HELP!! BIG Problem with WWII Campaign!

[snej77]

Hi, I have been playing Steel Panthers for ages now, just recently found out about SPWaW - so I started a long WWII Campaing with version 5.0 - but everything the AI buys is INFANTRY, INFANTRY, INFANTRY - sometimes there are a couple of AA or AT Guns, but almost never tanks - I adjusted the points to 2600 for each side, but still almost no tanks - Oh, I am playing the Germans, and it doesn´t matter if fighting the Polish in 39, the British in 41 or the Russians in 44 - (almost) NEVER enemy tanks encountered!!! What can I do?? Pleas help - this game is just no fun without enemy tanks!

[Voriax]

Howdy

Do you have the rarity factor preference on or off? It just might be that the computer had a bad luck and didn't get any tanks if you had this preference on....you might want to check the main SPWAW forum too. There has been some talk about the odd buying habits of the computer but as I've been busy playtesting scenarios I haven't had time to try campaigns as yet.

Voriax

[achappelle]

Snej,
I've been having the same problem ever since I went to 5.01 also Wierd AI buying habits, all tanks, all inf or nothing at all. Another thread talked about this too, so I'm not crazy. I'm going to try turning rarity off tonight.

[Paul Vebber]

I've started 4 long WW2 campaings and gotten a fair mix of types. sionce it is random there is always a chance of getting an unlucky string of "weird" AI purchases. in the current Campaign the French had a force of ATGs and MGs, but a tnak reserve seems to be trying to move in on my flank.

THe problem with random ness in these routines, is , well, they are random, and sometimes "bad rolls" lead to strange circumstances.

[metropoliitta]

Hi guys

I´ve been checking out this new 5.01 version I downloaded last week.
Immediately I went for the longest (?) free campaign and chose
max purchase points (20 000), air sections (25) and formations (400) for the ai since I like to have a decent struggle

Playing with Germans ´39 the first battle was ofcourse against
the polish army. After 25 rounds of polish advance the game ended
in total annihilation of opposing batallion which was originally 5-10 times bigger than mine - total of 3500 polish casualties against 74 of my heroes

This happened 9/39 and the next battle was 10/39 in Krakow.
This time I spent maybe 1.5 hours in deciding how to manage in
unsuitable terrain against a similar "horde army".

After playing for maybe 5 turns I got worried since no enemy movement
was sighted and I had a weak spot in the flank. Absence of enemy
was solved in couple of turns later since I took all the objectives
with fast counter attack, worrying too much of getting flanked.

The Polish army in Krakow consisted of 4 formations (instead of tens or hundreds -equal in strength to one platoon of mine.)
The polish force pool was about the same as got away from the pocket in previous scenario. No reinforcement was used by neither side during the gameplay.

After this I "quickplayed" next 6 scenarios (3 against france, 3 against russia). All these scenarios (from the very same campaign), the ai was lacking units.

General rule was that the enemy had less than 7 formations on a large map. Pointless to continue unless I can figure out what is going wrong. I could understand this as a behaviour of an human player but
if this is a standard feature in spwaw5.01, Im turning back to the older ones. The best part of sp has always been troop training. Keeping a good care of your force.

Does anyone have experience about this ?
I noticed that someone mentioned troop rarity but I double checked that. Its off.
Might this be a bug ?

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Ai advantage both off and on, depending on mission
Troop training on
Country characteristics on
Troop rarity off
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Thanks in advance

Erno