Why do they break off the attack?

[mattpilot]

So.... there's like 3 territories along the maginot line (10 land fort each) where french troops (about 5-8 per territory) are holed up. They are surrounded by german troops that greatly outnumber them. So i, playing as spain, took military control of germany and told like 30 troops to invade 1 territory with only 5 french infantry (3 garrison & 2 regular).

After about 2 hours of combat they break off the attack and say i was defeated. But when watching the combat window i'm clearly winning.. its like 95% in my favor. The german troops were still nearly at full organization & full health.


How are the french holding off the attack? Why is the attack discontinued if the window shows me clearly winning?

 

[humancalculator]

So.... there's like 3 territories along the maginot line (10 land fort each) where french troops (about 5-8 per territory) are holed up. They are surrounded by german troops that greatly outnumber them. So i, playing as spain, took military control of germany and told like 30 troops to invade 1 territory with only 5 french infantry (3 garrison & 2 regular).

After about 2 hours of combat they break off the attack and say i was defeated. But when watching the combat window i'm clearly winning.. its like 95% in my favor. The german troops were still nearly at full organization & full health.


How are the french holding off the attack? Why is the attack discontinued if the window shows me clearly winning?

The AI would lose that battle most likely: It takes a few hours of game time for it to start turning disastrous for your forces.

The AI knows that it will lose, so they discontinue the attack.

 

[mattpilot]

So... how would one kill them?

Those are the only remaining french possessions in europe.

 

[Pal]

The AI will never attack a level 10 fort. So if you make them attack, they break off as soon as possible. This is considered a bug with military control, but roleplay-wise it's quite feasible.

 

[unmerged(105771)]

The Germans don't fell confident about the attack and don't want to lose thier valuabel manpower when they could just starve the French to death.

 

[qwertyuiop2]

Starve them to death... Or you can let them get out of Maginot, capture the defensive line, and launch a final attack.

 

[19th panzer div]

So.... there's like 3 territories along the maginot line (10 land fort each) where french troops (about 5-8 per territory) are holed up. They are surrounded by german troops that greatly outnumber them. So i, playing as spain, took military control of germany and told like 30 troops to invade 1 territory with only 5 french infantry (3 garrison & 2 regular).

After about 2 hours of combat they break off the attack and say i was defeated. But when watching the combat window i'm clearly winning.. its like 95% in my favor. The german troops were still nearly at full organization & full health.


How are the french holding off the attack? Why is the attack discontinued if the window shows me clearly winning?

this has happened to me to (in armegaden campeign) I just keep attacking them till their orginaztion is so low they don't last an hour
Remember combat can change in anyones favor at any moment.


You have been killed by a grenade watch the grenade danger inacator.

 

[19th panzer div]

So... how would one kill them?

Those are the only remaining french possessions in europe.

how is that possible didn't you capture paris yet?

 

[mattpilot]

how is that possible didn't you capture paris yet?

Captured paris as nationalistic Spain.... wasn't to hard when 90% of the french forces are busy fighting the germans .

So i guess in this case the vichy even wasn't fired ... which is fine by me - cause most of vichy's territoriy is under my (spains) control .