Hi all.
I still play this game all the time, but haven't checked the forums in so long. After reading through this thread Im confused.
Is there a master list of what is being changed?
I can give you some feedback based on my play selections.
1- I usually play Germany.
2- I have Doomsday, Armegedden,Iron Cross.
The most confusing thing for me is the AI selection.
Before the game is started I can click options and adjust two different AI attributes.
1- DIFFICULTY
very easy
easy
normal
hard
very hard
2- A.I. AGGRESSIVENESS
coward
weakling
normal
aggressive
furious
3-Then once the game is started....I am asked if I want to Enhance the AI.
normal no changes
complicate the game a bit
difficult
let the AI cheat as much as possible.
Again playing as Germany.
1- DIFFICULTY- I have no idea what this one does and I have seen no difference in play.
2- AI AGGRESSIVENESS- Seems to only make certain countries DoW on you sooner if you choose to ignore the historical dates.
3- Enhance the AI- This one I tried only once "complicate the game a bit" I wasn't really sure what was happening until I began a air-war with Britain in the late summer of 1940, I noticed they never had to rest their planes. So I stopped the game, saved it and restarted as Britain to inspect what they had.....to my surprise the had built up about 60 interceptors and 100 armor divisions. So I never played the "let AI cheat again".
I usually pick....1-Normal 2- Aggressive then see these problems.
1- AI navy is picked apart with their own stupid patrols. Sometimes I find them just sitting in the water with 0 org.
2- AI seldomly uses its bombers. When it does it attacks unimportant targets with low strength bomber force. Some times its planes just sit in base and dont intercept my bombers.
3- No spies. The last patch I downloaded here stopped AI from using its spies, but I can still use mine.
4- I never run out of resources. Germany was constantly low on oil and rare materials, but in the game I never have even come close to being low on them.
5- I can never recreate a long siege situation, unless its me being sieged. Once I encircle lets say 20 divisions and with in 4 hours they were done. Hardly a Stalingrad type of hold out. It would be nice to see supplies stockpiled a little more by the AI and have some delays due to siege.
6- Large encirclements way too easy. I can literally encircle about 120-150 Russian divisions 6-10 provinces deep and then 6-10 across with no counter attacks cutting off my spear, or mass retreats.
7- Baku and Maikop are very very easy to capture.
8- I typically think of Russia's resistance about equal to Poland, I slice and dice them and pretty much own them every time, every game.
I dont know what would make it better, Im just giving you my experiences. I love games like this mostly because I used to play the cardboard games, World in Flames, Panzer Leader, Rise and Fall when I was younger. Even with these issues its still fun to play without cleaning up all those pieces.
