I decided to watch an all AI game of ZWK. So after activating the scenario flag, I set human player to none and pressed return a few thousand times over a few hours (including all the messages which require return). I suppose the idea was to see if the game was balanced and how well I could ochestrate proper AIs behavior without resorting to an evented script (think of it as an organic product ). I was quite pleasantly surprised.
It was something like a movie and I would sometimes stop for a while to see what the various powers were building and researching. The blitzkrieg went really well at the begining and the Axis bombers and tanks worked in unison to take over city after city. But by the time the other powers started getting AA guns, the He 111 and Ju 87 began to face heavy losses.
There was no battle of britain as Paris remained in French hands. This typically happens when the maginot line holds. In some earlier experiments, sometimes a few German bombers and tanks by luck attack sequentially and the line plus the rest of France falls. But not in this session.
At approximately the maximum expansion point (nov 1941), the Germans were still behaving as they were supposed to and started attacking Russia. Unfortunately, they were also fighting the Italians and that screwed up history. They simply did not have enough forces to get even close to Moscow. Another screw up was when the neutrals and minor allies started fighting each other.
Third Reich at its peak
It was something like a movie and I would sometimes stop for a while to see what the various powers were building and researching. The blitzkrieg went really well at the begining and the Axis bombers and tanks worked in unison to take over city after city. But by the time the other powers started getting AA guns, the He 111 and Ju 87 began to face heavy losses.
There was no battle of britain as Paris remained in French hands. This typically happens when the maginot line holds. In some earlier experiments, sometimes a few German bombers and tanks by luck attack sequentially and the line plus the rest of France falls. But not in this session.
At approximately the maximum expansion point (nov 1941), the Germans were still behaving as they were supposed to and started attacking Russia. Unfortunately, they were also fighting the Italians and that screwed up history. They simply did not have enough forces to get even close to Moscow. Another screw up was when the neutrals and minor allies started fighting each other.
Third Reich at its peak