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"Keyser Soze" <info@info.com> wrote in message
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> "James Cobb" <bismarck71@charter.net> wrote in message
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>>>>> "S. Delerme" <delerme@free.fr> wrote in message
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>>>>>> First, I have to say that I'm in love with Kohan and its elegant
>>>>>> system
>>>>>> I wondered how axis and allies was in terms of AI, playability and
>>>>>> overall fun.
>>>>>> Anybody who played it could share his experience ?
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>>>>> At the strategic level, the AI is bad. It's OK at the RTS level.
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>>>> I would further point out that the latest edition strips out air and
>>>> naval ops at the strategic level.
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>>> I have played demo only so I have one question:
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>>> What micromanagement Axis and Allies game have on strategic level and
>>> what on RTS level?
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>> No micromanagement on strat level. On RTS, you create divisional and
>> brigade buildings with points from taking over cities. Supply dumps
>> extend supply.
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> Well, I don't know if that is good or bad but to my humble opinion they
> should have putted everything on strategic level and on RTS level they
> should have had only units and tactical combat. Something similar like
> Total War series have.
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You're right. What they did was use the Axis and Allies title as wrapper
for a fairly good RTS operational-level game. Sheer marketing voo-doo.
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