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Like many seasoned grognards, I grew up playing Avalon Hill’s Third Reich back in the 1970’s. This board wargame designed by John Prados and Don Greenwood was a classic and set a benchmark for the World War II grand strategy game genre. In 1992 Bruce Harper updated the game as Advanced Third Reich, and then again in 2003 revamped the whole game as A World at War. John Prados also re-released the original classic in 2001 as John Prados’ Third Reich. The only computer game adaptation was Third Reich PC, a DOS-based game with VGA graphics released by Avalon Hill in 1996.

Third Reich PC was a faithful adaptation of the original board game, but the AI was frustratingly poor. This begs the question—what exactly do solitaire players expect a computer opponent to be capable of? We are still a long way from programming a generic AI to truly think like a human, especially for something as complex as World War II. However, there are a few goals that should be attainable. First, the AI should be able to handle tactical/operational situations involving movements and combats and other game mechanics within a game turn. Second, the AI should be able to make and execute sensible operational/strategic plans over a number of turns. It should be able to select from both historical and ahistorical grand strategies. Third, for variety and replayability there should be variants and other randomness included in the game to require both the human player and computer opponent to react to fresh situations and surprises.

When Strategic Command European Theater was released back in 2002, designer Hubert Cater introduced players to a new computer opponent based on fuzzy logic AI principles. It proved itself to be quite capable on the tactical/operational level, fairly good on most strategic planning, and provided enough randomness to ensure every game was different. The most notable weakness was a lack of strategic naval planning that prevented both the Axis and Allies from reinforcing North Africa and skewed the game by seriously neglecting this theater. A nice game editor was provided that allowed players to make some adjustments to compensate for some AI weaknesses, but not enough.

Strategic Command was not exactly Third Reich reincarnated, rather it was more like Clash of Steel that I had never played, but it was close enough to grab my interest. I became an active playtester for Hubert Cater and helped with the development of the series. Hubert’s design decisions have produced a very fun and popular game series, but the essential seriousness of Third Reich, which Hubert had never played, was not exactly a priority. After getting Strategic Command 2 Blitzkrieg up and running in 2006, I began to shift my attention to developing my own customized campaign from scratch to pick up where Third Reich PC fell short. In this Part I article, I will describe in general terms how the AI has evolved in the Strategic Command 2 series and provide some developer comments about my own Advanced Third Reich campaign. In a Part II article, I will provide an after action review of a hands-off AI versus AI game to demonstrate some of the capabilities of both Axis and Allied AI scripting in Advanced Third Reich.

Overview of Advanced Third Reich

With all due respect to John Prados and Bruce Harper, I chose to call my custom campaign Advanced Third Reich because that is what it is, and more. To avoid any possible conflict of interest, it has never been included in the official Strategic Command 2 releases and has been available as a free download at Combat Mission Mod Database. Minecraft download 1.6 2 free for mac. Basically what I have done as a personal project is taken the updated Third Reich map, country economics, force pools with national characteristics and scenario orders of battle and created a fairly faithful adaptation of the classic board game, for both a 1939 and 1941 campaign. Where Third Reich had quarterly turns, I implemented monthly turns for more operational richness. Where Third Reich had unit stacking in hexes, I halved the map scale to be essentially two tiles for every hex to accommodate no stacking in Strategic Command 2. Game mechanics and some unit types are obviously different, but new features such as fog of war, weather, headquarters bonuses and more enhance the gameplay experience in many ways. In general, though, things in the computer adaptation happen more or less consistently with how they happen in the board game. Riu alphagamers spotify apk.

This article, however, is about AI scripting and not the design notes for my custom campaign; those are included in the download if anyone is interested. But before I discuss how the scripted AI evolved in the game, I want to emphasize how the generic AI and other features already help provide variety and replayability in a game. Besides the fuzzy logic embedded in the AI algorithms, there is an editable +/-1 variability added to combat calculations for uncertainty and surprises in combat results. There is a variable placement option for the setup of minor country forces, ensuring slightly different setups upon declaring war. And there are difficulty settings selectable at the start of each game where human players can give the computer opponent increased production and/or unit experience bonuses to help compensate for AI weaknesses. And let us face facts, there are limitations to what the AI can do and a good human player can easily exploit some reckless behaviors. Some players may call these “cheats” but they are provided simply to help balance a game, and each solitaire player needs to decide for himself where that right balance is.

