Some feedback on new DAIM

[Cyrus Spitama]

Guarantee of independence ???




Errr ?


Heh am I blind ?

That shot is as I am marching on their last VP and just before annexation.




BTW- If I seem to be asking too many questions don't take offense. I just need to properly evaluate DAIM and it's goal so the merger with CCIP is smooth. It's not just a simple combination of text and events

 

[Cyrus Spitama]

Forgot to give my additional feedback

I am now on my third run after annexing Sinkiang (4th counting that DOW game that I rewinded ) and the Soviets have not DOW'd me yet. There has been one possible mitigating factor . So that I am not wholly underprepared, I relocated most of my troops to the Soviet border. The time they DOW'd me, I only had one 3 division army on their borders plus about 4 garrisons. Was my weak defensive line provocation for them or was that just chance due to my annexation ??

 

[unmerged(56533)]

Something never happened before. I started '36 as GER, did my usual buildup and in 1938 FRA declared war - now I can restart, because this happens every time I reload. My relationship just before the war is -144. Makes DAIM the FRA AI so aggressive, that they attack just when the relationships gets lower than -100. I think this should not happen as it is not realistic.

P.S.:
It is my first DAIM and I am impressed by the new buildup behavior of the AI. Really like playing against my neighbour ;-)

 

[Spocky]

Something never happened before. I started '36 as GER, did my usual buildup and in 1938 FRA declared war - now I can restart, because this happens every time I reload. My relationship just before the war is -144. Makes DAIM the FRA AI so aggressive, that they attack just when the relationships gets lower than -100. I think this should not happen as it is not realistic.

P.S.:
It is my first DAIM and I am impressed by the new buildup behavior of the AI. Really like playing against my neighbour ;-)

We don't touch France ,so i have no idea whats causing this
Maybe you have done something ahistorical

Spocky

 

[Cyrus Spitama]

Gotta head to school and got a lot of work this week so this may be my last update for at least a few days.

Finally decided to roll past '39 and that potential Soviet DOW. Lots of interesting occurences.

Soviets decided no Molotov-Ribbentrop pact so Poland is owned fully by Germany. I reloaded this one and they repeated the no M-R pact
After France fell and Vichy was formed, Syria formed and was immediately DOW'd by the UK ( about 2 days later). Nothing too unusual about Syria of course but, before the UK even finished with Syria, they DOW'd Vichy...

Also, Italy joined the Axis before France fell this time and I must say.. they have a flaw. Grenoble and Nice has Italian cores on them I believe? Either the Vichy event should give these to Italy or Italy should be very aggressive about taking them before Vichy forms and owns them. Nothing major but, just my opinion

Just after Vicky was DOW'd, Italy DOW'd Greece. Romania (which was still democratic) joined the Axis just after and joined the fray. Didn't think Romania would stay democratic and join so easily ... Not long after that Hungary finally joined the Axis. Bulgaria is still out of the war but, I expect them to join soon enough.



Well, off to school and thanks again for the wonderful mod. It has been fun seeing all the little differences in the AI choices and builds. Will update more this week as I get a little time to play.

 

[Cyrus Spitama]

I meant to post this to show yall what I meant about Romania's aggressiveness in Europe.



EVERY game so far has Romania taking big chunks of the area before Bulgaria or Italy even gets the chance to say... WAR ! The only one that seems to really jump when Italy DOWs Yugo is Germany ( Germany only DOW'd Yugo once so far.. rest was Italy). The only reason Hungary has any of Yugoslavia is due to that core(and in this pic they actually moved into one whole province). Just to further my comment on Romania's aggressiveness, every single time Romania has been the one to annex Yugo as well. lol

 

[Cyrus Spitama]

Is this intentional or just a fluke of my game ???




Notice the date... Those borders have not changed since just after the SCW fired.

 

[stabsoffizier]

Is this intentional or just a fluke of my game ???
Notice the date... Those borders have not changed since just after the SCW fired.

This is the most common stalement in the SCW, I've seen that a dozen times even in vanilla games.

 

[e-stab]

We haven't noticed problems with either Romania or Spain. And we didn't even touch their AIs.

