Q : Why doesn't AI garrison ports properly ?

[makif130289]

Hi folks,

I am newbie to HOI4 and as a result that could be a stupid question. I am trying to make AI to garrison ports in China and Indochina. I have an army with 12 divisions of garrisons.

As seen in the picture, i ordered the army to defend all ports. But it just puts all 12 divisions in 3 ports. (In fact, it placed all of them in a single province before i quitted ).

I used this method successfully in my previous Italy-Germany games. In this game too, I placed all my garrisons to tiny Pacific islands with this method. AI distributed all garrisons equally.

Now the question coming to my mind; does garrisoning ally ports somewhat confuse garrison-AI ? Or am i missing something very obvious ?

 

[a_sophist]

There have been threads on this. Devs are aware, and it will hopefully be better next patch. In the meantime just micromanage it instead of relying on the command.

 

[ThuderLizard2]

As seen in the picture, i ordered the army to defend all ports. But it just puts all 12 divisions in 3 ports.

Garrison command is bugged ATM. Wasn't fixed in 1.5.1.

 

[Meglok]

Hi folks,

I am newbie to HOI4 and as a result that could be a stupid question. I am trying to make AI to garrison ports in China and Indochina. I have an army with 12 divisions of garrisons.

As seen in the picture, i ordered the army to defend all ports. But it just puts all 12 divisions in 3 ports. (In fact, it placed all of them in a single province before i quitted ).

I used this method successfully in my previous Italy-Germany games. In this game too, I placed all my garrisons to tiny Pacific islands with this method. AI distributed all garrisons equally.

Now the question coming to my mind; does garrisoning ally ports somewhat confuse garrison-AI ? Or am i missing something very obvious ?

Just to cover the bases;
Verify you set the garrison orders for ports only.
Verify you have enough divisons to fill the orders. Check the divisons required in the garrison order box to make sure.
No, it evidently doesn't work well in allied territory. Do those manually.

When in doubt, set the garrison orders, let the ai move, and then check them. If it doesn't look good cancel them and move a few manually to where they are needed.

PDS is still tweaking garrison coding, it is apparently more difficult than it would seem.

 

[Mztr44]

Yeah the garrison command is a bit wonky right now. It'll work to a degree and then leave undefended ports, manually placing troops there doesn't work since it just wants to send them back to the overguarded ports. However, i've had a little success by disbanding the army, moving some troops to the undefended ports and then recreating the garrison with the garrison command and it usually works things out a bit better.

 

[makif130289]

Yeah the garrison command is a bit wonky right now. It'll work to a degree and then leave undefended ports, manually placing troops there doesn't work since it just wants to send them back to the overguarded ports. However, i've had a little success by disbanding the army, moving some troops to the undefended ports and then recreating the garrison with the garrison command and it usually works things out a bit better.

Thanks for the replies.

I used "fallback line" instead. It is not very nice but still works.

 

[Covfam]

Hi folks,

I am newbie to HOI4 and as a result that could be a stupid question. I am trying to make AI to garrison ports in China and Indochina. I have an army with 12 divisions of garrisons.

As seen in the picture, i ordered the army to defend all ports. But it just puts all 12 divisions in 3 ports. (In fact, it placed all of them in a single province before i quitted ).

I used this method successfully in my previous Italy-Germany games. In this game too, I placed all my garrisons to tiny Pacific islands with this method. AI distributed all garrisons equally.

Now the question coming to my mind; does garrisoning ally ports somewhat confuse garrison-AI ? Or am i missing something very obvious ?

I find that for me i make a militia template specifically for ports and them manually place them in my ports and build up sea ports a couple times and leave them with an entrenching general without orders. And they tend to do good enough. If i ever gove them orders. The ai leave some ports open. My port miltia template is typically 3 infantry 2 AA , engineers and police and with fortificantions they do more than enough

 

[Dalnar]

The screenshot shows, you need at min.13 divisions for your garrison settings and have only 12 divisions...so maybe the AI is just confused and will reither eshuffle the troops on the ports constantly or do not defend some at all.

 

[makif130289]

The screenshot shows, you need at min.13 divisions for your garrison settings and have only 12 divisions...so maybe the AI is just confused and will reither eshuffle the troops on the ports constantly or do not defend some at all.

That is not the case. AI doesnt shuffle the units, it just places (almost) all of them in a single province. I also tried to garrison fewer number of ports with more garrisons with the same result.