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From: AndyfromVA@volcanomail.com (AndyfromVA)
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Subject: Re: New Axis and Allies CD-ROM Announced!
Date: 16 Oct 2003 05:30:49 -0700
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"micktee" <micktee@cox.net> wrote in message news:<yapjb.27773$Rd4.23628@fed1read07>...
> > It would be cool if AvalonHill (or whoever!) would 're-do' the
> > original Axis and Allies CD-ROM (or Iron Blitz) and give us a descent
> > AI and some nice scenarios (and maybe: new maps).
>
> BTW: Does anyone have any "war stories" about how bad the AI was?
>
> Personally, I think that the AI didn't handle projecting power via naval
> forces in anyway other than a few pre-programmed routes. If you ever
> noticed, if Germany was knocked out, the AI would render the UK effectively
> useless, because it would not transport UK forces to the Pacific theatre.
> Ever turn they would just buy stuff and maybe move it around Europe and the
> North Atlantic.
>
> The only way that I ever found the game close to challenging in solitaire
> mode was to play 1 nation, and to set my allies to 3 stars (moronic) and my
> enemies to 5 stars (kinda stupid). The challenge was in overcoming the
> monumental ineffectiveness of your allies.
I agree. The AI's big problem is that it couldn't handle sea power.
It did pretty well with Germany and the Soviets, but horribly with
everything else. As Japan, it would concentrate on China and attack
Alaska (good move) but ignore possible attacks on the Pacific islands.
As the US, it would concentrate almost exclusively on ferrying
infantry to England, with an occasional amphibious attack on Africa.
It would completely ignore the Pacific. As England, it would try to
set up amphibious attacks on Western Europe or Norway, to the
exclusion of everything else.
I look forward to a remake of A&A, even with the RTS elements.
Hopefully, the strategic AI will be DRASTICALLY improved.
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