AI-Axis stop advancing after a short time

[Imperator Blitzkrieg]

Hello fellow Players!

Im new to the Forums. Ive just looked for a thread that actually tell me something about this but i wasn't able to find something.
Maybe you can link me the information if it is aviable.

So...my Problem is the following:

I play as Estonia, forming the "Terra Mariana" and conquering all of the baltics, including the norther states. I joined Axis and we had a pretty good advance through the soviet lines.
After 1 and a half year the Germans just stopped advancing. They were just sitting around, waiting to get smashed back by russians. italy did the same in Africa, altough we had Gibraltar and Suez and the Mediterranian was ours. japan was fighting with RAJ, but even they stopped advancing until the soviets and Allies started to pull us back.

Is that a bug?

- No Country was out of Manpower or Weapons
- Germany even started to dismantle Divisions

Thank you for your help!

Edit: After reading my Text i found out that some details maybe unclear. Germany just chills on the Frontlines. Even if there are no enemys they doin nothing. Not even conquering terretory from Sealandings back.

 

[Karbinder]

Hello fellow Players!

Im new to the Forums. Ive just looked for a thread that actually tell me something about this but i wasn't able to find something.
Maybe you can link me the information if it is aviable.

So...my Problem is the following:

I play as Estonia, forming the "Terra Mariana" and conquering all of the baltics, including the norther states. I joined Axis and we had a pretty good advance through the soviet lines.
After 1 and a half year the Germans just stopped advancing. They were just sitting around, waiting to get smashed back by russians. italy did the same in Africa, altough we had Gibraltar and Suez and the Mediterranian was ours. japan was fighting with RAJ, but even they stopped advancing until the soviets and Allies started to pull us back.

Is that a bug?

- No Country was out of Manpower or Weapons
- Germany even started to dismantle Divisions

Thank you for your help!

I've had a couple of incidents where the AI simply would forget to execute battle plans. Due to them practically living off of them, they would do nothing without it.

 

[CharlieFox]

If you are not playing Ironman you could try to save the game, load the game as Germany and try to fix their plans (e.g make new plans, reassign troops, execute plans) without unpausing.

I did that in my current Japan game to get Germany to decide to kill the Low Countries instead of sending their whole army to a front line with Slovakia

 

[Imperator Blitzkrieg]

Well im playin ironman. I thought its maybe because im also playin in historical mode?
I mean...its not very historic if germany wins against the soviet union and at least its a game. So maybe its not a bug but a feature to make sure Axis loose?

 

[CharlieFox]

Well im playin ironman. I thought its maybe because im also playin in historical mode?
I mean...its not very historic if germany wins against the soviet union and at least its a game. So maybe its not a bug but a feature to make sure Axis loose?

Definitely a Bug or Poor AI. Historical mode only means that AI picks the national focus on historical order and has no effect on the battle plan AI.

Also, unless you are going for achievements I wouldn't play ironman because if Germany AI does something very stupid you have no way of fixing it (in your case they have only stopped advancing but sometimes they might pull out all troops of the eastern front)

 

[browd]

It's unscientific (i.e., not grounded in any knowledge of the relevant code), but I've found (sometimes) that closing the game and reloading the ironman save will nudge the AI to "wake up" and get with the program.

 

[albso437]

All Paradox games seems to benefit from saving and reloading once in a while.
Without speaking for HOI4 specifically, there seems to be something in the game engine that make the AI fall asleep.

 

[kettyo]

Three things i can think of.

1.) AI runs out of equipment. They are very bad at equipment production. If you ever switch over in a non-ironman SP game to your allies to check out of curiousity they will always have serious shortages in pretty much everything. Beyond some level it makes further offensives impossible i think. (offensives eat up the equipment, defensive not that much)

2.) AI can't fill out the whole frontline. I've found so that AI first tries to fill the complete frontline with units and only after that starts the general offensive. It is also true if there's nobody on the other side.

3.) There can be some AI battleplan breakdown. It is possible that player takes over the affected country and deletes all theaters (with all the armies) then gives back to AI (in MP or non-ironman SP)