In article <2fac2f06-577b-4345-94e4-5c56d3f4ffb2

_at_o5g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, eddysterckx_at_hotmail.com says...

> > Another comment on the AI. ?There are two fairly impressive things I

> > does quite often: ?It retreats quite well operationally, and will form

> > new lines of defense whenever I'm threatening a breakthrough. ?The other

> > thing is that it pounces quite on any opportunity at putting my forces

> > out of supply.

> 

> That's not really surprising because a programmer is more likely to

> create a competent AI for a focused, limited design than for a complex

> game with eleventy-zillion counters and 64 pages of special rules.

I'd say the scale is spot-on; just the sort of game I was looking for - 

German divisions and Russian army components and mechanized / tank 

corps.  

And ... some *small* scenarios!  

I'm still vexed about that gamey nonsense with the number of turns, but 

I guess I'll live.

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