Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Fintilgin

I think at the moment the SC AI is stronger, but the Warplan AI has more potential?

Warplan AI seems to struggle with certain things like basic garrison logic. In my Axis campaign I took places like Cairo, Kursk, MOSCOW, Stalingrad, Baku because the AI left them completely empty and ungarrisoned. The AI didn't seem to respond to serious threats, like when I invade Persia and blitzed into the undefended Caucuses, the AI never shifted or railed a single unit down to defend the area and I just drove north in the worlds easiest offensive. Allied AI when invading would (multiple times!) also do things that were extremely painful to watch, like invade an undefended port and then immediately advance those units inland, leaving the port and only supply source empty and undefended.

I'm impressed by the aggression of the Allied invasion AI though. They hit me in places I didn't expect, in ways that seem unscripted, and I understand people have seem the German AI at least ATTEMPT Sealion, which should help keep Allied players a bit more 'honest'.

I liked that the Allied AI did an all-out invasion in the summer of 1943. Less thrilled that they did it into 1/2 the German army that had been relocated to France.

The Russian AI just sort of.... retreated and melted away. I had absolute possession of every single Russian city and resource on the map including Siberia (except Murmansk lol) by December 1942. Ooof.

I'm optimistic that with some tweaks and love the AI will improve, but even clicking difficulty on both levels up by 2 for my first game it was not even remotely challenging. The game does have a great 'one more turn' feeling though, and I hope the AI gets a boost over time!

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ORIGINAL: ThunderLizard2

Helpful feedback. I think I'll wait a while for this to get fixed. Hoi4 had and has same issues so I'm always concerned when I read these type of comments. Sounds like dev is good so I'll check back after first few patches.

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ORIGINAL: Fintilgin

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ORIGINAL: ThunderLizard2

Helpful feedback. I think I'll wait a while for this to get fixed. Hoi4 had and has same issues so I'm always concerned when I read these type of comments. Sounds like dev is good so I'll check back after first few patches.

There's a lot to like about the game. Auto repair and upgrade means turns keep moving and you're always doing 'fun' things. Joint attacks and the ability for infantry to move attack move etc makes the game feel very fluid. It's got a strong 'one more turn' feeling.

I was pleased by things like Allied attempt at Operation Torch. I took North Africa in 1940, put a small German defense force in Morocco where I expected them to land, and a couple Italian garrisons in Algiers and Tunisia. A purely scripted AI would have just thrown the assault into my prepped Germans in Morocco. This tends to be how SC works in my experience. Instead the US went past Gibraltar and unloaded like 6-7 units at the undefended port of Oran. Nice! Then they moved the bulk of their forces out into the mountains and deserts to the south east, left the port undefended and starved to death in the Sahara. But still!

Anyway, it's definitely worth keeping an eye on.

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ORIGINAL: ThunderLizard2

Can you select what traits to auto upgrade? In SC I usually don't want mobility upgrade as it's too expensive for all units but always want weapons upgrade.

Your AI example seems to show that the game is still early days.

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ORIGINAL: Fintilgin

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ORIGINAL: ThunderLizard2

Can you select what traits to auto upgrade? In SC I usually don't want mobility upgrade as it's too expensive for all units but always want weapons upgrade.

Your AI example seems to show that the game is still early days.

It's not like SC at all. Tech is.... barely there. Once you get a tech upgrade units will just randomly upgrade (for free?) over time and get combat bonuses. Nothing as dramatic as SC mobility.

You do earn some sort of army xp(?) over time that can be used to specialize a unit by giving it heavy artillery or engineers. I think these bonuses are all positive.


As for AI, after I wrote that, I'm gonna pull back on the scripted thing a bit. 1944 - After conquering Russia I launch a late Operation Sealion. Massed American and British forces respond by leaving England to... invade Brittany and Normandy.

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ORIGINAL: Alvaro Sousa

And this is why I read every post. To adjust the A.I.

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ORIGINAL: MOS96B2P

I think the airfields players are seeing might be part of the fog of war. If you are close to an air unit you see the counter and some of the stats. If the air unit is far off (over 10 hexagons I think) you just see an airfield. But it is not an airfield that was built using production points. It's just an air counter displaying as an airfield because of distance / fog of war.