Recommended Soviet AI settings for the Vistula to Berlin scen?

[SchDerGrosse]

So I am an intermediate Axis player and would like to give the Vistula to Berlin scenario a go.

How should I tweak the difficulty settings? I am looking for a challanging game but at the same time would also want to keep some semblence of historical accuracy, i.e. I dont want a game where my few and far still elite units just get blown away by single Soviet bycicle unit..

I was thinking normal settings with SOV morale set to 110 (thus allowing the AI to move shuffle around its forces as needed) and theater box management off. Will this be enough for the AI to keep me on my toes or should I give it more advantages (or gimp myself further)?

Thanks for your insight,

[Nazcatraz]

Normal - Everything 100.

[Joel Billings]

I'd suggest at least 109 morale help for the Soviets. As an experienced player, you are likely better than the AI. You can always change it during the game if it is too much or not enough.

[SchDerGrosse]

Normal - Everything 100.

I really hate the teleportation mechanic that activated at 110 morale, but my expereince is that without it, the AI is hopelessly outclassed by the human player on normal settings (regardless of the scenario).

[SchDerGrosse]

I'd suggest at least 109 morale help for the Soviets. As an experienced player, you are likely better than the AI. You can always change it during the game if it is too much or not enough.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Any reason not to bump it up to 110? My experience is that giving the AI ability to freely reorganize its unit at the beginning of every turn is the only way to give it any fighting chance.

[Joel Billings]

I would go 110 myself, but suggested 109 in case you wanted something a bit easier until you saw how it was doing.

[SchDerGrosse]

I would go 110 myself, but suggested 109 in case you wanted something a bit easier until you saw how it was doing.

Its not about the difficulty per se. I am primarily drawn to the game due to the fact of how immersive it can be. And getting the teeth of your fully decked out panzer division kicked in by some 3rd rate Soviet division purely due to game setting can come off as quite a turn off.

Will try 110.

My other gripe is that the AI might not be aggressive enough. By this time of the war, the Soviets can endure enormous losses just to gain ground and my observation is that the AI is reluctant to launch attritional attacks when it thinks that it cannot win by a great margin. This is my experience from like 2yrs ago, dont know if such a behaviour still persists or not.

[Nazcatraz]

Normal - Everything 100.

I really hate the teleportation mechanic that activated at 110 morale, but my expereince is that without it, the AI is hopelessly outclassed by the human player on normal settings (regardless of the scenario).

I used to stick with AI Morale 110 always until I discovered how far they could teleport across the map regardless of terrains (I'm talking about mountains here) and it turned me off so bad so I keep it at 100 now. The only time I would go against AI 110 (not just Morale, I would go with the Challenging difficulty really) is playing 1941 Soviet so the AI can blitz. And then when December 5th 1941 comes I would switch it back to Normal