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No sarcasm intended. There are a variety of ways a manual can be approached and have seen such in other titles. All of them effective for how they were intended. Some include the most basic set of information to get users started while ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Gregor_SSG<br/>
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It's true that the best human players will be able to finesse their combats and do better than the AI, but they will also be doing better than a lot of human players, including me, who tend not to proceed as meticulously as you.<br/>
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Gregor_SSG<br/>
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Its encouraging to see people treating the AI as if it has knowledge about the game in the same way that a human player does, as this means that its doing a reasonable job. In truth, like the Wizard of Oz, it's all done by smoke and mirrors ...

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It doesn't sound like there is anyone out there that has both games?
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I have both games, much prefer Kharkov to Battlefront even if it currently only has one scenario.<br ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Gregor_SSG<br/>
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Just on the question of AI, one of the many handicaps that an AI faces is that it is forced to try to play in a militarily sensible way, and yet its human opponents are under no such restrictions. It is hard enough to construct an AI that ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Swamp_Yankee<br/>
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I think you are missing the point, but that is your personal preferrence, so it is your point to miss if you choose - That said, I have played battles that have taken months to resolve - but I play with an opponent who has become ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Joe 98<br/>
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Most people cannot play a turn a day. As a result take the number of turns of any scenario and multily by 3 or 4 and thats how long it takes to play the scenario PBEM. <br/>
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This applies to ALL PBEM games and I can never undestand any ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Joe 98<br/>
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<SIZE size="3"><s>[size=3]</s>[font="compatilfact lt regular"]I never like manuals. 20 short tutorials “click here and do this and that causes that” is much better than a manual[/font]<e>[/size]</e></SIZE><br/>

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Swamp_Yankee<br/>
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Why don't you try playing by email? I have found a reasonably knowlegable human opponent is usually more challenging than good AI
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The only "mail" game I've ever played was Diplomacy in the 1960s - by ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Gregor_SSG<br/>
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Sorry, just to add something about attack supply. It is entirely possible to be in defensive supply and yet not have enough attack supply to mount an attack. In fact, we designed the system to produce exactly that result, so that you can't ...

<r> Being a war game player going back to Avalon Hill in 1960, I have greatly enjoyed the evolution of simulations on the PC. Series from the premier companies like SSG just keep getting better with each iteration.<br/>
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Sometimes it's the apparently simple improvements that really make a ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins<br/>
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Complete false alarm, sorry. Keep in mind virus software is not perfect either and we periodically see a false positive from one product or another. I can confirm the copies on our servers, as downloaded, are virus-free. What happens to ...

<r> My Zone Alarm antivirus just tagged the file BattlesInItaly-updatev101.exe file as having the Win32.Multidropper.Z virus. Depending on where you look, this is rated low to moderate risk, although the McAfee site makes it sound a bit worrisome:<br/>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Joe 98<br/>
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Which scenario?<br/>
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How can you tell its an error when it might be an intentional design?
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Shingle. The normal progression in defensive values for standard U.S. infantry regiments, from weakest (1 step ...

<t> The 179th regiment/45th Division unit has an erroneous value in its full-strength state in the defensive value column. Instead of being an 11 like other regiments of its type, it displays an 8. Strength modifications such as entrenching are based on the 8, not the 11 value. I was able to edit ...

<r> I wish they had this feature in Ardennes and the basic KP. Spent lots of time squinting at the screen, turning off units and forts, etc., trying to scope out road nets on the dark, busy hex backgrounds. It didn't help that when you right-click a hex, if there's a triangle or fort indicating ...

<t> In AtD, the map display scrolls to, and slightly beyond, all map edges in movement mode, but when a combat is initiated, the map won't scroll far enough to show the outermost one or two hexes.<br/>
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This is on a Viewsonic LCD display, OS is XP, KP updates 110 and 111 implemented. Since ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck<br/>
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Please download the "copyprotection fix" for KP from our downloads page.<br/>
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<URL url="http://www.matrixgames.com/support/downloads.asp">http://www.matrixgames.com/support/downloads.asp</URL>
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<t> I've been playing KP from a boxed CD just fine. Then I bought and downloaded AtD, tried to install, had to go back and d/l patches 110 and 111 (U.S.), ran them in order. Now when I try to load KP (haven't installed AtD yet) I get the msg "This program cannot run without the original CD in the ...