Taking Leningrad as Finland is a mistake

[Bukkacracy]

I took Leningrad during the Winter War and held out until 41 when barbarosa started so I was pretty pleased with my Fins.

The Axis took Stalingrad, the Urals and were at the gates of Moscow.

When the Axis opened up a corridor to Leningrad to relieve my men defending it instead of continuing the march on moscow they sent 250 divisions to my northern border with the remaining Soviets and Norway.

3/4ths of their combined army died in one of the worst infastructure having regions in the entire game and only 1/4th of it was left on the Eastern Front.

I litteraly had to change my conscription law to volunteer so I would have some kind of manpower reserve after the Axis commited suicide and murdered all my divisions with attrition.

This is regular dificulty with historical (hysterical) focuses on.

There is just no excuse for this AI.

[Bukkacracy]

By the way they were only up against about 20-30 divisions combined up there and they made no progress at all because their organization didn't exist so they didn't even have the courtesy to leave my country.

[Yaldabaoth]

And I thought Italy deploying its entire army in Africa was bad. Or Germany achieving a breakthrough on the Eastern Front only to drive straight to China instead of defeating the Soviet Union.

[Bukkacracy]

Yep all that climbing uphill trying to win the winter war and the AI does the stupidest thing I've seen yet. This is worse than when I was Germany and Itally sent half it's army into the english channel trying to reinforce africa by going to longest way possible.

Well thats 6 hours down the drain.

[Jig]

I've seen worse. i made britan capitualate with 5 paratroopers. All i had to do was not deploy my air force over britan until the air invasion was ready. Since britan figured it had air supiriority then it would stay that way so it deployed its whole army to africa to fight italy. I then unleashed 3,000 fighters over london gaining air supiriority before britan could repsong with the rest of the RAF, which opened up a gap for my 5 paratroopers. britan had but 1 unit on england so it took about 2 days to make them surrender.

[Jig]

The whole time they only kept about 300 aircraft to keep supririority as well...

[dcbobo]

Not in my game, the huge amount of Lenigrads' factories was a major kicker and propelled me nicely.....however, deciding to stage a coup later in what was left of of the soviet was a huge mistake, the coup succeeded and gave all the land i was in control of to the new Russian empire.... ARGHHH

[equinox1911]

Originally posted by Blin.Franklin:

I litteraly had to change my conscription law to volunteer so I would have some kind of manpower reserve after the Axis commited suicide and murdered all my divisions with attrition.

What are you talking about? Attrition has NO effect on manpower! Soldiers don't starve in HoI4 what do you think this is, a historical simulation :D
The best "fix" for your situation would have been to give out maintenance companies to everyone to bring down the effect of attrition on your equipment to the minimum amount possible.
I have never had the AI being that stuipid, but man these horrorstories are just awful.

[Bukkacracy]

Thought attrition actually meant attrition HoI3 style. Still I can't afford to lose equipment either. The one thing more precious than manpower for me is equipment. I would have prefered to lose manpower.

I can't see why they thought this AI was ready to ship.

[equinox1911]

Game dev changes whole system and you assume it's the same, well ok end of discussion i guess.
Also MP is the much scarcer ressource, especially for small countries like norway.