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Hi,
I noticed that my enjoyment of kicking the AI’s but after some PBEM experience has gone down considerably.
Now when I am playing scen 15 against AI as the Japanese it just doesn’t feel right anymore to kill all those tankers that the AI is sending to re supply new guinea, or to sink that surface warfare taskforce that the AI has send to Manila, or even to nail al those subs that the AI is sending to Formosa.

I think that PBEM has spoiled me so rotten, I will never truly enjoy this game again against the AI…………

I have to agree, and I've only played 3 turns of my first 2 PBEM games.

I can certainly go back to AI play as the one thing it provdes that PBEM cant is the ability to play multiple turns uninterupted. My only complaint about PBEM is that I hate the discontinuity. Multi-day turns at least compensate for this somewhat.

PBEM is also terrible in that it tends to make people at work (like myself right now) suffer uncontrollable eye twitchings because i'd really rather sneak out to my car and play the next PBEM turn rather than look at this bland computer monitor for the next 7 hours. [8D]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus
PBEM is also terrible in that it tends to make people at work (like myself right now) suffer uncontrollable eye twitchings because i'd really rather sneak out to my car and play the next PBEM turn rather than look at this bland computer monitor for the next 7 hours. [8D]

Oh yeah. When I go home, if there isn't a turn waiting for me, I find myself checking email every 15 minutes until one shows up.[:(]

-I think it´s hard to finish a game with PBEM (at least a big campaign), however, the AI is not exactly a challenging player. I´m considering the hypothesis of playing a big campaign vs. the AI with time limits imposed on myself. I have only 15 minutes to complete a turn (except for the first Japanese turn). I hope this would bring my own stupidity to the AI level. What do you think?

That sounds like a neat idea. I could check email for a PBEM turn while the turn is processing. Hmmm....

The AI can play a suprisingly effective game at times though in the overall picture, yes, it can never compete with a human mind. In my current AI game the computer countered my initial invasion of Northern Burma with suprisingly aggressive effectiveness puting my estimations of completing my objectives way off the mark. In the end though the AI's ultimate fobile doomed it. The AI here as with most other games i've played can be very good at reacting to a threat to an objective (such as the northern Burmese bases) but often is blind to the threat to it's own assets. I am now winning in Burma by the simple expediate of having outlfanked the AI and cutting off it's supplies. Now the only reason the going is still tough is because i'm playing on the Hard setting which gives the AI logistical bonuses. A human player would have immediately recognized the danger and acted accordingly.

In the Coral Sea the AI actually managed to take me by suprise and begin an effective bombing campaign that plastered the heavily reinforced PM and destroyed/stranded many heavy bombers. (Gee...guess Kenney was right in not permanantly basing B-17's at Morosby for most of 1942!) [X(]

AI means artificial insanity

I think a good challenge against the (historical) AI would be to play Japan and try and conquer the entire map.

not really, but in a pinch I could. PBEM is the way to go having way too much fun with my 2 campaign games.

Once I started playing PBEM with UV I just couldn't play the AI any longer.

I never played WitP AI, not for more than a few turns.

As good as it can be it's way worse than any human opponent.

Oh yeah. When I go home, if there isn't a turn waiting for me, I find myself checking email every 15 minutes until one shows up.

I MUST AGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YES, once you start playing a PBMEs you dont want anymore the AI.

BUT...you need the AI[:'(], to tasted some things, the AI is a good sparring to tasted things and put in practice in my PBMEs games...

you can practice your invasions, for example (wacht out¡¡ WILL-WILLIE[:D] without less loosees

you can practice your invasions, for example (wacht out¡¡ WILL-WILLIE without less loosees

I have my PT's, flush decker DD's AND my subs waiting for your "invasion" ......

ORIGINAL: wild_Willie2
I have my PT's, flush decker DD's AND my subs waiting for your "invasion" ......

What more could you want or ask for?[:D]

What more could you want or ask for?

Zecke has got at least 5 carriers in the corall sea, Mine are not in the area. So I will try to do the most damage to his invasion fleet by night attack runs with "light" forces and will be hunting his CV's with my subs............

ORIGINAL: Sharkosaurus rex

AI means artificial insanity

So Hartley, are you playing as the allies or the Japanese in that one?