<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Grapeshot Bob<br/> <br/> How is the AI? Is it anywhere near normally functioning?<br/> <br/> GSB <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Well, with the last official version, my Austria and another human's Prussia vs. the rest of the world as hard AI -- by the time the game ...

<t> The 'valuable intelligence' bit should be implemented separately -- either drop a summary in the log or accessible via a marker on the map.<br/> <br/> Example: <br/> (W) FR (Napoleon, Murat) outflank<br/> (L) PR, RU (Kutusov) counterattack<br/> Area 666<br/> FR/I 22i,2c; II 15i,1c; Gds 10g/1c ->...

<t> France shouldn't be allowed to put a French garrison there during reinforcement, because it's not part of the French home nation.&nbsp; If France had a corps there already, it'd be legal to transfer factors into the corps (provided the corps met the 'supply chain no more than X depots' lengt...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: NeverMan<br/> <br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Grognot<br/> <br/> Not sure what you're referring to.<br/> <br/> The display of remaining movement points for other people's counters? I suppose it's a bit weird, but I'm not seeing a problem because (1) counter mo...

<t> Not sure what you're referring to.<br/> <br/> The display of remaining movement points for other people's counters? I suppose it's a bit weird, but I'm not seeing a problem because (1) counter movement is visible, and (2) even in the original game, you can tell maximum movement points for each c...

"Unattached leader" and "placed empty corps" are two reachable ways to have a bad setup.&nbsp; It shouldn't be the case with a default setup unless you've overwritten it (which was possible to do once upon a time; haven't checked lately).

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Skanvak<br/> Opening the AI source code, without the main code, won't impact profit margin. Second you can make something open without making it right free. The idea would be to let anyone code the AI. There are people out there that just like to code AI just for t...

<t> Personally, I'm more bothered by the apparent regressions than the the rest.&nbsp; I distinctly remember fewer significant lapses-of-war in previous versions, for instance -- e.g. the Russian AI would normally stick an infantry corps just into Finland (but not the Finnish capital!) for this ...

<r> But what you *do* have is a loader that can interpret individual files (which at least at one point, appeared to contain direct dumps of data structures pertaining to global game state instead of deltas, judging from the sheer number of zero bytes as well as the contents of the non-zero bytes --...

"Trademark violation" is certainly not "nothing", and profit is not necessary at all to justify litigation.

FWIW, the file transfer can be eased via something like Dropbox.

<t> High-level strategy is difficult.&nbsp;&nbsp; However, there are lower-hanging fruit, such as --<br/> <br/> - avoiding stacking leaders where a much worse superior overrides an inferior (e.g. Bernadotte overrides Massena or Soult, because it's B-vs-C); more obvious for France where they ...

<t> Heh.&nbsp; In a long-distance hotseat game with a friend of mine (trading saved-game files using Dropbox), the AI's Napoleon brought the pain to a sacrificial corps of mine (an Austrian corps that contained only militia, being used to cut supply lines).&nbsp; <br/> <br/> His forces wiped...

Now on mantis.

<t> "Lapse of war means return to neutrality" (but with no PP penalty for controller), plus "minors do not inherit controller's DOW if previously neutral" would seem to block the obvious potential abuses.<br/> <br/> By the latter, I basically mean that DOWs would only be inherited if the minor has b...

<t> A friend and I are playing against five 'hard' AIs, with us as Austria and Prussia.&nbsp; Observations iin this 1.07.01 game include:<br/> <br/> - Russia DOW's Sweden and didn't even enter Finland, let alone Sweden.&nbsp; Instant lapse.<br/> <br/> - Russia is nominally at war with Turkey...

Hm, did the file not attach? Attempt #2.

<t> Unless I'm missing something, the French depot underneath the French stack in Holland should not be considered in supply:<br/> <br/> - Holland has been controlled by Prussia for a few months. The two are at war.<br/> <br/> - France has no unblockaded fleets that could be providing sea supply. Th...

<t> Stack movement during land phase (between territories, not merely 'siege vs. assault') would require a rules alteration, or a way of specifying or deducing ordering, because there are rules which trigger corps-by-corps. Foraging (the first two corps to arrive penalize any later arrivals' foragin...

<t> On a related note, I'm thinking that perhaps we should allow Turkish feudal infantry to be in garrisons. I see three possible general classes of why the board game does not permit this:<br/> <br/> 1) bookkeeping; one must carefully track which corps are thus reduced, and apply special rules rega...