AI won't cross bridge...

[dandechino]

Just purchased this game and went straight to the Last Stand Arnhem operation. WTH? The germans position a few half tracks and armored cars along the south river bank. They run one armored car across the bridge which will sit just in front of the buildings. Everything else remains on the other side of the river refusing to budge. Am I missing something?

[dandechino]

So I guess I made it work... Set my skill at Elite and set the AI's at recruit. All of a sudden they find their bravery to cross.

[Adam Rinkleff]

ORIGINAL: dandechino

So I guess I made it work... Set my skill at Elite and set the AI's at recruit. All of a sudden they find their bravery to cross.

Actually, if you play it more often, you'll find that even then they won't cross. I've even gone so far as to increase the AI squad sizes to 10 (a 50% increase in strength) whilst limiting myself to a single squad. Sometimes the AI still won't attack. Why? Because the game designers broke the AI and haven't fixed it.

[RD Oddball]

Thanks for pointing this out guys. It's being looked at.

[TAIL GUNNER]

Anyone ever mess with these settings in campaign.txt?
Axis Recon BG vs. Allied Inf. BG shows a 'probing attack' battle plan....but based on commander's aggression it could be redefined to a 'defend' battle plan....

[Andrew Williams]

Graebner is a +2 aggressive.


Run a quick 20 operation loop test of this scenario and see how many Graebner attacks in.

[dandechino]

Yeah Adam you were right. They still refuse to cross despite needing the 10 command points on the other side of the river and having 3 armored cars and one light halftrack. The only thing that changes is the infantry will cross and i will begin to shell them with my light mortar while they are exposed on the bridge and one armored car will dance around right before the buildings. I wonder if the vehicle pathfinding is preventing the rest of the vehicles from crossing. My games always end like this on this battle defending as Allies.

[Adam Rinkleff]

ORIGINAL: dandechino

Yeah Adam you were right. They still refuse to cross

Yah, its been a problem since CC2, I never saw the problem in CC1 where they had an "everything attack" button which presumably the AI was making use of. All I can say is keep complaining about it and hopefully one day they will fix it. Im personally refusing to buy any more games from the series until they fix it.