Maximum AI Competitiveness

[wulfir]

Originally Posted by Roman

...but I like to face challenges.

Location:
Schleswig-Holstein, WEST GERMANY

Date:
November 1985

Type:
NVA/Warsaw Pact delay (XXX Battle Points) vs Spain/NATO advance (30 000 Battle Points)

Air Sorties:
Warsaw Pact XXX
Spain/NATO 10

Map:
Grossenbrode, Germany 200x160

Visability:
53

Turns:
65




Background:

It is November 1985.

WWIII began in early August the same year with a Warsaw Pact attack on western Europe. NBC weapons have not yet been deployed by either side.

While initially enjoying some success on the ground Pact forces have failed to knock NATO out of the fight and in the high intensity warfare of this sort munitions, fuel and troops are consumed at alarming rates.

Warsaw Pact competence have also been found wanting. Especially the logistics and air warfare domains suffer from the extreme strains of large scale prolonged combat. By October the weight of NATO air strikes have had a crushing effect on Pact ability to bring munitions and troops forward leading to a culmination of the Pact offensive. NATO counterattacks have begun to roll back earlier Pact gains.

Pact morale has not yet fallen apart. But things are looking very grim. Ground is being lost and there seems to be no reprieve for the depleted Communist formations at the front.

Things are different on the NATO side. Some of the forces reinforcing the NATO forces in Germany come from Portugal and Spain. They are received with some suspicion, but are nonetheless a welcome sight.

The Spaniards, having recently joined NATO are initially given tasks believed to be less risky. One Spanish contingent ends up on the German Baltic coast and is tasked with reducing a Warsaw Pact force believed to be of very limited combat value…

The Pact troops have been bypassed by the main NATO offensive and have their backs against the Baltic Sea on a small piece of land just in front of FEHMARN Island. The bulk is believed to be made up of battered remnants of the East German Nationale Volksarmee’s 19th Motorised Rifle Division, a reserve unit that by circumstance ended up on the Baltic coast.

There is a slight chance that the Pact forces will be supplied over, or possibly withdrawn by sea and could thus pose a problem. The mission of the Spanish forces is to defeat the Pact forces and reach the bridges to FEHMARN Island.

[wulfir]

You have a decent amount of battle points, but you don't know what you are facing...

I couldn't upgrade to v17,5 - I am still using v17 - so I set it to basic security. I won't have time to troubleshoot it tonight.

Take your time with the setup, I'll be out of town for a few days.

If there's a game version conflict I can set up this as a scenario to be played against Comrade AI.

[Roman]

Originally Posted by wulfir

You have a decent amount of battle points, but you don't know what you are facing...

I couldn't upgrade to v17,5 - I am still using v17 - so I set it to basic security. I won't have time to troubleshoot it tonight.

Take your time with the setup, I'll be out of town for a few days.

If there's a game version conflict I can set up this as a scenario to be played against Comrade AI.

Thank you. Unfortunately there are version problems. I wait for you to return and update the game.

[wulfir]

Yeah..., I sent you the wrong files. Try this. Might still get an error message I guess...

[Roman]

Originally Posted by wulfir

Yeah..., I sent you the wrong files. Try this. Might still get an error message I guess...

Works. Do you use discord? We can exchange files there. And I also made a server for players. File exchange is easier. It seems to me.
Any rules?
Artillery limit?
Is extra ammunition allowed?

[wulfir]

Originally Posted by Roman

Any rules?
Artillery limit?

No rules, unless there is something you'd like to play with.

Your opposition will not be too outlandish. I'll be the AI for this game.

Originally Posted by Roman

Is extra ammunition allowed?

Everything is allowed.

I set you up as Spain but feel free to use other nations too if you wish - I think other NATO nations would be more fitting than say Afghan Mujahedin..., whatever floats your boat. This game allows for a lot of freedom.

There is no 'play balance'. The Spanish forces are previously uncommitted and largely intact. The NVA forces are depleted, abgekämpft, with failing logistics and their backs against the water.

How many there are and with what kit exactly is unclear, if they have air support is also not known, or the amount of artillery they have, but they are not dug in and there are no mines deployed..., it is believed they have, all in all, a low combat value.

I'll set up Discord within a few days (when I get back)...

[Roman]

Originally Posted by wulfir

No rules, unless there is something you'd like to play with.

Your opposition will not be too outlandish. I'll be the AI for this game.

Everything is allowed.

I set you up as Spain but feel free to use other nations too if you wish - I think other NATO nations would be more fitting than say Afghan Mujahedin..., whatever floats your boat. This game allows for a lot of freedom.

There is no 'play balance'. The Spanish forces are previously uncommitted and largely intact. The NVA forces are depleted, abgekämpft, with failing logistics and their backs against the water.

How many there are and with what kit exactly is unclear, if they have air support is also not known, or the amount of artillery they have, but they are not dug in and there are no mines deployed..., it is believed they have, all in all, a low combat value.

I'll set up Discord within a few days (when I get back)...

Okay. The Spanish army will only attack because the communication of the allies did not arrive on time.
I await your discord configuration and the exchange of missile files.

[Roman]

Originally Posted by wulfir

Yeah..., I sent you the wrong files. Try this. Might still get an error message I guess...

Ready. I did not use 30 thousand points. Where did the file pass?