Ithron said:I haven't seen this question asked yet, so sorry if devs have to answer it again. About combat. If combat system mainly stays the same, then it will mean that because of higher number of provinces, smaller countries will be unable to have units in all the provinces at the border. Thus, country with higher number of divisions will not only have easier invasion, but will simply be able to skip border provinces that have divisions. Historically, small nations were prepared to spread divisions more to cover all the boarder. I don't have the historical numbers at the moment, but it was something around having 1 division cover 2-5x longer border, then what big countries covered with 1 division. If there is no system of "spreading", "streaching" the division, so that historical army could cover historical border, then how will this work out? At least one example, of which I hope (as there allways seem to be those who think that no small countries participated or even existed during the ww2, as if they were in holidays on Mars), that involved people should be interested in, is Winter war where both sides had very different concentration of troops.
You know we here ar Paradox Towers have been waiting and waiting for someone to read the Dev diary in it's entirerty, still no one has. However to spare you all and answer your question will combat be the same, this should give you a bit of a clue.
Johan said:When we increase complexity in HoI3, it will primarily be at the warfare and logistics part of the game.