Remember this post? Yeah, I know, how could you forget? Well, I managed to get gold, finally. All the menus, everything, and it was easy but it took a shitload of time. I don't play the game nearly as much as I did earlier but every once in a while it's fun to pick up for a quick battle against the computer. I may not be very strategical, I just go straight-on, bashing the enemy as best I can with as heavy artillery as I can get and never any distance weapons.

While it does seem like a great strategy since I did beat the game with a perfect overall score and have no trouble beat computer-powered enemies when the odds are three against one, it might be not because I have good strategy, but because I've learned the pattern. The computers can only perform in so many ways.

I stay close to port with a bomber to sink their ships to make them lose money quickly, knowing they will produce ships even if they don't have anything to sink my plane. I sometimes capture the HQ without blocking all routes to attack knowing that they won't leave a base with a very injured unit, even when their HQ is at stake. I sometimes lure the enemy in by moving some infantry within their attack lines, because I know they'll attack the infantry without regard to the wall of tanks behind it. It's small details like these that make me wonder if I really play based on strategy, or if I just know how the computer will play good enough to beat it, but in a way that too is strategy.

Anyhow, the point of this post is that I got gold, and that's a mighty amazing achievement. Wooyeah! ;)