Tried to have a historical game of AoD. Played the UK and landed my BEF in France but didn’t have MC of any of the European Allies. Ordered my BEF to not step a foot into Belgium when Fall Gelb began…. because we didn’t want to disrupt Hitler’s conquest plans. So we sat idly on the Dunkirk-Lille-Valenciennes line… watching the dominoes fall.
We tried our best to get any intel as to where the attacks were happening so we could assist by bombing the enemy with our air force, but the Luftwaffe had other ideas; and I suppose we weren’t very effective because next the Maginot Line crumpled.
Finally we could see the panzers coming over the Belgium hills headed for us. How smart we had been to dig in to full 40 bonus! And once they attacked, we no longer lacked intel as to what now urgently needed bombing!
But by then our STR had been torn to shreds; and the French over-stacking the air bases we were using as they fell back resulted in our damaged interceptors now also not repairing. So the decision was made to “EVACUATE!”
We were so relieved to get all our troops safely home that we felt obligated to now take "military control" and so also bring along all the French armor, their cavalry, their mountain troops (of which half turned British upon landing because of a “transport accident) and one French HQ with 11 of the best infantry as they retreated out of Paris. With those assets safely sitting in Britain and expeditioned to UK, we decided why waste the French air force and navy to the inevitable doom of Vichy Event… and also secured them.
While Hitler got France, the Royal Navy foiled his amphibious effort to take Norway. And when Italy joined the war our two CTFs in the Med made sure that no Italian reinforcements crossed to North Africa.
So securing Africa was rather easy; and with two country’s fleets we also have managed to mostly keep the Kriegsmarine stuck in Kiel. But now it seems the AI doesn’t want to play with me anymore. The Germans won’t even send out a submarine. The Italians don’t seem to know they have a navy nor where the Mediterranean is because they never show up anymore after we sank many of their TPs.
But worst is that nobody wants to bomb London (or any of the British Isles) where the southern end is all Level 7 AAA with triple radar per province. How can I possibly determine if the confounded contraptions really work if no enemy will test it?
Maybe the AI is not so dumb after all.
We tried our best to get any intel as to where the attacks were happening so we could assist by bombing the enemy with our air force, but the Luftwaffe had other ideas; and I suppose we weren’t very effective because next the Maginot Line crumpled.
Finally we could see the panzers coming over the Belgium hills headed for us. How smart we had been to dig in to full 40 bonus! And once they attacked, we no longer lacked intel as to what now urgently needed bombing!
But by then our STR had been torn to shreds; and the French over-stacking the air bases we were using as they fell back resulted in our damaged interceptors now also not repairing. So the decision was made to “EVACUATE!”
We were so relieved to get all our troops safely home that we felt obligated to now take "military control" and so also bring along all the French armor, their cavalry, their mountain troops (of which half turned British upon landing because of a “transport accident) and one French HQ with 11 of the best infantry as they retreated out of Paris. With those assets safely sitting in Britain and expeditioned to UK, we decided why waste the French air force and navy to the inevitable doom of Vichy Event… and also secured them.
While Hitler got France, the Royal Navy foiled his amphibious effort to take Norway. And when Italy joined the war our two CTFs in the Med made sure that no Italian reinforcements crossed to North Africa.
So securing Africa was rather easy; and with two country’s fleets we also have managed to mostly keep the Kriegsmarine stuck in Kiel. But now it seems the AI doesn’t want to play with me anymore. The Germans won’t even send out a submarine. The Italians don’t seem to know they have a navy nor where the Mediterranean is because they never show up anymore after we sank many of their TPs.
But worst is that nobody wants to bomb London (or any of the British Isles) where the southern end is all Level 7 AAA with triple radar per province. How can I possibly determine if the confounded contraptions really work if no enemy will test it?
Maybe the AI is not so dumb after all.