DDA:DAIM Barbarossa Experience

[XHR]

Hi folks,

after having beaten the AI a number of times in DD 1.3 I decided to give an AI mod (DAIM) a shot with my newly acquired DDA 1.0a.
I must say: great job, guys, I'm impressed!

Playing GER in '36 I noticed Jap finishing off CHI in only 9 Months that should have made me pause - I played historically 'til Danzig, then finished Poland + France within 6 weeks (Vichy). Shared Poland with the bolsheviks and did Weserübung. So far so good. Then in April '40 I noticed the russian build-up: they had 450 Divs!
I had to declare war a full year ahead of my plannings, on June 8th, 1940 and since that was a bit ahead of my planning my offensive was stopped right behind Kiev (South) and Minsk (North). It is already Mid-August and rain has started so I guess my game is lost
I must admit that Russia now is definately a lot more challenging than in Vanilla DD and I wanted to thank the DAIM-Team!

Seems like I have to plan much more carefully next game I try it... although...maybe I have not completly lost yet and should give it another try...

 

[e-stab]

Nice to hear!

I take it that you made sure manually that DAIM works correctly in your DD:A installation? There's no official version for Armageddon yet.

 

[XHR]

I know. I just tried it out after reading the thread http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=295872

I know some things may not be working 100% but 85% are fine by me
So far - no complaints.

 

[TeemuL]

difficulty level

Which difficulty level did you use?

 

[XHR]

N/N ... hard enough for me obviously

 

[XHR]

Update: I managed to turn the tide and -after a long cold winter where nothing happened- I moved my panzers again, this time far more successfull
Got the Bitter Peace (with a litte japanese help in Vladivostok) on July 28th, 1941.

Been playing on a little longer - Italy totally sucked in Africa, the U.S. landed in Northern Japan (beginning of '43) but never tried anything on the westwall what a shame...

 

[Andri]

Hmm ussr can be kinda hard to fight when you when 200 div and they 500 but then when you trap 150 division everything changes :rofl:

 

[XHR]

err... yeah... sorta... *cough*

still playing this game (now in '44) and am a little worried about the 300+ Divs I left the Russians with. But for now all is quiet on the eastern front (with a LOT of fortifications )

 

[e-stab]

err... yeah... sorta... *cough*

still playing this game (now in '44) and am a little worried about the 300+ Divs I left the Russians with. But for now all is quiet on the eastern front (with a LOT of fortifications )

Sounds good!