playing '36 as Germany
No Popup when Denmark was taken and when Italy declares war on Greece it joins the allies for some reason.
No Popup when Denmark was taken and when Italy declares war on Greece it joins the allies for some reason.
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I've noticed a pattern here. A lot of these posts are: I was playing hands-off. Well, the code has statements in it about what the AI does vs the human. If you go hide in a corner somewhere (Cuba, Panama) & execute a handsoff mode, of course you're going to see 'aberrant' behavior - not aberrant as far the code's concerned, though. To a large degree, the code just turned into Homer Simpson - Woohoo! I can do what I want! Donuts for all!
Started a Japan game and have some trouble with trades.
Even offering 100% trades they are usually cancelled after a few days especially from the US and Germany. Think others already reported some problems with trades.
So far I have not encountered another problem.
Even offering 100% trades they are usually cancelled after a few days especially from the US and Germany. Think others already reported some problems with trades.
So far I have not encountered another problem.
De Savage said:Second try with Germany 1.3.
This time I build more infantry. I starter Poland war with 90-100 divisions and with a decent airpower (not that i use air much). Poland was conquered in 20 days. France attacked to Freiburg, even while each province in the West was defended by 6 divisions and level 2 landfort. 20+ French divisions punched trhough. I let them do it, because Poland war was already finished and my main army was moving toward west. I pocketed 20 French divisions and destroyed them. One month later French did same punch through freiburg again. And I pockected and destroyer 20 French divisons again. This time they left Maginot Line virtually undefended. Only two divisions and on HQ was there. I assaulted mighty MAGINOT LINE with 80 divisions. Few days my Wehrmacht marched through Maginot Line to the heart of France. From them it was cakewalk. It was just three provinces to Paris and I could hold it easily.
France AI was really stupid! They walked to my trap two times and I could easily destroy over half of their army. It's so stupid to attack Germany like that behind Maginot Line. I did have 60+ divisions waiting in adjacent province just to give them free ride to more East. Then I cutted their supply line and destroyed pocketed enemy.
Other things what happened:
- Allied bombers destroyed 10+ transport ships in port. These were unprotected by detroyers or other ships.
- I was able to build pretty good navy for Germany too: Bismarck, Tirpitz, 2 x Graf Spee, several light & heavy cruisers and lvl4 destroyers. Also there was 2 lvl4 improved cv's under production. By early 1940 I had assembly lines online and production really fastened. I had 9 x pz III medium tanks divisions, 100+ '39 infantry divisions (soon '41), 10+ '39 mountain, 20+ garrisons, etc. Stukas were '40 models and I was already discovering secrets of nuclear. Nice game.
I didn't have anykind of problems with Poland or France. Belgium, Holland and France was all conquered by march 1940. All thanks to French stupid attacks to Freiburg.
Set the Aggressivenes to Normal and he wont do that. If you set it higher than normal you are forcing the AI to make stupid attacks like that.
Spruce said:ok, this new naval bug is getting on my nerves - it happens after a battle - when you click your flottilla's the game crashes. When you save, the game crashes ... it's already the 6'th time the bug got introduced in a "clean" game ...
it happens during a German game - with a focus on air and naval - so I was in for a few naval battles against UK ... but I also got the same issue with air units (one time). But for the moment, the issue is located at the naval - I'm really surprised to see this happening as Johan mentioned it in the fixed list.
for now I'm doing a full uninstall of HOI2 and then patch it up to 1.3
I have had no CTD when selecting my naval units. Do you have 1 gig of memory?
My first impression about HOI 1.3 is.... 'Oh... not bad. ' It looks like that Paradox 'finally' solve 'Sleeping problem of AI Air units.' :rofl:
But, frozen weather is even worse than 'snowing' condition. It looks like very 'ODD'.
' It looks like that Paradox 'finally' solve 'Sleeping problem of AI Air units.' :rofl: But, frozen weather is even worse than 'snowing' condition. It looks like very 'ODD'.
Some screenies from my current German game (normal/normal).
Czechoslovakia went to war which dragged in the Western Allies. Had to take France in early 1939, Poland in mid 1939 and then SU started in late 1939. It's currently late 1940.
France was easy because Vichy fired. If Vichy had fired a little later than it did then those French troops in the Maginot line would have been able to halt me just south of Paris.
Poland was very quick and simple. They gave up territory (Danzig didn't fire) on a 50% chance and I launched my attack after moving into my new lands. Danzig is not a German core which is a shame though.
Memel, Denmark etc did not fire either. Norway demanded an apology for the Altmark but with the SU so active (I refused to honour MR pact so they went to war) I figured Scandinavia can wait.
