<r> After reloading it appears that Stalingrad is Industrial Center, meaning my idea of a cutting off <B><s>[b]</s>all of Russia<e>[/b]</e></B> by surrounding Kuybyshev and Sevastopol is not valid <E>:)</E><br/>
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I think they can trace supply via the Kerch strait from Sevastopol, but not 100 ...

<t> I play my first game as Axis, took Leningrad & Moscow and noticed the only Key Resources left in Russia are now Kuybyshev (where capital has moved) and Sevastopol (which is Primary Supply Source). To my surprise Russia does not seem to have any Secondary Supply sources and Industrial Centers ...

<r> I would like you all to know that we're aware of all of this bad AI stuff and working on it. We're sorry if anybody feels upset about the weak AI - we'll do our best to improve the AI as much as possible. See my post in this thread. <URL url="http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1921386 ...

<t> We are aware of these weaknesses. We work on the algorithm of improving AI defence. Not in the next patch (which is coming very soon) but the following one: the AI will try to maintain a front line rather than static points of defence. We're also considering some additional AI improvements like ...

Good point. We'll add a Vichy garrison there through the event.

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[font="arial"] Seems like there are some holes in the implementation - german units that get cut off <B><s>[b]</s>are<e>[/b]</e></B> cut off, Russian units are only <B><s>[b]</s>sort of<e>[/b]</e></B> cut off???? [/font]
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Everyone is cut-off ...

The other idea I have is to allow paras to jump only when they are inactive (i.e. do not spend a single AP) for x turns (it would be configurable, with defauylt value 2 or 3).&nbsp; This could reflect preparing for the operation far from the combat.

Yes. Game allows any combination of control (human/ai).

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: mickrocks<br/>
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[font="Arial"]I would suggest that strategic movement not be allowed for units that are surrounded. In fact it should only be allowed for units that can trace a path that is free of adjacent enemy units regardless of whether the hexes used ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Uxbridge<br/>
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I suddenly chanced upon the solution to the problem! When I started to change things, I first copied the entire 1939-scenario and placed it outside of the scenario-folder. There I gave it a new name and then placed it back into the scenario ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: jeffreys<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Of course they are useful and they should be built and used and US can build a lot. The point was HOW air units are used. IRL air units were used to support ground operations, to achieve a breakthrough or support an assault ...

I did not assume that the country would spent PP only on technologies... However, I agree that the research cost might be too low at the moment. We'll tweak that.

We'll have a look at this in next patch. Thanks for input.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: James Ward<br/>
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I've had two games where a nation declares war on a nation that just was eliminated. Once Germany did it to Russia and once Russia did it to Germany. Both times it happened on the turn after the surrender.
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<t> Of course they are useful and they should be built and used and US can build a lot. The point was HOW air units are used. IRL air units were used to support ground operations, to achieve a breakthrough or support an assault on heavily fortified points. Current game rules prevent using air units ...

<t> James Ward gave good explanation, it was designed purposfully. Otherwise air units would work like a land unit that has 20 hex attack range. Air strikes are ineffective PP-wise to balance the game, otherwise optimal strategy for resource rich countries would be to build only air units. Imagine ...

Don't change it

AI runs in its own separate thread, and I introduced this setting just in case someone had roubles with this thread being slowed down. So far it appears that nobody reported any problem about the AI speed, so this seeting seems to be not necessary.

In 1.20 patch this has been fixed. On Ribbentrop-Molotov and vichy events Germany gets some DP which, together with their +5 DP per month, is enough to bring all the historical allies into war prior to operation Barbarossa.

<t> We need to think this through. Is it really that diffictult to take port having total air superiority? If you have 3-4 air units, you can do 6-8 air strikes. Then, usually, you can bombard from the sea. Then land with strongest, high-lev corps units and it shouldn't be that hard to capture the ...

Check out doc\Event engine manual.txt, there's a description of params to all (or I think most) different methods to be used in <expression> and <effect> blocks.