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Bavre -> Things that are good to know before MP (4/11/2021 11:54:51 PM)
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Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen,
after gathering a bit of XP in MP I have decided to do a little Q&A about some of the finer game mechanic aspects that often elude new players. Some of those can make the first MP matches extremely frustrating and it can quite often appear as if the opponent is somehow cheating. I hope the more experienced players will forgive me for spilling those beans, but I really think it's fair for both sides to know that stuff. As I said this will be mostly mechanics and no strategy guide. Anyway, here we go:
1. My opponent always seems to know where my ships are. His ships never trigger ambushes and also seem to ignore my mines.
Your opponent uses subs in silent mode as scouts. During their move (but NOT at the endpoint) those ignore ZoC and ambushes, have a greatly reduced chance to trigger mines and -most importantly- are invisible to the other player. Just do a little experiment in the north sea in a hotseat vs yourself. Declare war on GB, put some royal navy ships and mines there and dive right through them with german subs. You only have to make sure you do it in one big move, do NOT creep up on them hex by hex. After that switch sides and watch the Entente replay.
2. I blocked off everything, but his subs just seem to appear out of nowhere and start raiding.
See point 1. Subs in silent mode can "ghost" through any static blockade, making those practically pointless. The only way to stop them is finding them through active patrolling. Makes Entente naval play quite tedious, but there's no way around it.
3. The opponent is attacking my subs with battleships. It does not appear to do anything, but afterwards they die really fast to destroyer attacks.
He is using his non-ASW ships to drain your subs supply and soften them up for his destroyers. All ships use up 1 supply whenever they dash, raid or fight. And since capital ship attacks on subs always result in 0:0 fights, it's a risk free way to kill the subs supply. Even if the sub escapes it won't do much anymore, because with low supply it's not gonna do much raiding.
Edit: This has been patched in version 1.05!
4. My opponent always seems to know which coastal towns are undefended.
He's probably using air recon. As long as a recon flight is not intercepted or hits a town, harbor or enemy unit it will not be shown in the other sides replay. So say you want your french carrier in the Med to check on Smyrna, then do not target the City but one of the adjacent hexes. You will still see wether there's a unit in there, but the Turks will never know that you've been there.
5. My opponents units kick ass while mine suck.
That can have many reasons, but the most common ones in regard to game mechanics are
a) You're in low supply. There is already a really great thread about this and I can only recommend to check it out:
https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4924897&mpage=1&key=supply�
Pay special attention to post 3 point 22. It will immensely help you get more supply to the front line.
Edit: Some supply rules changed in version 1.05!
b) Your units are leaderless. Always set your generals to auto assist and manage the unit attachments yourself! Make sure those of your boys that are in the thick of it have a decent HQ commanding them.
c) Your generals are *censored*. If you select one of your HQs and select sack/replace with you can staff it with a often much better guy. The cost of this action only depends on the new generals rating, not the difference between old and new one.
Other reasons can be extremely experienced enemy generals or a huge difference in national morale, but those can unfortunatelly not be helped by a quick action.
6. The other side goes total Blitzkrieg on me, with a bunch of units appearing in impossible places on turn one.
Your opponent sold his starting research chits and used the money to operate troops and surprise you. Not much you can directly do about it. However nothing stops you from doing the same on your first turn and rail in an appropriate defense force. Btw, there are some starting research chits which should be almost always sold off. A prime example would be Serbia. In MP it hardly ever lives long enough to see any benefit from its industry research and even if it does, the % effect is barely noticeable due to the small Serbian economy.
7. By midgame the enemy seems to have much better tech then me.
In this game some techs are vastly more powerful than the rest and it's pretty much mandatory to pump as many chits in those as possible. For details check out this thread:
https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4942731
especially post 8.
8. My opponent always seems to know my HQs locations and occasionally snipes them.
Well, that's because he indeed does know their locations. In regions with a native supply below 10 (for example the russian side of the Galicia front) he can calculate their positions by checking your frontline units supply values. Having a HQ in the second row is very useful supply wise, but also very risky.
That's all I can think of for starters, hope it helps and leads to some exciting matches! If I forgot something feel of course free to add.
Cheers and death to them Frogs, Huns etc...
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