Paratroopers and DAIM

[King_Nothing-]

Im currently playing with DAIM and DD 1.3a. And i just got 1 question. Is the AI supposed to build and research paratroopers? I tried a game with USA and i saw that UK spend alot of time researching paratroopers and transportplanes. But i never saw them build any of them. I then checked the AI_switches_ger.txt fil and saw germany was supposed to build paratroopers as well. So is the AI supposed to do this? Because i have never seen the AI use any paradrops. Another suggestion: can you tell the AI ger to try and conquer gibraltar? Or will it mess barbarrossa up? But it will be alot harder to play UK then. It can do it either by letting nat spain into the axis (as a humanplayer would) or declearing war on republican spain right after vichy have fired.

 

[Spocky]

1.)Paratroops
Germany , UK and US ( I guess ) are supposed to build paratroops in certains circumstances

2.)Gibraltar

has no beach and is unconquerable for the AI if Spain is not in the wars

Spocky

 

[King_Nothing-]

yea that was my point. AI germany should try an ally or conquer spain. Depending on the winner of the SCW. Or else it should use its paratroopers on gibraltar.
Btw thanks for a great mod. It really makes HoI worth playing again. And im looking forward to the next version of Daim

 

[e-stab]

The biggest problem is that there's nothing you can do to tell the AI when and how to use paratroopers. You can tell it to research and build paras and transport planes, but it'll never be sure that this considerable investment is used in an intelligent way. The same is true for nuclear weapons. Basically we put them in because users asked for it, but - to be honest - I'm not sure that it's really worth it.

 

[unmerged(19841)]

The biggest problem is that there's nothing you can do to tell the AI when and how to use paratroopers. You can tell it to research and build paras and transport planes, but it'll never be sure that this considerable investment is used in an intelligent way. The same is true for nuclear weapons. Basically we put them in because users asked for it, but - to be honest - I'm not sure that it's really worth it.

I am not sure i have ever seen the AI do a paradrop even?

 

[e-stab]

I have. It was more like the German AI dropping one behind the front though - it was encircled and killed. o