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I have been playing Sandbox OOB_SB_Brig_Div_Day_1 choosing various Union Divisions in Div V Div battles defending and using various area maps .
The battles have been excellent and really engrossing -but having now played 3 or 4 I have noticed when examining the results in detail that my opponent has always been Early's Div from Ewells Corps. The battles are brilliant and varied in tactics but I would like to increase my circle of Confed Div opponents and see a variety of units.
This must be some kind of bug surely--
Could someone from the team let me know please.
Thanks

pcelt wrote:

I have been playing Sandbox OOB_SB_Brig_Div_Day_1 choosing various Union Divisions in Div V Div battles defending and using various area maps .
The battles have been excellent and really engrossing -but having now played 3 or 4 I have noticed when examining the results in detail that my opponent has always been Early's Div from Ewells Corps. The battles are brilliant and varied in tactics but I would like to increase my circle of Confed Div opponents and see a variety of units.
This must be some kind of bug surely--
Could someone from the team let me know please.
Thanks

I'm going to see if I can reproduce this. Thanks for the report.

Thanks Little Powell---Actually just played a similar battle but from Gettysburg Day 1 OOB. Guess who my opponent turned out to be????---Early
People are beginning to talk about us..........

It is randomized, but it also tries to balance the battle. We had lots of complaints during testing about always facing all arty. So there was code to make it a better battle, but that may result in finding the same good battle every time. I'm sure it can be better.

Thanks Norb--I certainly take your point re artillery divisions being cut out of those battles--but though some sort of balance has a fairness about it---I dont think you want all battles to be balanced like games of chess too much of the same experience. I think a variety of contests where certainly a proportion are "balanced" but where in others you find yourself up against it and need to pull something out of the bag and where in the end you can feel pleased in possibly losing but putting up a great fight. And of course the reverse where you do hold the aces and can savour the advantages you have.


I feel you could widen the opponent band a little to permit some inequalities and quality variations to ensure more variety of opponent and variety of military experience-some tough some easier.
Thanks again for such an immersive and atmospheric game..

I think we have just begun to scratch the surface of this game. Considering MP I'm sure it will go much deeper than the other ones.
...... many interesting things coming down the road in the next months and years.