Does the vanilla game feel kind of easy now? Like more than usual.

[TheMeInTeam]

Also you as a human can say, with a limited production, cheap divisions you still always can defeat Poland and France. Also as long as you follow the script roughly no AI will suprisingly attack you in your weakesr moment.
The AI atleast with a general purpose, can't work with that assumption. It always has to fear that any nation it attacks is stronger than expected and already needs full military power, or that it needs some kind of reserve if it gets attacked in 1938.

this makes a case against swapping production much, rather than doing it way more though. it probably wouldn't hurt to make ai more "sticky" with its lines generally, and give it a generic ratio of industry that will approximately track to the losses its divisions will take if damaged or wiped out. this implies it will likely get stuck producing out-of-date tanks all game, but surely even that's better than having no tanks in tank divisions?

edit: and yeah, ai leaving factories idle is completely ridiculous

 

[Jafkka]

Germany suiciding troops into Congo doesn't help either.

This is a huge issue in the last games before I quit HOI4. Not only Congo, but also sending nearly 500k men around the horn of Afrika to defend Italian-occupied Ethiopia. Becoming encircled in the process.

 

[TruckerBarry65493]

This is a huge issue in the last games before I quit HOI4. Not only Congo, but also sending nearly 500k men around the horn of Afrika to defend Italian-occupied Ethiopia. Becoming encircled in the process.

AI should be set to focus mostly on north africa, its not like there's any point in going on an africa safari apart from the suez

 

[Dimmie_Dumm]

edit: and yeah, ai leaving factories idle is completely ridiculous

I guess that's their way to "balance" OP focus trees pulling factories straight out of nowhere. Jokes aside, Estonia having more factories than Poland or Spain is weird either way.

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[TruckerBarry65493]

I guess that's their way to "balance" OP focus trees pulling factories straight out of nowhere. Jokes aside, Estonia having more factories than Poland or Spain is weird either way.

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POV: your estonia and stalin wants his factories for big eco

 

[Herennius]

edit: and yeah, ai leaving factories idle is completely ridiculous

I guess that's their way to "balance" OP focus trees pulling factories straight out of nowhere. Jokes aside, Estonia having more factories than Poland or Spain is weird either way.

The AI does not even stopping with leaving idle what it has, it will also happily built new MILs to leave them idle - or convert CIVs into more not-to-be-used MILs. Probably bad research priorities contribute as well, as it happens that MILs are unused, while items (like trains, basic fighters) the AI just not research are missing in the arsenal.