Northernlion HOI4 preview on YouTube

[aruon]

Well..we didn't really learn much from it, did we?

true, but we did see gameplay... and rambling

 

[Vedinu]

It's not going to be like EU4.
You're not going to see two world wars.

Sounds good to me.

 

[smederevo991]

Waiting to see a video preview from someone who actually played a HOI series before (if Paradox even called someone like that to their little event) , I basically stopped watching this one as soon as I saw Finland entering Leningrad without a fight because he sent all his troops to WW1 style static fronts in Turkey and Romania or whatever...

 

[Modestus]

What is this? I presume its the AI path finding abilities perhaps it would be wiser to move them yourself.

 

[fabius]

Hahaha, yeah I saw that. Looked like an oddity and afterwards he has his divisions on a containment line in that plan. This odd though; I figure that they will have picked up and ironed out obvious oddities by release.

 

[potski]

What is this? I presume its the AI path finding abilities perhaps it would be wiser to move them yourself.

I wondered if he had clicked on to strat redeploy them by mistake, because we never saw arrows like that elsewhere and it was only a second or two they were visible.

But regardless of whether the paths make sense, what matters is what happened, and I was very impressed that he could drop a stack of Divs between the advancing Finns and Moscow and the AI successfully contained the advance, then started to break them down.

 

[Mannstien]

What is this? I presume its the AI path finding abilities perhaps it would be wiser to move them yourself.

Nom Nom, Pasta!!

 

[potski]

Waiting to see a video preview from someone who actually played a HOI series before (if Paradox even called someone like that to their little event) , I basically stopped watching this one as soon as I saw Finland entering Leningrad without a fight because he sent all his troops to WW1 style static fronts in Turkey and Romania or whatever...

It was multiplayer, and he might have believed for good reason that Finland wouldn't invade. He was allied with Germany I think.

In terms of the "static" fronts, he was invading Turkey and Romania through some difficult terrain in winter.

It was maybe not the greatest idea to then commit his remaining resources to a further invasion of Latvia.

 

[paranoidsteve]

What is this? I presume its the AI path finding abilities perhaps it would be wiser to move them yourself.

This is his army group of 10 units following the orders he gave, 1,hold the front, 2. all move to the same province

 

[mdw1985]

What is this? I presume its the AI path finding abilities perhaps it would be wiser to move them yourself.

I know what it is. It is an italian battleplan...it's the spaghetti maneuver

 

[potski]

But why all move to the same province? And why do some of the paths to get to a position on the front pass through enemy occupied territory?

Was this a manual order he gave, or from a Battle Plan?

 

[Modestus]

I wondered if he had clicked on to strat redeploy them by mistake, because we never saw arrows like that elsewhere and it was only a second or two they were visible.

But regardless of whether the paths make sense, what matters is what happened, and I was very impressed that he could drop a stack of Divs between the advancing Finns and Moscow and the AI successfully contained the advance, then started to break them down.

Looked at it again, one click will create a Defensive Front for the whole of a Border so the AI has decided this is the best way to try and create that Defensive Front.

Oddly enough because the player has not enough Divisions to create a continuous Defensive line what appear to be erratic movements could have a chance of succeeding as long as those Divisions accidentally run into the enemy Divisions.


A snapshot of AI logic at work? Its attempting to try and cover the Border.

 

[Narnyay]

the more hoi4 vids i see the more annoyed i get by the day/night cycle. i'm sorry guys i just dont like it