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Developer(s)	Arcen Games
Publisher(s)	Arcen Games
Designer(s)	Christopher M. Park
Composer(s)	Pablo Vega
Engine	Unity
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Release	June 2, 2009
Genre(s)	Real-time Strategy
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay[edit]

AI War pits human players against AI opponents that control vastly superior fleets at the start of the game. The main goal is to destroy the two opposing AI's home command stations without losing yours (in multiplayer the humans will not lose until all human home command stations have been lost). As with chess, AI War is generally thought of in the three stages of opening, middlegame, and endgame, all of which involve different player and AI interactions and activities.^[10]

Maps vary in size from 10–120 systems and map size has a significant impact on the play style of the game as well as time required.^[11] The game starts out with the human player(s) each controlling one system (though they may choose to start with more) and the AI controlling the rest of the map. The AI operates using something called AI Progress. This mechanic works as an indicator of how aware the AI is of the leftover human remnants in the galaxy (as well as to balance the fact that if the AI simply attacked the player with everything it had at the start of the game it would win every time). As players complete objectives and capture systems, this value goes up, increasing the volume of reinforcements and attack forces the AI gets to use. There are a few mechanics such as Data Centers and the newly introduced AI Superterminals that lower the AI Progress.^[12] One of the primary factors when considering whether to take a planet is the AI progress; taking planets raises it and taking too many will cause the player to be overrun.

AI War supports dynamic cooperation where up to eight players can play together and drop in and out of the game at any time. One effect of this is a group game between friends does not require everybody to be around for each game session, nor does the lobby have to be remade to continue playing if another shows up. As of 3.0, players who join mid-game are given a special colony ship that allows them to start playing without leaning on the other players to gift them systems/units as much.

AI War uses strong disincentives to micromanage units in order to help players manage such a large empire without getting bogged down in details, being more important to choose planets wisely and balance forces than to control said forces exact behavior. Wwe smackdown vs raw 2011 ps2 game cheat codes video. AI War instead chooses to be more of a grand strategy game, putting more focus into critical thinking and proper decision making than into 'clicking fast'.^[13]

Emergent AI[edit]

In a quote from the developer, Chris Park, 'There are a ton of RTS games out there that are fun to play.The key weakness that they almost all share, in my opinion, is AI that falls apart in advanced play.'^[14]AI War is developed using 'Emergent AI', which differs from standard game AI in that it doesn't follow 'decision trees', or in other words, the AI does not have an easily predictable pattern that can be exploited as in most games. Instead, the AI makes decisions on an individual unit level, a concept the developer coins as 'Decentralized Intelligence'.^[15]

Some other key factors that make the AI War 'Emergent AI' unique are:^[16]

Strategic Tiers – The 3 levels of 'thinking' in AI War: Strategic, sub-level, and individual unit. The critical decisions made by the Emergent AI are based on a combination of these 3 factors.
Sub-Commanders – The way the individual AI units work together on a group level, in which they will 'Do what's best for themselves, but also take into account what the group is doing.' The developer compares this design principle to flocking behavior in the animal kingdom. He also points out that because of this design mechanic, the AI is 'fairly untrickable', meaning they won't often fall victim to the same tactic.
Fuzzy Logic – This mechanic is designed to prevent players from 'knowing' based on standard logic what the AI will do. The general concept of this design strategy is to prevent the AI from being predictable by programming them to not always make the 'best' choice, but instead choosing from a larger selection of possibly sub-optimal choices, to prevent the player from being able to easily understand and therefore counter them.
Intelligent Mistakes – The intentional programming of the AI to make 'mistakes' on lower difficulties, to make the game easier for the player. Since the AI at its full operating capacity is reportedly an extremely tough opponent to face,^[17] the developer designs the AI to be less of a challenge on easier settings.
Asymmetrical AI – A design which simplifies the AI reinforcement/attacking process by simply giving them reinforcements of units they need in important locations (on a timer), rather than over-complicating the design with the build process that humans use.

Expansions[edit]

The Zenith Remnant[edit]

The Zenith Remnant is AI War's first expansion, and focuses both on adding capturable units and a new minor faction called the Zenith to the game. Arcen maintains an exhaustive list of features,^[18] but highlight features are as follows:

Golems, which have many similar properties to Supreme Commander's 'Experimentals'.
Several new base ship types, further expanding on the available choices for the player as well as making the AI a more devious opponent.
New AI types that took advantage of many of the capturables introduced, as well as some that use Zenith ships.
Over 40 minutes of new music tracks composed by Arcen Games' composer, Pablo Vega.
A new class of 'Experimental' ships that offer abilities one would not ordinarily find in AI war ships.

Children of Neinzul[edit]

Children of Neinzul (or CoN) is a micro-expansion for AI War, from which all proceeds from are donated to Child's Play, a charity organization for sick children. As of early 2011, over fifteen thousand dollars had been raised and donated.The Children of Neinzul expansion adds new features to the game, including:

36 New Ships
6 New AI Special Weapons
6 New AI types
4 New Music Tracks
2 New Map Modes

Light of the Spire[edit]

Light of the Spire (or LotS) is the second 'full' expansion of AI War, and added new content as well as new campaign types and additional music. The expansion was released January 28, 2011.The game is said to add:

100+ new ships, including new 'spirecraft' ships (larger than starships, smaller than golems).
2 new campaign types: Defender and Construction.
A new Fallen Spire minor faction.
New in-game music tracks.

