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I have a few questions and some feedback; this looked like the best place to post it.

The Japanese are doing very well and are much improved over vanilla. Rolling from the 9/1/38 start, they've annexed Nat Chi and are now being stared down by the 800 pound, 400 division Soviet gorilla in late '41.

Germany didn't do so well, but that was my doing. My SC Italy eventually joined the Allies and fought two years of bloody Alpine battles before the French finally took advantage of the lack of German troops in the Low Countries.

Now that the Allies have defeated Germany, what is the proper way to get them to garrison against the Beast in the East? Britain holds Finland and northern Poland, France holds Germany and southern Poland, but neither has more than three divisions total along the Soviet border. Is there any way to alter the AI? The British hold their mobile units in southern England while the French have a stack of forty units in Paris.

I'm hoping to launch L'Operation Barbe Rouge, but the Allies prefer unguarded borders with the Soviets while keeping the troops on leave in metropolitan Britain and France.
 
Some Feedback and suggestions.

Hey

This is from just one game so their isnt much statistical significance behind it, but here goes. I play Italy N/N i havent taken MC of my allis. I should also mention that the Poles gave up Danzig in Danzig or War event, so WW2 did not start until spring 40, where AI germany started taking Lux, Bel and Holland. This could offcourse also explain some of the anomalies in my current game.

First of all i can confirm, that the thing with aggressive Romania and stalemate in SCW isnt related to DAIM, i get that a lott with vanilla DD.

I think the reason that AI Itali does well against UK in the med is because UK AI places around 3 Div. in egypt and around 10 Div. in Sues and the two territories behind Sues province. This work against an AI but is a disaster against a human Italy. I just landed 10 Div. in Tel Aviv which where undefended an Destroyed all UK forces in Sinai whereafter the road to Iraq was open. IF UK ai is abandoning Egypt and tries to hold the middleeast they should atleast cover the Beaches behind Suez. Maybe program the Iraq AI. to defend beaches in Basra and Kuwait.

Another thing with the UK AI is that it appears that they almost completely abandon both Egypt, India and the rest of asia. It is now 41 and when the Japs dow them they will take India far to easily. UK has atmost 10 Div in all of asia included the starting Garrisons.

If you insist on making the Allies Dow vichy france, i think you should consider some alterations to allied AI.

First of all since i play Italy. The allied Dow on Vichy has the following result. I can rebase Navy and Strat. redeploy to vichy territory. This has the following effect. South Africe gets annexed and free french get annexed very fast. Vichy france troops took the allied provinces in northern South americe.

I suggest you order the Free French AI to take the Vichy VP provinces just north of NZ, to avoid easy Anexation of free french. Also i think you need to tell the UK AI to destroy any Vichy France troops in the caribian and the 4 provinces in South America. In my game Vichy AI has taken all 5 provinces in South america and holds some of the caribian island. UK is present with only one Div, which appears to be sitting and doing nothing.

It appears that the AI dosnt counter attack or tries to do flanking attacks when i attack near as often as in vanilla. But this is maybe an effect of me playing Italy on N/N. In Vanilla i usually play Italy on N/N but giving the AI all the benefits from VH. So the AI has less org. and that will ofcourse make the AI attack less since it will affect the ods calculation.

However you should try to tweak the AI to try to avoid being surrounded, i have seen many examples of the AI sitting still with division in africa when i slowly advances around them and cut them off. This has been an issue with both the Uk and Nat. CHI. AI. (I usually help the Jap AI to take china when i play Italy.)

Under the SCW the China AI send a small taksforce to the Sea zones just north of spain, I have no idea why, they where not in war or allied with any european nation, and the war with japan has not yet begun. I suggest you put some priorities on the sea zones that are open to Nat. China i have done so for Siam in vanilla and it appears to have stopped them from sending Navy all around the world.

Next thing. I played with Viewtech on, just to see how the AI Research prios where set. One thing i Noticed is that UK AI researches Floating Fortress and Hunter-Killer doctrines around 38-39 and starts Preplanned Defence much earlier than in vanilla DD. This is an big improvement over Vanilla DD. And UK also researches Naval Attrition in 40 which the vanilla AI didt do. thumps up for that. UK AI has not research the other 39 navy techs under Naval Attrition yet however (July 41). This could maybe be looked into, the question is offcourse if there are any techs the UK could postpone?

The German research is a bit overdone imo. They start researching B.L.Arm(38) in 1 jan. 36 and then they Start B.NAV (38) in late march 36 and heavy arm shortly thereafter. I did a test just for fun i loaded up as germany on 1 january removed B.L.Arm and started B.INT.(37) That ment that B.L.Arm started 13 april. That only slowed B.l. Arm down with one month. instead of being finished 1 December it was finished on 1 January 37. Since you have put the German AI to only build IC in all of 36 i cant see the reason to research all those 38 so far ahead when there are plenty important 37 techs. It is however very good that Germany researches Blitzkrieg doctrine so fast saves them a lott ic days on armour builds. Generally i think both UK and Germany research prios could use some tweaking, i have noticed several instances where the AI researches multiple techs in same categori. Germany researching 3 INF techs at the same time or UK researching 4 assembly techs at the same time. One of them got researched by Alan Turing :rolleyes: is some of the examples i come to think of. This is also an issue in vanilla and is something that really slows the AI research down. Especially for AI countries with very few good teams in the same area.

