Playing 1933 scenario as Germany, AOD 1.02 (yes I didn't upgrade to 1.04 or 1.05 - doing that now 
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Teched up (land doctrines, infantry IV and medium tanks etc) got the Sudetenland in Sep 1938 and by March 1939 I had 76 infantry, 7 motorized and 13 light tank divisions. Many of them, especially the motorized/tank divisions had brigades. All the main corps have the best commanders.
Now for some reason the event that allows me to get the rest of Czechoslovakia didn't fire up so in May 1939 I went ahead and dow'd the Czechs. Note their powerful Sudeten provinces are already gone (controlled by me). The Czechs have about 25-30 divisions, mostly infantry 3.
Right away things start going wrong - even when I outnumber them 3 or 4 to 1, I'm taking 10 times the losses and it's very very hard to push them back - I'm an experienced HOI player - been playing all the way since HOI 1 so I know all/most of the tricks (as you can see my join date is Aug 2001 so I've been around a very long time) ... eight days later POLAND dows me and I'm thinking ok, this should be a challenge. And 2 weeks later the French and Brits also dow me. Fine!
Two months later, I'm pretty much screwed, and ONLY the Czechs and Poles did the main fighting. The French haven't launched any ground offensives - only air raids, along with the Brits. The Poles have a large army - probably 60-65 divisions with infantry 3. As some posters have pointed out, they fight like Terminators. In one battle on flat terrain, 4 Polish infantry divisions hold off my attack from 3 sides of 7 infantry and 3 panzer effortlessly. I also notice the Polish/Czech defense is super but MY defense is as sucky as my attack lol. And for some strange reason my divisions sometimes get completely destroyed when they are attacked. I have plenty of places to retreat to, but they are at or near full strength and they get wiped out when their org starts falling crazily.
It really shouldn't be happening - I definitely have superior tech (most of my tech went into infantry, armor/artillery and land doctrine) and a very large/balanced army. It was the summer of 1939 but it sure felt like 1945 to me lol ... anyway I'm going to upgrade my AOD to 1.05 and try again.
) Teched up (land doctrines, infantry IV and medium tanks etc) got the Sudetenland in Sep 1938 and by March 1939 I had 76 infantry, 7 motorized and 13 light tank divisions. Many of them, especially the motorized/tank divisions had brigades. All the main corps have the best commanders.
Now for some reason the event that allows me to get the rest of Czechoslovakia didn't fire up so in May 1939 I went ahead and dow'd the Czechs. Note their powerful Sudeten provinces are already gone (controlled by me). The Czechs have about 25-30 divisions, mostly infantry 3.
Right away things start going wrong - even when I outnumber them 3 or 4 to 1, I'm taking 10 times the losses and it's very very hard to push them back - I'm an experienced HOI player - been playing all the way since HOI 1 so I know all/most of the tricks (as you can see my join date is Aug 2001 so I've been around a very long time
) ... eight days later POLAND dows me and I'm thinking ok, this should be a challenge. And 2 weeks later the French and Brits also dow me. Fine!Two months later, I'm pretty much screwed, and ONLY the Czechs and Poles did the main fighting. The French haven't launched any ground offensives - only air raids, along with the Brits. The Poles have a large army - probably 60-65 divisions with infantry 3. As some posters have pointed out, they fight like Terminators. In one battle on flat terrain, 4 Polish infantry divisions hold off my attack from 3 sides of 7 infantry and 3 panzer effortlessly. I also notice the Polish/Czech defense is super but MY defense is as sucky as my attack lol. And for some strange reason my divisions sometimes get completely destroyed when they are attacked. I have plenty of places to retreat to, but they are at or near full strength and they get wiped out when their org starts falling crazily.
It really shouldn't be happening - I definitely have superior tech (most of my tech went into infantry, armor/artillery and land doctrine) and a very large/balanced army. It was the summer of 1939 but it sure felt like 1945 to me lol ... anyway I'm going to upgrade my AOD to 1.05 and try again.
