Saves needed

[Joel Billings]

We'd like to improve the WA and Soviet AI's reaction to moves into Iraq, Persia and the Caucasus by German players that have successfully taken the Middle East. If you've got a save of a game like this that shows your situation after taking Iraq and/or shows a situation that calls for a better AI response, please send it to 2by3@2by3games.com. We hope to work on the AI some, and Gary's work is made much easier if he has good saves showing the situations that need improvement (especially if they are saves where if you run the turn from the save, there are clearly better moves to be made by the AI than are being made). Thanks for your help.

[Dalwin]

I don't have a save handy at my current location, but perhaps this verbal description will be of a little use.

I came through Persia and took the Caucuses with a mere 2 tanks units. The Russian Black Sea fleet was dead. The Rumanian transport was left unmolested in the Black Sea.

The Russian AI instead of sinking that transport or sending a large number of forces to Grozny would only tranfer reinforcements to that front one or two at a time. The Rumanian transport made it easy for me to occasionaly ship another infantry accross the Black Sea such that the Russian never felt they had enough of an advantage to assult my position in the Caucuses.

On the other side, when I sent one militia into southern Persia, the WA sent one to the neighboring province in India. We both seemed satisfied to leave that as the status quo.

I also noticed that even after I took Egypt and Iraq the WA continued to put one transport per turn into the Red Sea and Persian Gulf even though they had no assets there and never counterinvaded. I killed these repeatedly.

[Willy Liao]

I've sent in a save game showing the Soviet AI's stubborn refusal to garrison the Caucasus (& also western kazakhstan) despite there being a threat to both zones from Northern Persia, while a large pack of units strolls around the central zone instead of being SR'd down there.