One thing i wondered about was when The Axis got in war with the allies UK sent a fleet with 3 carriers to the seazones around sicily, they was blown out of the water with combined attacks of 4 Nav. Bombers and italian fleet, One of my BB scored to CV kills. Since then i havent seen any allied CV or BB but only a lott of small fleets consisting of DD, CL and some CA. I have anexed Oman, Yemen, South africa Where i have sailed around with my 4 lvl BB and 4-6 CVL i cant find the remaining UK CV or BB. Maybe make a switch where the UK focus more navy around Oman/yemen when Italy is Human controlled was worth looking into.

I tjecked out UK ai landforces when vichy france triggered, they would have no chance to counter and early Sealion against a Human Germany, Is it possible to have UK to build More landforces or are they allready fully focused on landforces ?

I was seriously afraid that the German AI would be overrun when they got in a tofront war with Poland and the allies after they had moved the bulk of the german forces from polish border to the Belgian/Holland border. But Germany AI handled that very well so you have that nailed. Also the Sovjet build up looks very impressive they had well over 20 Div in all territories bordering germany. The Winter War with Finland never happened though, could just be a coincidence tied to the unusual outcome of Danzig or War event.

I saw that someone mentioned that Sovjet would Dow Japan if they take Sinkiang, is that why Japan AI just sits next to sinkiang and then after some months make's peace with them? If that is intended it works pretty well.

phew, long post. Btw this is ment as constructive critique, if any other interpretation, i will apologize beforehand an blame it on my poor Language skill. :wacko:

Regards Gormadoc
 
Petrarca said:
Now that the Allies have defeated Germany, what is the proper way to get them to garrison against the Beast in the East? Britain holds Finland and northern Poland, France holds Germany and southern Poland, but neither has more than three divisions total along the Soviet border. Is there any way to alter the AI? The British hold their mobile units in southern England while the French have a stack of forty units in Paris.
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Make a backup of your savegame and then open it for editing: Look for
Code: 
ai = {
	(...)
	garrison = {
		(...)
		country_priorities = {
			(...)
		}
	}
}
under the tags of the countries in question (ENG and FRA, I suppose). Enter "SOV = 200" or something similar between the braces in the "country_priorities" section. This should do the trick.
 
G'Kar said:
Enter "SOV = 200" or something similar between the braces in the "country_priorities" section. This should do the trick.
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Thank you; the Allies have already begun to militarize the border! :)
 
Gormadoc, we'll take a look on your suggestions regarding the UK, China and research in general, thanks. Note that AI research is a yes-or-no question usually: Either they're doing them all or nothing, it's just like AI production from time to time. We'll try to make some tweaks anyway, as your observation is correct nonetheless.

Telling the AI not to get surrounded and to react quickly with counter-attacks is not as easy as it may sound either, there aren't that many tools available. ;)

France is and will probably stay untouched by us, but I see that involving Vichy France in the war might require adaptions to the Allies. Our main reason to make the Allies attack Vichy in a real war is that we cannot stand some of the automatic province transfer events.

DAIM Japan won't care much about Sinkiang, and the Soviet Union is told to react to an invasion of Sinkiang only when Japan is human-controlled. Cheesy, yes. :p
 
Hey G'Kar

G'Kar said:
Note that AI research is a yes-or-no question usually: Either they're doing them all or nothing, it's just like AI production from time to time.
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I am aware of the difficulty in programming AI research prios, i have tried to tweak a lott of them in vanilla DD with very mixed result. One thing you could try is to not priorities all assembly tech but only 2 out of 4, like wise with some of the air doctrine techs. In vanilla DD Sov researches 3 Navy techs CL, CA and BB at the same time there it worked with prioritising the CA tech. I will take a closer look at UK and see if i can come up with something.

G'Kar said:
Telling the AI not to get surrounded and to react quickly with counter-attacks is not as easy as it may sound either, there aren't that many tools available. ;)
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Yes you are right, we need more event triggers and AI file parameters to tweak

G'Kar said:
Our main reason to make the Allies attack Vichy in a real war is that we cannot stand some of the automatic province transfer events.
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I dont think it necesarily is a bad idea. It just need to be better implemented in the allied strategy especially if Italy is Human.

G'Kar said:
DAIM Japan won't care much about Sinkiang, and the Soviet Union is told to react to an invasion of Sinkiang only when Japan is human-controlled. Cheesy, yes. :p.
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I think it works rather well if AI japan joins axis and get in a shooting war with SOV, my experience in Vanilla is that the Jap AI cant handled it. This way they will have one front less to worry about.

As a further note. I have now played a couple of months more (oct. 41) and the UK AI has mounted a succesfull counter attack and driven the Small Italian covering forces back from the Sudanese-Ethiopean border and are now threatening Cairo and Suez. UK is also retaking Southafrica which i didt garrasioned. So the UK AI is doing something right, damit.

