Alex Koponen Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 I recently won a game as the Axis where having mopped up the allied fleets I then saw the AI send wave after wave of transports into the German fleet to be sunk each summer. I had subs parked next to Manchester with German ships certainly visible to the allied fighters and bombers between Manchester and France. Yet more transports would be created and sent out to their doom. I ended up sinking 30 US ships & transports and nearly as many British ones. (At the end of the game one Canadian cruiser was under repair in Canada and the USSR still had the Black Sea cruisers...well till the USSR surrendered. I only lost one Italian BB and one German sub.) Anyway, I think the AI needs tweaking so that it doesn't make transports commit suicide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n0kn0k Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 Normally it would send combat vessels along with the transports. Didn't it do that also? Or did you kill those already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retributar Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 Good Point/Comment on the Inneffective/Suicidal 'Naval AI' "Alex Koponen"! When playing the Germans,...i use an unwritten rule to the effect that the 'Transports' are off limit's until they have disgorged their cargo!. The Naval AI definitely needs some overhauling!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blashy Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 Originally posted by n0kn0k: Normally it would send combat vessels along with the transports. Didn't it do that also? Or did you kill those already? It in SC2 the AI is not so good at escorting its transports, I've seen an improvement in WaW. Also, he did state he killed the Allied fleet. But if you kill the Allied fleet the game is pretty much over, if the AI took the time to rebuild them you basically have killed USSR by then and can easily stop any invasion with land troops. So keeping Allied units on land or sending them out makes not real difference. But as I said, this has been improved in the expansion pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Koponen Posted July 21, 2007 Author Share Posted July 21, 2007 Since I spent so much on naval tech research, subs and repair as well as leaving an HQ and 2 then 3 air in France, going was slow in the USSR. I didn't buy a German army or panzer unit until 1943. The USSR had better armor tech and weren't disadvantaged in air or inf numbers or tech. I couldn't finish off the USSR until early 1945. A few months later I took London. Italy actually beat Germany to Naval Gun tech 2...which cost had the downside of not being able to buy an HQ for too long. I lost Tobruk and nearly lost the next city. Once the HQ was in play Tobruk was recaptured, followed by taking Egypt...but the Italians were kept fully occupied in the Med. They did sink a number of British ships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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