I might play again using that method once this AAR is finished. Very curious to what will happen.
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I might play again using that method once this AAR is finished. Very curious to what will happen.
There has been a study into a preemptive Soviet strike: Stalin's Missed Chance which is kind of like Dominik's plan.
It might be interesting from an AAR point of view, but no player is going to try and do stupid things because the AI can't surprise. I can already see you'll be on Germany territory before the year is out. The problem I see is that the AI (the German one in this case) does not encircle, you are just being pushed back province by province and can make a calculated retreat. The panzer groups should have jumped started you in 1 week already and should have closed around Minsk, which has not even fallen now yet, locking up your armies there and creating the real chaos that incurred.
Maybe in this beta version, the AI of Germany is not having objectives set by Blitzkrieg mode...?
The AI does encircle as you will see later on. It is just not quick enough to create the historic events. And besides that it only does so on a small scale, one or two provinces, not a huge pocket. I sure hope this will be fixed in the final version but I guess it is rather hard to create an AI to behave like this and be still unpredictable and surprising. However, this wouldn't be a quick walkover from my side. During the entire game I was never able to hold them back along the entire line, there were always regional defeats.
I have to repeat once more, that in order to have success of the magnitude Germans had, the Soviet player would have to let this happen. If Singleton Mosby is defending with all his skills, the Germans (AI or not) are doomed not to achieve historical results and it's not the fault of the AI. I even believe that AI defending Soviet Union will behave better than original Soviet HQ (becaue it will not try to attack in such bad circumstances).
I believe an AI which tries to create large pockets is in fact quite easy to defeat.
For large pockets, you have to create spearheads which are in danger to get encirceld themselves if they are cut off. So provoking the AI to create a large pocket could be a nice exploit to kill a lot of advancing armies. Such a behaviour is just sensible if the AI outnumbers you quite a lot.
If the AI is not able to create encirclements and use all its might to take you on all sides (has Finland come into the war yet?), crippling events have to be installed on the USSR side, otherwise playing the USSR will not be fun. They could just be events when the USSR is being played by a human, a sort of shock event that lowers GDE like in HOI2 and is being worked up based on ground you lose. I really hope something like that will be in in the final version, otherwise no eastern front in vanilla HOI3.
If you load as Germany, maybe you can check if units have been re-assigned to other theatres, hence lowering the chances of german success in the east.
What I don't understand is why you need to use an old BETA for this, would it not be much better to use the most recent installment of HOI3?
If you load as Germany, maybe you can check if units have been re-assigned to other theatres, hence lowering the chances of german success in the east.
What I don't understand is why you need to use an old BETA for this, would it not be much better to use the most recent installment of HOI3?
The fact that the ai is proving a serious although not an overwhelming opponent is to say the least very encouraging.
One wonders had you played as the Germans would they "the Soviets" ai have been as good.
One wonders had you played as the Germans would they "the Soviets" ai have been as good.
Maybe, because he is previewer, not betatester? (I am not sure if Singleton Mosby is actually a betatester).
Edit. Also, Singleton Mosby, what do tech shown in this screen do?
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He doesn't work for Paradox, he doesn't have access to the most recent build.
I think Tantor meant that the AI should do his work at work and home, and also amuse his gf/spouse/s.o. (take her to the movies) so Tantor could play, though
(Brilliant idea, but I fear it will have to wait until an expansion pack
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I think Tantor meant that the AI should do his work at work and home, and also amuse his gf/spouse/s.o. (take her to the movies) so Tantor could play, though
(Brilliant idea, but I fear it will have to wait until an expansion pack
[facepalm] Now when I read the post again it is crystal clear what he meant.
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