Battlezone 1

okay, I can agree that the ai can be harder than you think, I noticed it when I played a match .............

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What you mean, care to explain?

haha, spock(ai) you pwned me.

Sporkinator has given us a secret that can help us in this discussion:

a secret mission in Red Odyssey. type in sammy at any "mission complete" screen, then when you click next mission you will get a secret mission where one must face endless waves of AI units in a DM-like arena. powerups are available.

this removes the difference between a commander ordering the units, and the units AI making the decision to attack. However, the AI will automatically attack, therefore getting rid of the difference between attack AI units first and letting them attack you.

Spork posted info for this mission(including how to make a shortcut to it) in the 5th page of the Single Player Videos topic.

this mission is intense. oh and all the AI is stock. you get the option to upgrade yourself.

have fun and see how long you last

But that is RO not BZ. Not valid.

As far as stock AI is concerned...

Chinese Fighter is like NSDF Scout with cannons further apart
Chinese Light Tank = Soviet Light Tank
Chinese Tank = BDog Tank + A little extra ammo
Chinese Walker = Soviet Walker

BZ and RO have the same AI, RO is a nice solid addition to BZ. But in the secret RO level, something is different: The AI units all act as if they've been given a direct order to attack you. Let's say a Walker blows up your tank in that level. Now as a pilot in the air, the AI Walker will immediately start aiming for you, and you will most likely die, as if the Walker was given another direct order to attack. You are never safe in the secret level, the enemy ALWAYS knows where you are, and is ordered to shoot at you. This includes the snipers too. If you get blown up or eject in normal SP missions of either BZ or RO, the enemies will not try to kill you unless you hang around close to them for too long or shoot at them.

Yes, I posted the cheat for the level and how to make a shortcut to it in SP videos thread. I also added it to the level selection of BZ Config 9000 v2.4 in downloads section.

EDIT: You keep saying "Spork was so kind to share the secret". But my source is Google. I don't remember what site I got it from, but I definitely did not discover it myself.

You have gone off topic. You started to talk about good and bad AIP's, while this thread is about good and bad commanding.

Screenshot of my game with SnakeEye, F-16 was only a witness (although for unknown reason SE destroyed his Lander and took his life). I was in a Ram from the start till the end. Unable to shoot, I was only COMMANDING. SnakeEye was even splintering.