Please don't cut off coastal Mauritania or southern Niger

[SchwarzKatze]

Although I support adding wastelands, the current plan as shown in the dev diary is a bit rough on the edges, as strategic habitable areas are blocked off.

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Southern Nigeria is the more significant of the two, as it's densely populated AND a corridor connecting French West Africa and French Equatorial Africa. While Nigeria would still be available most of the time, it's not guaranteed to be the case, so I suggest keeping it open.

Mauritania is less populated, but it's still strategic: it connects Spanish Morocco and French West Africa, whose owners have a high chance of ending up at war. As such, it should not be magically blocked off. Also, it proved to be viable to support a country on its own, so not really a wasteland either.

 

[endimielle1]

Nice reasoning! Hope PDS still have time to adjust the map before patch.

 

[Temudhun Khan]

If Paradox take the time to reshape those provinces, I hope they will take the opportunity to work on other parts of the African continent. However, I don't expect them to do something like this for an Axis themed dlc.

 

[Dalwin]

My real question is whether it is best to have the blocked zone extend all the way to the west coast or should there be kept a narrow passable strip along the coast? I realize that the area is very lightly inhabited, but no more so than parts of Egypt's Red Sea coast and no mod that I have seen severs the connection from Egypt going south.

 

[Meglok]

My real question is whether it is best to have the blocked zone extend all the way to the west coast or should there be kept a narrow passable strip along the coast? I realize that the area is very lightly inhabited, but no more so than parts of Egypt's Red Sea coast and no mod that I have seen severs the connection from Egypt going south.

Really depends on how the ai reacts with a passage open on each coast. If it floods units into West Africa that might be why they are blocking it.

My one concern with this is will the ai dogpile divisions into choke points like El Alamein, Sudan, or if open Mauritania. Hopefully the province overstack issue is also being addressed in 1.4.

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[Dalwin]

Really depends on how the ai reacts with a passage open on each coast. If it floods units into West Africa that might be why they are blocking it.

My one concern with this is will the ai dogpile divisions into choke points like El Alamein, Sudan, or if open Mauritania. Hopefully the province overstack issue is also being addressed in 1.4.

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As far as I can tell they have taken the NML changes without further alteration as far as the Sahara and Himalayas are concerned. I do not now if they have also adopted the changes that NML makes to Australia, Borneo and Papua/New Guinea.

Based on the above assumption, I have played many games in both SP and various MP configurations. The AI behaves much better in Africa with NML than without. It sends significantly fewer units and those is does send take a lot less attrition. I have seen no evidence that your concern involving chokepoints is merited. I simply don't like the chokepoint at Alamein being the gateway to all of Africa instead of only to Egypt and Suez even though those are admittedly the most important parts. I think it plays better with some, preferably poor quality, access in the west.