Ancient Shadows[edit]

Ancient Shadows (or AS), the fourth expansion for AI War, the expansion was released on October 19, 2012 along with the version 6.0 of the game.The expansion features:^[19]

A whole new kind of human player. It's now possible to control champions alongside the main fleet, or to have another player control just one single massive ship.
Several new sub-races dwelling in the backwater parts of the galaxy for your champions to interact with.
Modular fortresses.
9 new bonus ship classes.
3 core AI guard posts and one new minor faction.
2 new AI types.
2 new map types.
98 minutes of new music by Pablo Vega.

Vengeance of the Machine[edit]

Vengeance of the Machine (or VotM), the fifth expansion for AI War, the expansion was released on June 18, 2013 along with the version 7.0 of the game.The expansion features:^[20]

8 new AI Types
2 new map types.
6 new bonus ship classes.
2 new optional AI Plots.
5 new Core Guard Posts to defend the AI homeworlds.
7 new Guardian types.
28 new achievements.
More music from Pablo Vega.

Destroyer of Worlds[edit]

Destroyer of Worlds (or DoW), the sixth expansion for AI War, that was released on August 18, 2014 along with the version 8.0 of the game.

Amongst new features:^[21]

Hacking mechanics
Salvage mechanics
New ways to improve Champions
Updates to AI
Linux support.

Reception[edit]

Reception

Aggregate score
Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	80^[22]
Review scores
Publication	Score
Eurogamer	80
PC Gamer (UK)	86

AI War received generally favorable reviews and achieved an overall score of 80 on Metacritic.^[22] Some reviewers have criticized AI War for being too complex with too steep a learning curve, which contributed to it not being nominated for a 2009 Independent Games Festival award.^[23]

AI War's more positive reviews said 'AI War is a revolution in terms of how RTSs play,'^[24] '[The first three AI War Expansions] are perfect examples of what an expansion should be,'^[25] and 'AI War breaks most of the genre's rules. Which is precisely why it's incredible.'^[26] These same reviewers also noted 'it’s got a considerable learning curve,'^[24] 'The one thing [the first three expansions] have in common, however, is how much the[y] increase the difficulty compared to the original game,'^[25] and 'It has the presentation of a spreadsheet, but as much heart and soul as Dune 2, Total Annihilation, Homeworld, Galactic Civilizations and Desktop Tower Defense rolled into one.'^[26]

A general theme throughout professional third-party reviews of the game, many of which have been indexed on the developer's site, has been that the graphics are seriously underwhelming, the gameplay is novel, and that the difficulty is high compared to even other hardcore strategy titles.^{[citation needed]}

References[edit]

^Park, Chris. 'AI War 0.940 Released (With First Free DLC)'. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
^Chick, Tom (2009-08-13). 'Rock, Boom, Turtle'. Crispy Gamer. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
^Cameron, Phill (2011-02-15). 'Eurogamer Review: AI War: Fleet Command'. Eurogamer. Retrieved 2011-04-18.
^Park, Chris. 'AI War: The Zenith Remnant Now Available!'. Archived from the original on 24 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
^http://www.arcengames.com/
^http://www.arcengames.com/aiwar_lightofthespire.php
^Johnson, Erik. 'AI War 6.0 and Ancient Shadows Expansion Materialize on Steam'. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
^Park, Chris. 'AI War 2 v0.800 Released! 'Early Access Launch''. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
^Vega, Sin (22 October 2020). 'The machine starts: AI War 2 launches out of early access'. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Gamer Network. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
^http://arcengames.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=AI_War_-_Choosing_A_Difficulty_Level#Like_Chess.2C_A_Game_Of_AI_War_Has_Three_Abstract_.22Phases.22
^http://arcengames.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=AI_War_-_Choosing_A_Map_Size
^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2009-11-01. Retrieved 2010-01-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^http://www.arcengames.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=AI_War_-_Minimizing_Micromanagement
^http://thereticule.com/oldreti/?p=4770
^http://christophermpark.blogspot.com/2009/06/designing-emergent-ai-part-1.html
^http://aigamedev.com/premium/interviews/decentralized-ai-war/
^http://www.arcengames.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=AI_War_-_Choosing_A_Difficulty_Level
^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2010-09-17. Retrieved 2010-05-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^Christopher M. Park. 'AI War 6.0 Trailer (Also Featuring Ancient Shadows)'. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
^Erik Johnson. 'AI War Four Year Anniversary Edition and Vengeance of the Machine Now Available'. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^Keith LaMothe. 'AI War 8.0 Launches alongside Expansion 6: Destroyer of Worlds (and Linux Support!)'. Retrieved 2014-09-02.
^ ^a^bMetacritic. 'AI War: Fleet Command metacritic page'. Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
^Park, Chris. 'IGF Finalists are in (no AI War)'. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
^ ^a^bChick, Tom. 'Six amazing strategy games each made — and published! — by one dude'. Retrieved 2011-04-18.
^ ^a^bMurff, James. 'Big Download Reviews: AI War Expansions'. Retrieved 2011-04-18.
^ ^a^bMeer, Alec. 'Indie space-strategy breaks most of the genre's rules'. Retrieved 2011-04-18.

External links[edit]

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