Germany gets stuck

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Playing as Britain I usually get a good view as to what Germany is doing in France. In half my games(and I've played several) Germany will attack Spain. Not a bad idea, for I've done it myself. The problem is, Germany will stack over a hundred divisions in the province of Dax and just sit there. This happens so long that the Barbarossa event doesn't kick in. When Russia decides to attack in 1942 it's basically a cake walk for them. This will then lead to not only the early fall of Germany, but France can no longer be liberated.
To me this looks like an ai problem, but I'm not a programmer so I don't know for sure. However, there is a lot of talk on the forum how the ai is lacking in tactical smarts. In any case this problem should be addressed.

 

[Lothos]

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I have observed this two times when playing UK. First time I captured Sicily and Germany moved everything to Italy, other time I have allied with surviving SPR and Germany moved everything to Dax.
In both cases Germany spent a large part of ICs on surface fleet.

 

[Von Biddulph]

These are both VERY strange cases and completely unlike what i've experienced.

 

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These are both VERY strange cases and completely unlike what i've experienced.

AFAIK those two are reproducible and the cases of general Germany problem. If the GER is in war only with allies and there is narrow fron with highly defensible position of the Allies, Germany will give it very high priority. Because the position is defensible, GER AI won't attack but just keeps many divs there and the SU border is weakly defended. Then SU DOWs and steamrolls Germany before it can transfer divisions to the new front. The problem is apparently, that the AI overreacts on ongoing war and fails to safeguard against potential threat.

 

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I wanted to add another example of German AI getting stuck.
N/N game, I'm Japan in the Axis. The Soviets have been annexed, and Germany has nothing to do on the mainland of Europe. So I assume it should be doing Sealion (aside- is there a way to check what ai file an AI is using?)

I was wondering why Germany was just sitting around for so long, not doing anything invasion-like, so I loaded the game as them. It appeared that they were stuck in a production / destruction state. Their production queue was full of CAS and navy units (few transports). The CAS that they had in service were all attacking England, to the death (which didn't take long). They also had various small fleets doing I don't know what, except they were steadily being sunk by the UK. I soon conquered England myself, so I don't know if this would countinue indefinately, but it looked like it might.