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ai builds only eng because their files tell them too.
the build shemes are FUBAR.
for more info and a option to solution click on link in my sig.
the build shemes are FUBAR.
for more info and a option to solution click on link in my sig.
A leftover from older HoI games, which had no stacking penalty. This made ENG the most valuable brigade in those game.
In AoD, their lack of Art brigade means you can headbutt opposing INF quite easily, as eng is nice, very cost efficient but lacks the concentrated power of better brigades
I did have a quick look at just the starting AI settings of various countries: It seems this 100% ENG setting is only present in the 1936 ai files, all others have their build priorities split between multiple attachment types.
AFAIR the AI was supposed to load a newer ai file once the game year reached the year of the next higher ai file (a 1939 game for ENG AI would then load the 1939 ai from eng_1939.ai) but it does not seem to happen.
Hmmm, the easiest way to fix this would be to copy the brigade build shemes from acountries later ai file to the 1936 ai file.
EDIT: Does it only apply to infantry or also to other land unit types ?
AFAIR the AI was supposed to load a newer ai file once the game year reached the year of the next higher ai file (a 1939 game for ENG AI would then load the 1939 ai from eng_1939.ai) but it does not seem to happen.
Hmmm, the easiest way to fix this would be to copy the brigade build shemes from acountries later ai file to the 1936 ai file.
EDIT: Does it only apply to infantry or also to other land unit types ?
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it applies to all
like I said ai files are bad, and I mean BAAAAD!!!
minor nations build only garrisons. there are various tech blocks so ai nations sometimes cannot build important stuff because their files forbit it. major countries do not even upgrade or assign enough IC to repair their provinces. also the build queues are so short that ai keeps assigning new units to be build even though it does not have any IC to spare. because the manpower is deducted when builds are assigned, ai countires lose all their manpower fast without being able to build much. All that is documented in my thread in my signature.
all this cause the vanilla 36 scenario to be effectivly broken IMO.
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Id ran an AI vs AI test and yes - they are all affected with ENG builds.
Problem with reinforce does not apply to all, GER does not reinforce in 1942 but many other majors did. German AI was set to use 20% IC to reinforce but ignored this for some unknown reason.
Many countries like GER and ENG were out of oil.
Problem with reinforce does not apply to all, GER does not reinforce in 1942 but many other majors did. German AI was set to use 20% IC to reinforce but ignored this for some unknown reason.
Many countries like GER and ENG were out of oil.
Is it even so when one changes in the year based AI files a switch parameter value to "yes"?
(Currently all the AI files that have some year number in their name have the value set to "no" and by that the AI is told not to try to switch on a more appropriate (up-to-date) AI file on every year. IIRC the reason for that switch value choice has been also discussed somewhere, but I don't remember where and what the logic behind it was.)
That probably needs to be yes for the AI to switch to the newer AI files. I still don't get the reason for restricting the AI to use only ENG brigades.
I'll probably work through the larger countries and use the brigade build settings from the newer AI + set attachment preferences for HQ (all countries, 100% AAA) and Garrison (100% police for GER and JAP, others untouched).
I'll probably work through the larger countries and use the brigade build settings from the newer AI + set attachment preferences for HQ (all countries, 100% AAA) and Garrison (100% police for GER and JAP, others untouched).
Maybe the reason might have been an attempt to ensure that a relatively high percentage of AI corps/armies would have at least one Engineer brigade per merged units. So AI file preparer made all year 1936 AI files to prefer Engineer brigades - which was meant to offer a base layer of land units with an ability to provide a valuable dug-in bonus to other units that would be merged with them in a future. (Although I don't know how the AI's unit merging mechanics exactly works.) It might have been expected - since the switch parameter is set to "no", then one could say incorrectly so - that at the latest in 1939, based on the year 1939 AI files, but for many AI nations even earlier (thanks to the event driven, build schema altering AI files) an AI would start to produce land units with a wider range of brigade types - as specified in files - that would form effective corps'/armies with previously built units (with Engineer brigades) evenly spread along the fronts. (But as the switch is set to "no", possibly mistakenly, other brigades actually never are build.)
I thought the ENG brigades were intended to help germany blitz across river barriers, especially with its armour formations. You or I may be sensible enough to avoid fighting across rivers, but the AI is not. This thread now makes it clear it's just a bug, but it does have this beneficial side effect for Germany at least.
It also means that the only way to defend France against AI Germany is to extend the Maginot line to the coast. In Hearts of Iron 2 / DD / Arma, you could hold the Rheims/Namur/Antwerp/Eindhoven/Utrecht/Amsterdam line, but thanks to all the engineer brigades the river line is worse than useless - what river crossing penalty remains is more than offset by having to hold a longer front line, and provinces like Eindhoven which are exposed to attack from multiple sides.
It also means that the only way to defend France against AI Germany is to extend the Maginot line to the coast. In Hearts of Iron 2 / DD / Arma, you could hold the Rheims/Namur/Antwerp/Eindhoven/Utrecht/Amsterdam line, but thanks to all the engineer brigades the river line is worse than useless - what river crossing penalty remains is more than offset by having to hold a longer front line, and provinces like Eindhoven which are exposed to attack from multiple sides.
It should work but don't think it will work correctly, at least for the major nations. The "year" files in the ai folder are used from the beginning only until events change them, and those event driven build schemes are located in the ai/switch folder. Only one build scheme can be used at a time and if the option is changed to yes then the "yearly files" replace the event launched ai/switch file and vice versa.
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I understand this is thread necromancy but this is still a problem in patch 1.08 and it is incredible to me that this is still a problem (or was ever a problem to begin with in arsenal of democracy).
The easiest way to fix this is just to play using the CORE mod. It's just AoD but better, with a lot of things such as this fixed. The team has put a huge amount of very detailed work into the AI files.
I will happily play core! I didn't mean to sound so negative.
No offence to CORE, but IMO your claim that it's "just AoD but better" is wrong. I'd say it's AoD with a lot of changes, with certain improvements.