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Has anyone had any luck playing Saddams Final Gamble 2003 against the AI. The intro states that it is a PBEM only game. I have played aseveral dozen turns and have noticed a great deal of movement from the Iraq AI side. Any advise or thoughts would be of intrest to me.

I am looking for a PBEM opponent as well if you are intrested.

Thanks
marsorder

I don't have any experience with this scenario, but I do have some idea about the PO/AI, so I took a look at it. The Iraqi formations each have a few objectives, typically around their start point. That's probably suficient for the Iraqi's limited historical response, but I'm not an expert on that battle either. There will be alot of Iraqi movement as the PO doesn't much like sitting still, but the formations will stay close to where they begin. I used to play the scenario about the earlier war in Iraq, and I would set most of the coalition air force on interdiction and watch the Iraqi forces get plastered every time they moved!

The Iraqi PO has to be set better if you want it to put up some kind of defense.
If there are some TO's in the events list the PO needs to be programmed to use all or some of them.

ORIGINAL: Silvanski

The Iraqi PO has to be set better if you want it to put up some kind of defense.

Wouldn't that be unrealistic?

ORIGINAL: ColinWright

ORIGINAL: Silvanski

The Iraqi PO has to be set better if you want it to put up some kind of defense.

Wouldn't that be unrealistic?

Unrealistic yep, but it would become a tougher scenario vs the PO

This line of thought does suggest something. In hindsight, it would have worked out well if we had just gone through Iraq and then departed immediately. Airlifted ourselves out of Baghdad airport and driven back to Kuwait.

Saddam's army had effectively dissolved, he would have been discredited, and whatever emerged afterwards, (a) couldn't possibly have been worse than Saddam, and (b) wouldn't have involved us incompetently attempting to preside over the whole mess.

I'm not going into a political debate here (we've got enough of that going on in another thread)
 
The idea of setting a decent PO will create a what-if? situation.
If you PBEM this scenario your opponent will surely attempt to prevent you steamroll across the map aye