Italy is barely hanging on in North Africa. Haven't the troops to help them out but I might take Military control of Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania (yes, it's that bad) to free up some panzers for North Africa.
My losses have mainly been in SU - 3 tacs and an escort (darned partisans are frisky), 3 Panzer divisions and a mountain division (SU managed to counterattack and trap them in a winter offensive) plus a handful of divisions totally smashed by SU air power (not got enough interceptors/fighters right now to keep them and the Allies down). Manpower losses have been horrific - somewhere in the region of 600 + all my manpower for this year.
(Small images so just providing links so you can zoom in - forgive the photoshopping have a graphical mod which has forbidden things in it.)
Eastern Front after 1 year of war.
Overall situation in Europe and North Africa as a result of an early war.
And the Japan/China situation.
World's biggest army might be a surprise...
Czechoslovakia went to war which dragged in the Western Allies. Had to take France in early 1939, Poland in mid 1939 and then SU started in late 1939. It's currently late 1940.
France was easy because Vichy fired. If Vichy had fired a little later than it did then those French troops in the Maginot line would have been able to halt me just south of Paris.
Poland was very quick and simple. They gave up territory (Danzig didn't fire) on a 50% chance and I launched my attack after moving into my new lands. Danzig is not a German core which is a shame though.
Memel, Denmark etc did not fire either. Norway demanded an apology for the Altmark but with the SU so active (I refused to honour MR pact so they went to war) I figured Scandinavia can wait.
Italy is barely hanging on in North Africa. Haven't the troops to help them out but I might take Military control of Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania (yes, it's that bad) to free up some panzers for North Africa.
My losses have mainly been in SU - 3 tacs and an escort (darned partisans are frisky), 3 Panzer divisions and a mountain division (SU managed to counterattack and trap them in a winter offensive) plus a handful of divisions totally smashed by SU air power (not got enough interceptors/fighters right now to keep them and the Allies down). Manpower losses have been horrific - somewhere in the region of 600 + all my manpower for this year.
(Small images so just providing links so you can zoom in - forgive the photoshopping have a graphical mod which has forbidden things in it.)
Eastern Front after 1 year of war.
Overall situation in Europe and North Africa as a result of an early war.
And the Japan/China situation.
World's biggest army might be a surprise...
I have around 77 infantry divs and only 4 armored... is that enough to do Barbarossa? I remember it worked in 1.2
I just played with netherlands, and im quite shocked...
The Manpower pool was upped to 40 which was great, but then I realized i get 0.06 Men a day compared to the old .18. This basically crippled the dutch to a great extend. Secondly I still disagree with the 1.1 patch where they basically removed any manpower the dutch got from the Indonesian island, because during world war 2 around 180,000 colonial troops there were indonesian there were loyal indonesians to the dutch.
I like the tech team they added, which is great. but its just a darn shame they crippled the dutch like that :s I cannot play war anymore with them because of the severe lack in manpower?
Have all countries been cut down like this in manpower? because I think it was a bit too drastic for the netherlands, I know for sure that there are some places in Indonesia where people would sign up for the dutch army.
And I havent tested this yet, but does the dutch capital move to batavia if amsterdam gets taken?
thanks
The Manpower pool was upped to 40 which was great, but then I realized i get 0.06 Men a day compared to the old .18. This basically crippled the dutch to a great extend. Secondly I still disagree with the 1.1 patch where they basically removed any manpower the dutch got from the Indonesian island, because during world war 2 around 180,000 colonial troops there were indonesian there were loyal indonesians to the dutch.
I like the tech team they added, which is great. but its just a darn shame they crippled the dutch like that :s I cannot play war anymore with them because of the severe lack in manpower?
Have all countries been cut down like this in manpower? because I think it was a bit too drastic for the netherlands, I know for sure that there are some places in Indonesia where people would sign up for the dutch army.
And I havent tested this yet, but does the dutch capital move to batavia if amsterdam gets taken?
thanks
@tiger1004 - I had to launch a very early Barbarossa. That combined with the new SU AI has made for a very, very tough fight. I only had type 3 tanks and 1939 infantry and was outnumbered by 3:2 on that particular front at the very least.
Don't go for the big encirclements - the new AI seems to be able to snip them out very well and gets its troops out if it doesn't counterattack instead. I think I've only caught c.30 SU divisions in encirclements.
I need to run barbarossa historically to properly see, but the TC problems (look at mine - choose between massive dissent or massive TC hit) and the partisans are making the SU a much tougher fight. Throw in the new AI and it can be quite tricky. I haven't used my allies' forces yet but I think that may be the way German players will have to go.
