I know that this is core specific, but the core forum seemed so organized and historic minded that I felt sorta strange about making a thread in there.
Anyway, I am playing my 4th game of HoI - all have been played using CORE. Its my first german game, and I am about to quit it because its gotten too easy.
I play it on vhard/furious, I edited the hard core events so that it didn't give me the -resource & dissent modifiers, and instead just gave my enemies additional tech.
But its still a little too easy, rolling through most of europe with just your starting units is a little silly. The americans even entered the war early, in 39 I think (maybe late 38) when I was still busy in france. 4 well placed fighters pretty much ended their involvement. Further more, the Allies DoW'd me in 38 while all my units were surrounding the czechs. I had zero troops bordering france, so I decided to quick DoW the czechs, and rolled through the czech republic fast enough to get my troops to the border with france, DoW belgum, and break through into french territory still just using my starting OOB. I was tech whoring and didn't expect the allies to DoW me so early. I also had trouble getting italy or nationalist spain to ally with me, so I was on my own.
Anyway, whatever, I'm not trying to brag, just saying that its way too easy. In that situation I should have gotten crushed, its just about the worst case possible for a german player, only thing that would have been worse is if the reds also DoW'd me before I was finished in france, and had time to switch to production.
So I thought about it a little bit, and I decided that to make it more challenging, I should give a number of countries a production bonus, a toned down version of the great patriotic war, recieved at the beginning. This goes to the allies (including france), the russians, and maybe even some of the little minors you might eat up.
In addition, I was considering writing some kind of hardcoded invasion event for the allies. Have them randomly pop up with 20+ divs of infantry on 2-3 beaches. I don't know if the AI would be able to secure and expand any of these beachheads into something really threatening, but whatever, it'd be a start.
Anyay, I thought I'd ask the community for suggestions and help with this since I really want to enjoy playing some of the major majors, but they all just seem to be no challenge at all.
Not to mention, I'm sure you guys can come up with better ways to implement all this then the hacky events I am planning on using.
Anyway, I am playing my 4th game of HoI - all have been played using CORE. Its my first german game, and I am about to quit it because its gotten too easy.
I play it on vhard/furious, I edited the hard core events so that it didn't give me the -resource & dissent modifiers, and instead just gave my enemies additional tech.
But its still a little too easy, rolling through most of europe with just your starting units is a little silly. The americans even entered the war early, in 39 I think (maybe late 38) when I was still busy in france. 4 well placed fighters pretty much ended their involvement. Further more, the Allies DoW'd me in 38 while all my units were surrounding the czechs. I had zero troops bordering france, so I decided to quick DoW the czechs, and rolled through the czech republic fast enough to get my troops to the border with france, DoW belgum, and break through into french territory still just using my starting OOB. I was tech whoring and didn't expect the allies to DoW me so early. I also had trouble getting italy or nationalist spain to ally with me, so I was on my own.
Anyway, whatever, I'm not trying to brag, just saying that its way too easy. In that situation I should have gotten crushed, its just about the worst case possible for a german player, only thing that would have been worse is if the reds also DoW'd me before I was finished in france, and had time to switch to production.
So I thought about it a little bit, and I decided that to make it more challenging, I should give a number of countries a production bonus, a toned down version of the great patriotic war, recieved at the beginning. This goes to the allies (including france), the russians, and maybe even some of the little minors you might eat up.
In addition, I was considering writing some kind of hardcoded invasion event for the allies. Have them randomly pop up with 20+ divs of infantry on 2-3 beaches. I don't know if the AI would be able to secure and expand any of these beachheads into something really threatening, but whatever, it'd be a start.
Anyay, I thought I'd ask the community for suggestions and help with this since I really want to enjoy playing some of the major majors, but they all just seem to be no challenge at all.
Not to mention, I'm sure you guys can come up with better ways to implement all this then the hacky events I am planning on using.
