can anyone give me....

[unmerged(9718)]

a real good reason not to play HoI now with 1.03. i shelved the game awaiting the patch and i'm still reading disheartening comments about the game. my major bugs were loosing techs on reload and the AI not attaching brigades to divs. both of which are now fixed. i guess i'm the kind of person that likes things perfect or almost perfect. so, is the game near perfection or do i wait till 1.04, 1.05 and so on.

 

[unmerged(1095)]

As no one else knows what your real needs are it might be better if you loaded it all up and tried to play it. You can always uninstall it again.
Other peolpes views, and your own, are subjective - the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Go take a spoonful and see

 

[unmerged(9718)]

somehow i see my grandfather talking to me. thanks McDuck. i'll do just that.

 

[unmerged(4436)]

Its good to go and play a few games with. Maybe 1 game for each major. After that you will get angry and shelf the game again.

With 1.03 I would consider: Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia to be "fixed". They are just about as good as they will ever get.

The UK is fixed as far as non-Europe is concerned. It sucks bad in europe though.

The USA is a big joke. They have trouble fighting the Japs, and they are 100% useless in Europe.


All in all I would say the game is much more fun then it used to be. On very hard/aggresive it is actually hard. Ive played 2 games so far and LOST both of them. (one as the UK, and the other as Germany). It really is a totally different game now. If your not on your toes, you can actually lose.

 

[Jon Shafer]

There is much work left to be done, but it is a very fine game indeed, at this point.

 

[unmerged(1095)]

Originally posted by gts2096
somehow i see my grandfather talking to me. thanks McDuck. i'll do just that.

lol
...... Old but wise, us Grandads

 

[unmerged(9718)]

he use to always tell me that "the cream always rises to the top son". took me years to figure that one out.

 

[Axis_Alliance]

to pay money for something and not use it is a waste

 

[unmerged(9718)]

i agree.

 

[unmerged(8206)]

I started the game as germany and was looking at improving my provinces so I thought I'll build AA, then i remeber people saying that planes will not bomb if fighters present. Then I thought I'll build sea defenses but then I hear nobody AI) really invades fortress Europe I got really disheartened. If I can't expect "typical" startegy whats the point. I won't give up on the game I'll wait for Bolts mod but still a downer. I was thinking of starting Pac War but can't be bothered to learn it all over again

 

[unmerged(13787)]

Concerning the AI and 'Fortress Europe'

1939, playing as Germany. I've Austria and split the Czechs up with Hungry, the Landline between me and the French are lvl 4 forts, the 5 landing zones on the ocean are level 4 coastal forts.

I'm already at war with the Poles, have taken the entire line to warsaw, took a 3 month break to regroup, resupply, and reman (lots of manpower drains), Russia DoWs me. No sweat I think, since I'm still not through the Polish border, and i've got my nice level 4 coastal forts

Until the Sovs land over 100 divisions on Rostok, take it, and blitz all the way down to the french lines and yugoslavia (Rommal and Mannstein down there moping up Bulgaria for the seaport) turn tail and manage to re-open a line from Berlin to Warsaw (now that my main forces are back in supply...) I finally manage to kick the Sovs out of Germany (1940, December), and here come the Americans with over 400 Divisions on Rostok (where I have 9 divisions of Maus tanks (3 Eng 3 Art 3 AT)) sitting on my level 1 (grrr) coastal fortress ... and they get rolled (though I did manage to almost break the beach head)

This time though, I had reserves and was able to keep a portion of my country intact this time, though I've lost everything west of Berlin (it's now 1942).

The AI will hit your forts, and hit it with a vengence now. No more 3 infantry divisions sitting around smoking for me, time to start placing MechInf Brigaded on my 'weak' points.

The worst thing about it is though, I also managed to loose all of southwest Yugoslavia to the Aussies, and southeast Yugoslavia and all of Bulgaria to the Russians.

This is definatly not the cakewalk I expected it to be, as this is the first real game i've set down to play since I finished going through the leader files.

Nicholi