Bit impressive so far.
Things which may need to change is the AI 'giving' garrison units anything other than a police brigade - waste of IC and it just gets killed very quickly.
The event chains may also need looking at if even on normal aggressiveness the West goes to war over Czechoslovakia. It seems to totally unscrew all the event chains concerning Scandinavia and Poland. Not sure how frequently it happens at the moment - is it common or did I just 'luck' out?
Don't go for the big encirclements - the new AI seems to be able to snip them out very well and gets its troops out if it doesn't counterattack instead. I think I've only caught c.30 SU divisions in encirclements.
I need to run barbarossa historically to properly see, but the TC problems (look at mine - choose between massive dissent or massive TC hit) and the partisans are making the SU a much tougher fight. Throw in the new AI and it can be quite tricky. I haven't used my allies' forces yet but I think that may be the way German players will have to go.
Bit impressive so far.
Things which may need to change is the AI 'giving' garrison units anything other than a police brigade - waste of IC and it just gets killed very quickly.
The event chains may also need looking at if even on normal aggressiveness the West goes to war over Czechoslovakia. It seems to totally unscrew all the event chains concerning Scandinavia and Poland. Not sure how frequently it happens at the moment - is it common or did I just 'luck' out?
I`m playing as Britain on hard/agressive. All went as usual and when the war started I used 16 infantry divisions, 6tanks+3mot and 1 hq to drive all this way into Germany. France followed up with divisions. France ended up annexing Slovakia and Hungary (and nearly Romania too), before Germany started invading the Benelux. Only then did they start attacking my major incursion into Germany. Even with only a few french infantry divisions holding several of these provinces, which should be a pice of cake for Germany, Germany did not attack (not even after having dealt with Poland).
Lothos said:
you mean normal/normal is the best way to play ???
Are your hands-off tests all normal/normal games ??
All of my tests are normal normal
What I suggest is leave aggressiveness always at normal but make the other item harder if you want. Making the AI more aggressive causes it to do very stupid attacks.
What I suggest is leave aggressiveness always at normal but make the other item harder if you want. Making the AI more aggressive causes it to do very stupid attacks.
Lothos said:
yes i have iirc - but imho, it's due to a corrupt save file and something makes the save files corrupt and it has to do with naval battles,
send save files to Johan, he cancheck
by the way, Nat spain still didn't attack rep spain - it's four years now and they outnumber the adversary 5 to 1
I just got my ass kicked by the Soviet AI - he simply cut off my encirclement
o this patch is very good
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I don´t know what you´ve done with Italy, but despite better deployment "thinking" (i.e. not leaving 10 divisions in ethiopia to be wiped out) and thus a numerical advantage I have managed to wipe them out of N.Africa in 2 months.
True though: I only use motorised divisions with brigades... but still: it´s not supposed to be this easy!? Not one counterattack of the Italians worked.
(Or maybe I´m just that good? )
True though: I only use motorised divisions with brigades... but still: it´s not supposed to be this easy!? Not one counterattack of the Italians worked.
(Or maybe I´m just that good?
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ArcticFox said:I don´t know what you´ve done with Italy, but despite better deployment "thinking" (i.e. not leaving 10 divisions in ethiopia to be wiped out) and thus a numerical advantage I have managed to wipe them out of N.Africa in 2 months.
True though: I only use motorised divisions with brigades... but still: it´s not supposed to be this easy!? Not one counterattack of the Italians worked.
(Or maybe I´m just that good?
God bless you then kick up the difficulty.
intelligence
Helloa
appreciate the work which was put in the new patch.
Is the intelligence events became sleepy?o
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=219487
Alik
Helloa
appreciate the work which was put in the new patch.
Is the intelligence events became sleepy?
o http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=219487
Alik
It´s not that the Italians don´t fight well, it´s that they´re "stupid". Instead of trying to break out their encircled divisions they thought seizing a couple of useless provinces was a better idea. Two quick encirclements at Bardia (12 divisions) and Rabia (9 divisions) and that was that... Italians a threat no more.Lothos said:
Granted it was my strategy that they fall into my trap but how could they be so blind to such a simple strategic divide-conquer move?
And like I said, 1.3 is hard as it is... I´ve only had minor problems as the UK before, suddenly the blitz is a reality and I´m clinging on for dear life, the battle for the north sea and atlantic is very much on and so forth. It´s just those naive little Italians... they could really use some Afrika Korps.
I just want to say good job, and i was stunned to see the new tech teams from Communist China that I suggested actually in the game, Thanks a bunch, makes this game soo much cooler, I couldnt be happier