v1.05.04 Observations

[easterner]

Played Medium as France. Total borefest. Had to fight Rs, Au & Pr at same time just to work up a sweat. A.I. was comatose. Au for some reason keeps dropping into instability without wars causing Venice to become French and leading to Au trying to conquer it back occurred in at least 2 straight Med levels. Only glitches were the OUT OF SUPPLY message on supplied cities post siege. And an inability to place garrisons on 1 turn ONLY. Computer placed a GARR castle shell but no troops on map in 4 cities, had to use Corps Reinforcement key to fill them. Never reoccurred on future turns and Garr could be established with either button as normal thereafter (and pre-glitch too).

Played Hard as Britain. VP of course were skewered, Sp won in 3 years, Can't wait for 1.06.

France moved 12c Corps to Bavaria after conquering a boatload of minors. A.I.'s were more active than usual. Spain grabbed Genoa Turn 1 by Amphib (wouldn't want to use Pama, eh)was defeated in Morrocco, took Portugal later than usual. as France collapsed it grabbed minors and had re-established a good chunk of it's 1500's Spanish Road from Genoa to Julich. Turks and Rus fought their usual Phony War, Turks grabbed Egypt. Russ AI very active, It took Finland, then Sweden, then the Baltic States south of Holstein. Pruss got a few minors then went to sleep. Au got a couple in Italy and held onto Venice. France after grabbing a boatload of minors then for some reason sank into FIASCO. Not quite sure why? However Britain grabbed Sicily/Naples, Sardinia and Corsica then built an army. Had more money than God. Having eyes on Baltic that plan was crushed first when France grabbed a coastal minor linking Hanover to Holland then when Rus took out Sweden. As Russ expanded into Baltic Brit;s took Sweden/Norway then tried to grab Balts but basically Fr gained control and Russ walked in for Free. Brits got only Holstein to show for 3x DoW's.

Lille was raided but couldn't get in. Eventually Holland was taken and that is when minors went free, Nappy & 12 corps stuck in Bavaria while Btit, Russ, Sp & Pr grabbed the ex-French minors. The surviving Fr troops in Fr under Davout (2 Corps) then counterattacked and Fr quickly moved into DOM zone (again not sure how, they won several battles but BRIT never dropped out of stability) However ironically the Brits had numbers and after taking, losing and retaking Flanders and holding on to Lille (which was taken at same time as Holland though the Corps had to retreat after typical Phyrric victory emptied them) the Fr were wiped out at Paris. Brit siege ended when Sp declared victory.

No glitches observed. Excepting Au & Tu the AI performed better than usual. Fr & Rs were interesting, Rs was aggressive in north, passive in south. Fr eliminated 12 corps from play and used 3 others brilliantly. Unclear why Au at MED & FR at HARD suffered such massive Stability shifts. A BATTLES LOG would definitely be helpful, events log too massive and detailedless to be helpful. Other than burning of Du fleet no naval actions occurred.

[easterner]

Game 3  Just started   France HARD

Austria has lost Bavaria & Venetia, has not fallen out of stability.

GARR Genoa & Tuscanny, both switched to Fr control.

Garr Holstein & Nassau: both ejected Garr and lapsed the war. Possible that Ital were Brit control so no war to lapse (unsure) other two were neutral controlled.

Swedish Corps on surrender of Finland repatriated to Karlshruhe. A lot closer to Italy than Sweden! (thought this nonsense was long fixed)

[easterner]

Completed Gm 3

Nothing remarkable. Brits foolishly send 1-4SP to attack Lille, wiped out every time easily 5-6 times each year.

AI pretty uninterested in events. Pr decided its army was best built in Portugal where French can't find them. Rs put 12 cps or so in Finland while two Fr corps were busy occupying every red city in Russia. At least Brest Litovsk "Death stack" moved into Poland, where it was destroyed (by chitting them to death, no AI fault).

RN did good job, All Fr sea moves thwarted.

Surrender. Pr & Au would benefit from v1.0 surrender criteria. Fighting to last SP ruins themm for game, quick surrenders mean they might even hang onto minors awhile. Speaking of which, minors still not producing units.

[Tater]

The AI simply doesn't value navies much at all. They don't exert any effort resources to defend them even when it would be a fairly simple thing to do.

For example, I drop a single corp on Amsterdam and drove of the Dutch corp but failed to breach. The French had 2-3 corp within easy reach of Amsterdam...but they never moved. They didn't move until after I breach and forced the Holland navy to scuttle. I did the same thing to the French navy...landed drove the lone French corp away...failed to breach...the French never moved. I still have a 1 factor Brit garrison sitting in the French port after about 2 years of play. Did the same thing to the Russian fleet in St.Pete...still got a garrison there.

[Marshall Ellis]

Hey guys:
 
FYI: The AI is absolutely no different in 1.05.04 than it was in 1.05.03. This was a simple quick fix for a few large issues (i.e. Forage control mod). You should see better in 1.06
 

[Ashtar]

Hallo Marshall,
could you please call 1.05.04 as official?

We are stuck due since many weeks due to bugs, and we cannot proceed further if 1.05.04 does not goes official (thanks to some Orwellian policies of gaming groups out there which
immediately adopt all official patches but do not adopt beta - so we are stuck in flawed 1.05.03) [:(]

Thank you

[Marshall Ellis]

Ashtar:
 
Tell me what you mean by stuck again???
I am reworking some stuff in 1.05.04 for a new 1.05.05.