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alexchau

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I have used the battle plans with the update that allow several army to put under command of field marshal. However it never go as I want to.

Case 1: I planned for my Japanese army to push south to but when I executed it push the north instead. In the end, I had to delete battle plans for field marshal and use battle plans for generals instead.
Case 2: I planned to push south with to link up with another Japanese army I use to occupy Shanghai and Nanjing instead it pushed into Central China hard. In the end, I had to micromanagement the direction of assault for troops.
Case 3: I planned to push south to Fuzhou and to link up another army which is hold up in Guangzhou. When I executed field marshal's battle plans, it pulled almost entire all the force on northern front (about 71 divisions) to concentrate the push in the south while leaving only around 10 divisions on the north. Despite China around 10 divisions in the south plus 15 divisions from Guang cligue. result? Communist China, Shanxi, Ma Chinese and Sin Kiang pushed hard on northern front cause me lost those poor 10 division trying to defend the massive assault from those armies as well as Beijing, Qingdao and part of Manchuria. If I didnt micromanagement to force my army north to stop its advance, I would have lost Nanjing and Shanghai, too.
 

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It starts earlier then that!

Playing as Manchuria, I prepared for independence war, setting up 4 frontlines: one at the korean border, a small force to take that port Japan has at manchu land, one at the border to Mengkukuo (manually setting the one end to the bejing area), one on my border to the japanese area near beijing (again setting the one end to actually end at my land). When I assigned troops to the Mengkukuo front, they all piled up in a single province, every time, instead of spreading out and actually trying to defend the border, so when independence war via focus hit, I had a nice undefended western flank because AI silliness.
Manually moving the batallions to one province per batallion didn't work out either - they moved to their assigned province, then once they got there, moved back to their hugbox province. Only solution around that was to manually move them into the places I wanted them to be at (one batallion per border province), without setting up any frontline whatsoever in the west till the focus (and independence war) kicked in. The second that happened, I was able to set up a frontline on the border to my now enemies in war, and my forces actually did what I expected them to do - sit at the border and defend it.
 

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I have tried with several nations and I've decided to use the frontline to at first station the units and when war breaks out delete it and not use it at all. It just generates so much anger inside me it's better if I micro :D
 

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I pulled of a Barbarossa with 150+ divisions using Battleplans extensively with very little micro, the battlepan AI even managed to create an hold minor pockets.

Maybe it is down to division Design and playing to the battle planners intended funktion?