The Doomsday Compendium MOD

[unmerged(87945)]

Its so damn hard to take Soviet Union, i have to watch like 3 fronts all same time. In France US is trying to land, in Africa Italian army was destroyed in less than month and US landed in Sicily like 50 divisions, Italy has no fleet left at all and its being invaded from every single province with beach and on top of all that i have to fight with Soviets that have like 3 times more divisions than me...

I think it got too hard to win as Axis since Luxor made US AI invade Italy... US AI is simply overpowered, too much IC, too much manpower i dunno, im getting pissed off.

I think you should increase resources in SU and Ger because those two combined have less rare materials than US alone, and this is ridiculous if u have in mind that Russia (smaller than SU!) has more of those today than EU + US togather...

Same goes for oil. US has just insane source of oil, it can support like 20X more tanks/mech inf than anyone else... Hitler basicaly wanted to invade Ukraine because of their oil that was the only one in the world that woulndt freeze at -0 C and they had shitloads of it, and in game theres none...

If only i wasnt so lazy id rework Compendium with a few modifications of my own ^^

 

[Fernando Torres]

How did you invade Germany ?
In hard, you can managed to trigger peace events before winter '41.

 

[unmerged(87945)]

How did you invade Germany ?
In hard, you can managed to trigger peace events before winter '41.

Nah u didnt understand me, I play AS Germany, and simply cant survive since 2 lastest versions of Compendium. I usually defeat whole world as Soviet Union, its no problem at all, but playing as Germany is too difficult for me. Biggest issue i have is lack of manpower (since INF costs twice as much manpower than in vanilla) and maybe over powered US with their invasions everywhere with 50+ divisions...

I only wish i could make my own naval tech tree + have some modifications on AI for a few countries and Compendium would be perfect for my taste :rofl:

 

[Fernando Torres]

I understood but i wrote wrong. I meant how do you invade SU
So the question's still there : how did you invade it ?

 

[unmerged(87945)]

I understood but i wrote wrong. I meant how do you invade SU
So the question's still there : how did you invade it ?

Well basically this is what i do: Imagine ingame Germany-SU border before invasion in 1941. In northern parts (anexed Baltic States) theres too many forests and stuff so i dont like pushing that way, so i try to keep just enough forces in each territory so that i dont get pushed back (which is hard since they have 3 territories on, usually, 1 mine). Its basically just bunch of infantries + 1 or 2 tanks for each bunch. 1/3 of all forces is "reserves". As you go south, at abut Warsaw i also keep just enough forces so i dont get rolled over, cuz if i push that way its swamps all the time. And a bit more to the south are the low lands where i can mass about 15+ inf on each territory with maybe 5-6 tanks. I dont know in which month i lounch attack, i simply wait for weather to become clear in those plains and when it is clear i simply push on Stryj from Poland and the most northern territory of Hungary i think. I also use tactical bombers in "interdiction" missions, but that doesnt seem to work the way id like, cuz it lowers organisation (during the land combat) to maybe 15% and then it stays like that till the ground forces finish them off. So maybe a year into invasion (1942) i run out of oil and i got about 30 tanks, 0 mech, 0 moto, and 0 attachments that req oil, but i have maybe 30 tacs/nav + ~20 interceptors in English Channel. And on top of that in 1942. Italy is compleatly defeated in Africa, i mean divisions are destroyed, so it has maybe 20 left to protect mainland, which gets invaded soon by US cuz Italy has no navy to defend itself vs US carriers. Few weeks after its about 100 US land divisions in Italy and it basicaly surrenders so i have pull my forces from France which is also being invaded all the time by US or to pull back divisions from USSR front which then makes them capture Berlin in less than a month.

Also i hate those allied countries. Hungary/Romania are simply retarded. Romania has those Cavarly divs that are like 1st grade, and cant even have full streinght and also their land doctorines are not same as mine so i cant give them blue prints so they have about 50 ORG when i have 120 VS ~100 SU. I cant pust SU even one territory back even if itake control over Romania/Hungary/Bulgaria, and bring all their divisions in Romanian 2 border from with SU... Thats why i need more manpower so i can cover that [art of the front aswell...

Someone just added me to MSN few mins ago, was it you, cuz i dont see u in my MSN list?

 

[Luxor]

I think it got too hard to win as Axis since Luxor made US AI invade Italy... US AI is simply overpowered, too much IC, too much manpower i dunno, im getting pissed off.

You need to adjust your tactics. USSR can be beaten before 1943 if you're fast enough with your armored divisions. Garrison Italy so US won't be able to land. This is not going to be easy, but that's how I wanted it to be. Germany is no more an easy walk now.

 

[unmerged(87945)]

You need to adjust your tactics. USSR can be beaten before 1943 if you're fast enough with your armored divisions. Garrison Italy so US won't be able to land. This is not going to be easy, but that's how I wanted it to be. Germany is no more an easy walk now.

Ure evil Im gonna take over your mod and make my own

 

[Fernando Torres]

I suggest you to mass all your mobile forces in south and to push through Odessa then move north to Kiev and Smolensk. You have to pocket as much SOV divisions as you can. Playing in hard, i had 120 Inf, 60 MOT-ARM, 30 INT-FIG and around 30 CAS-TAC. I made amounts of ICs till '38. I managed to take Moscow before september and took Stalingrad and Leningrad before october '41. I really think that if you don't beat SU in '41, you are dead. But i'm not really GER specialist, i always play UK on MP...LOL...so good luck !

