Weird long campaign battle

[jlaurila]

I am playing as germans, in the desert.
i got the weirdest defend mission so far.
there is 5 groups of victory hexes, each 15pts/turn type. as far as i know, the AI will only go for 20+ points hexes, so the enemy never showed up. they pound me with some artillery, and i'll give it back to them...
kinda stationary situtiation i got here, oh well.

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JLaurila

[Wild Bill]

Weird indeed. I've never seen that one!

WB

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Wild Bill Wilder
Coordinator, Scenario Design
Matrix Games

[rexmonday]

haven't seen this one either, but I have seen the central three all being 15/pt a turn hexes, and so being ignored by the AI. I couldn't work out why uit was pulling back its fresh units, without me even firing on them (they were going to defend its hindmost cluster). Another time I left most of my force guarding the 15/pt/turn hexes for most of the game before realising the AI didn't care about them ... by which time he had snuck a column of ACs onto my home plate ... oops.

[jlaurila]

Well, it ended being not so weird. (i wrote the first message too early, grunts just dont fly). AI wasted over 500 men trying to take the most southern group of 4 Vhexes, without any armor
(he had grants and sherman I's)
man, it almost got ugly, cause i had secured those hexes only with FJ-platoon. but artillery makes a miracle

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JLaurila

[This message has been edited by jlaurila (edited October 25, 2000).]

[skukko]

Build up minefield, 4 to 5 hexes deep and shoot them all with guns and rockets, thats lots of plates for Montgomery to collect! I loosed one crew in my own minefield before AI surrended, took about seven turns, hadn't have so much fun at ages 8/)