Question: AI and Barge Carriers

[Mobhack]

Did you remember to choose "river crossing assault" in the water conditions (wide river N to S) - the only one where the AI buys barge carriers and rubber rafts?.

If you did not get asked the question "how wide should the river be?" they you have not selected te correct water conditions, and so no riverine assault equipment will be purchased.

If you have done so - then did the AI get given enough points to actually buy some?. 1000 points may be enough in 1946, in 2010 it may only be enough to buy an MBT and a few engineers and run out of money before the barge purchase.

This is easily checked by
- setting the battle date and required opponent in Game Options (makes repeated buys in the battle generator so much easier)
- now enter the game and set up the desired points if required in preferences
- start the battle generator and set COMPUTER for all settings except DEPLOY
- remember to choose river crossing water conditions after setting up for an assault battle!
- Accept this and then examine each sides auto-purchase, then exit without playing, of course.
- repeat the process a few times as required

A perfectly simple process that should only take 5 minutes.

If the particular attacker at that date is not buying barge carriers, and you have selected the correct battle type and water conditions and have given the attacker a decent dose of buy points, then let us know.

Andy

[Imp]

To be honest even if the AI had them the chances it would get a chance to use them are remote. River crossings are the hardest thing going its difficult enough as a player to get your stuff across safely & you have given it a lot of thought. They are slow & vulnerable so tracking with arty is easy.
That said I did one vs the AI in a campaign I think that was good fun. It was playing as Russia & bought mainly attack helos airmobile troops & paras. By turn 4 virtually all its forces were over my arty park was in big trouble & moving vehicles was dangerous due to the swarm of helos.