Is attacking Italy (anywhere) bugged?

[leemonk]

Hi,

I discovered the Sicily bug a few weeks back and made myself start over again and ensured I didn't attack Sicily until I had secured more of Italy.

This I have now achieved but I feel like I have run into another bug.

I analyzed where the best place to cut Italy in half would be and I invaded and secured Napoli and then two provinces to the right. This way I was able to cut Italy in half by only using three provinces. Napoli is Urban and sits behind a river, the other is mountainous and sits behind a river, sadly the other is plains and is fairly open.

I have secured them pretty well and have air support (great for busting tanks but not much infantry killing power at the moment). I have used a lot of engineers to get their terrain bonuses along with anti-tank/infantry. In all........... I think it's pretty secure with just 2-3 corps.

What is bothering me is that Italy have moved their entire force to this area, along with the Axis eastern Europeans. Thus there is a considerable force on my doorstep. I am taking down the infrastructure around them to decreased support, though despite all their troops they very rarely attack. I have sat there for approximately 9 months and have only really been attacked twice. Both attacks started at circa 15% and then dropped to an Italy loss.

Is this another bug or are they doing as they should? I guess they might think they have me blocked off, but I've secured the waters, I essentially control half of Italy with just 2-3 corps and can now focus on pushing units out for a France invasion.

I really do not want to start again but I cant shake the feeling that this is just another bug.... but I am way way to new to the game to understand the dynamics of controlling a strong line.

Please advise.

Regards

Lee

 

[mkupac]

AI is known to overreact to invasions and react really badly to multiple fronts. They also don't really try to put the minimum amount of forces required to hold a position to send others elsewhere.
This means that unless the just opened front is dealt with fast, they will put as many forces as they think they can there, including near port defenses...
There is no way to fix this, i think someone once said that the problem was the small number of units, and made a huge amount of units for everyone to compensate in a mod.

 

[BarrosRodrigues]

Hi,

I discovered the Sicily bug a few weeks back and made myself start over again and ensured I didn't attack Sicily until I had secured more of Italy.

This I have now achieved but I feel like I have run into another bug.

I analyzed where the best place to cut Italy in half would be and I invaded and secured Napoli and then two provinces to the right. This way I was able to cut Italy in half by only using three provinces. Napoli is Urban and sits behind a river, the other is mountainous and sits behind a river, sadly the other is plains and is fairly open.

I have secured them pretty well and have air support (great for busting tanks but not much infantry killing power at the moment). I have used a lot of engineers to get their terrain bonuses along with anti-tank/infantry. In all........... I think it's pretty secure with just 2-3 corps.

What is bothering me is that Italy have moved their entire force to this area, along with the Axis eastern Europeans. Thus there is a considerable force on my doorstep. I am taking down the infrastructure around them to decreased support, though despite all their troops they very rarely attack. I have sat there for approximately 9 months and have only really been attacked twice. Both attacks started at circa 15% and then dropped to an Italy loss.

Is this another bug or are they doing as they should? I guess they might think they have me blocked off, but I've secured the waters, I essentially control half of Italy with just 2-3 corps and can now focus on pushing units out for a France invasion.

I really do not want to start again but I cant shake the feeling that this is just another bug.... but I am way way to new to the game to understand the dynamics of controlling a strong line.

Please advise.

Regards

Lee

That is not a bug; it is just the AI being dumb as usual. I suggest playing at a higher difficulty level because the AI would have more IC and therefore more units so you won´t feel “guilty” when you mop the floor with Italy again. Anyway the biggest issue with the higher difficulty levels is not the AI but the supply throughput/port efficiency and it probably won´t be fun to handle unless ofc you know all variables and can plan accordingly (…)