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Rakshae said:
Well... being a good southerner, I started a CSA campaign and have wiped the USA off the map. It took a little under a month due to my 14 divisions to their 1.

I then went and blitzkrieged New England away from the UK. They sent their army and I reduced it to a total of 4 divisions. They surrendered and the CSA has the east seaboard from Maine to east Georgia. I also wrangled all of their Caribbean and South American colonies from them in the peace treaty. I think that there needs to be some kind of garrison force in New England like a militia or something to at least put up a token fight.
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Good ideas!

Will work on it! :)

I must say, I am really enjoying this scenario so far.

EDIT: Also, I absolutely love the default unit names for the infantry divisions. I didn't notice it until I saw a Stonewall division and I must say that it made my day.
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You can thank Badass for those, he gave the mod the divisions and leaders for the CSA. :)

They are awesome!
 
If Badass is reading this, the names and generals you put down for the CSA are absolutely amazing. Thank you. Now, onward to world domination!

Well after my last post, I bid my time until I had built an infantry force to rival the Quebecois (35 divisions) and built up around 12 tank divisions. I then waged war and failed to notice that they were allied with France who also had an army of about 35-40ish infantry divisions, but no tanks to speak of. I also found out the hard way that they had a ton of them garrisoned on Quebec's border with Mexico. :eek: I must say, thank the Lord for tanks. It took about 8 months, but I annexed Quebec, took the French colonies in North and South America and released Guyana as a puppet due to my total lack of a navy.

Now this is where the fun started.

I got into a little arms race with the Mexicans. Our infantry divisions went from my 38 and their 42 to my 89 and their 84. But I had an ace up my sleeve. 27 ARM and 18 MOT were waiting in Charleston to be redeployed to the front. Did I mention that I was focusing solely on land and industrial research from the beginning of the game and had INF '41 and ARM III against their INF '36 in 1939?

Then the bastards threw a curve ball at me. I conquered the whole continent from northern Nicaragua to Swedish Canada and they had an island with 1 VP on it. I had no navy. None. So the war dragged on for another 2 months while I built 1 measly transport to take an infantry division to the island so I could annex Mexico.

Now the question is, 'To South America or to Europe?'

As a side note, Russia annexed the USSR, Germany is at war with Hapsburg Empire/Puppet Hungary, France is a war with Britain (no surprise there), Sweden will soon annex Finland barring a miracle, and and Angola has gone on an annexation spree in southern Africa.

I would have more pictures, but it only just occurred to me to start taking them.:wacko:
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I noticed that the AI in both Quebec and Mexico both ignored my forces on their border until I started to try to gather intel on their forces' movements. It left me a totally undefended border until just before the beginning of the war. If I had not tried to learn of their troop movements, I would have been attacking undefended fronts in both wars. I don't know the cause, but it probably needs to be fixed.
 
Rakshae said:
I noticed that the AI in both Quebec and Mexico both ignored my forces on their border until I started to try to gather intel on their forces' movements. It left me a totally undefended border until just before the beginning of the war. If I had not tried to learn of their troop movements, I would have been attacking undefended fronts in both wars. I don't know the cause, but it probably needs to be fixed.
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Yer, it's just me being lazy using the AI that Paradox/AoD got instead of building my own for all countries.

Neither of them got CSA as an important enemy I believe.
 
Rakshae said:
When you get a chance, do something about China's unit production priorities. They are just like Nat China in vanilla with tons of militia and not much else. They just got crushed between Japan and India due to a lack of real units.
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What kind of units do you suggest and which ratio? :)
 
ai/chc_1936

Text somewhere in the middle:

military = {
relative_build_scheme = no
max_batch_peace = 720
max_batch_war = 360
max_batch_home_front = 360


#### Divisions etc...
infantry = 50
cavalry = 0
motorized = 0
mechanized = 0
light_armor = 0
armor = 0
paratrooper = 10
marine = 0
bergsjaeger = 5
garrison = 0
hq = 0
militia = 10
# 75 %
interceptor = 5
multi_role = 5
cas = 0
strategic_bomber = 0
tactical_bomber = 0
naval_bomber = 0
transport_plane = 0
flying_bomb = 0
flying_rocket = 0
# 10 %
battleship = 0
carrier = 5
escort_carrier = 1
destroyer = 3
light_cruiser = 1
heavy_cruiser = 0
battlecruiser = 0
submarine = 0
nuclear_submarine = 0
transports = 5
# 15 %

#### Brigades
artillery = 20
sp_artillery = 0
rocket_artillery = 0
sp_rct_artillery = 0
anti_tank = 18
tank_destroyer = 0
light_armor_brigade = 0
heavy_armor = 0
super_heavy_armor = 0
armored_car = 0
anti_air = 0
police = 0
engineer = 0

cag = 100.000
escort = 100.0000

naval_asw = 20.0000
naval_anti_air_s = 20.0000
naval_radar_s = 20.0000
naval_fire_controll_s = 20.0000
naval_improved_hull_s = 10.0000
naval_torpedoes_s = 10.0000
naval_anti_air_l = 0.0000
naval_radar_l = 0.0000
naval_fire_controll_l = 0.0000
naval_improved_hull_l = 0.0000
naval_torpedoes_l = 0.0000
}
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Remember that it can't be above 100% as then it crashes. :)

Remember that a lot of CHC's problems is rather as of the commie alliance built in problems. And I will be dealing with that through events. :)
 
where did mountain infantry go?

