AI templates

[Uniform764]

It's not the biggest priority, given some of the other balance issues in the game, but have we had a discussion about the quality of AI templates recently? I was playing a pretty standard UK game, with British Malaysia sending me the odd "brigade" now and then, and it was only when the army planner told me I had several artillery divisions I checked the templates and found this. I mean...that's a lot of artillery for Malaysia to be producing, which given I've LL'd them nothing this far is...impressive if nothing else.

As an aside, what the hell is that template layout, it's painful to look at.

 

[Kipsta]

Too complicated to have the ai make pretty layouts. At least new division templates are effective, where is the problem?

 

[Uniform764]

Too complicated to have the ai make pretty layouts. At least new division templates are effective, where is the problem?

The ahistorically high proportions of artillery that I'm not entirely convinced Malaysian industry could support mostly. I mean it's a minor producing divisions that are so stacked with firepower it's actually tagged as an artillery division. I'm not sure even the best equipped US or Russian divisions had that much firepower per infantry batallion.

 

[ThuderLizard2]

In my current China game, I tagged switched to US - their infantry division lacks recon or signal support units and is 8/1 instead of 7/2. Armored divisions are a joke 3 light/3 motorized with no support brigades and US AI has spammed a ton of them. I'd say AI template management is broken. They have plenty of xp to fix this as well but why isn't this fix by now?

 

[Quantum_AI]

I'm not entirely convinced Malaysian industry could support

That's a whole other discussion in itself. Minors do get too much industry. For example, OPMs like Bhutan can usually get like 12 factories and FULL infra in their single state just through the generic focus tree. These things have simply not been scaled correctly.


I can't even imagine the number of CFs Malaya gets from selling its rubber.

 

[Kipsta]

The ahistorically high proportions of artillery that I'm not entirely convinced Malaysian industry could support mostly.

You can see it has enough artillery for the division in your screenshot. First you want to talk about the "quality" of the division and now it's too ahistoric for you. lol Was that the point of your thread? Didn't read anything about that in the OP.

 

[Uniform764]

You can see it has enough artillery for the division in your screenshot. First you want to talk about the "quality" of the division and now it's too ahistoric for you. lol Was that the point of your thread? Didn't read anything about that in the OP.

Why does more artillery automatically equal a better division? I'd rather the AI didn't just stack increasing amounts of expensive artillery because it's not particularly difficult to beat.

 

[KalypsoKirin]

British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies get INSANE amounts of civilian factories from trading, letting them build up a LOT of industry very quickly.