I agree. But I also think that it's better to reduce chinese IC. 30-40 at maximum.
50 is far to much.
50 is far to much.
Huzar said:But if you make Conrad '2', than other A-H leaders should be much worse. At the end the A-H army will became real catastrophe (like it was historically :rofl: )
StephenT said:Well, my recent post was based on new research. I didn't realise just what a racial mish-mash the KuK Armee really was... I mean, I thought they would have German regiments and Magyar regiments and Rumanian regiments etc, not each regiment a complete mixture.
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Alternatively, maybe some sort of "Ethnic unrest" event chain triggered in 1917/8 if A-H is losing the war, resulting in A-H first losing cores on certain territories then, a year later, being forced to grant them independence?
lees said:I think the manpower of France and Germany is to high. How about reducing French manpower to 0.75 per day and German to 1.1?
lees said:No, I haven't tested it yet. But I think 0.75 and 1.3 (not 1.1) would be more realistic because France per year recruited about 250-300.000 and Germany about 500.000 men.
lees said:Why is the German metal production so high? Germany had to import large parts of it's iron. Their steel production was high but Germany didn't have much iron.
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Triglav said:Hello everyone.
I've been following this forum on and off for a while, as I'm quite keen on having a go at this modification once it comes into entertainable existence. All respect to everyone on undertaking such an impressively vast project!
Noticed a couple of things on page 18 here I sort of feel I have to add my 5 cents to:
I don't think A-H command was quite entirely as useless as it seems to be pictured. After all, it did not become invaded by Russia, it did (to an extent) defeat Serbia and it kept a succesful defence against Italy, which due to its national mix, poor supply and outdated equipment was rather a feat.
And when rating "every other general even worse than ol' Conrad", why does noone mention the skill of the defender of the Isonzo front general S. Boroevic ( http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/biog/boroevic.htm )? The fellow did manage to hold (quite outgunned) against 11 consecutive Italian offensives. I'd say thats something of an achievement.
Anyway...some nice reading on other commanders on this page as well:
http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/bioind.htm
You neglected to even remotely mention my little Alpine tribe's involvement in the war in your entire article. Curses of ancient Slavic gods and my A-H-uniform-wearing great grandfathers upon ye for such inexcusable omittance!
But seriously. A-H army was probably more aware of different national prides at the time than other armies in the conflict. It allowed national insignias and uniform variations for various specific ethnic regiments, probably in hope of deterring the inevitable ethnic break up of an impossible multi-ethnic empire by giving limited concessions to ethnic pride thus trying to appear tolerant to all its constituents. Though mistrust went both ways really. German speaking citizens, influenced by the rise of the united German idea in the previous century, accused the non-German speaking citizens of disloyality to the Crown, while the non-German speaking citizens begun to see the monarchy as a "jail of nations" under an increasingly Germanic heel, and its government as a tool of germanization of the lands. This however had varied effects. The troops had poor morale and fought poorly where they perceived the fight as a fight for the welfare of the Germanic monarchy, but oppositely fought rather well where they perceived it as a fight for a chance of a better prospect for their own nationality. Hence the bitter defence against the Italians on the Isonzo front by the defending Slovenians, Croats and Bosnians (who certainly didn't want their lands to come from one foreign rule under another) and the total apathy of the Hungarians on the same battlefield, who couldn't care less about the Italians. Hence the spirited performance of the Poles against the Russian army (for the same reason as above) and massive surrenders of the south Slavs on that battlefield (as they percieved the Russians their pan-Slavic liberators from under Germanic rule). Course even this wasn't very homogenous, as feelings of "military duty", "soldier's dignity" and "loyalty to the Kaiser und König" were also traditionally deep-rooted, and often superseded ethnic sentiments.
However national propaganda that was very cohesive in the cases of UK and Germany, and somewhat less so in France and Russia, failed considerably in A-H, and while for instance Slovenian and Croat army conscripts cheered "Onto Belgrade!" enthusiastically at the outbreak of the war, they were equally quick to cheer "With Belgrade!" towards the end of it. It just didn't seem to be worth bleeding for a state that noone really loved anymore, even though no considerable invasions into A-H's territory were made by either enemy, that would seem to logically cause such a morale drop... Why would a Czech, Slovak or a Pole be willing to give up his life for his Germanic monarchy to gain more land in the Adriatic or the Balkans? Why would a Slovene, a Croat or Istrian Italian care if it won a tract of land in the Ukraine?
Gamewise; possibly losing lives would cause the disintegration of A-H much more than losing land. So maybe national emancipations of states or at least army rebellions which would incapacitate the fighting force of A-H, would be brought on by somehow calculating the overall losses and triggered when the losses reach a certain point.
Well...either I'm making a point or just conversation, I'm having fun either way. If my humble knowledge can in any way help your war effort (I'm doing some modding every now and then, but all I did in HoI2 so far was do a ton of picture changing for Germany, Soviet Union and Yugoslavia where I felt the vanilla ones were inadequately historic or representative), I'd be glad to offer it. I did research (theoretically and on location) the Austrian-Italian front rather extensively, as well as the political happenings regarding the "births of nations" in central and southern Europe from the late nineteenth century onwards.
There are some mistakes in scenario files, concerning following:
There arn't Khanate of Bukhara - pre-Uzbekistan, puppet of Russia,
There arn't Khanate of Khiva - pre-Turkmenistan, puppet of Russia.
Where i can send corrected files?