EDIT: nevermind, my german language skills just kicked in.

EDIT2: I played with it a little and here is their army at the end of 1936.
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I like this far more than the masses of useless militia that were a main part of its army with the old ai file. It lets them stay competitive in a war rather than being a total pushover.
I made the new priorities look like this.
Code: 
	#### Divisions etc...
	infantry 		= 50
	cavalry 		= 5
	motorized 		= 0
	mechanized 		= 0
	light_armor 	= 0
	armor 			= 0
	paratrooper 	= 10
	marine 			= 0
	bergsjaeger 	= 10
	garrison		= 0
    hq 				= 0
	militia 		= 0
#				75 %

I couldn't decide where to put the militia points at so I placed them into mountain and cavalry in equal parts. I also removed the cavalry techs from the ignore pile to the preference pile. What do you think?
 
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Cavalry was just a placeholder. It could just as easily be ARM or LARM. I just picked cavalry because it was the second division type listed. If you think that the cavalry is fine I'll upload the chc ai file. If you would like something else, tell me what and I'll replace cavalry with that and upload.
 
Rakshae said:
Cavalry was just a placeholder. It could just as easily be ARM or LARM. I just picked cavalry because it was the second division type listed. If you think that the cavalry is fine I'll upload the chc ai file. If you would like something else, tell me what and I'll replace cavalry with that and upload.
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It's fine.

I let you have free hand in this and if someone complain they can fix it the way they wish. :)

So please upload and I'll add it!
 
Rakshae said:
Thank you very much for the mention in the credits. Also, did you give Japan the 30 garrison units or is that left over from vanilla?
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Left over from vanilla. :(

As you seem to be good at it, I would be happy to let you fix AI for the states ingame if you like! :)

For to help an AI to attack you better (to avoid the situation you had as the CSA):

Taken from the mex_1936 AI file:
target = {
#Japan
1184 = 100 # Tokyo

#Germany
300 = 100 # Berlin
}
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If you switch the cities [First number] and then put it to how important target is [Second number].

So in the cases above:
[Province] = [Importance]

Below is the importance to protect borders with said nation:
country_priorities = {
CAN = -1
MEX = -1
}
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A higher means that more troops will be put to protect borders with said state.

Below is from ger_1936 file:
combat = {
ENG = 60
FRA = 80
AUS = 80
SOV = 45
CHC = 30
ANG = 15
BOL = 10
JAP = 10
MEX = 10
SPR = 5
}
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And means how likely said state is to declare war on the country and focus military against.

If you want to know the name/number of provinces or more about how to mod you can find it here:

http://www.paradoxian.org/hoi2wiki/index.php/Main_Page
 
Thank you very much for the explanation. I would be more than happy to work on the ai for the mod and try to get priorities where they should be.

EDIT: I cannot seem to find a csa.ai file so I will make one using your mex.ai as a template. I hope you do not mind me doing so.

EDIT2: I just need to finish the diplomacy, spying, and construction and the csa.ai will be ready for me to upload for you to approve/edit. I plan on doing/working on each of the starting countries in the mod. I will try to make the ai function as if it were actually from the history you wrote up for the mod back in HoI2.
 
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Rakshae said:
Thank you very much for the explanation. I would be more than happy to work on the ai for the mod and try to get priorities where they should be.

EDIT: I cannot seem to find a csa.ai file so I will make one using your mex.ai as a template. I hope you do not mind me doing so.

EDIT2: I just need to finish the diplomacy, spying, and construction and the csa.ai will be ready for me to upload for you to approve/edit. I plan on doing/working on each of the starting countries in the mod. I will try to make the ai function as if it were actually from the history you wrote up for the mod back in HoI2.
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Sounds awesome! :)

Will be cool to see what you doing!

And yes, the CSA AI file is lacking, as it's not an existing country in the game they haven't bothered to give it an AI and therefor it's given automatically the default AI.
 
Here is the ai file for the CSA. I hope it meets with your approval. If there are any changes that need to be done, I will be more than happy to make them.
http://www.filefront.com/16851381/csa_1936_New.ai

Also, I think the tech team files need to be moved from \db\techs\ to \db\techs\teams\ in the mod download folder.
 
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