Again.. That was a tasty AAR.
I see the the example of using Your imagination towards AI. It looks that Your creativity is working well, so You have a future finding satisfaction against the AI.
AI can give You a good expierience . but that not necessarily equals - resonable acting.
I think sometimes Your satisfaction bout the game can start a proces of excusing things, things that potentialy threatning to cloak the satisfaction itself. Its natural. And I am using it myself [:'(]
The most important thing is personal satisfaction.
Less important - standing along the most important [:'(] are facts.
I encounter unreasonable, and unrealistic AI acting in almost evry of my game against it.
I have also open eyes for positives.
(as Ive pointed in my "Defending the City Rabat" AAR for COTA, where the AI did made a good strategic move) . So Im not seeking holes.
I just want to express my personal opinion on the heavily priced.....
Now back to Your example.
First and foremost: the AI faces impossible odds. Until their armor arrvies around the end of the third day, all he has is two rifle Bn's against two combat commands of the 4th Armored. One must think about that before making any snap judgments against what the AI did in this AAR.
Allright, but this isnt a reason to left
1of2 of your battalions defending the outside bridge face to face with the enemy advancing with such power.
In fact, defending like this is this the most dubtfull thing You can do with such odds. If you want to dely the enemy, witch such small power. I think You schould consider comming up with someting to do it from the in-side.
German doctrine had a prior to use in defence, and turn evry rivercrossing in to hell for the enemy - As they learned in Itally, and late Russia campaigns, and developed it good. Here thier force compared to the enemy arty power was denying that.
But as said , thats not the excuse for what AI actually did there.
The strategy "at" (or rather "before") the bridge by Germans was a disaster of thinking.
Talking bout the realistic reflection. With the awareness that was within the Wehrmacht at this stage of the war. I do not think any of the German commanders could let himself, and other to force such crap.
Thats for the bridge situation.
( I wanted to focus on the bridge, as I fealt straight away, that AI will make something "sneaky" there [8|])
He than compansate it to You, by schowing its care for the armour. The final move was good.. I wonder how good in matter of micro tactics used by him.
Doubtious from the brighter Battle perspective. But I take it as and tutorial here, and understand that the purpouse was to face such potential counterattack.
I hope you get my overall idea.
Oleg,
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