I'm off to a tough start, the very first tests against warren has been failures.
Don't worry though, my japan AI had trouble at first too.
I'll just have to think about it and make adjustments until I figure out where I should be going with it.
More often than not, it's the style of attacking which can make or break an AI.
Sometimes AI have a tendency to sacrifice armies and make illogical attacking decisions.
But then there's times they do good. Unfortunately making an AI defend more efficiently is nearly impossible. On offense you can make the AI at least build up an army before attacking, with defense the AI doesn't make good positioning choices and doesn't really use tactics for defending. In fact it's like all the units are set to guard the area and they just engage no matter what.
Sometimes the AI don't try to counter things they should as well, they underestimate early infantry and infantry armies. There really doesn't seem to be a way to make them fear infantry more!
So when defending AI tend to lack, but Brutal AI have the double income advantage, which can even out the odds by giving them the capability to have very harsh offense.
My AI specialize in increasing their offensive advantages when they can.
With 1.02 they will even switch unit compositions once in a while!
One moment you'll be fighting off tsunami tanks and infantry, then next you could suddenly be up against a handful of tengus. The new AI will no longer ignore the usefulness of earlier units.
This will be most noticeable when playing against a Japan AI.
As soon as I make my official changes to the soviet AI, I'll be sure to explain how awesome some of them are!
Oh and on an end note, I played against 1.01 shinzo on fire island today.
I've played so much against 1.02 shinzo not too long ago. The difference between these AI are amazing. My old shinzo tried to steamroll me, but he lost in the end, because he ignored the usefulness of vx, infantry and tengus. My new AI won't have this problem anymore ;)
But he was tough, and I thought I was going to lose for a little while.
