1812 Campaign Update

Empires in Arms is the computer version of Australian Design Group classic board game. Empires in Arms is a seven player game of grand strategy set during the Napoleonic period of 1805-1815. The unit scale is corps level with full diplomatic options

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1812 Campaign Update

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Here's a quick update on the 1812 Campaign. I have more or less finalized the data files and setups for all of the campaigns, 1805 and 1812, for both EIA classic and EIH alternate OOBs.

The good news is it all appears to work OK. The not so good news is that the AI needs some serious attention. I played the first three months as Austria to watch what all of the computer opponents did. France consolidated forces into a massive stack, made an attack on Brest-Litovsk, and finally sent a small force into Russia to Minsk. Russia consolidated forces at Kovno and then moved into Konigsberg. Not exactly the clash of arms we would expect.

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RE: 1812 Campaign Update

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And here's the situation in Spain. My initial playtests had Spain surrendering right away on the first turn, so I dug into Marshall's AI code for sue_for_peace and made some edits to essentially reduce several negative factors for Spain. This keeps Spain in the game so that France does not immediately descend upon Lisbon with all forces, but further playtesting is needed to ensure Spain is not adversely affected by these adjustments.

I think I'm at a decent spot now to move onto other bug fixing and then come back to AI performance adjustments later.

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