Impossible defensive war

[ringworm]

the AI is getting crazy, I can not hold a front. i am playing on speed 1 and should be able to hold my front but the General / FM keeps moving my troops around. To the point that they leave gaps or pulling out a defensive battle when they are winning.

I wish they wouldn't move all the time!!

 

[ringworm]

seriously is there anyway to stop the crazy redeployment please please troops stay where you are with your nice entrenchment bonus let me micro manage the hot points

 

[Wasted Shampoo]

Troops that stay where they are. Sounds like a dream

 

[sinanziric]

You should attach your armies to defensive line not front line if you want them to stay where they are.

When I play SOV, I use defensive line behind the rivers and my armies redeploy and defend without moving forward.

 

[Misaka_Complex]

Yes, once you put your troops on the front line just delete all orders and they will stop moving around and entrench themselves on their respective tiles.

 

[Chanbara]

I'm not here to defend the way the AI deploys units to front lines, I actually think it's rubbish and one of the worst aspects of a shaky AI, just to give advice to a fellow player; don't ever use a front line when you're defending. If you're playing at speed 1 you've got enough time to just assign every unit manually even if you're on the Eastern Front and your defence will be far stronger if you do. Find a decent line to hold (good terrain bonuses, straight, few adjacent provinces), fall back to it, dig in, wait for the enemy to grind itself down, then assign a battle plan and build up your bonus when they look weak. If your units are in combat they won't build up their planning bonus anyway so there's literally no benefit to having a front line when you're on the defensive.

PS. Going fully defensive in multiplayer probably isn't a good idea but seeing as you're playing on speed 1 I'm assuming you're playing single player.

 

[Mansa Sekou]

Fallback Lines are your friend.

 

[Misaka_Complex]

I'm not here to defend the way the AI deploys units to front lines, I actually think it's rubbish and one of the worst aspects of a shaky AI, just to give advice to a fellow player; don't ever use a front line when you're defending. If you're playing at speed 1 you've got enough time to just assign every unit manually even if you're on the Eastern Front and your defence will be far stronger if you do. Find a decent line to hold (good terrain bonuses, straight, few adjacent provinces), fall back to it, dig in, wait for the enemy to grind itself down, then assign a battle plan and build up your bonus when they look weak. If your units are in combat they won't build up their planning bonus anyway so there's literally no benefit to having a front line when you're on the defensive.

Exactly, entrench yourself behind a river with a manual defensive line and the AI will commit sudoku in front of that river.

 

[alexchau]

I mostly play as Japan with Asian theatre and I noticed that with latest update, Chinese army will try to amass their armies at my Japanese weakest defensive line then punched through and they will push real hard after they managed breakthrough.

 

[Wasted Shampoo]

I mostly play as Japan with Asian theatre and I noticed that with latest update, Chinese army will try to amass their armies at my Japanese weakest defensive line then punched through and they will push real hard after they managed breakthrough.

If you playing historical, which I always suggest to do, you should deploy all your forces in China, bring it to the historical stalemate and then turn your attention toward all the island. If you want to get rid of China as soon as possible because you want to attack Russia or India, well that’s feels right

 

[wesleytj]

Exactly, entrench yourself behind a river with a manual defensive line and the AI will commit sudoku in front of that river.

seppuku is ritual suicide. sudoku is a puzzle game.

 

[SchwarzKatze]

seppuku is ritual suicide. sudoku is a puzzle game.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/commit-sudoku
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=commit sudoku

 

[Zwirbaum]

seppuku is ritual suicide. sudoku is a puzzle game.

And IIRC @Misaka_Complex is japanese, so I would bet that he is familiar with the correct term. (Commit Sudoku as mentioned above is 'meme')

 

[wesleytj]

ROFL!

 

[TheMeInTeam]

seppuku is ritual suicide. sudoku is a puzzle game.

AI's clearly not very good at sudoku in this game, it keeps picking strategies that cause it to lose.

As for the actual topic, manual control is still the winning move unfortunately. The game's control of units is not trustworthy.

 

[Misaka_Complex]

Yeah I know, I prefer to use the meme term over the correct term because the meme term is much more relatable, it may be a shamefur dispray but I pick relatability over the linguistically accurate term. Its also still possible to "commit sudoku" by using a katana to seppuku by drawing the sudoku board on yourself. Perhaps it may be uncommon, but yet its still possible.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Yeah I know, I prefer to use the meme term over the correct term because the meme term is much more relatable, it may be a shamefur dispray but I pick relatability over the linguistically accurate term. Its also still possible to "commit sudoku" by using a katana to seppuku by drawing the sudoku board on yourself. Perhaps it may be uncommon, but yet its still possible.

They could also be insistently challenging the opposing army to a race to see who completes them the fastest, despite the rather unfortunate and emphatic hostile response. That's some strong commitment to sudoku.

 

[Fast00000000000]

You can try to make a fallback line and hold them and build forts along the line as well, and building the forts behind a river to hinder enemy forces further.

 

[Denkt]

Somtimes it is better to give up ground and let the enemy overextend itself and after that strike and encircle them.

 

[ringworm]

The best advice is to cancel all front lines. Micro everything. My second attempt and the enemy is taking huge losses.