ORIGINAL: Leandros
ORIGINAL: Shark7
This really showcases the weakness of the AI and the reason why you have to restrain yourself and play as historically as possible for the AI to have anything close
to a fighting chance. It is incredibly easy to break the AI, and it just can not adapt. It will just keep trying the same thing over and over, and getting the same
bad results.
Much like the Japanese did in real life, then...[;)]....which wasn't always exploited properly by the Allies...Guadalcanal, Port Moresby.
Why give the AI a chance? Much of the Japanese successes came about because they WERE given a chance. But, that is just my opinion.
Fred
I fully agree with Ser Chickenboy and Leandros.
To play passively through 1942 would frankly be extremely boring for either side.
As the Allies : To sit back and take it on the chin, underestimate your opponents, adopt unrealistic tactical plans with political considerations (i.e. ABDA), etc, etc, ad naseum. Why?
The purpose of the AI (regardless of level) is to be defeated by the application of superior supply management, exploitation of weakness, and better combined tactics.
All of course with a slight advantage called "perfect hindsight" [8D]
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I may be a bit of an apologist for the AI but frankly I think it is wonderful in light of the "slight advantage" of perfect hindsight.
Is it linear ? Yes - its a script. It will try to achieve the same objective over and over till it cannot.
But it manages hundreds of orders each turn with thousands of variables. Its has 13(?) random levels of aggressiveness that you will not be sure of till into the game. It can / should be exploited in its linear thinking; however it will effectively punch and counter punch / raid to your own objectives ~ at least in my experience.
(August 1943 - PDU off - Historic / Hard difficulty alternating month by month)
Can you hold the Philippines ?
Evidently yes (but I cannot yet).
In fairness to the real world situation at the time; this would be an 'all in gamble' in supporting MacArthur and company with most or all available US assets
months after Pearl Harbor. Ships scattered. Merchant Marine prepared to risk their very lives every run. Even with PDU on you would only have limited assets that were available and production was not ramped up. Your enemy has air superiority qualitatively at the very least.
If CICPAC won that "all in the Philippines' argument with the combined Joint Chiefs of staff I would think a 2000 Political / Victory Point penalty would be an appropriate expenditure of achieving that consensus ???
A People that values its privileges above it's principles will soon loose both. Dwight D Eisenhower.