Germany AI always terrible

[Scottymj87]

have been playing AoD 1.06 a bit now (no mods), soley as Italy thus far and every time Germany fails miserably in Barbarossa. In my current game it's Jan 42 and the Soviets are still holding a province on the June 41 Border; Finland fall, regularly as clockwork, within a couple of months of Barbarossa and most galling of all the Germans have a 38 division reserve in Rostock, including 10 Panzer divisions, all merrily playing cards and drinking schnapz while Army Group Centre struggle to get into Belorussia.

Is it just me or are any other people having problems with the lacklustre AI? I've alway been a big fan of AoD and the team behind it but it's somewhat annoying when you're holding your own in North Africa against the Brits and Americans and any chance of going on the offensive is thwarted by the need to defend the Alps from the Red Army by late 1943

 

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As Italy you are expected to send troops to help them.

Last game I sent a nice little 2x24 army with a HQ and the war was won.

 

[Tanaka]

With the actual Misc.txt file settings & 1.06/1.07 exe, AI Germany has no chance whatsoever…

Unless by some bizarre stellar conjunction the Soviet AI commits Seppuku by sending all its divisions to Mongolia or something of the kind; Axis AI just has no chance of getting near Moscow (near Moscow… if it gets near Smolensk it is a victory already ).

All in all a good challenge for the human player with the Germans or eventually a US player going for Soviet Union after a AI German defeat… what a task, I think in most machines the game will crash (1000 soviet divisions anyone?).