AndreasL

Having played a couple of full campaigns with the 02 patch, I thought it useful to give some feedback. First of all congratulations to Hubert, with the second patch the Allied AI presents some great surprises and adds greatly to the playability of the game. For example: Allied invasion of northern Germany in early 1943 caught me off guard and I had some difficulty in recapturing Hamburg. Subsequent invasion and successful liberation of Norway by the allied AI as a result of me vacating Oslo - to assist in the recapturing of Hamburg - was a great follow through. However, a few niggles remain. For example: D Day still remains a timid affair. I am yet to see more than 5 units participate and still no sign of an HQ Unit. In the current game, five US land units and two Air units have landed within striking distance of Algiers. However, the attack on Algiers is only conducted by the air units and only one of the land units, whilst the other four are doing nothing; no movement ; no attacking. As a consequence, my Vici Unit is easily keeing the US forces at bay. I guess this may explain why D Day was such a timid affair; as a significant proportion of US Units was tied up in North Africa enjoying the warm weather and playing on the beach.... Also, having withdrawn a significant number of my units from Russia to cope with Hamburg; Normandy and Norway, I was expecting an eastern storm. However, the Russian (sorry Soviet)attacks on my remaining forces were at best a half hearted affair. So much so that my few remaining forces were able to hold off the Soviet troops. Hopefully these few niggles can be fixed in a future patch.

The same happens in Iceland. Stationed a German Army unit there before UK could garrison it. A few turns later, a pop up stated that Britain had garrissoned Iceland and the German Army had vanished.

With all these discussion regarding D Day it is perhaps worth flagging up that Normandy was not the only amphibious invasion during WW2. I have looked through the scripts and have found nothing that may trigger an invasion of North Africa or Italy. Maybe I missed this but if not, any such script would be welcomed both in terms of realism and playability. Thinking about it, why go all the way and include scripts for a possible amphibous invasion of Norway, Denmark, Spain (if allied to the Axis) or even Germany directly if the conditions are right.

I have also ammended the script so that D day should launch with 10 units being present in the UK. However, D Day was not the only invasion during WW2. I have looked through the scripts and have found nothing that may trigger an invasion of North Africa or Italy. Maybe I missed this but if not any such script would be essential both for realism and playability. While not go all the way and include scripts for a possible amphibous invasion of Norway, Denmark, Spain or even Germany directly if the conditions are right.

I have now played thre full campaigns as the Axis and noticed that the Allies (AI)is hesitant to invade mainland Europe. Either no invasion takes place at all, or it is a minor invasion with no more than half a dozen Allied units At first I thought that it may be because the resource allocation for the USA was too low but in the last game I noticed that in late 1944 the UK was absolutely full of Allied troops. Yet no invasion of France or Italy, etc materialised even though I played through to 1946. Has anyone else noticed this problem or has nayone managed to change the scripting to fix bug.