Hey,

I'm mostly casual gaming against AIs, so please bear with me here.

When I'm playing UEF on small maps (e.g. Fields of Isis), usually there's some T1 skirmish going on early with units and commander (mainly land based). When I try to fortify a forward position I can hold them off pretty decently. But soon after, as things move to T2, the enemies will bring out the T2 mobile tac missiles and it seems there's virtually nothing I can do about it. No amount of fortification will hold them back. I put up shields and tac missile defense (lots of it), but the UEF defense doesn't handle large volleys of missilies particularly well (unlike Aeon, which can divert a seemingly infinite number of missiles). Artillery feels way to slow to pick them off and is also easy to dodge for AI, same thing when I try to match their mobile tac missile numbers.

I can't really go out of my position to pick them off easily, because the enemy commanders will still linger among them, so before I'm able to get T3 units online it seems like there's nothing I can do about it.

I'm guessing the answer is that I can't fortify and need to continuously push out aggressively and not allow them to build up so much stock, but that feels really hard when the AI can do all that and easily out-macro me at the same time.

Just curious, how would you deal with these scenarios? Is there any way to fortify a UEF position against mass tac missiles without investing all my eco into it?

Just tried all Adaptive with shared armies and not only did my team mate play more active it almost seemed like the enemies were less aggressive. Will do more experimentation. Thanks for the pointers

Hey,

I'm mostly casual gaming against AIs, so please bear with me here.

When I'm playing UEF on small maps (e.g. Fields of Isis), usually there's some T1 skirmish going on early with units and commander (mainly land based). When I try to fortify a forward position I can hold them off pretty decently. But soon after, as things move to T2, the enemies will bring out the T2 mobile tac missiles and it seems there's virtually nothing I can do about it. No amount of fortification will hold them back. I put up shields and tac missile defense (lots of it), but the UEF defense doesn't handle large volleys of missilies particularly well (unlike Aeon, which can divert a seemingly infinite number of missiles). Artillery feels way to slow to pick them off and is also easy to dodge for AI, same thing when I try to match their mobile tac missile numbers.

I can't really go out of my position to pick them off easily, because the enemy commanders will still linger among them, so before I'm able to get T3 units online it seems like there's nothing I can do about it.

I'm guessing the answer is that I can't fortify and need to continuously push out aggressively and not allow them to build up so much stock, but that feels really hard when the AI can do all that and easily out-macro me at the same time.

Just curious, how would you deal with these scenarios? Is there any way to fortify a UEF position against mass tac missiles without investing all my eco into it?

Just tried all Adaptive with shared armies and not only did my team mate play more active it almost seemed like the enemies were less aggressive. Will do more experimentation. Thanks for the pointers

Hello there,

not sure if anyone has input here, but I just need to vent a little.

I really enjoy playing against M28, but playing with it never feels great. I've been trying lots of different combinations exclusively on Fields of Isis (different AIs, different starting positions, etc). The AI on my team always becomes really passive at some point and stops pulling its weight. It will build units, but never move them out into the field (including T4). The two enemies will eventually only focus on me and the ally AI will do nothing about it until the enemies eventually overpower both of us. I can handle a single AI, but a dead weight AI is somewhat frustrating.

The only setting that kind of worked was when I was playing with an Adaptive against two Easy AIs. But that just wasn't particularly challenging.

Is there anything the AI expects me to do that I'm missing?

Thanks for making M28, btw