RDG said:I think at first it lacks the knowledge how to merge stacks that make a military sense. The AI does merge them, but as a CPU is always bored by the loooong time the human user needs to decide his clicks, the AI is most of the time just unsure about the current stacking, replanning strategically all the time and this way messing around with constant split-, merge- and relocate-orders every few seconds... :wacko:
GermanWehrmacht said:isnt there a way to implement something into the AI file to have them merge. When it comes to the Sino-Japanese War the Chinese more times than any will have nothing but individual divisions and when they retake a province from the Japanese only one division will get pushed out because no reinforcements and its just irritating to see that sometimes.
I dont think that an AI-unability to merge is the problem here. I rather suspect the AI to be too dumb to enter provinces with enough units regarding counterattacks of nearby strong enemie's stacks. We all do know those situations, when accomplishing some too simple encirclements and cutoffs, remember the gamey trick to let France invade Southern Germany and then GER cut them off at Freiburg or a totally undefended Maginot line...GermanWehrmacht said:isnt there a way to implement something into the AI file to have them merge. When it comes to the Sino-Japanese War the Chinese more times than any will have nothing but individual divisions and when they retake a province from the Japanese only one division will get pushed out because no reinforcements and its just irritating to see that sometimes.
Perhaps because AI is alergic to merging?GermanWehrmacht said:Why is the AI incapable of merging units?
mike^_^ said:It was one of the first things I noticed about it, I was overviewing the world keeping myself occupied in the pre-war years, and once I glanced at the china theatre I noticed they were fighting with actual stacks, instead of divisions all over the place on anti partisan duty
HMS Enterprize said:This is an issue that has bothered me for a long time now...what is more annoying is that the problem does not seem to appear in Victoria- an earlier game!? :wacko:
So does a human player if he doesnt fear micromanagement. I handle it until start of Barbarossa. That's the first stage I merge my units, splitting the stacks later again when advancing near the Ural...Gen. Skobelev said:In HoI2 leaders are not exactly rare and the AI will benefit a bit from keeping stacks as small as possible as that will maximise experience growth for leaders.