AI now goes after bases

[Eric McDonald]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Peter Garrone wrote:

> I suppose its mutual support really. The ai takes little account of one unit
> supporting another unit.

Practically no account. That is part of why I was considering the 
tactical coordinator objects that I mentioned yesterday.

> Also the combat model does not really support
> this either. I mean that generally for an attack the user selects a
> single attacking unit, when usually in these sorts of games the idea is
> to cordinate your side spatially so that simultaneous attacks with
> multiple units have advantage over individual uncoordinated attacks.

I did notice in doc/PROJECTS, when reading it awhile back ago, 
that someone (Stan?) had proposed creating a battle container 
object. It had a bunch of thoughts on commitement levels, but I 
think it also mentioned the ability to bind multiple units from a 
single side into a battle.

> Generally, for an adjacent enemy, no movement is necessary. So if an AA
> unit were not adjacent to an aircraft, usually it should not be assigned
> to move to the aircraft and attack it. But if it were adjacent, it
> should be attacked. That is the concept I was struggling for.

Fair enough. Can't really argue with that.

Eric