Fair enough!

What other potential uses for ASD do you perceive?

Night Ops task forces?

• air strikes are in fact in the code, but were intentionally left out by Sirtech. If they were in, it woul be logical to let ASD control them.
• This one came up in the IRC yesterday: mobile artillery that fires into a sector from several sectors away. I'm not a fan of that, but this would fit too.
• Currently, if tanks are allowed, they are added to an outgoing platoon more or less at random. They could be another resource: ASD has to buy (and maintain?) the tanks, and the normal AI has to ask whether it can use one. Requires some interface, but doable.
• Enemy assassins are currently randomly generated. This could be integrated and extended: ASD gets its own intelligence agency. It has to recruit, train and control spies and assassins.
  Would even work in conjunction with other features: If the player controls many SAMs, ASD stops heli missions and focuses its agents to sabotage them. In extreme cases, so closely timed that the SAM goes down the moment the heli enters their region, but thats more wishful thinking
• Enemy generals are currently randomly distributed. The bonus for taking them out is significant, but a general him/herself is not very interesting.
  Imagine this: Each of the above features gets a NPC that 'controls' it. An airforce general, a tank officer, an intelligence director etc.. These are essentially the generals from before, but each gives a specific bonus. Take him out, and you damage the entire feature (until they are replaced?). If the airforce chief is killed by you, no more strikes until the AI 'gets its command structure back together'.