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Ai Teammates have it tough
I have been playing brothers in arms hells highway recently and the number of men I’ve sent charging wildly at a machine gun nest should have gotten me shot for incompetence of command.

Why is this? The button for take cover is right next to the button to tell your squad to rush the location your targeting ..and when I take cover I’m usually targeted at something quite nasty.

Brothers in arms is not alone in pointless AI Deaths..These guys need a better union.  OSH would have a field day with the developers, Placing inexperienced, often under aged kids in charge of a squad of people so gullible that they will instantly perform any suicidal idea you get into your head unflinchingly.

Team mates are not the only victims! , I first noticed this back in the early 90’s playing X-wing on my 386. Destroy a Star Destroyer with your x-wing (Actually quite easy in the original x-wing , just attack them dead level from behind , they had no guns on the engines) and you get a medal. According to the in-game lore that star destroyer was crewed by about 5000 people.  No all of them were soldiers..What about the poor guys cooking the meals and washing the floors..Kill 5000 people, get a medal, Yay.

Perhaps i should go back to viva piñata and beat some small animals with a spade.