How to attack

[Graf von Scyth]

I'm experiencing some serious problems with my units and I realised that I don't understand how combat in this game works at all.
I created an offense line along another country's border, assigned a few divisions to it, the country declared war on me, I drew a line of advance into the enemy country and ordered the units to attack.
The line going to the enemy country changed so that it had lines, but the divisions didn't do anything!
How can I make them move!?
I've spent the best part of a day getting here and now my soldiers just aren't doing anything and there's no explanation of why

[mk11]

This is a complex game and there are lots of things you can do wrong or expectations you may not have.

1. Post screenshots when asking for advice.
2. Mouse over and look at every tooltip. Are there yellow exclamation marks showing against some divisions in the army display? Are there orange or red fuel can signs on the divisions? Either of these could indicate supply problems.

[Donald Trump]

Ye it’s either HEAVY attrition or you are trying to attack from an allied country that is not at war with your enemy, I guess

[Graf von Scyth]

Originally posted by Yiffy the furry LGBT Cat:

Ye it’s either HEAVY attrition or you are trying to attack from an allied country that is not at war with your enemy, I guess

They literally just declared war on me. Also I'm playing TNO (I didn't post this in TNO forums because I don't think combat mechanics change) and the country im fighting is Novosibirsk, so uhh... it's neither of those.
Either way, I figured out how to make them attack in the end, just had to abandon the war plans and just direct the divisions ad-hoc and that worked. Thanks!

[Blind]

Once you've created a frontline, you can then plan missions like spearhead and offensive line. The front line is your starting point and the offensive line is your end goal. Sometimes you don't want these to be too large as the game will indicate by changing from green to yellow to red as you draw lines. Once you've drawn the offensive line, an arrow will appear above the generals portrait. You have to click this in order to execute the mission. Before you do that, hovering over the arrow will tell some information. It takes time to formulate a good plan, so clicking it immediately may result in a rushed plan that ends up with more casualties and little to no advancement. There are some cases where clicking immediately is fine and you will learn when you are comfortable doing that. At this point once you've clicked the arrow your units will automate orders under your general. Hope this gets you started!
Side note, if you ever have something selected and right click somewhere causing EVERYthing to beeline for it, you can easily pause the game and click the red circle with a line through it in the top right of the selected divisions window. This will halt those units and then they will reset to their generals wishes a moment later. Its okay, we've all been there!

[CaptainSpacetime]

Originally posted by Graf von Scyth:

Originally posted by Yiffy the furry LGBT Cat:

Ye it’s either HEAVY attrition or you are trying to attack from an allied country that is not at war with your enemy, I guess

They literally just declared war on me. Also I'm playing TNO (I didn't post this in TNO forums because I don't think combat mechanics change) and the country im fighting is Novosibirsk, so uhh... it's neither of those.
Either way, I figured out how to make them attack in the end, just had to abandon the war plans and just direct the divisions ad-hoc and that worked. Thanks!

probably just a bug with the mod in that case

[mk11]

Divisions acting under battle order will only attack if they think there is a good chance of winning. You can set the army to be aggressive when it will attack always.

It could be that the mod messes up the odds calculation of the AI.

Even if micro-managing attacks (which is quite normal) you can still keep the battle plan around (inactive) so as to get planning bonus.