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Programmers dont have the time to read hundred of threads, but beta can and should filter what is important from what is not... We are promised with a brand new ai in 1.3, lets hope!
Why are people incredulous that this is possible on Normal difficulty? I am tempted to put it on even easier settings and see how fast I can do it.
I wonder if it is possible on Very Easy/Coward it is possible to complete WC before the war historical start date? Maybe Very Easy/Furious would be easier even as you wouldn't have to keep DOWing?
Just to put this in context, I tried a WC in HOI1 as Germany (no allies at any point) starting in 1936 on very hard/furious and just missed completion prior to the historical war date. (This was on version 1.05c I think) - see Heinkel's new world order if you are really interested. It is definitely a lot harder in HOI1 1.06c due to specific changes targetted at my approach and I am quite sure it is a lot harder in HOI2 - so definite progress there - but I can't believe it isn't possible. The real measure of WC time should be from start of the war to complete WC rather than absolute date.
I was wondering....you always here wc with germany or soviet union but has anyone managed it with Japan? I am just interested to know if people have managed/came close to WC with japan.
Programmers dont have the time to read hundred of threads, but beta can and should filter what is important from what is not... We are promised with a brand new ai in 1.3, lets hope!
Every patch is an AI patch but 1.3 has some new things that I think modders would really like and say something like "Wow I didn't realize you could do that!"
there is some possibilities to explain your victory (pick one or several):
1. you are a genius
2. you are using some clever game exploits, some unknown of the forum?
3. the AI has the intelligence of a goldfish
4. you are using the console to cheat
Seeing your army force, you have not a big army either, so how you managed to dispose of SU (how divisions they had at start by the way) in less than one year then managed to invade and conquer USA? Are they not supposed to churns a mass of infantries when they are invaded at least?
I'm not saying that your screens are fake. I'm just wondering how HoI is so easy so that without disadvantages a human Aix player can conquer the planet in mid-42!
I concur with the Goldfish hypothesis. Maybe a little of number 1 too. But no real country would sit by and watch as I annexed nation after nation and then suspect nothing when they suddenly have 12 panzers sitting on their doorstep. USA kept trading with me right up until I invaded them through Canada.
As for the SU, I annexed them quickly by Island hopping through the Suez canal, to the bottom of Saudi Arabia then to that island below India, to some Netherland islands and finally to Vladivlastock so i didn't have to march all the way to the Pacific. They started with 300 divisions. I had 160 or so and did the standard surround and destory. I didn't bother leaving any troops to defend my other borders because I knew that neither Italy, Vichy, or any of the balkans would attack me. And England was German property meaning that a sea landing wasn't likely. I also did a lot of fighting against small nations in the winter, only waiting for spring thaw for the USSR
I read your AAR and it was pretty interesting. I now see how I could have done a lot of the early stuff a lot faster. Maybe take off a few more months. I caught up in the latter years by using transports a lot to be every where at once I think. I think if you're attacking, airforce is pretty much useless because you are over running airbases faster than your planes can catch up and regain org to do anything. I also get pissed off when partisans destroy expensive wings of airplanes.
Well, I personally think that WC with a country like Germany should be impossible. IMHO partisan effects on TC need to be increased drastically, so you would need to create tons of Garrisons and would run out of MP like Germany would have historically.
Elsewise everybody has its playstyle. Some are into "fastest WC ever" for each difficulty level - and why not? You can not compare a "all allowed" game with a "self limited" game when it comes to difficulty, though.
I was wondering....you always here wc with germany or soviet union but has anyone managed it with Japan? I am just interested to know if people have managed/came close to WC with japan.
WC with Japan can be done. The trick is to attack the SU at the time of Barbarossa, but not allying with Germany. Even starting from Sinkiang you can have all the VP provinces West of the Ural - use paras. And you could get Baku easily.
You would have around a year to prepare against the allies - I waited until the date of Assasination of Yamamoto event, so I retained him - more important as a research team than an admiral. Finish USA in 1945. 46-47 would be enough to wipe Germany out, esp with some nukes around.
