OneArmedMexican wrote:I had to go a few turns back, but here you go:
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As you can see there is a huge area in Kentucky where neither Athena nor me has anything. It is the result of me withdrawing in early May from Lexington and Bowling Green back to Nashville.
Besides what you can see, I had two div. in Arkansas and two more were busy attacking Cairo. Since it was only weakly protected, I had to take advantage. Forrest and some cavalry is moving to Fort Donelson.
The Union has four stacks concentrated at the Kentucky border. However only Foster the one in Muhlenburg attacked by land. The other stacks went via the river, as did a fifth stack that was hidden from me by FOW. Frankly, the attack took me by surprise. I remember that I was flabbergasted when I watched all those Union stacks shipping down the river. I am still wondering where Athena got the neceassy river transport capacities???
While I had decent intelligence due to military control in the Union's staging area for this assault. Athena has none in any region adjacent to Nashville. Even with a detection bonus to the AI, this attack must have been made completely blind. Athena just managed to hit the one place where I had concentrated my forces.
Also, I have to admit that I use tactics against Athena that would lead to disaster against a human. No cavalry/militia screen (it wasn't necessary since I had military control in the no man's land). No defensive line but rather one or two concentrated forces ready to strike back.
Ol' Choctaw wrote: But I think all in all that it is within the range of historical risks. The capture of New Orleans was a risk that paid off, wasn’t it?
onearmedmexican wrote:it seems i have incurred the wrath of a godess. Time to sacrifice a lamb and beg for forgiveness.
Athena wrote:I will have my revenge. If not in this life, then in the next!
OneArmedMexican wrote:It seems I have incurred the wrath of a godess. Time to sacrifice a lamb and beg for forgiveness.
Jorje Vidrio wrote:This may be a newbie question, but how did the AI for this game get the nickname "Athena" ? ompom:
Was Athena the smartest of the Greek goddesses? Didn't she come from Zeus' brain [or something like that?]
Jorje Vidrio wrote:This may be a newbie question, but how did the AI for this game get the nickname "Athena" ? ompom:
Was Athena the smartest of the Greek goddesses? Didn't she come from Zeus' brain [or something like that?]
Pocus wrote:A name had to be choosen
The engine used is called AGE, adaptive game engine, but also can be interpreted as Athena Game Engine. Why Athena? I like the name and it appeared fitting for an AI too.
rsallen64 wrote:I've seen Athena go after Harrisburg early in the war with a substantial force, which withered on the vine for a lack of supplies. That's the worse, but, overall, I have to admit that for a while it did scare the bejesus out of me!
gekkoguy82 wrote:+1
It can be quite disconcerting when you see her show up with a huge stack in your back yard all of a sudden. Even now, while expecting the obligatory doomed Pittsburgh expedition, my first thought when it actually happens is always "...crap!"
Chaplain Lovejoy wrote:As a US player, I'm always overjoyed when the CS invades my territory. Working on interior lines and (where applicable) with naval superiority, the US player should always be able to turn the CS invasion into a disaster.
gekkoguy82 wrote: I suppose I'm not very good at the interior lines, everyone to the front!!
Chaplain Lovejoy wrote:As the U.S., I like to keep a "rapid-response force" sitting on a rail line somewhere in Pennsylvania. It can move quickly to defend any of my very lightly defended cities nearby. They're lightly defended because "He who tries to be strong everywhere will be strong nowhere." (Sun Tzu?)
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