Hearts of Iron IV

[grumbler]

Has anyone ahd and hopefully solved the weirdness where you setup a task force to auto fill, and it just adds then removes then adds then removes over and over again a single ship?

I setup a CV TF with 2CVs, 2BB, 2CA, 4CL, and 20 DDs. It fills it up from reserve nicely, but then 1 of the 2 CVs just togglers back and forth between in and out of the TF.

I stopped using task force autofill after my first game.  I just let the TF do its thing until it has a significant number of ships damaged or under repair, then toggle it's combat mod off and send reinforcements to fill out the losses.  That way I don't have obsolete cruisers or whatever in my battle fleets while modern ones in my scouting forces.  It is more important to have modern ships for screening than for scouting.

[DGuller]

Task force auto-fill sometimes bugs out on me as well.  One thing I found is that for some reason, a fresh task force is less likely to bug out than the task force started from an existing historical fleet.  Not sure why.  This is one of the many delightful fit and finish issues with the game, where you kind of wish the developers spent more time ironing out bugs rather than adding fantasy nonsense to Bhutan's focus tree.

[Razgovory]

When you set up a taskforce you choose both a type of ship and the symbol of that ship.  The autofill only uses ships of the same type and symbol. For instance you might pick destroyers and symbol of shield.  The AI will only use destroyers with the shield symbol for autofill.  You can change the symbol by going back the ship design screen.  Change the icon for obsolete ships and they will no longer be used reinforcements.

[DGuller]

When you set up a taskforce you choose both a type of ship and the symbol of that ship.  The autofill only uses ships of the same type and symbol. For instance you might pick destroyers and symbol of shield.  The AI will only use destroyers with the shield symbol for autofill.  You can change the symbol by going back the ship design screen.  Change the icon for obsolete ships and they will no longer be used reinforcements.

That's not the issue for Berkut.  If the ship keeps joining and then detaching, then obviously the template thinks at least some of the time that the ship is of accepted type.  It's hard to say what kind of bug Berkut is running into, because there are so many of them in the fleet reinforcement mechanic.

[Solmyr]

I found this video a good start for naval warfare, explains what the missions are and which ships are good for them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3hvN1vDJQQ

[DGuller]

For SP games, for maximum effectiveness, I find that the best ratio of ships to build is 100% 1940 subs with snorkels, and 0% of anything else. 

[Berkut]

That cannot possible be correct.

I think you just made me want to just uninstall and go back to Stellaris or something

[DGuller]

At least they fixed land combat a little.  Here is what you could do in patch 1.4:

[Valmy]

19 million to zero? The Germans really are super men.

[Habbaku]

And it's stuff like that why I've never touched HOI III/IV. Four games in and they still can't even get combat avoiding the giggle test.

[DGuller]

19 million to zero? The Germans really are super men.

This game came about from a debate with some "experts" on the HOI forum about mech infantry.  They kept saying that it was useless because it was way too expensive, and I was saying that it's good that it is so expensive, because it can be game-breaking in its effectiveness.  They said I was full of it.

To prove my point, I started a game with the sole purpose of creating such idiotic casualty ratios.  As Germany, I delayed my war with USSR until my entire army was fully mechanized.  I was showing these screenshots in that debate thread, and the "expert" said that all it proved was that I was a bad player, since I waited until 1943 to attack the Soviets.    Paradox forums can be as amusing as their games.

[DGuller]

And it's stuff like that why I've never touched HOI III/IV. Four games in and they still can't even get combat avoiding the giggle test.

They do have some pretty elaborate focus trees for Mexico, though, you have to give them that.

[Habbaku]

19 million to zero? The Germans really are super men.

This game came about from a debate with some "experts" on the HOI forum about mech infantry.  They kept saying that it was useless because it was way too expensive, and I was saying that it's good that it is so expensive, because it can be game-breaking in its effectiveness.  They said I was full of it.

To prove my point, I started a game with the sole purpose of creating such idiotic casualty ratios.  As Germany, I delayed my war with USSR until my entire army was fully mechanized.  I was showing these screenshots in that debate thread, and the "expert" said that all it proved was that I was a bad player, since I waited until 1943 to attack the Soviets.    Paradox forums can be as amusing as their games.

Ahistorical results means you're terrible at the game!

[The Brain]

Why didn't the Soviet AI ragequit?

[Habbaku]

Why didn't the Soviet AI ragequit?