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I don't know where to put this, so I put it here.

Since last time I used it (3356) the enemy/milita AI has changed, some things have been vastly improved, others have gotten worse.
Is there a way to control those, to make them less present and aggravating?

  1. The Hand-to-Hand fanatics. There are always a bunch of Bruce Lees who will run up to the enemy, and start punching/kicking/biting his ankle. Obviously they will get killed instants later by their friends, shooting at the same enemy... If they haven't been already shot by their buddies while running across the whole map to reach some enemy.
    As a result, those are wasted soldiers making absolutely no difference, at best they prevent your sniper from taking out that enemy by standing in front of him. Unlike AI soldiers, you get scolded for shooting your own...
    Ideally there should have been a condition in the code saying that HtH or knife combat only occurs when opportunity allows it, and never if the soldier has to move more than 2-3 tiles to engage: In this case he uses a ranged weapon like everybody else.

    Is there a setting or way to limit the occurrence of Kung-Fu masters?


  2. Suppression fire! Suppression fire! (repeat 24 more times): It's the new big thing with the 8796 AI: Everyone does blindly spray bullets in the enemy's general direction, often from half across the map, yelling "Suppression fire!". And obviously, since the friends are closer to the enemies, he kills more friends than enemies. I once had enemies attack a sector defended by mercs and militia, the baddies killed one militia, the militia killed 6 militia and Dimitri, who got mowed down by a "Suppression fire!".
    Now I find (and have always found, if you check my old posts from 2007-2008 I was already ranting about it) the very JA2 notion of MG fire mainly causing suppression ridiculous: Tell it to the thousands of soldiers mowed down by machine gun fire while assaulting enemy lines in WWI! Why weren't they just suppressed? Anyway, in the settings I toned suppression down to "symbolical", but the AI still keeps spraying bullets (in a 60° cone!) all over the place, causing way more damage than the enemies, and occasionally injuring/killing my own mercs. Often I have the whole left side of my screen covered by yellow lines of "Suppression fire!", top to bottom.
    Ideally soldiers should only spray & pray if there is no friendly soldier in front of them.

    Is there a way to stop, or at least limit this madness?

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