PS ya, 'was me but i got something to do, this is why you didnt see me

 

[Bucyrus]

I have been playing GER in my latest game and found that it is possible to defeat SOV relatively quickly. I have tried this both starting Sep 1940 and Jun 1941 - Your mileage may vary if you leave it later.

If you look at the map there are at least four encirclement opportunities for encirclement and destruction of the SOV forces.

These are:

North - Attack around the edge of Lithuania and Latvia on clear ground through to Riga and pocket these forces

Central - Pocket the forces in the Marshes by attacking North and South in parallel linking up north of Kiev. If you progressively attack sectors 2:1 or 3:1 soon the whole front is retreating and you can overtake them

South Day 1 - 30, I first pocket the forces in front line with Romania

South Day 30 -60, second encircle most of the Ukraine by moving towards Sevastopol

If you identify these and take onboard the suggestions from the forums

1. Use the (high speed) mobile forces to encircle (for me I have ~15/16 combined arms corps of 1 ARM/ 2 MOT or 1 ARM/ 1 CAV)

2. Attack across the entire front simultaneously to lock opposing forces in place - The longer battle duration now means that SOV can reinforce one or two battles at a time unless they are engaged

In addition I have research the doctrine that provides Forest move and attack bonuses and I use MTN troops for attacking into forests, swamps and mountains. I do not use ARM/MOT to attack into the wrong type of terrain unless necessary and rely on speed to breakthrough

Hope this helps - I have found this mod a lot more fun than vanilla and have seen some epic battles. It certainly takes more effort.

 

[Bom]

You need to adjust your tactics. USSR can be beaten before 1943 if you're fast enough with your armored divisions. Garrison Italy so US won't be able to land. This is not going to be easy, but that's how I wanted it to be. Germany is no more an easy walk now.

Is this due to something new in 0.93? In that case I should probably install it ASAP and start a new game!

 

[unmerged(85807)]

I tried Barbarossa a few times as well with about 125 Inf divs (the newly build all with art) and about forty motorized and armour divs (having spart and medium armour brigades respectively) in June 1941. I made the encirclement by rushing through the steppes to Kiev encircling the troops in the marshes. Now I'm trying to envelope the troops in the north but were unbable to penetrate their lines. Manpower is about 300 for reinforcements, all or almost all troops are fully upgraded, doctrines are up to date, though the 42 air superiority and ground attack doctrines are still being researched. It seems you cannot research more than exact half a year ahead due to immense penalties, is this correct?

Airforce consists of about 25 interceptors on the eastern front (many more are ready in July and August) and about 20 tacs and 20-30 cas.

Are the cas more useful on interdiction in this Mod (a great one so far!) or should they make ground attacks like in vanilla?

I realized that the encircled troops were not killed even when I took their last province but were rather fleeing and occupying an empty conquered one. Is this WAD?

I think I will try again from April 1941 this time allying myself with Hungary and Romania for a few troops in the south. ( I'm not allied with anyone and don't know if its beneficial to ally with Italy, Japan declares war at once to the USA, so I'm not allying with them until I am at war with the US)

When I start over again I will not build Industry until 39 since I am not able to take full advantage due to manpower reasons. Then I build a few more SHBBs and escorts along with marines for Seelöwe.

 

[Luxor]

Are the cas more useful on interdiction in this Mod (a great one so far!) or should they make ground attacks like in vanilla?

Interdiction missions are more useful.

I realized that the encircled troops were not killed even when I took their last province but were rather fleeing and occupying an empty conquered one. Is this WAD?

It's Vanilla game mechanic.

 

[Luxor]

Is this due to something new in 0.93? In that case I should probably install it ASAP and start a new game!

I have tweaked invasion AI in 0.93. And I will do more tweakings in 0.94.

 

[IndoEsia45]

Can i just overwrite the 0.93 to the previous 0.90 ??

 

[Luxor]

Can i just overwrite the 0.93 to the previous 0.90 ??

If you read installation notes, you will find out that you HAVE to do so. 0.93 is an upgrade that requires 0.9.

 

[unmerged(85807)]

Made it!

After thrashing the Russians in the north and centre, I made a push in February 42 to Stalingrad and got bitter peace on the the 20th of February. So I needed 8 months in the end.

Meanwhile I am in a global war, Japan does not seem to have any Problems but has not made much progress, the Italiens get thrashed in Africa and I cannot reach his ports.

At least no invasion of Europe is possible when my army returns. Does Russia declare war some time after their defeat?

Damn I just realized I forgot my slider movement due to all the fighting... ^^

 

[unmerged(85807)]

Questions concerning Japan

It`s 1939, I conquered China and all other Chinese factions. There were no surrender events. Is this WAD? I know that the AI created a puppet when I played Germany.

Second, I cannot build capital ships but shouldn`t I be able as Japan in 1939?

I installed the 0.9 version and patched it to 0.93.

Edit: Argh I could have withdrawn from the treaty If I`d abandoned the treaty via the doctrine tree... -_-

 

[zenkmander]

It's July 1938 and as Japan I conquered all of China as well, but not the western puppets such as Yunnan. I hold all of Nationalist China's key provinces and I'm not at war with Communist China (signed a white peace early on so I could focus on the Nationalists). I'm wondering the same thing as Lutscha: Are there supposed to be surrender events or something? Please let us know.

Edit: I don't want to immediately annex if I'm supposed to be waiting for an event.

 

[Luxor]

Yes there is but it won't trigger before April '40.

 

[zenkmander]

Ah, I see. So is it OK that I'm only occupying Nationalist China and not the western factions and Comm China? Does the event require that I hold the other areas as well or no? Also, where can I find the event, in case I consider executing it early to maintain realism?