I never really post on here, but I'm looking for the best tactics to break a peloton with this years new ai on the mountains. Do you just put a teammate on infinite relay at the front? Or can they set the pace by just being on 'dot'? I would just like to hear everyone's thoughts!
My tactics as Saxo-Tinkoff (Rogers, Kreuziger, Majka and Contador at TDF) I attack, so other relay harder, so I don't do the job myself... But you can set your weakest first (Rogers in my occasion and set it at 70-75? And the other one at 30-50, so they're just behind... Slowly but sure, they'll brake the peloton... But it's the matter of what team you use
EDIT: At least, this always works for me Hope it helps!
Edited by rogvi97 on 21-06-2013 18:50
I haven't played 'for real' yet, but I did some tests on the mountain AI for the fun of it yesterday.
Sky, all its best climbers, on short relays, effort about 75 %. Not only did it wreck the peloton - 4 of my riders simply created a gap along with Contador and a couple of other strong climbers, leaving the rest of the peloton behind.
Not done a lot yet but simply relaying 75-80% works well. Start with weakest climber then build it up as the riders run out of energy and you get closer to the finish. And of course with the new ACC stat attacking can now work with certain riders, but dot still seems to be the bet use of energy.
I use that method and it shreds the peloton in a GT day after day.
I played only 1 mountain stage (Mount Ventoux) with Saxo so far (hard difficulty), but the relaying didn't work for me, as just on the beginning of climb Froome with other favourites attacked and Roche on 85 infinite relay didn't close the gap, so I had to chase with Contador. I almost caught Froome and Purito, but by then Contador was exhausted, so all I could get was 3rd with over 1 minute lose to Froome.
Hope it helps!
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