HOI4 Dev Diary - Officer Corps

[Oddb@ll]

The agency tab is gone, is there something I missed about that?

Yeah I was thinking about that as well....

 

[SeekTruthFromFx]

The agency tab is gone, is there something I missed about that?

Maybe they are playing without L:R enabled for testing purposes.

 

[Duke_Dave]

Maybe they are playing without L:R enabled for testing purposes.

would be my guess

 

[Arl the Grand]

Looks really cool but there needs to be changes and additions to the doctrines. There are two doctrines which are overwhelmingly better than the others, and there is one doctrine which is horrible. They absolutely need to mix doctrines up so that the game can have some new life pushed into it.

 

[Dlin369]

For modding, will there be a way to override the automatically generated portrait of a General converted to a Minister? I know for some mods Ministers have black and white portraits, which may clash with automatically generated ones

 

[kimidf]

Do you mean there are more ways to gain command power? Because that is what's shown in the screen as a cost for advisors. Most countries have a max of 100cp and an advisor costs all of that. You will also be unable to get advisors while having an active attaché, which is most of the time. Either in Spain or China or one of my allies during the great war.

they will surely modify and increase the command point gain in general although this will surely be explained later in another devs

 

[Bananabus]

Will an advisor rank grow stronger as that commander gains experience on the battlefield?

 

[po8crg]

Will Field Commanders being assigned to desk duty have a harder time doing both jobs? Or will it still be abstracted that they can do both at the same time?

I'd support something along these lines. Guderian was made Inspector-General of Armoured Troops (Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen) in 1943 and never held a field command again.

 

[Duke_Dave]

I'd support something along these lines. Guderian was made Inspector-General of Armoured Troops (Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen) in 1943 and never held a field command again.

only if the increase the number of generals for other nations, not every country has such an abundance like Germany.

 

[kimidf]

So, if military advisors have been moved out of the political interface, does that suggest there might be improvements there?

Surely sooner or later we will have a rework to internal politics, they will take advantage of that gap to put more advisers, laws or any other internal mechanism of factions.

 

[Andreu]

NICE JOB!!

Militar Theorists and Expert Advisors are the same or they are a different type of characters?

 

[Jamor]

This very screenshot shows something remarkably unrealistic with doctrines:

Superior Firepower doctrine level 1
Name: Superior Firepower
Symbol: An artillery cannon, suggesting it buffs artillery
Effect: Buffs everything *except* artillery

Or more generally here is a letter sent by Abram, a soviet officer, on December 43:

"Early that morning, when it was still dark, our artillery opened fire so fierce that it became light as day. Behind us was a solid wall of artillery fire. Overhead, an ocean of fire raged. This lasted a whole hour. Shells burst without let-up on the German side, nothing living remained there. Then we attacked. By evening we were already very far ahead."

So summing up, it would be good if artillery was as useful in the game, as it was in reality. I'd make Line Art have zero width (as you can read above it fires overhead your own troops, and no it is not only 12 guns per division that fired overhead), but allow only placing 1 art battalion for every regiment with at least 3 frontline battalions.

Even with modern weapons, indirect fire in the most prodigious quantities rarely annihilates a determined, entrenched defender, nor can it reliably compel him to abandon his position without a subsequent assault. Its chief effect is disruptive, impeding the enemy's effective fire and movement so your own troops from the close combat arms can close with and destroy him. The doctrine represents how friendly infantry and other frontline units have an easier time overcoming defenders when covered by a hail of supporting fires.

 

[kimidf]

only if the increase the number of generals for other nations, not every country has such an abundance like Germany.

Totally agree, even Germany also needs to implement more generals because there are still notable absences that I have commented on in another post

 

[PikeStance]

Shouldn't be "Naval Command," not "Navy Command?"

 

[cac579]

kinda sad there is no officer mechanic like hoi3.

 

[mursolini]

Underwhelming.

-No doctrine rework for land warfare focused update
-No changes to generals XP gain. Your stars, that went through 1939-1942 campaign being on the edge of decisive victories gain no levels. Generals beating back hopeless attacks gain all the exp. Why is it so hard to reward offensive generals with good XP gain?
-No land unit stats rework as well, presumably?

 

[Timmysoboy]

Totally agree, even Germany also needs to implement more generals because there are still notable absences that I have commented on in another post

My hope would be that current advisors could be transferred to field service.

 

[PikeStance]

In reference to artillery fire effects: I haven't read too many accounts of artillery effectively removing or forcing the retreat of the enemy. I was recently reading Julian Jackson's book on the fall of France. In it, French troops describe the demoralizing effect of artillery fire. No one ran from their position, but it certainly cause defending troops to be less effective. This was describing the "B" reserves on the French line.

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I actually like the Dotrine has being part of this new system. It makes more sense that it is done this way. I always thought it was odd that military doctrine was placed within the tech stuff. Doctrine ins't so much something tht needs to develop, but rather something to be accepted and then trained to accomplished.

 

[kimidf]

My hope would be that current advisors could be transferred to field service.

Speaking of advisers, Von Blommerg should be added to the game and there would be some kind of account behind to skip an event to remove him and Von Fritsch from his position or keep him within the structure of the army that would have different consequences.

 

[Kosaki MacTavish]

Yeah sorry cant brain today ;D

numbers are always subject to change. Often when we show stuff like this its just random stuff pulled from thin air altho these have had some testing

There are indeed. The CP cap is now also increased to 200 by default, and the gain is now flat, rather than related to the current maximum.

Thanks!

Also, would the XP cap increased? If yes, my guess is at 800