u/Mikhail_Mengsk

I'm glad Orville mostly shied away from the Badmirals curse of Star Trek. Just this. I especially liked how Admiral Howard unleashes her fury at Ed and Grayson after the Topaa affair.

She wasn't a dick about it, she was understanding of the morality but correctly remarked the bigger picture. She appreciated the end result but pointed out how lucky they were that it didn't end up in a much greater tragedy.

She also didn't even pretend to buy that they didn't plan it in advance, and made clear if they tried to talk bullshit to her again they'd be metaphorically thrown out of the nearest airlock.

The admirals held the big picture but weren't indifferent to the moral plight. They also were willing to let it slide only because it worked out under every point of view.

So far I'm liking the admirals we've been shown.

Love that maps are big enough to maneuver, love how you have to manage your resources and decide where and when to push with what. To be smart about moving, using cover, smoke, and don't sit on your ass even in good positions because artillery will eventually fuck you up.

And it's not a huge micromanaging fest, I can enjoy the bigger picture and usually you have enough reserves to not cry over a single bad move that costed you some losses.

So far just AI skirmishes on hard and it's providing the right combination of fun and challenge without being stressful or too easy.

Great game!

I'm having fun with hard and medium ai, but I was wondering what kind of "upgrades" the ai gets when you raise the difficulty level.

Does it fight "smarter" or does it get the usual "cheats" to make the game harder?

If I understood correctly, corrected shots are more accurate artillery fires that happen when a unit with radio is within a certain distance of a radio-equipped arty's assigned target.

A couple questions:

1- does the radio "spotter" need to have line of sight to the target?

2- does the increased accuracy works for both attack orders and "attack position" orders?

Can artillery guns be hidden in green forest without problems? I don't think it affects reload speed or precision, but better safe than sorry.

I'm still fighting skirmishes with Easy AI and most of my problems come from the sheer number of field and at guns that fills every nook and cranny of the maps, going mostly unnoticed.

I've been using scout units in good positions but even when I'm able to spot them, it seems there is no efficient way to deal with them. I've tried using lots of artillery guns and pounding their positions but even if they are spotted and/or in open field it seems prohibitively hard to kill them with artillery. If they are inside cover forget about it.

How to deal with them efficiently?

There are a lot of infantry units with MGs, are they worth it or is it vastly more effective to run a lighter infantry unit and a separated MG section?

Do those "mixed" units usually keep their distance to fire their MG from Max range, or will they get closer to be able to shoot rifles as well?