Let's have 'Request specific attack' this time

[unmerged(15159)]

One of my wishes for HOI2 that I've not seen mentioned yet:

The manual for HOI 1 mentions that you can request a specific attack from your allies at a certain province and date. Obviously, it didn't make it into HOI 1 but I think it could be a great feature if done right.

For instance, tell Canada that you want them to attack Dieppe at a certain date, and rather than them send in single divisions they plan for an attack and go when you ask.

I'd also like this to be tied into some intelligence system. The longer the gap between the time you request the attack and the time it is set to happen, the greater the chance of intercepting intelligence about this (modified by your techs and ministers of course).

So you may get a popup saying there is a high probability of an attack on Gibraltar on May the 4th, or you may have an attack planned and suddenly see the AI move all its troops into the target province and know that they've figured out your plan.

To make this more interesting, once an attack is planned it should be hard to un-plan it, to represent the difficulties in chain of command and so on, especially across different countries.

Anyway, that's my wish

 

[killerdude11]

i like that idea

 

[unmerged(26876)]

YES! Some coordination with your AI allies would be good.

 

[Bandit109]

This would be good but I think it's stretching it a little far. People can always dream though

 

[unmerged(15159)]

Well, it made it into the manual for the last version so someone somewhere considered it

 

[Bandit109]

Well, it made it into the manual for the last version so someone somewhere considered it

I love that manual :rofl: :rofl:

 

[Narug]

I'm all over it

 

[unmerged(17780)]

Well, they had a feature this kind in the Age of Empires, so why not here. Imagine landing to Normandy with your 50 American divisions while the Canadians land from Bretagne, the Brits, New Zealanders and the Aussies from the South. Wohoo!

 

[unmerged(20829)]

I think requesting an attack from an ally is a must in HoI2, I really missed that feature in HoI.

About the intelligence stuff... cool, very cool, I'd love it.

 

[Shadow Knight]

Yeah, you just can't argue with a feature like this. Besides it could help to prevent some foolish AI behavior that no doubt will crop up.

 

[nachinus]

Probably it's hard to implement because it deals with ai behaviour, which is always the most difficult and weakest point of pc games. Still, its a great idea and it would be fine if it could be added and the ai can handle it apropiately.

 

[Insect2]

Something that might be much easier to implement might be to have periodic 'conferences' with the other powers in your alliance. They could state their current plans (which AI file they are following, i.e. on the attack, on defense, some sort of balance, etc.) and then you could suggest in some way which general policy you'd like them to follow. For example, recommending to the Romanians that they go over to the defensive and fall back into the mountains instead of getting chopped up on the steppes.

Not that I'm against recommending specific province attacks, BTW. It sounds great. I'd just also like to see some sort of broad policy communications between the members of an alliance. Something like the British saying that they were focusing on the Med, the Americans saying they were preparing for an invasion of Europe, etc.

 

[Luka]

I think its an essential feature. It certainly was very important in real life. The idea of allies is that they work togeather. When the British landed onn D-Day, they didnt just hope that the Americans, Canadians & Australians would be there. They knew it.