Feedback
Since there are little feedback in general about daim, i thought i'd post some of my own
By the way; i'm using 1.3b with smep 4.0 and daim version released 070106
I am playing the soviets at N/N. I'm really bad at it though
DOW Japan early in '36 to take korea and get a better passage to china. China was annexed in early '38. Had some trouble taking the nationalists and japan launched an 20 div invasion of manchuria right after i dow on china. The japanese AI is fantastic in mainland china! They launched another 30div into eastern china after pearl harbour.
Took the dissent hit in the purges and built industry all the way up to june '40, so i'm not crushing the germans like i should. I have also built a large navy (including 10 carriers).
I wanted to check out germanys manpower pool, and so i loaded up as germany (may '42). I got very very surprised seeing germany have ordered 15(!) carriers, also some battleships. One would really think that during barbarossa, the germans would prioritize a larger army. At least not that kind of a navy. The luftwaffe is still in good shape, though still struggeling with the RAF.
Now, considering that the US just launched a large invasion into Holland, the german navy build-up was very stupid! Hope this is not WAD? Against a human player who starts to build an army in '39, the germans would simply be steamrolled with close to no army build-up. When checked they had 2x 10serial inf and a 5serial panzer. Also building a few int, ftr and cas. All else was navy or AA. If this is WAD, why?
Despite germanys weird building, i love daim for 1.3! Considering i have crushed a large part of japans army twice, the japs ar doing rather well. They are making way in the phillipines, and the RN is almost dead!
- Australian AI is fantastic! They have captured 11 islands from the japs.
- Italian navy seems to have control of the mediterranean, though the britsh have taken north africa. Vichy is no more. The italian army is, as in history, lousy
They did however make two wholehearted attempts at retaking Tobruk
- As before mentioned, US invasion of Holland in force. Nice!
- I am sorry to say that Germany never made an attempt to invade Norway. This is happening in in vanilla and should work in an AI-improvement-mod!
All-in all a great mod! In 1.2 it was simply a necessity, not so much under 1.3b, but still a significant improvement! For the future i like to see an option integrated in the installer which says "Install with SMEP". Also i like to see a slightly more aggressive ai. If that is moddable... After annexing china i reached 198 beliggerence, and noone declared war. I imagine playing at aggressive would do the trick, but that is to much
Anyway, thanks for a great mod. It really makes the game worth playing!