On 02/05/2006, Joseph Nebus wrote in message <nebusj.1146559284@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
> And lo and behold ... Russia was caught in a war,
fighting the
> United Kingdom, France, Prussia, and not really doing that
well. What
> better time to grab their province? I move to declare
Colonial War,
> and get told that will involve me in the Great War, a
concept which
> the manual and VickiWiki seem to think is so obvious as
to need no
> explanation.
>
> Whatever that was, though, I wanted
nothing to do with it
If a country is involved in a large war already,
and you make any military move which has impact on that country, they're
too busy to consider you as a separate entity, they just add your lands to
their list of 'threatening peoples'.
This isn't necessarily a sign that
you're doing the wrong thing. If they're already fighting for their
lives, they /have/ to concentrate on any enemy that could swing the war
your way. They're not going to bother fighting their weakest attacker,
since beating you will gain them an ally with any fighting power, and
won't provide propaganda to prove you can beat a strong enemy.
What's
interesting is that I would have thought that adding yourself to the list
of Russia's attackers should have automatically made you an ally of their
enemies but you say
> After declaring Colonial War, losing 50
> points of prestige, I was notified I was now in a Great War, against
> the Ottomas, the Russians, the British
which makes no sense if you're grabbing a Russian province and Russia are
fighting against the UK.
I'm currently involved in a long series of
skirmish matches in Command & Conquer: Zero Hour. The AI is pretty good
in a local way: small bands of units use good tactics when fighting with
me. However, on a much larger scale the AI's tactics are abysmal: it
tends to choose the closest target to attack instead of identifying
secluded targets which can be surrounded. Also, if it destroys one of my
installations it continues to fight with whatever small fraction of its
units it sent in. A better tactic would be to withdraw those units to
give it time to repair them and supplement them with fresh troops.
Mind
you, I'm sitting here saying it's bad but it still beats me
occasionally.
Simon.
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