The Allied AI in the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre on Historical

[=XIII=Wedge]

I have played multiple games in-theater now, mainly as Communist China. I will admit I don't play cheesy, so taking out Warlords early is a no for me. However I am able to develop Yan'an, build up my 8th Route Army and New 4th Army and intervene in the 2nd Sino-Japanese War if I feel the Japanese are getting too successful. I infiltrate base areas successfully and allow Japan the occupy the eastern coast. To be honest I know that my only hope playing this way is for a stalemate in China and the US to nuke Japan into surrender. The plan is then to win the Chinese Civil War by launching my uprising.

I'm not naive enough to expect the AI to follow every single move historically, however I have noticed a consistent trend regarding the war in the Pacific.

There currently isn't one, well not with the British or American AI taking part.

Currently if I can get to 1944, it has the same outcome:

• India, Australia and New Zealand and Hawaii occupied by the Japanese.
• Zero attempt by the US submarine force to engage in the commerce war.
• Zero island hopping campaign.

I think the game is amazing - the intricacies of the possibilities are fantastic.

Whilst I know the focus of the next major expansion is the Soviet Union and potentially land warfare, please devote a small amount of time looking into why with minimal intervention by the player the US and British Naval AI are giving Japan a free ride in the Indian and Pacific oceans.

I can do my thing on mainland China, but the AI has to at least sometimes fight in the Pacific.

Keep up the good work - the games has developed leaps and bounds since release.

 

[blahmaster6k]

Just wait a while. Sooner or later the US will shift their focus to Japan. In my most recent game the US AI invaded Japan in 1947.

 

[Vin55]

Currently they will ignore Japan and swarm Italy and France with divisions, the German looses because they will not guard their coast and the allied ai deathballs so many divisons, that if you dont have 40 wth tanks you get slaugthered, dont know how they get supply ^^. The same with Italy in ethopia though, they also get loads of local supply even if you raid the coast, like wait suez is closed med also do they send stuff through Vichy or Northern Germany... Japan can lose China which he does 90 percent of the time for me or be pushed back to Korea, but because the allied are all in Europe they have a free hand.
If New-Zealand losses 100k against Ungary you know the game has a problem with spam^^ (in real life Nea-Zealand would never have supported that loss for a war in Europe.)
They should wright the Australian, the New-Zealand and the British Raj AI to mostly guard and play against Japan, as it was mostly historicaly. (I know that Raj helepd in the West as well^^)

 

[Quantum_AI]

I think allied minors are scripted to roll over to Japan. Australia doesn't have a lot of ports so it can easily garrison them with a few divisions and just sit there all happy. But somehow they still always get taken out.

India also often ends up with enough troops to easily guard the small and easily defensible border in Burma/ Bengal. But somehow still gets rolled over. When I play as the UK, I take control of Indian forces, just draw a line and forget about it and it never breaks. Not sure what the AI does.

 

[Vin55]

They have all troops in Europe and all Navy in med or channelfor endless naval invasions^^ thats what happening.

 

[=XIII=Wedge]

What I am getting is that the USA and UK are focusing on Germany first before turning attention to the Pacific. That seems reasonable, that no major counter offensives, but a defensive posture to protect Australia and the supply lines between the USA and Australia is taken.

Is it possible to mod the AI to take this into account. Is the current weightings for the US AI to contest the pacific when at war with Japan too low a factor compared to the European intervention?

 

[Ketchup & friends]

Historical US AI is hardcoded to do europe first.
But the results can be ridiculous, it ignores the pacific even if Japan conquers everyhting there.

 

[Leinad965]

Historical US AI is hardcoded to do europe first.
But the results can be ridiculous, it ignores the pacific even if Japan conquers everyhting there.

Are you sure? i thought it can be moded, only problem is, they cannot focus army on Europe and navy on Pacific, they focus as whole country.

 

[BlueAndGrey]

If you look at the AI's strats its setup to focus on japan more once India or Australia are close to surrendering.

 

[Ketchup & friends]

Are you sure? i thought it can be moded, only problem is, they cannot focus army on Europe and navy on Pacific, they focus as whole country.

Yes, but it would change the checksum.