 

[Cyrus Spitama]

Well this game I admit has been one of those unusual ones(in other theatres as well) anyways Thought I would ask... lol

 

[unmerged(57311)]

Hey,

I noticed that AI USSR always beats AI germany.
It is probably because DAIM made the AI similar to what would a player do, and a soviet player with the same skill can easily beat the german player.

But anyway will there be any improvement for the german AI?

In '41 the axis (including sweden) attacked the SU it was terrible.
On the north elbing and konigsberg were captured in several months by the soviets, but the germans made their way till about kursk on the south.
However they got encircled and its 43 summer and almost all germany has fallen to soviet hands, now germany is defending its french borders...

 

[Cyrus Spitama]

I have had the reverse results so far in my games. This includes quite a few handsoff games and several played games (same game rewound and replayed). In all but a few, Germany has dominated the Soviets. I think a key issue that may be effecting the Germans is the M-R pact seems to oddly be refused by Russia . I saw from looking at the event files there is a 96% chance of doing the historical choice but, not the case if you watched some of my games. Has been more like 40% IF the Soviets refuse the M-R pact, that is the seal on their coffin. All that needs to be done is dig the grave now ...

I am not knocking this outcome, as it is unusual and fun not seeing the Ruskies make so many troops. What it creates though, is a massive Germany that I am scared to DOW ( call me stupid but I do anyway) that I have to fight after pacifying the Americans( this is Japan's view). Let me tell yah, these Germans are overly built, overly teched, and very entrenched Makes for a fun game actually lol

My only regret is, the Germans are so strong in the games I had so far, I never get to release Trans-Ural or Siberia before Bitter peace fires :/

 

[unmerged(57311)]

I have had the reverse results so far in my games. This includes quite a few handsoff games and several played games (same game rewound and replayed). In all but a few, Germany has dominated the Soviets. I think a key issue that may be effecting the Germans is the M-R pact seems to oddly be refused by Russia . I saw from looking at the event files there is a 96% chance of doing the historical choice but, not the case if you watched some of my games. Has been more like 40% IF the Soviets refuse the M-R pact, that is the seal on their coffin. All that needs to be done is dig the grave now ...

I am not knocking this outcome, as it is unusual and fun not seeing the Ruskies make so many troops. What it creates though, is a massive Germany that I am scared to DOW ( call me stupid but I do anyway) that I have to fight after pacifying the Americans( this is Japan's view). Let me tell yah, these Germans are overly built, overly teched, and very entrenched Makes for a fun game actually lol

My only regret is, the Germans are so strong in the games I had so far, I never get to release Trans-Ural or Siberia before Bitter peace fires :/

Interesting, I also noticed that many many ahistorical choices were made by the AI so far (sweden allies finnland in the winter war and later joins axis; japan dowed USSR after that chasan lake or sg. incident in 2 of my games; republican spain won and dowed the axis) but at least it gave some more fun to the game which is very good.

 

[Spocky]

Hey,

I noticed that AI USSR always beats AI germany.
It is probably because DAIM made the AI similar to what would a player do, and a soviet player with the same skill can easily beat the german player.

But anyway will there be any improvement for the german AI?

I'm curios . Which scenario/setup are you playing?

We tested most of the time with normal/agressive and the 1936 and Germany losses only 1 time because of a dday. The other 20 games Germany was winning easily.

Are you playing 1938 ?

Spocky

 

[stljeffbb]

Some more feedback on DD DAIM v.2

OK, its mid August in my ahistorical Nat. China / Germany Axis......upon peeking at the situation (by loading then reloading as respective countries), here is what the major powers have done:

Soviet Union: Sitting out this one so far, other than annexing Tannu Tavu

Germany: Did not invade Poland, took over Norway (but has nearly lost it...details to come), has all of Western Europe..seems stalemated

UK: Stalemated with Germany in Europe, Stalemated with China in Asia....lost most possessions in Pacific

USA: OK, they retook Norway pretty much on their own (Germany still clinging to one province)....has taken over various islands in Pacific (took Bonin but not Iwo Jima!?!)....bombing Japan from Taiwan (I think these were the survivors from Phillipines), and running air superiority over China

Japan: Pretty much stalemated, slowly losing ground to USA in Pacific, but has built some version VII "semi-modern" carriers

I'm surprised the "Allies" have not made more progress versus Germany and Japan....Japan still has a viable carrier force (that attacks my assets at will) that seems to have not been engaged by the USA carriers, although there have been battles because a fair amount of carriers have been sunk.....

