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Originally posted by Jaeger:
Quite different from the first HOI game (thank God, the AI was awful.)
I do however find it difficult to keep tabs on battles. On the HOI it was just to hoover over the fighting units and the results would pop up. Now I have to 'click' them to see whats going on (am I doing something wrong?)
Also if I select units to do support fire, it seems that they defeat the enemy befor my 'strike force' enter the province. I have not found how to track the battle result for the supporting fire units..
In short HELP!!!
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I never played the first HOI so i can't compare it myself. i do find it rather difficult to follow battles as well on a large scale. With naval, aircraft and ground units going at the same time battles can get lost.
First of all, when war is on i rarely if ever have game speed faster than "normal." If there is a lot of combat going on i select slow or very slow. Then under options i select the setting that creates a pop up and pauses the game everytime an airunit gets into combat. This way a combat occurs, a pop up comes up i select gio to and there is the battle. Air combat seems to conclude fairly fast and since air units take heavy losses at time you want to be aware of status of units during and immediatly after battle.
I do the exact same thing for naval combat.
For land combat i only have the game pause and have a pop up come up if the enemy attacked me because i want to know immediately where i'm getting attacked and attempt counterattacks.
All the pop ups get a little annoying if you have a lot going on but generally it seems best to me.
I'm not really sure about the support attack problem you have. I don't really see what you mean by "it seems that they defeat the enemy befor my 'strike force' enter the province."
If you attack a province with 2 divisions and support it with 2 divisions then all 4 are engaged in the combat as if you had 4 attacking. the support unit remain where they are however and the attack units move forward. When the battle concludes in your favor combat is finished and now a bit of time has to elapse before your 2 attack units move into the province and the attacked units retreat. The 2 units that supported in the meantime are simply hanging out where they had been.
To follow this battle you can look at the battles screen up top and to the left, you'll see icons of a tank, airplane and i think a soldier face. next to them to the right you'll also see a cloud smoky looking thing. When any battle commences this icon lights up. when it lights up click on it and it will show where combat is. To get a more detailed report of battle click on the rectangle representing the battle.
Once you do this you will see a list of your forces in combat and the enemies, it'll show each unit icon, that units Organization level and stength. Also if you place the pointer over you list of units a small box will pop up showing whatever penalties or bonuses your units have. the same thing can be done with holding the pointer over the enemy units.
[ 18. May 2006, 03:53 PM: Message edited by: Ron ]