All about #AI

[lekim]

After reading, watching and asking I realized that I just would love to know more about AI.

- What can it do?
- How is it expected to react in different strategic and tactical situations?
- Research, industry and politics - this part of AI is scripted of dynamic?

Even if something is not working yet - what should we expect from single player AI?

 

[lekim]

Will Allies AI be able to overrun ordinary German player on a hard difficulty?

 

[Chondrite]

In previous HOIs I always ended up modding the difficulty to give the enemy factions massive bonuses to industry and manpower among other things. I expect I'll end up doing the same in HOI4 and I'm by no means a HOI expert. It's just that once I start ahistorically minmaxing everything, the historical setup doesn't give the AIs much of a chance.

I just hope the AI is able to use those extra resources well because because in HOI3, the AI couldn't handle a huge number of troops in the broken supply system the game had. As Germany for example, no matter how many resources I gave to the allies, I don't recall them ever doing anything threatening after France fell other than some failed invasions. I want to see overwhelming bombing campaigns against my industry, a complete lockdown of sea zones, multiple invasions and so forth. I think there's a good chance the AI will be able to achieve these things far better in HOI4 because they removed a lot of unnecessary microing from invasions and air combat for example.