How to create a Combat Mission scenario AI Plan. Part 3 Plotting a series of orders for AI Groups

How to create a Combat Mission scenario AI Plan
Part 3 - Plotting a series of orders for AI Groups
Introduction
This video series is designed for those who are completely new to creating scenario AI Plans for the Battlefront Combat Mission game series.
As a reminder, in this series, I’m creating an AI Plan in Red Thunder for a German attack using half-tracks, mounted infantry, and attached tanks.
While I’m using Combat Mission Red Thunder, the tools and approaches for creating AI Plans are the same across all games in the Combat Mission series, as they share the same game engine.
In Parts 1 and 2, I covered AI Plan fundamentals and the AI Plan setup phase. If you haven’t seen these parts and are new to creating AI Plans in Combat Mission, I recommend watching them before continuing with this section.
If you’re already familiar with the basic AI Plan fundamentals, how to allocate units to AI Groups, and the setup phase, feel free to dive straight into Part 3.
In Part 3, I’ll demonstrate how to plot a series of orders for our AI Groups.
Chapters:
Introduction
What’s an AI Order?
About Game Clock Times, orders, movement and stance behaviour
Order times are tied to absolute scenario time
Relationship between ‘Exit Between…and…’ times and the AI Order
The Map Movement Zone for an Order
Movement Behaviour
When creating orders the Movement behaviour in an order group refers to the PREVIOUS order
Stance Behaviour
Creating a basic AI Group Order sequence
Observations on Movement Behaviours and impact on timings
The Movement behaviour allocated to an AI Group will impact the AI order timings.
AI ‘Criss-Cross’ movement behaviours
How long does it take an AI Group to travel from Point A to Point B

[@alogie]

Great stuff. Thanks!

[@George_MC]

Cheers ta! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@mahakleung6992]

Thank you! I am mainly a player, but design is interesting.

[@George_MC]

My pleasure. Glad you found it interesting. This creating scenarios and AI plans is the game within the game. I enjoy it as much as playing it.

[@atencaogamer]

How will the AI plan work for Quick Battle maps since you wont be putting any units in the editor ( they will be set during the quick battle creation)

[@George_MC]

Quick battles (QB) are different. The AI allocations can exist without being assigned to a unit. But you need AI plans for both sides in QBs. You can use more than one plan and you can use as many groups in each plan as you like. In a QB the AI player will randomly assign units into groups. QB AI plans due to their nature really have to be very generic. They are not soemthing i tend to create as a rule. The CM game engine manual covers QBs in detail if this is your thing.