In the following turn, Kamenev tries to bypass Denikin ‘s Army to capture Ekaterinodar by a flank march , when Stalin is coming to protect the railway. Stalin victory is however costly for Reds.
Archive for December 26, 2011
AGE AI has a real wonderful feature: it isn’t scripted and so its vraibility and ability to adapt each turn to the situation is above most of the other AIs on the wargaming market.
But it has a terrible weakness, explaining why the Northern AI in AACW can be beaten in 1861 in AACW, or is almost useless in Napoleon Campaign: the AI doesn’t understand the map.
In the official RUS, the events I’ve done were a first step to fix this disastrous traits. unfortunately, the lack of competence of the offical team about the engine has lowered considerably the quality of the offcial AI, being let as is in spite of the rule changes.
The FY AI knows the map. And adapts well. Here, i’ve tried to catch the Red colum between my 2 main armies. However, not only some units are covering the vital railway to tzaritsyn, but the main forces has evaded toward Stavropol, sometjhing Ididn’t expected…
Of course, The AI is prone to errors, like this daring move on Ekaterinodar, the turn following the save of Azov by Wrangel.
In the north, you will note the same initial White sucess, having captured Simbirsk and Cheboksary, but confronted to the first large counteroffensive of the bolshevik, handing firmly at Kazan like a key point.
One of the greatest challenge in RUS, and fulfilled in FY, is to design AI able to cope with the task, even in PBEM game. The very richness of FY is the number of factions battling each other. the vast majority of computer wargames have only 2 factions: FY has the 3 main factions of RUS, and independent minor factions rules by AI, when in RUS there are just part of one of the 3 main factions. ( excepted greens, but there are suffering in RUS of a less efficient – I did both).
PBEM isn’t possible in RUS/FY without a good AI, even at 3 players.
One of my real pleasure is to have built such able AIs, with outcome very different. From game to game, RED AI or Siberian AI will succeed on the Volga, letting the Southern White player in the expectative…
In this game, Whhites have done well, as the map is showing. But tthe tables are beginning to turn, as the pincer movement on Saratov by Kamenev and Voroshilov is about to begin.
Wrangel brillantly saved Azov ( yes Azov !) from red capture in september 18.
