Impressed with AI...im gonna lose by '42

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ARRRGHHH. Ok heres the jist. Its Dec '40. I'm playing as Germany in CORE 0.84, with 1.06c.

About a month ago the americans joined the allies...i wasn't being a very friendly germany. Then, a month later USSR decided it wanted a piece of the action. Japan is democratic yet at war with the Chinese (event???), so no luck their. (On a side note Japan in CORE are WAY to powerful. They have the largest navy, the largest Army??? and the second largest ariforce...but they havent annexed China, so a cheating, horrendously so, Japan in CORE).

Anyways, i have about, with my balkan allies, i went with all the events so Balkans looks like it did historically in '40. E.G germany only own Greece, altho unhistorically i gave the Italians what the asked for.

I havent yet recieved my fresh divisions of PZ.IV, and my airforce, in fgt terms is much to weak to stop the UK/US bombing campaign. Italy have been wooped as usual, tho they did actually annex greece, not me. Syria is a thing of the past, i couldnt get my light panzers their in time to save the day and secure the middle-east...and i've got more pressin concerns at moment.

So, I'M UBER IMPRESSED with the AI in this particular game, i did what i usually do generally...but it didnt work. Not only am i facing an early end to the war, I don't have near enough troops to begin an offensive into USSR as at least a third of my Inf are on garrison duty, or helping out those damn italians in sicily.

Any suggestions? I've got about 70 german divs on border, 30 of them arm/mech/mot. 25 hungarian, 12 bulgarian, and 30 romanian...so do you think i ave a chance...ne honest, I'm doomed aren't I?

 

[cthulhu]

Depends on your manpower and what you have in your production que. You seem to have a good basis for offensive capabillity in th east. I'd build as many vanilla infantry as I could until the summer of '41, you should be able to go on the offensive then if you upgrade you armor. How strong is your DIV TAC bomber forces?

And obviously build at least four stacks of three fighters to protect your industry in the west. some flak be nice too if you can afford it.

EDIT: If your industry is taking a fatal beating in the west I'd move all air assets I had there and begin with opposing the bombers where your air strength is enough. Wear them down.

You can win this!

 

[korny]

I usually have about 200 divisions for russia..

Russia can launch 80 division attacks which is larger then your whole army -you will be overwhelmed...

 

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I usually have about 200 divisions for russia..

Russia can launch 80 division attacks which is larger then your whole army -you will be overwhelmed...

I can usually beat Russia with 140-150 Divs. All you need is a good airforce of tacs and dives to waste their org while they march on you. At the beginning of the campaign, the SU won't be doing 80 div attacks.

 

[LewsTherin]

Set up traps. Lure them into salients which you then encircle and destroy.

Use your mechanized forces to attack infantry concentrations. Remember that for a defender any division above the 24th does virtually no damage to the attacker. Use this to drain their manpower while you build up your own strength.

You can win this, but you have to pay a lot of attention to the AIs offensive moves and respond in a timely fashion.

 

[javiermcabo]

Set up traps. Lure them into salients which you then encircle and destroy.

Use your mechanized forces to attack infantry concentrations. Remember that for a defender any division above the 24th does virtually no damage to the attacker. Use this to drain their manpower while you build up your own strength.

You can win this, but you have to pay a lot of attention to the AIs offensive moves and respond in a timely fashion.

I've been practising the trap thing lately. I works, but you then have a tremendous feeling of being a cheater... or not. hehe

Anyway... yesterday I withdrew from Memel. Stalin took 96 divisions in there, and I broke through the baltic states with everything I had left. Isolated the 96, and destroyed them (i was soooooooo happy that I had to write that )

The bad news is that you will not have the air superiority you'll need if you're playing 1.06c patch

(sorry)

:rofl: