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Another player picking the forces is a nice change but I beg to differ on some comments about AI purchase.

The force is often more realistic than what players purchase though still loads tank heavy sometimes. If you know dates for major battles AI even buys roughly correctly for that battle some of the time if it decides its taking place there.
So it buys sensible forces want it to buy Elephants or Koenigstigers pick a date when they were used otherwise you get likely forces.
Its actually pretty good for seeing what you should be using rather than a wish list army.

Observations generalising
FOOs tend to be rare begining of the war then nearly always have but it might be a vehicle.

Arty is normally fine buys 1 section per company for meetings on average, if it has trouble spending the points might ramp it up with offmap stuff or buy more for woods towns the AI does vary purchase on terrain to a degree, knows steppes heavily wooded urban river crossing etc.

Tanks you get what you get early Russians for instance might get the odd T-34 or KV but the rest staple stuff however the Germans will still have a lot of the 37mm gun rather than all 50s.
As late war Germans dont expect many tanks unless you are lucky there were not many left.

Transport can be a real rare beast to unless you are USA

So you are probably fighting with a force that is more realistic than your winning formula as its tailored to the country & date however there are problems.

Transport can be so sparse you cant move your ATGs

The fact the AI cycles through forces as it buys is however the biggest pain as sorting what you have got takes a while.

You will never get ammo re supply & on occasion can go the rocket route with your arty, argh.

You can end up with some real headaches getting thrown into some tricky situations, if winnings all you are worried about dont try it.
However it creates situations you would normally never play & can buy units you never do thinking they are not that good.
This is good because the unit could surprise you & tacticaly you might well find you have to play diffrently. No fast vehicles to scout with or a shed load of armoured cars but your armor is a crock of s... & most of my squads have jack AT capabilities.
Engage brain need a plan this is going to be diffrent to the norm.

I am in summer mode at the mo but email me if still want a game in a month.

Turning tank heavy off seams to produce a better pick for some reason as in more whole companys & makes very little diffrence to the number of tanks it fields