As China...I have survived because every Axis nation has sent planes to my defense.....the USA has A WHOLE BUNCH of fighter divisions on Taiwan, but I think the Germans/Vichy/Italians are better quality.....also, I can't get into the mountains in Sinking and Shanxi areas.....the Brits and friends have it well blocked, and I'm seriously considering invading Tibet to try to get through to India or else I'll be out of luck if and when more troops come....AI has definately worked there

OK, I hope this feedback is somewhat applicable for DAIM....its been fun! I realized I should have been building more IC all along, because now I wish I had more capacity......

CONCERNS I HAVE....these may or may not be DAIM related:

1) Since I'm in the Axis, I should not be researching "B-25 Mitchells"...also, it seems that even when I trade away for German blueprints, I still generally have produced American products....

2) Upon reloading a saved game, quite often, troops I've been loaned by Germany and Italy revert back to their original owners, only to be re-loaned before they seem to board TP ships (if any are even available.....the troops still head to a port for loading)

OK, that's it for now....

Jeff

 

[unmerged(57311)]

I'm curios . Which scenario/setup are you playing?

We tested most of the time with normal/agressive and the 1936 and Germany losses only 1 time because of a dday. The other 20 games Germany was winning easily.

Are you playing 1938 ?

Spocky

No, I played always 36 scenarios.

 

[unmerged(57311)]

I just want to congratulate for this outstanding mod to you!

After in my game as Japan I thought I'll start a game as SU on VH. Before I tried DAIM i always repelled the german attack and they didnt get further than Kiev. However this time this wasnt the case.
The germans declared war in '40 (clever choice) and I wasnt fully prepared, however I thought time will solve everything.
The war started in '40 august. Its 40 December and they just caputerd leningrad, moscow is almost surrounded, sevastopol is being sieged and I can hardly hold the line at stalingrad. The worst is that the line between moscow and stalingrad is completely broken.

The AI served my head to me this time, and it has very much to do with your mod, DAIM.

Thanks

 

[Spocky]

I just want to congratulate for this outstanding mod to you!

After in my game as Japan I thought I'll start a game as SU on VH. Before I tried DAIM i always repelled the german attack and they didnt get further than Kiev. However this time this wasnt the case.
The germans declared war in '40 (clever choice) and I wasnt fully prepared, however I thought time will solve everything.
The war started in '40 august. Its 40 December and they just caputerd leningrad, moscow is almost surrounded, sevastopol is being sieged and I can hardly hold the line at stalingrad. The worst is that the line between moscow and stalingrad is completely broken.

The AI served my head to me this time, and it has very much to do with your mod, DAIM.

Thanks

hehe , nice to hear.

Spocky

 

[wiguy]

I have run a couple of handsoff games as well as playing one myself. But the last handsoff i played are "misbehaving". US and UK are doing very well. UK have stalled japan in burma, and us have taken most of the southern pacific. Phillipines haven't even been annexed. US have also invaded north africa. And for the first time; SU is holding the germans! The front is straight north and west from astrakhan, and they seem to be on the offensive.
Anyway; it is with the US i'm noticing problems. They don't have enough transports! So practically every invaded island are having problems with supply. I haven't seen this before. They don't produce any neither. The total number of transports is ~150, but they need many many more to meet demand. The rather weird consequence is that the us is driven out of africa by vichy forces, supported by the swedish air force I just thought i'd report it. Could it be that german and japanese convoy raiding are taking such a huge toll on transports?

 

[wiguy]

I just had to post this screenshot. It is an evidence of how good the british ai actually have become!

The only thing i did myself (i am of course germany) was taking bermuda. From there on it took about two weeks before washington was in uk hands. Btw, i allied with uk after the british surrender. This is on VH/N.