RE: Looking for an opponent for a PBEM game.
I start to become a little apprehensive and it's because my English not the knowledge of the game. I realized that when I was using the term "default" I actually meant "stock" in the meaning that czerpak uses due to the reasons already described. Perhaps it's because that for many years I was a part of "Operation Flashpoint" community which deemed original scenarios that comes with the game and the extensions as "default" as opposed to custom scenarios made by the community for the community. These were wonderful years spent playing and making the game even better and more realistic and challenging than it used to be at the very onset of the movement. I have been slowly realizing the fact that it might have slightly different meaning when applied to SP.
I gladly accept Your proposal, czerpak, and in just a few days I'll come with the set of my favourite scenarios and theaters that I would like to play against human opponent, namely You so we can come to terms with which ones suit both of us. Regarding what You are writing about the system that You have developed playing; I also made a habit of playing two different scenarios against any of my opponents simultaneously, but what I am aiming at is to balance them with the situation that each time everyone is advancing/ assaulting or delaying / defending in another scenario. The only exeption is that playing against JR it's me who is on the move each time, both in Dutch East India as the Japanese and advancing toward Son in Holland '44. What you are proposing and practicaly doing adds a very historical flavor to the game, a new level of exerience that I deem very important for me. I like to submerge myself in the historical settings of a certain scenario and walk in a real life commander's shoes for some time as I stated before.
... and yes - the AI as an opponent IS stupid. I am delaying Seahawk at Mokra village in the Polish Defence War ' 39 and when I compare the armored assault done by the computer with that of his I am starting to pity the last a year and a half when I was having quite a good fun playing SPMBT and thinking that it was a very demanding tactical simulation of battlefield. Gee, horryfing just to think of ...
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