Gormadoc
 
German AI

Hey Daim people

There are a little problem with German AI, as soon as i (italy) has taken Yoguslavia, greece and turkey by early annexation. After the war in france is over german ai start to send its huge army to africa overland. Currently they have around 50 div. in belgian congo and very little covering forces in europe if Sov Dows or Ger dow sovjet, germany will be swiftly destroyed.

Gormadoc
 
I am in the middle of my second game of DAIM as USA. In the first USSR took all of Germany was was into France by late 1943. I've never seen that happen that early before. When I loaded the game as Germany it looked like they were still building a ton of aircraft carriers as Berlin was falling. They need to get their priorities straight. Japan had taken most of India too. UK did a bad job of holding the area around present day Israel from Italian attacks and lost Suez and Alexandria.

In the second game Germany did not take France until September 1940. It took them forever to go thru Belgium. Maybe the Brits had sent them some help? I've never seen France fall so late.

Other than that, the AI seems toughter against me. It's just that the AI vs. AI has changed not for the better. I would rather see Germany play better against USSR and forget about a naval war with UK. Instead they did a halfway job against both.
 
Hmm, I might have to recheck when Germany starts preparing for a late Sealion, although I thought the conditions were chosen prudent enough. When playing as the Allies, you might want not to install some DAIM AIs (e.g. for the Soviet Union) - then Germany should perform even better.
 
G'Kar said:
Hmm, I might have to recheck when Germany starts preparing for a late Sealion, although I thought the conditions were chosen prudent enough. When playing as the Allies, you might want not to install some DAIM AIs (e.g. for the Soviet Union) - then Germany should perform even better.
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I assume I could just copy the original USSR AI files back?

Don't get me wrong -- this IS a lot better game now! I had Japs raiding my convoys all over the Pacific as well as German and Italian off the coast of Africa. Upon my war entry as USA I had to ship divisions to Africa just to help Liberia against the Vicheys. Never done that before. There just needs to be something that tells Germany that if they are at war or planning war with USSR not to build a dozen or whatever carriers until Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Volgograd have fallen first.

FYI I play a slow build-up USA building nothing but 40 destroyers and a few infantry until I am at war -- just to make it interesting. I do not build naval bombers. I give the Axis and Commies +20% IC and resources, Italy +25 ICs in Rome, Japan +50 ICs in Tokyo plus equivilent resources and set combat to +10% AI and -5% human. I have been using this in DD and kept it for the switch to AIMM for contrast.
 
Nope, you have to make sure that the right switch events are called as well. Easiest would be to uninstall DAIM and then reinstall with DAIM Soviet Union unchecked.

You could also try giving the Soviets less bonuses, these bonuses might explain why Germany lost against them. Germany usually wins against the Soviet Union with (only) DAIM installed on vanilla HoI/DD.
 
getting DAIM is the best thing i've done but i got to agree with some people here that SU is abit too powerful. (or germany too stupid) I'm playing hoi2 DD DAIM + SMEP and what I can recall from my last 5-6 games SU always steamrolls germany over.. they tend to get annexed around 43' and thats without help or very little help by me/allies. other then that I must say that the rest of the DAIM countrys works great. Havnt reloaded as germany tho to check what the problem might be but I'll do that from now on.
But on the other hand Germany always steamrolls me over when i'm playing SU :p
 
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I think the new version is very good, UK AI covers UK better than Regular HOI 2 DD. My Navy got sunk and lost 2 TAC Aircraft over UK. Just in May 1940, so see how the rest of the war goes
 
Did you guys really intend on having 600 Soviet divisions by 1941. Everyone likes a chalange, kinda allot of troups, combined arms and good quality troups are no match for 6/1 odds in some cases.
 
Fighting for YOU!

Trying to convince some Iranian guys that the DAIM AI is far superior, err, far DIFFERENT from the standard AI without any progress this far... '
However someone else agreed on the fact that DAIM is be..., ahem different but also mentioned a few problems with the current version. Anything you will/can do anything about?

The comments were:
"DAIM is better than standard AI surely, but long way from being a good AI. It just stops the AI from doing some of the obvoiously idiotic things it would do in the past, and slightly improves building priorities. Still doesn't know how to conduct concentrated offensives, counter centers of mass, or do amphibious landings(which certainly lessens the threat of Allied D-Day or Japan ever losing vs US).

Also DAIM doesn't know how to decide what area of the map is most important as time goes on so real strategic areas aren't given the priority they should be. Of course this isn't as important to AI as it's navies and air forces ignore range restrictions, but still is annoying.

It's improvement and you should incorporate it if you don't want to spend time on AI by yourself, but if you do plan on modifiying AI, I'd rather see your modded AI than DAIM."
 
I have a answer to your iranian friends:
its simply impossible to create this features with the current set of AI parms but they are free to try

Spocky
 
I'm new to DAIM and encountered two things when playing my first file(I was France)

1. The UK had only 3 divisions in Egypt to stop the Italian advance(needless to say they were overrun and if not for New Zeland, Italy would have taken the Suez Canal)

2. After the UK landed in Kiel they never sent more divisions to back up their invasion and were consequently pushed back to the beaches after some minor territorial gains.
 
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