JameyCribbs Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Longtime player of SC1 here. I bought SC2 a while back, but just didn't get into it until recently (thanks to Fantoma's classic mod and the 1.05 patch). In all of my SC1/SC2 games as the allies against the axis AI, I have never touched my troops in Egypt. Well, in the game I started this weekend, I decided to transfer an army, a tank unit, and the hq from Egypt to France in an attempt to slow down Germany's conquest of France. That part worked ok, although I did lose a couple of armies, but Germany did drive me from the contintent. What happened next was cool, though. In all of my previous games, the axis have never made a big push to take Egypt. I have always had plenty of time to build up my forces there until I launched an offensive against them. Not this time! The AI must have calculated that I had severely weakened my Egyptian defenses, because, soon after the fall of France, Rommel shows up outside of Alexandria with a few armies and a tank unit. The next thing you know, I am thrown out of Alexandria and hard-pressed to hang onto Cairo! And now, in attempting to send more troops from the UK, I realize that they have to take the long route around the Cape, because the axis now control the Suez Canal! I never would have dreamed that the AI would have decided to launch an offensive against Egypt, because they had never done it before. But here I sit, feeling much like Churchill. I've been thrown off the continent and now The Desert Fox is at the gates of Cairo. Great game, Hubert! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n0kn0k Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Hehe the AI got better over time Just wait, there are a few more surprises to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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