will focus on something that i can see. Somehow, I just can't get my head around the notion of firing on a position where I haven't the faintest idea that something is there or not. Strangely enough, I never use it for smoke either. And to top it all off I almost never run out of arty ammo, though my field-based ones would if I didn't re-supply them.

Yes, I remember back in the old days, especially with SPWAW, where I would put my 88's on hills, usually just 2-4 of them, and right away the enemy arty or air would go right after them, despite their silence to that time.