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We need to constantly recruit officers and keep the officer ratio above 100%. Leadership points are broken into science, espionage, diplomacy and officers. This isn't a bit issue in peacetime, just need to ensure we catch up before battle. Aside from that it's set consumer goods to minimum (to keep the populace happy) and reduce upgrades and reinforcements (means they generate slower than 100% efficiency). Three divisions (one corp) of armor per army is the goal. These divisions will go directly to cover all the armor required by the 5th, 6th and 7th armies (Dutch, Belgium and French borders). I've started by ordering a batch of tanks. Even if the USA joins later on any month with the USA kept out of the war is a diplomatic victory for us. This will draw the USA towards the Axis and away from the Allies and Comintern. The only thing I DO care about is to stop the USA from joining the war on the Allies side. Quite frankly I don't care about anything diplomatically (as I'll just conquer what I want when I want it). Okay so I'm going to play with this game now that the C&C is all setup.ДЇirstly to set my diplomatic stance.

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I just think it might not get there till patch 7. There are still some things it has troubles with, most notably naval invasions. Note on image 5 the AI is requesting some armor and tactical bombers, which will also reflect in the production screen to help you decide what to build.Д«ut like I said at the top of this post, this concept will be amazing only when the AI's have been finely tuned and fixed up.

So if the AI needs more infantry to defend the French border it will tell you. the AI will even request what it needs from you so that you can produce what it needs. Image 5 shows just that, the 7th Army having been given it's command to defend the French border provinces.ДЄnd here's the cherry on top of the cream on top of the double-layered chocolate cake. Or better yet, just assign the defensive stance to the whole Western theatre whilst you wage war in the east against Poland! The AI will do it's job, and you can forget about it. Or if you don't want to worry about defending the Siegfried line (the French border) then assign an AI to the 7th Army and give it the objective to defend the French border. This objective could be for our 1st Corp to take Warsaw using blitzkrieg.

I could assign an AI to a Corp and give it an objective and stance (defensive, attacking, blitz, etc). I can assign AI control to ANY LEVEL OF THE HIERARCHY! Yes, you read that right.

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So how is all of this easier in HOI3? Well here is where the full power of HOI3's C&C system comes into play. For instance, later in the war we could create an armoured division with a heavy tank brigade and two mechanised brigades. Of course, our division could be made up differently to customise our army. So at the depths of the tree we find out 1st Infantry Division, who is led by Guderian, consisting of three infantry brigades. If we then drill down into the Army Group and 1st Army (around Konigsburg/Prussia) then we find the 1st Corps which currently contains three infantry divisions. Drilling down into the hierarchy we can see that the Western theatre HQ is in Berlin. Now let's look at image 3 which shows a part of the C&C hierarchy. I have created an Army Group of three Armies to face Poland, another Army Group of three Armies to face France and Belgium and two support/reserve Army Groups, one for each theatre in the south of the country. These I've defined myself based on my objectives for the start of the war. You'll notice I've broken the theatres into Army Groups and Armies. And by defining the different levels of command and control you can create an entire military hierarchy. What do theatres allow? Well, they enable a full Command and Control system. Here we can see the Eastern and Western theatres. Let's look at the Theatre view in image 2.

We have a number of divisions scattered across the map. Once it is perfected, this system will push the game from great to outstanding. I'll show you why.Д®asily what I consider 75% of the reason to get HOI3 is the Command & Control system.

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That's a LOT of manual work!Д«ut don't worry. Thinking you could be scared of battles such as Barbarosso which could see you lining up with over 150 divisions (450-600 brigades).

The game also goes to the level of brigade (not division like HOI1/2). For instance, there's twice as many provinces I think than HOI2 (around 15000 I heard). But honestly, with broken weather and supply systems you're heading for a bit of frustration.ДЄlso, don't take the depth of the game to heart. Whether that's patch 3 or 4 or whatever, no idea. TBH, I would say get it when the patch for weather and supply comes out. Okay, so should you get it now or get it later? I generaly dont play WW2(or 1) games, but i was thinking of making an exception for HOI3 - whats your advice to me, get it now or wait a while still?