1.05.42 Axis AI vs fulkerson

[larryfulkerson]

I bought a Fort for Odessa. After all, the Axis is leaving Riga alone. I'm hoping Odessa can hold out too since it has a port.

[larryfulkerson]

I thought I'd rail out all the good stuff from K-town while I still could.

[larryfulkerson]

I had enough rail cap. left to move some stuff out of Moscow.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the end of turn T13 stats:

[larryfulkerson]

Beginning of turn T14 stats:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the T14 Axis moves:

[larryfulkerson]

I was checking out the air bases just now and noticed that the 3rd VVS planes all were NOT on night missions and therefore wouldn't be
feeding any partisans anytime soon. So I set them all to night missions and took this picture.

[larryfulkerson]

A quick question: is there any advantage to a fighter in being in the airbase that is attacked rather than parked on a different air base
in the same hex? If there's a handicap in having a fighter at a VVS base it's probably only that it takes up one 'slot' on a 9-hole pool
for that air base.

[larryfulkerson]

I've still got a lot of air bases with no planes on them. I'd like to disband all the SAD bases since they are going to get disbanded anyway.
That way we can save the manpower from them for troops for the front line.

[larryfulkerson]

I bought a fort for D-town and Z-town but I'm really hoping that I can stop them from advancing that far.

[larryfulkerson]

Elmer is pushing hard west of Moscow, and the recent reinforcements are just shells not ready for combat yet so I have railed them into
position to dig forts behind the front lines. I expect to maybe get pushed back that far. I need to pull back from time to time to avoid
getting pocketed. But I've got lots of space to trade for saved Soviet lives.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Soviet moves in T14: I tried a lot of bombing of Axis ground units, some air base strikes, etc. Maybe I'm making headway.

[larryfulkerson]

End of turn T14 stats:

[larryfulkerson]

I'm going to move the armaments out of D-town just in case.

[randallw]

The computer still seems confuzled when it comes to capturing or holding Riga.  It should have attacked it multiple turns ago.

[larryfulkerson]

Beginning of turn T15 stats:

[larryfulkerson]

I got tired of the high aerial losses and I thought I'd play with the fighter escort figures, bump 'em up so that there's more fighters in the
air at a time. Maybe bomber losses will come down somewhat. Hopefully.

[larryfulkerson]

I haven't seen this animation yet so it may or may not be T15's Soviet moves:

[larryfulkerson]

T15 end of turn stats:

[larryfulkerson]

T16 beginning of turn stats: