Thanks for all the valuable guidance in response to my question about the effective use of AI.
However, I just want to get some more detailed advice on the best way to assign the AI with objectives. The original response suggested assigning objectives at Army HQ Level and equally spaced to avoid overlap and conflict between the units of different armies.
That makes sense, but I find myself wondering what it means in practice.
For example:
Lets take the Soviet 14th Army on the Northern Front.
It has three Rifle Corps consisting of fifteen Rifle Divisions plus some attached air support.
So it has a theoretical combat width of 45 and so should be able to cover a front of about four provinces without overstacking or weak points. If advancing or attacking I'd probably prefer it to use at least three lines of advance or attack.
But in assigning the 14th Army its objectives how would one ensure this?
However, I just want to get some more detailed advice on the best way to assign the AI with objectives. The original response suggested assigning objectives at Army HQ Level and equally spaced to avoid overlap and conflict between the units of different armies.
That makes sense, but I find myself wondering what it means in practice.
For example:
Lets take the Soviet 14th Army on the Northern Front.
It has three Rifle Corps consisting of fifteen Rifle Divisions plus some attached air support.
So it has a theoretical combat width of 45 and so should be able to cover a front of about four provinces without overstacking or weak points. If advancing or attacking I'd probably prefer it to use at least three lines of advance or attack.
But in assigning the 14th Army its objectives how would one ensure this?
- Do you simply assign the entire army one objective to defend or attack and trust the AI to be sensible, e.g. assign one province as its defence objective and leave the three adjacent provinces unflagged assuming the AI will fill the gaps?
- Do you place objectives on the four provinces you want the 14th Army to defend and assume the AI will assign Corps to them sensibly?
- When moving do you assign the army just one objective to move to, or four adjacent objectives and assume the AI will use alternate routes to each?
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