Couple questions about game play

[lcm1977]

Just wondering in a quick battle when you allow the game to pick the forces what criteria does it use or is it completely random?  

[A Canadian Cat]

No one really knows exactly how it is done. It is not really random in the sense that it is supposed to create a force that is reasonable. Sometimes it makes goofy choices and several bugs have been fixed over time around that. I have personally not played around much with CMBN's force selection lately but I do know that small sizes like tiny and small have more trouble. At least in the sense that if it makes a strange choice it will not have many points left over to spend on good stuff.

You can get a sense of what the choices are like by using the Suggest button when purchasing your own forces. You can press it repeatedly and see different force suggestions.

[womble]

You can get a sense of what the choices are like by using the Suggest button when purchasing your own forces. You can press it repeatedly and see different force suggestions.

And doing that, but editing it slightly to get rid of the odd features it sometimes throws in to use up the last few points, but wouldn't add anything to the AI's battle, using the points saved to bump a platoon's experience or get a module of mortars or something, is quite a good basis for a semi-random opposition. Don't go combing through the whole TO, just lose the third "FO team".

[lcm1977]

Thanks guys.  Excellent idea about the suggest button.  I wasn't aware that would work in this case.  Nice!!! Thanks again.