NUKER said:
Brits do NOTHING.. haven't tried playing them yet, but playing against them, I feel that they should be able to field massive army since they control the commonwealth.
Out of interest, could you check the national army comparison screen and see how many divisions they have? It could be that they have 150 infantry divisions sitting in London doing nothing.
Possibly because their AI has a limit set on the number of troops it allocates to the front with Germany (based on a ratio to German strength) and so the left-over units are held back in reserve. The sugestion to reduce halve the effectof the French mobilisation event might help here. I'd also suggest giving Germany extra starting manpower, either right at the start or as a mobilisation event.
Fortress infantry moving is just crazy hahah :rofl: fortress unit with attached arty brigade almost unstoppable early game.
Well, there were a lot of pre-war forts scattered about Europe that were virtually useless in military terms, because there were few troops and only obsolete guns defending them. Think of the moving fortress troops as transferring your resources to a different sector of the front.
As for "unstoppable" - don't they have a zero attack factor?
Hardly any air units created.
Sounds pretty realistic, actually, although it might need a little tweaking. Or setting AI priority to researching aircraft. But we shouldn't allow the vanilla-HoI phenomenon of several stacks of 9 air units on every battlefront. In November 1918 the world's largest air force (the French), at the peak of its strength, had, in HoI terms, a grand total of 11 fighter and 5 bomber units.
Ottomans steamroll Egypt and N. Africa.
Again, reducing the Ottoman unit strengths might help here. And making many of their troops militia instead of infantry, perhaps.
I think A-H is somewhat overpowered. Although they don't start with as many techs, they do have a ton of IC's. But given Russia's current strength, it stands as ok.
They do seem to do remarkably well in all AARs we've seen so far. I suspect they may have too much manpower; whatever the theoretical population of the Dual Monarchy, they couldn't recruit troops with anything like the same freedom that nationally-homogenous countries like Germany or France did.
Seriously, by mid-1916, Russia is technologically on an equal footing with the Germans!! at least in infantry and artillery techs. CRAZY!!!
I'm not relaly familiar with WW1 battles, but aren't the Russians supposed to be pathetic??
Perhaps surprisingly, no. From what I've read the Russians were actually pretty far advanced when it came to technology. They were the first country in the world to develop a four-engined strategic bomber, their ships were usually state-of-the-art (especially their destroyers and seaplane carriers), and even on land they were pretty effective. Even the Germans sometimes grudgingly admitted that Russian tactics, use of artillery, fieldcraft, etc were better than their own.
What really let the Russians down were two things, both linked: first, the higher-level organisation of their armies was very poor. This meant that however well the Russian soldiers were fighting on a local level, they might find that High Command had got them surrounded by Germans or overstretched without support.(In HoI terms this should be represented by Russia having very few high-quality leaders?). Secondly, their society and economy were even more badly organised. Russian industry was little worse than that of other countries at producing guns and ammunition, but they were then allowed to pile up in warehouses or be shipped to out-of-the-way forts and garrisons instead of to front-line troops. Even worse, the railway lines were allowed to fall into disrepair, so food was rotting in heaps in the Ukraine while in Petrograd, the factory workers were facing starvation. This is all covered by events, although perhaps they should be beefed up; and also, perhaps Russian ICs need to be reduced further. (I know this was discussed; was it actually done?)
Overall, A GREAT MOD!!! lots of work put in, great leaders, keep up the good work! now i guess just balance issues and ironing out bugs...
Thanks!
