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BlackICE Historical Immersion Mod
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[TFM]bobcat 27 Dec, 2021 @ 8:56pm
why are my units so bad
Love most every feature of the mod so far, but I am running into a considerable issue. I'm playing as Australia, waited until 1944 to declare war on Japan in order to build up and get tech etc. When I do, however, my units are absolute paper. They immediately start losing as soon as they attack and have to stop within a matter of days and in the meantime can barely hold the Japanese off, even when my troops vastly outnumber them. Wasn't expecting Japanese to be push overs, but this feels ridiculous.

My only conclusion must be that I am doing something drastically wrong here. I'm not at the forefront of tech but I do have like 1940's level in small arms and artillery and my troops are basically all infantry and artillery. Is that not enough? I researched all the WWI theory but didn't do a much in WWII theory (like 1 or 2 techs there). Is that not enough? The infrastructure wasn't too high in the areas where I was fighting, but surely that would affect the Japanese as much as it would me? I had medium standards for training and officers, is that not enough?

Anything I might not be thinking of?
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mk11 28 Dec, 2021 @ 7:18am 
radios?
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[TFM]bobcat 28 Dec, 2021 @ 7:41am 
have those
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GilesTiffaw 29 Dec, 2021 @ 11:38am 
Which of officer and soldier training
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[TFM]bobcat 29 Dec, 2021 @ 5:28pm 
I think it was medium soldier standards (whatever the third option down in the list was) and it was also the 3rd level of officer training, the one before elite officer training
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GilesTiffaw 30 Dec, 2021 @ 2:33am 
I hope supply route was ok (convoys were ok) and units well equipped
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[TFM]bobcat 30 Dec, 2021 @ 4:04am 
They were fully equipped. Supply wasn't great because of poor infrastructure but the Japanese invaded my territory and so were operating in the same conditions
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Faceoff 30 Dec, 2021 @ 7:43am 
The combat with this mod is like 100% broken nothing makes sense as UK and the U.S My units get steam rolled and there is no way to even check why or what's going on , its not your country the whole combat is broken , I feel like I'm playing on the hardest difficulty.
Last edited by Faceoff; 30 Dec, 2021 @ 7:43am
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GilesTiffaw 1 Jan, 2022 @ 1:52pm 
Im sorry but o cant really help, with me it is always
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GilesTiffaw 1 Jan, 2022 @ 1:52pm 
Working
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GilesTiffaw 2 Jan, 2022 @ 11:22pm 
Oh wait did you put total mobilisation on in the laws?
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[TFM]bobcat 2 Jan, 2022 @ 11:50pm 
Originally posted by kikam7:
Oh wait did you put total mobilisation on in the laws?

yes
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Ashitake 3 Jan, 2022 @ 9:03am 
Originally posted by TFMbobcat:
They were fully equipped. Supply wasn't great because of poor infrastructure but the Japanese invaded my territory and so were operating in the same conditions
Well... The IA is the biggest problem in this game, because they cheat a lot and at the same way, they have a lot of bonus for supplies.
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MadJaguarSkillz 12 Jan, 2022 @ 2:30am 
Originally posted by Faceoff:
The combat with this mod is like 100% broken nothing makes sense as UK and the U.S My units get steam rolled and there is no way to even check why or what's going on , its not your country the whole combat is broken , I feel like I'm playing on the hardest difficulty.

Have you got advisers assigned to all your high command slots? I didn't at first as was getting nailed by everyone, once I made sure all my command slots were occupied I could fight back
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Berlin 15 Jan, 2022 @ 3:49pm 
are you researching mortars, machine guns, uniforms etc? your infantry has garbage stats without them, even though setting up production for them is a pain in the ass
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[TFM]bobcat 15 Jan, 2022 @ 6:54pm 
Originally posted by MadJaguarSkillz:
Originally posted by Faceoff:
The combat with this mod is like 100% broken nothing makes sense as UK and the U.S My units get steam rolled and there is no way to even check why or what's going on , its not your country the whole combat is broken , I feel like I'm playing on the hardest difficulty.

Have you got advisers assigned to all your high command slots? I didn't at first as was getting nailed by everyone, once I made sure all my command slots were occupied I could fight back

I think I had at least 2 or 3 high command slots filled? I can't recall off the top of my head
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