1936-19XX

[Will Steel]

It may be set as a '1950' tech simply as a malus to make it harder to complete research.

I've never heard it from the Devs officially, but at this point I'm assuming that the conventional game ends at 1948.

You are right. This is a possibility. It might be that the game just runs until 1948, but with a lot, a seriously lot of effort you might be able to make better aircrafts earlier than historically they were created, before the game ends.

I mean, for example, if Germany has won, who is to stop it from testing the Maus and then creating a real functional super heavy tank by 1947? Or IJN to create a really powerful version of A6M Zero or a new plane entirely?

 

[sethat]

This would be really cool if people ended up adding post war tech and see where the game went from there (cold war or power struggles). Regardless this game looks like its going to be a work of art by the time its done.

 

[LordOfWar16]

Yeah, the build always feels like a necessity. If 1936 start is there I reckon many people feel like it is a loss not to max the pre war build-up compared to what vanilla '39 start would provide.



That shot is prime example of them designing UI space for easier potential expansions. Look! It is begging out for 3 or 4 more dates

You could also scroll to the right and down if you extended the tech tree even further, as seen with the national focus tree for example, so space wouldnt be an issue like it was in HoI III where some mods really needed to use any availabe space for all their additional tech and things got really cramped together.

 

[sethat]

You could also scroll to the right and down if you extended the tech tree even further, as seen with the national focus tree for example, so space wouldnt be an issue like it was in HoI III where some mods really needed to use any availabe space for all their additional tech and things got really cramped together.

So much potential!!!

 

[LordOfWar16]

So much potential!!!

I am sure when Black Ice eventually comes out for HoI IV [They are still active right?] each tech tree category, especially the ground vehicle one, will look something like the national focus tree.