3rd test run

[Graymane]

Normal/Normal playing USA. Japan finally took China (and associated allies). Germany still gets clobbered in Norway and still DOWing early on the western front (what is causing this? I would like to remove it in my version.). If Germany is going to DOW the west early, they need to just skip Norway until they finish.

Germany attacked Russia and the fight went along historical lines (almost exactly).

Overall, I was impressed with the AI behavior in this game.

 

[e-stab]

Thanks for your report, I'm glad it went more interesting for you this time. As for Germany, I'll rework the sequence of Germanys DoWs in the next days (and try to balance the Norway/France issue) - I agree that it's often problematic the way it goes right now. As a temporary solution, you could postpone the start date of event 20502 (ai_switches_GER.txt).

 

[Graymane]

That won't mess up the rest of the sequence will it?

 

[e-stab]

That won't mess up the rest of the sequence will it?

It shouldn't if you postpone it enough so that it fires only after the Weserübung. But unfortunately you can't be sure that Germany will annex Norway fast enough.

 

[Graymane]

Ok, I did 4th run last night. Will be my last as the USA I think I'll try either Italy or Japan next. I basically left your event alone but changed the first date to May of 1940. Germany never did take Norway. The Russian war went normally. Japan annexed all of China and its allies but I had to help them a lot to get it done (basically sent them a ton of free resources). I put back in a passivity and handicap for China against Japan (50 of each if I remember, I have no idea what the "normal" range should be).

I think you guys are on track with the builds and such, the AI does ok. I'll post some other observations on the country-specific threads.

 

[e-stab]

Japan annexed all of China and its allies but I had to help them a lot to get it done (basically sent them a ton of free resources). I put back in a passivity and handicap for China against Japan (50 of each if I remember, I have no idea what the "normal" range should be).

Spocky is tweaking the Japanese land aggressiveness right now ("cool down, mr terauchi, we'll get there soon enough."), it should be better soon. But from what I've heard, the Japanese AI gives a you a good bang for the buck as China right now...