What does "Human Preferred" mean in Frontier FFs?

This exciting new release is a faithful adaptation of the renowned Conflict of Heroes board game that won the Origins Historical Game of the Year, Charles Roberts Wargame of the Year and the James F. Dunnigan Design Elegance Award, as well as many others!

Designed and developed in cooperation with Uwe Eickert, the original designer of Conflict of Heroes, and Western Civlization Software, the award-winning computer wargame studio, no effort has been spared to bring the outstanding Conflict of Heroes gameplay to the computer. Conflict of Heroes includes an AI opponent as well as full multiplayer support with an integrated forum and game lobby. To remain true to the core gameplay of the board game, the PC version is designed to be fun, fast and easy to play, though hard to master. The game design is also historically accurate and teaches and rewards platoon and company-level combined arms tactics without overwhelming the player with rules.

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What does "Human Preferred" mean in Frontier FFs?

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Looking at the Frontier firefights, it looks like all or nearly all of them have a "Human Prefered" (incidentally that is a mis-spelling in my book) label in the firefight set up screen.

What does this mean exactly? Are these better played agains the AI only? Or is it that if you do play solo play that side for some reason?, but if you play MP all is good?

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If you play solo, you should play as that side. There may be AI scripts for the other side. MP eliminates the need for scripts.
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Got it. Thanks!
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Ack, "prefered" is indeed a misspelling. Stress on the second syllable and all that. I can't believe I missed that.

The firefights that have a human-preferred side might be fun when played by the other side against the AI, but we didn't test the other side in these firefights, or try to balance play against the AI or spend a lot of time tweaking the AI scripts in these cases.
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