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Expert AI 5.0
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Slazenger 24 Jan, 2020 @ 12:14am
China's divisions after they research 'Human wave offensive' (-0.4 infantry) + warlords not supporting China
After they research human wave offensive they'll switch their army's division templates to a larger divisions which will:

1) make them loose experience
2) make the combat width uneven as it's something like 16w or 19.2w

This will make the front start to collapse not soon after.

It would be better if there was no change to their template and they remain 5 divisions at 8 width because:

8
16
24
32
40 (even)
48
56
64
72
80 (ideal combat width)
88
96
104
112
120 (ideal combat width)
-and so on

As for the warlords, Guanxi Clique and Yunan can stockpile infantry rifles up into the 50,000s and only do minimal lend lease. They don't appear to make divisions too which means only a small amount of expeditionary forces for China. Quanxi clique should definitely be playing a larger part in the war instead of just sitting there.


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Kondi  [developer] 25 Jan, 2020 @ 1:31am 
Are we talking about China vs AI Japan? The war is intentionally set up so that China loses it. That's the only way the game will make any sense due to various issues that I don't want to go into again. It would be trivial for me to adjust China/warlords AI so that it crushes Japan. Making China AI a little better so that there is a stalemate won't work either due to... various reasons. I'd love to have a more historical war in China as well but it's not possible (in a way that I would be happy with) by adjusting the AI.

The main infantry template it should normally be using after researching human wave is 7x infantry (11.2 width). IIRC the reason I did that was to reduce the amount of divisions a bit so that the AI doesn't need so many extra leaders but I think I might reduce it back to 6x infantry to reduce the width penalties.

Unless you changed China yourself, it should be using 10w or 11.2w and it does in my quick test at least. Maybe in late war it could be using a few larger anti tank divisions or such and sometimes while the AI is in the middle of upgrading its templates, it temporarily uses weird widths. But it shouldn't affect its main infantry divisions.
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