Army of Fallshrimjagers

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The AI is not very good at dealing with large encirclements, period. If, for example, you take an entire tank army and use them to close up a large pocket 7-8 provinces across, the AI will be way too slow to notice that it needs to do something about it - by the time it starts moving (a few of) its troops out of harm's way, it's far too late. A few divisions may escape the final closure but you can capture a good 20-25 divisions at a time in this way (ymmv depending on front density etc).

 

[AdityaMookerjee]

I thought I was sensible, but you guys are geniuses. How in the world did you make so many aircraft carriers for Germany?

 

[AdityaMookerjee]

I guess the game gave up on you. I play sensibly, and the game responds sensibly. I reached the port of Danzig, with much blood, toil, sweat, tears, not to mention exhaustion, with my Red army, in HOI 3. But the S S Nord got into the act, on the southern borders of Germany. The Heer started loosing many soldiers, more than me, but winning many battles. I had a choice, make every German above sixteen fight the Red Army and eventually loose their life in the mountains of Southern Germany, and make their manpower come down to 0, but I had enough, and let Hitler be.

 

[No idea]

What the heck is a ground fallschirmjäger?... It use parachutes to jump off the truck?

Of course it does¡ Have you ever tried to jump off a running truck? The paras need something to make the hit with the ground softer (that´s the whole point of getting a parachute, isn´t it?)

 

[AdityaMookerjee]

Hitler was not a total maniac. He prized his Fallschirmager division(s?) so much, that he stopped them from further operations after they suffered heavy losses in Crete(?). If only that he did not love the Fallschirmager less, but the rest of mankind(and the rest of the Heer) more. I feel that the Luftwaffe parachutists, must have been on the wrong end of Hitler's orders, during the last days.