Pasha said:
Good news then. And looks like my install went flawlessly. Can't wait to start playing tonight after work.
Is normal/normal the preferred setting?
IMO normal with the best AI (furious?) is the best combo, normal in order to have no IC penalties same for player and AI, and furious because its basicaly the same thing, u just have higher chance of actually enjoying the game...
DAIM is basically pretty good mod, the only thing i dislike is AIs not making enough navy and also somewhat lower AI "interest" in waging war after the 1936-1945. To elaborate, if u play as Germany for example, ull deffinitly love the way Japan pwns Chinese, and later US and allies, but once the specific AI "commands" like "capture philipines" or land on some island are compleated (withing first few months of war) all it basicaly does is sit and protect mainland while US invades islands with ports (guarded by single garison) or airfields, then takes China with little or no effort at all by Japs to protect it, and finally u get to see haundreds of US divisions landing in mainland and soon its over. Makes me somewhat pissed off to have to pull my troops from Russian front to protect Japanese ruled China, or send my subs (like 100+) to protect their seas while their entire fleet is sitting in some port doing nothing.
Same with Italian AI, its like it has 50%/50% chance of either win over England or lose, and usually it depends on what happens in Albania (!), sometimes after Italy annex Albania it leaves like 20 divisions in Tirana, and sends like 3-4 to Africa, or even bunch of divions to Ethiopia just b4 they join the war, and ofcourse since Brits own Suez/Gibraltar all those troops get cut off from supply and they die soon, thats at least my theory.
IMO u guys only need to make a couple of new tweaks for some AIs like Italian or Japanese and DAIM will be almoust perfect

Italians need to be eable to take on Africa without being retarded after Egypt and just standing there, Japs need to be capable of keeping islands (garisons?) aswell as China or India after they kick allies there. Whats the point of Japs capturing Philipines, Singapore, and other islands and places withing couple of months of Pearl Harbor only to lose them within a year or so due to no garisons at all being left to protect em. What happened in my last game is Japs take on all package perfectly including India withing one year, and then they widraw compleatly from India and ofcourse US lands about 50 divisions and couple of months after they own half of China...
Also seeing Germany actually doing something after the victory over Soviets like invading Sweeden, or England or even US would be pretty cool, else playing game with nation like Italy has no point after 1945, nothing is going to happen...
Well thats all from me
