England and Italian Navies

[Lothos]

Not sure if something is wrong with the AI or not but it appears that England and Italy do not like to build any new types of large war ships. They build destroyers and transports. The British Navy is about the same size as the German Navy in my game (I am playing Germany) and I been concentrating mainly on land forces for Russia.


Italy has 2 BB and 0 Cruisers but have 60 ships which represent everything else.

England has like 8 BBs and 10 Cruisers left with 66 ships total which represent mainly transports.

Germany has about 55 ships mixed types.

I keep checking but I never see the ship count on the big war ships ever go up for anyone but the USA.

 

[Vulture]

Playing plain 1.05c?

I saw the AI build capital ships as well...

 

[Lothos]

yes 1.05c

 

[Vulture]

Hmmm... Must be because the AI number for BB's and CA's is 3... It compares those numbers to the other entries. Infantry is 20 for example.

 

[Lothos]

The british have about 110 divisions and about 90 of them are infantry.

The italians have about 60-70 divisions and about 50 of them are infantry.


Interest thing in my game I have been giving the Italians all the reasearch I have and their troops are better than the Germans LOL!

 

[GLENN]

You don't really want the AI to build large capital ships.

It takes too long.

Too easy to sink with Naval Bombers.

The AI is too weak now, keep the production settings.

 

[Vulture]

Originally posted by GLENN
You don't really want the AI to build large capital ships.

It takes too long.

Too easy to sink with Naval Bombers.

The AI is too weak now, keep the production settings.

Yeah, I'm quite satisfied with them as well

 

[Lothos]

Well part of the problem is the AI has yet to learn how to do interceptions with fighters especial with Navy. I destroyed most of the British navy in the English channel and he has about 20 fighter wings in London that never come out to help.

I can not bomb London with strat bombers but I can bomb norther England since he never sends planes up there.


Is there any way to tweak the AI so that he will protect his fleets with land based planes if they are within range? Just seems any human player that controls Germany can invade England pretty easy if you put your mind to it. I am trying to do a historical flow of the game to see how the AI handles things and report bugs to you and even when I am not trying very hard to hirt the English they still give me super easy targets and they have the means to protect themselves with land based air cover but never do it.

 

[Trinitrotoluen]

Maybe you could get the AI to place its fighters in SE England and put them on intercept there? That way at least the Channel is somewhat protected and not the grave of the Royal Navy.

 

[Vulture]

Don't think there are AI entries for fighter placement

 

[Trinitrotoluen]

There is a defensive fighter ai factors section in the AI file. It might be possible to play around with that a bit though.