I really enjoy the changes that were made in Waking the Tiger but one change that I am not liking is the new battle plan system. We all agree that planning bonus is very important for offensive operations, but in order to get it, you need to assign it to the AI.
Thing is, I like to manually control my wars. Not that I am on a crusade against the AI, but I like to play it like I played HOI 2 and 3. I mean, Barbarossa was the greatest military operation in history, planning and logistics took a lot of effort, so I like to emulate that in my games, whereas most people simply drag a line and put the war on speed 5.
But now I can't even manually control it. Back then, I used to select every group of divisions and assign them a one province front line, a one province offensive for the planning bonus and then delete the orders when I launch the offensive. With the new Chain of Command System, the only way that you can place your units wherever you want is to have different commanders for each unit. That means that I cannot put 3 divisions on province A and 4 divisions on province B, I can only put, say, my tanks on province B but I will need different commanders for each province, otherwise the AI will simply merge all of those one province frontlines and then move my divisions wherever it wants.
I just started a campaign as Italy and I am invading Ethiopia. As you all know, Ethiopia is all mountains, except for a desert province in the north-east. I am trying to amass my offensive force there, but the AI keeps moving my troops back into the mountains. MOUNTAINS!!! In this HOI game, one does not simply attack mountains, that is how bad the AI is.
I understand that the merger of front lines makes things easier for the *cough* casuals *cough*, but there should be an option for veterans of the series. They keep spitting on the eyes of everyone who likes manual control. I can live with the fact that we no longer get combat pop ups so I can be alerted at all time, but this now is totally stripping away my control.
I know that I am not asking too much, this was in the code before, so just create an option to bring it back. Also, since we're here, pop ups... I don't know how people never complained about this, but you could be doing something on the west, and without your knowledge, the AI has messed up, there is a break through, and now all of your troops are surrounded. They have put the popups on the "Combat Log", so I suppose it is not that difficult to make it POP UP!! PLZZZZZ
PS. I do have the game on steam, but it does not show here for some reason.
Thing is, I like to manually control my wars. Not that I am on a crusade against the AI, but I like to play it like I played HOI 2 and 3. I mean, Barbarossa was the greatest military operation in history, planning and logistics took a lot of effort, so I like to emulate that in my games, whereas most people simply drag a line and put the war on speed 5.
But now I can't even manually control it. Back then, I used to select every group of divisions and assign them a one province front line, a one province offensive for the planning bonus and then delete the orders when I launch the offensive. With the new Chain of Command System, the only way that you can place your units wherever you want is to have different commanders for each unit. That means that I cannot put 3 divisions on province A and 4 divisions on province B, I can only put, say, my tanks on province B but I will need different commanders for each province, otherwise the AI will simply merge all of those one province frontlines and then move my divisions wherever it wants.
I just started a campaign as Italy and I am invading Ethiopia. As you all know, Ethiopia is all mountains, except for a desert province in the north-east. I am trying to amass my offensive force there, but the AI keeps moving my troops back into the mountains. MOUNTAINS!!! In this HOI game, one does not simply attack mountains, that is how bad the AI is.
I understand that the merger of front lines makes things easier for the *cough* casuals *cough*, but there should be an option for veterans of the series. They keep spitting on the eyes of everyone who likes manual control. I can live with the fact that we no longer get combat pop ups so I can be alerted at all time, but this now is totally stripping away my control.
I know that I am not asking too much, this was in the code before, so just create an option to bring it back. Also, since we're here, pop ups... I don't know how people never complained about this, but you could be doing something on the west, and without your knowledge, the AI has messed up, there is a break through, and now all of your troops are surrounded. They have put the popups on the "Combat Log", so I suppose it is not that difficult to make it POP UP!! PLZZZZZ
PS. I do have the game on steam, but it does not show here for some reason.
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