too manyreserve divisions

[Bullfrog]

Hi CORE guys and thank you very much. I have enjoyed your mod since HOI 1, when you made the game much more enjoyable than vanilla.

I am playing a GER game in .302, (I just updated to current) and it is Jan. of 43. I destroyed the soviets and looked across the atlantic to my next enemy, the US. They had not landed in Africa or anywhere I could see except in New Guinea, Truk and Saipan. While I applaud their Pacific gains, I was sad to see that they were ignoring me. I want them to attack me ferociously.

So I cheated and did the 'nofog' which told me that they had nothing to threaten me with. No divisions in England or in the Mediterranean. I looked at their army via statistics and saw that they had only 13 INF divisions and a bunch of Res. The same with ENG. They had a pitiful 5 INF and like 40 Res. In fact all the major nations had less than 15 INF, and dozens of Res, little to no MOT or ARM or anything threatening to my 150 INF and 20 ARM. I was so upset that I quit the game, obviously realizing that I had essentially no real enemy left.

Is is the increased IC and MP cost that prevents the AI from building a real army? Can the Allied AI be told to actually fight in Europe?

 

[HistoryMan]

Do not denigrate Reserve Divisions - they are nearly as tough as INF, especially in defence.

The US is probably concentrating on naval forces at the moment, but it certainly has the capacity to turn out ARM/MEC/MOT (INF if it wanted to - generally the US builds MOT instead) by the score.

Tim

 

[unmerged(17767)]

In most of my games the US has 80 divisions or so sunning themselves on south pacific islands. :wacko:

 

[Bullfrog]

Does the AI tend to attack the Axis like the invasion of N. Africa and Italy? D-Day? I'm in 1943, and I got the Bitter Peace. Does this effect the Allied AI in any way? I have a front with Persia, so I guess the UK AI might be loath to attack anywhere else. Can anyone help with an answer?

 

[unmerged(17767)]

I've noticed that the AI will generally invade N. Africa (Vichy holdings). Of course they will build up on a "hostile border" like Persia becomes after the BP.

As Germany I continue to the middle east after the BP and usually end up taking India (if the Japanese haven't gotten there first) and close off the Med by taking Suez (I usually take out Spain and Gibraltar after France falls).