What's the gameplay point of Combat Tactics? They sound like pure chance, especially in singleplayer

[Chaingun]

AI will have some stickiness in their selection so it will not be pure random.

 

[Chaingun]

Thanks for your reply!
Wouldn't that give an unfair advantage to the player as opposed to the AI? I.e. I could adapt my tacticts to counter the AI's ones and benefit from them as long as the AI doesn't change them again. And if the AI tactics are sticky, it means it won't be changing them to counter my tactics...

It will change them, sometimes. Micro rate TBD, will probably have to emulate how often player is able to.

 

[Chaingun]

Still, wouldn't that end up being a game of chance and, when a sufficient number of armies is in the field, a micromanagement chore?

Sure, I'm not game designer/director though and we've made it abundantly clear internally it will be.