First off... Hardcore HoI, HoI 2 player, playin HoI since 2002 and loving it. Picked up HoI3 Vanilla just after launch, bad mistake and I knew just as any standard Paradox game might as well make sense to forget about it for a coupla years and then when its been patched up / modded up to its peak start playin again. 1st Game FTM as Germany and I AM LOVING IT.
I never really got into EU3 because I felt it was not as micro-management intensive and atleast for me didnt provide me that immersive experience, but HoI3 does it in Spades...Just love the new Combat Command, its so historical and adds so much depth to the game (I used to try and mimic the real structures using naming conventions in HoI2, but it never really worked, coz c'mon OKW aint gonna be rampaging in Russia with 9 Panzer Divisions)...just spent about an hour getting my OOB straight, and once again, this game has so much which is familiar to an HoI vet, but also so much new depth and content to keep my interest up for the next 2-3 years atleast.
Now, having said all this, I had read a lot on theatre AI in the forums and in reviews, and thought just for the heck of it, might as well give it a shot. So while I Blitz'd Poland, I gave AI the command of my Western Armies and set stance to defensive....the AI straight away pulled back the troops from the frontiers with France into random places, and once the war started, has bunched up all my troops guarding I dont know what (my guess is, VP point places) but allowing France to take almost all the frontier territory.
So, my question is, is it just a one-off, and does the AI normally play straight and is it worth givin the AI command or does it make sense to just manually control armies to avoid such random AI responses.
I never really got into EU3 because I felt it was not as micro-management intensive and atleast for me didnt provide me that immersive experience, but HoI3 does it in Spades...Just love the new Combat Command, its so historical and adds so much depth to the game (I used to try and mimic the real structures using naming conventions in HoI2, but it never really worked, coz c'mon OKW aint gonna be rampaging in Russia with 9 Panzer Divisions)...just spent about an hour getting my OOB straight, and once again, this game has so much which is familiar to an HoI vet, but also so much new depth and content to keep my interest up for the next 2-3 years atleast.
Now, having said all this, I had read a lot on theatre AI in the forums and in reviews, and thought just for the heck of it, might as well give it a shot. So while I Blitz'd Poland, I gave AI the command of my Western Armies and set stance to defensive....the AI straight away pulled back the troops from the frontiers with France into random places, and once the war started, has bunched up all my troops guarding I dont know what (my guess is, VP point places) but allowing France to take almost all the frontier territory.
So, my question is, is it just a one-off, and does the AI normally play straight and is it worth givin the AI command or does it make sense to just manually control armies to avoid such random AI responses.