Well revisiting this game and forum two years later. Happy that everything is still available. My son is now 8 years old so I got to introduc him to the game I played in my youth and he likes it which is really great.
Playing the game solo I found it a little bit too easy nowadays (Always playing with Atari ST and all computerplaysers at level 9) so I was looking for some way to tweak the AI but realize the Fusion AI never got implemented and even if it was I think I would prefer someone to tweak it to make a few harder implementations available since I'm not used to development tools.
I couldnt find anything written on strategy here but it would be interesting to know other users view on what country is the hardest to play when only playing vs other computerplayers? I would probably vote for Germany or France since the fierce battles in Europe tend to get really devastating and hard to avoid.
If we look at the AI-improvements for the computerplayers the main things I would like to improve are:
1. It's still too easy to sneak away with a victory as the computerplayers are too busy fighting eachother.
2. The computerplayers are too happy to attack and not building the right foundation and understanding the benefit of defence.
3. The computerplayers don't understand the importance of not fighting multiple oppontens at the same time
4. The computerplayers waste too much time attacking factories or regions close to factories in meaningless attacks
5. The computerplayer should pay more attention to attacking neutral countries before attacking major countries.
I don't think it would be very hard to build this into an improved AI but it would be great to get more experienced players input to what the main things too improve in the AI would be?