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From: lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Strategic Conquest
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Date: 8 Oct 90 21:38:03 GMT
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Reply-To: lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim)
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I've finally won a Strategic Conquest game at level 15.  (I've played 1 game
each at level 1 and 10 and 4 previous games at level 15.)  I benefited a lot
from a lucky setup where I started in the middle of the board and there was
a natural defensive arrangement based on geography that made it easy to
destroy invading ships, bombers, and transports.

I've figured out how to near optimally move and position my pieces and I have
some strong tactics for certain situations but the computer is still very
hard to beat.  What I'm wondering is whether any of you have progressed to
the point where you can consistently beat the computer on level 15.  I also
heard rumors that the computer builds faster than you do on level 15.  Is this
true?

At this point my games run anywhere from 10-30 hours long.  (After about 10
hours, I can see enough of the computer's resources to decide if I have a
chance.  The game I won took about 30 hours.)  If I know people can
consistently beat the computer, I'll try to refine my tactics but otherwise
this is just taking too long.

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