1st Challenge is 14 turns.

2nd Challenge is easy. Break superboni and let the AI fight each other.

As for Europe, the strategy is to defend.
Attack by percentage really helps against AI. You can also use first order transfers to make them waste armies. :)



Edited 10/4/2015 22:41:00

Jacked up some of the placements, rechecking before i post regarding challenges.

Edited 10/5/2015 01:14:28

@ChristophU - Actually I missed, that scenario #3 should have had 7 AI's. I've played it with 4 and at this point it was impossible to beat.

My suggestion for you: change your templates, so that they would have proper settings when launched.

You can pre-set no. of AI's and even teams. To do it properly:

1. Launch your template
2. set no. of AI's / teams / whatever else you want
3. click "change settings" button
4. check "customize template" checkmark and press next
5. you don't even need to change anything in the template itself. Just press "next" button again and save changes.

Done. You don't even need to switch links on this thread, because templates are already corrected. That even solve case "assign player to slot 'A'" problem (I started once or twice from different slot).

Edited 10/5/2015 06:42:19

This is great! No time to give them a proper playthrough at the moment sadly..

@Latnox - Thanks. I figured there was a way to do that, just couldn't figure that out. All of them should be fixed as of now.

Ran out of time to give all three of them the number of playthroughs required to actually beat them.

Won the first one first try (didn't track turns).
Second one, gave it two tries, will do more tomorrow.
Third one, second time was the charm. I literally did not even give a shit about Finland, just went nomad into UK, then hedgehogged UK/Ireland/Iceland before pushing out. Probably easier than the medium difficulty.

Updates as I do more and better.

Edited 10/8/2015 07:08:44

don't know if it was said before. My winning recipe for 3 is give finland up and deploy on one territory until you have enough to make your way to iceland. From there start the recapture :)

Icland is better to defend than Finland

Edited 10/7/2015 15:31:05

I've tried this obi, but one AI was way too strong at this point :/ i defended the first 2 turns and took russia then. If you managed that you win

Played them all, was fun, but all were too easy.

Had to restart on the third level after the first turn when all the neighbouring AI's deployed their full armies and invaded Finland. On the reload only 1 neighbour attacked and from there it was a straight forward win.

To make games more challenging mid to late game, and less luck based short game, I suggest you make more AI's be team mates.

I have a single player scenario I made that I like to play, anyone is welcome to try it out.

https://www.warlight.net/SinglePlayer?TemplateID=548531

It is local deployment, with 5 teams and random starts. 1 team is you, and the other 4 are AI teams each with 4 AI's. My win rate is about 2/3's of the time, though sometimes you will get a start that is absolutely impossible, and sometimes one of the teams will snowball so far out of control early game that there is nothing you can do.

Local deployment helps make the AI smarter in my opinion as the AI can't deploy his entire deployment in one place and leave all his income generating lands empty.

Tried the RoR AI, first time i got abysmal distributions, second time i won it pretty easily. The first bonus you get that isn't wildly exposed seems to confound all the nearby AI and make for easy blossoming. I gotta disagree about local deployment in that the AI lacks the requisite troop availability to fix itself when it gets so excited that it breaks up its buddy's bonuses. End up with a checkerboard design and the human player just marches stacks on through. The greatest edge LD gives AI is that they can put up with the irritating "you need to deploy all your units" message and keep everyone flowing without getting too lazy to click.

Definitely agree about team AI being more interesting in general.

Chall1 needs no explanation, it's a cakewalk. Chall2 has a first few entertaining turns while you seal up the one flank and balance the two enemies against each other. After that's done it's just a matter of a little patience and pushing.

Chall3's primary issue is you are rolling the dice on Spain's AI, whether you go Iceland or Russia. If it explodes, you're doomed. No way will you get there in time no matter what you do. If the AI is rocking that extra chromosome, you can manage it pretty well. Think the Iceland approach is a little easier, but Russia seems much faster

@mod
hmm okay youre right. The 2nd time i played it, it didnt work. The iberian AI was too strong :(

@Ysayell: Do I detect a secret gender-discriminatory joke in there?

EDIT: I was talking about the 'rocking that extra chromosome' but yeah, that too.

Edited 10/9/2015 12:49:34

Was it "blossoming" that made it noticeable? I didn't even mention penises in it this time :(


Edit: the extra chromosome thing was more like the old "Don't let that extra chromosome get you down! :D" type joke. Although I hear down syndrome humor is out of style. And they said the classics never die...

Edited 10/10/2015 10:31:51

He is talking about the extra chromosome I think.

Really enjoyed these, thank you. Last one is a bit of a gamble, but still fun.

I enjoyed trying a few of these challenges, and have just posted one I created (a rather unusual one!) here:

https://www.warlight.net/Forum/120566-creativity-tactics-singleplayer-challenge