Does the AI ever retake VPs?

[caltino]

I've never lost a VP to the AI once I took it, and for a while now I no longer leave anyone behind to watch over taken VPs. I've always thought it was partly because I was sweeping forward and eliminating opposing units. I thought the AI was choosing to defend rather than retake.

Yesterday I played a Normandy mission in which reinforcements were sent if a village was captured. I needed the reinforcements, so I sent an infantry rushing through the buildings to the flag. They got there, got the flag and were immediately wiped out by other infantry waiting in the buildings. There was even armor waiting right next to the flag. I thought for sure that I would lose the VP, but none of the units, not even that armor that was right next to the flag, moved to take it back.

At the end of the mission, once everything else was done, I took my units back to that flag and saw that the armor was still there, right next to the VP, looking at my flag. I never had to fight for that VP again.

Does the AI ever retake a VP? They won't even move one square, in a protected area, to take a VP?

[pipfromslitherine]

It depends on what the AI has been told to do in a given scenario. Sometimes they are given broader flexibility to retake VPs than others, while sometimes it makes more sense for them to try and hold the remaining ones (e.g. if you are on a time limit).

Cheers

Pip

[Old_Warrior]

Pip - if you set the AI in the Editor to be 64 (Stay Dug In) but later on give the team an order to attack the Objective it is near will it obey the new order? My thinking is that the script overrides any existing Editor order for the rest of the game.

[pipfromslitherine]

It does, yes.

Cheers

Pip