USSR: Death By Strategic Redeployment

[UberFelix]

The ai for the USSR seems to go crazy with strategic redeployment. I'm trying to correct this in but without much success. Any help would be appreciated.

Facts:
a. From ai_file_doc file
# Proportion of divisions that may be strategically redeploying at the same time. Default: 0.25
max_redeploying = X

b. From any ai file in my HOI2
strat_redeploy_threshold = 25
*Note this number does NOT match the supposed default value of 0.25 in the ai_file_doc file.

c. I've changed the 25 number to: 1, 0.25, 0.1, and 0.01 and nothing seems to change. I've changed this values in ALL soviet ai files (1936, 1939, 1941, 1944). The way I conduct this experiment is to open the 1941 scenario as Afghanistan, I let the game run until July 15. Then I save, open up the USSR, and count the number of units in strategic redeployment.

Questions:
Can anyone here help me solve this problem?

 

[Akira]

Funny, but this is the problem that kills ai Empire of Russia in Armageddon.

 

[HistoryMan]

strat_redploy_threshold is nothing to do with the %age of units that can be in SR at any one time - it is the number of days travel (via on map means) at which the AI considers units to be eligible for SR instead. So, in this case, if it would take 25 days or more for a unit to travel from (say) Vladivostock to Moscow, the AI will consider using SR to transport that unit instead of just moving it on map.

Tim

 

[UberFelix]

strat_redploy_threshold is nothing to do with the %age of units that can be in SR at any one time - it is the number of days travel (via on map means) at which the AI considers units to be eligible for SR instead. So, in this case, if it would take 25 days or more for a unit to travel from (say) Vladivostock to Moscow, the AI will consider using SR to transport that unit instead of just moving it on map.

Tim

Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!
This seems to do the trick. The ai documentation file was no help.
I set the threshold to 75 days and this helped...a lot.
THANK YOU! I appreciate your input...

 

[Karagin]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!
This seems to do the trick. The ai documentation file was no help.
I set the threshold to 75 days and this helped...a lot.
THANK YOU! I appreciate your input...

Where did you make these changes at? I would like to do the same.

 

[UberFelix]

Where did you make these changes at? I would like to do the same.

Look in the Paradox/HOI2/ai folder (I abbreviated the folder names)
In this folder you will find all the unique ai codes for all countries.
The USSR has four different ai which is dependent on the year:
sov_1936
sov_1939
sov_1941
sov_1944
All four ai files will need to be changed otherwise when 1939 hits, the ai will go back to death by SD when it switches to the sov_1939 file.

The strategic redeployment variable is towards the top of the ai file. I used MS Word to open the file. I also changed other countries like Nat China, Japan, USA, CGX, Eng. and Ger so minimize the death by SD as well.

 

[Gen. Skobelev]

Another way to ease up the SR would be to increase the speed of SRing. That way AI would get the units faster on board and each individual unit would not spend so much time in the SR pool so it get units SRed faster to the areas it jugdes demand more units.

 

[UberFelix]

Another way to ease up the SR would be to increase the speed of SRing. That way AI would get the units faster on board and each individual unit would not spend so much time in the SR pool so it get units SRed faster to the areas it jugdes demand more units.

That would help but I would prefer that there was a parameter that just limited the number of SR at any one time. So if the USSR had a "train" value of 16. Then they could only SR 16 units at any one time. I'm playing a game now where the USSR declared war on Japan and Germany in 1942. There are over 100+ land units being SR at the moment. And this is with the new 75 day threshold I set for my USSR ai.