Getting the BEF to France

[Ceorl]

I picked up HoI3 again after several years off and been playing again for some good fun. There is one thing that is nagging me though, when I play as either France or Britain I cannot get the British AI to send troops to France before it falls.

As near as I can tell the AI will not respond to Allied Objectives, Theatre Objectives or Stance Setting. For the British, France is actually greyed out as a Theatre and there doesn't seem to be a way to change that status.

Anyone know if there a fix to this? I've looked on the forums with no success. I can manually deploy troops but I would much prefer to leave the AI automation on.

 

[GarfunkeL]

You have to do it manually or give the divisions as expeditionary force to the French.

 

[Chromos]

Usually ENG ai will invade in NOR/GER/HOL/FRA and send in BEF if enough units to share at hand. Transports are needed of course too for that.

For vanilla, you can try to make a new ENG theatre and assign just the south east of UK to it, but with many units and navy to transport and protect that transports.
Then set ai objectives.

Or play Mods!
In my Mod the ENG ai regulary sends forces to FRA.


Let us know if that worked.

 

[Ceorl]

Tried assigning an expeditionary force to France but the AI merely left the units sitting in England as France fell. Tried reducing the army assignment to a sliver of England but even though I had four divisions garrisoning each port the AI would not move the troops out. Both times the majority of my fleet and transports were assigned to the Theatre responsible for sending troops to France.

The British AI lethargy doesn't seem confined to England either. The Brit AI is markedly passive in N. Africa as well and even with major prodding will not invade the Italian N. Africa colonies. I assigned the Theatre a sliver of land bordering Italy watched the AI overrun the Italian militia and then simply stop with half of the colony unoccupied.

Could you provide a link to the suggested mod? As near as I can tell the British AI is simply broken.

 

[Chromos]

Mod link is in my signature(2. entry) or check out the mod subforum for more also interesting ones.

You could also try and delete all theatres exept one.
Usually ai is going active if it has enough units to play with. So having much units in a theatre(no need for new ones etc.) should be a good sign.
Also check the stance of the theatre HQ. As with stance "prepare" even thouands of units would not help in getting an active ai.