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[potski]

One thing that I find on these screenshots are that ships seems to be the equivalent of a land brigade now. Each naval task force will be the same as a land division or so it seams. This will make things easier I presume on the player and fixes the stacking issues. It also pretty much tells us that brigades will be interchangeable between divisions, at least it is possible for ships and planes.
I also gather that an air wing (or what each smallest unit will be called) will also be a brigade that you attach to a division (unit). These will then operate together as a stack did in HoI2, at least this is my logical conclusion.

You build capital ships on the Production screen and these can appear on the map on their own, so they are the basic naval unit. But unlike the basic ground unit, ships and air wings are designated at the Brigade level "X", rather than Division "XX". In naval terms a Division is always a small group of ships, something like 4-6 cruisers, or a couple of capital ships, and is therefore roughly the equivalent of the ground Corps.

The fact that you can remove a Naval Brigade (a ship) from a Naval Division (a group of ships), does not at all prove that you can remove ground unit Brigades from ground unit Divisions. Ground unit Brigades are building blocks within the ground unit Divisions and are not capable of separate existence, and appearing on the map.

 

[foriavik]

Egypt looks awesome

 

[King]

They aren't.

Its one of the worst kept secrets ever. They deny it, but everybody knows that the dev team are ferociously anti-swedish, the mutilation of Sweden is most likely both intentional and going to be there in the final edition. In fact, that part of Sweden is might very well be the one that most likely resembles the real Sweden. Why do you think we haven't gotten any screenies of northern Sweden? I strongly suggest you drop the issue now! Otherwise you might be "accidentally" permabanned. I've seen it before, it ain't pretty. But thats just the way it goes, the dev team are just nationalistic and anti-swedish to the bone.

I've been living here 3 years, I am glad someone finally understands my pain.

 

[Dakk]

Question regarding the names of naval units:
As seen in this screenie from FZ, it's

• Light Cruisers
• Destroyers
• Submarine
• Transport

.. should they not all be in plural? It's a nitpick, on an Alpha screenie no less, but I thought I'd mention it because that's the kind of thing that can just go unnoticed.

 

[unmerged(131221)]

I would like to see 1 option:
After looking at the 1 screen there is carring weight - is it only for Transports?
f.e I wanna capture Norway and have no or little transport ships and have a mountain unit to get to Narvik. Will f.e destroyers do that job? 1 cannot carry a div but when we combine few (each ship should have a minimal possible load) into 1 fleet (like 10 destroyers) can it do that job?

 

[Alex_brunius]

I would like to see 1 option:
After looking at the 1 screen there is carring weight - is it only for Transports?
f.e I wanna capture Norway and have no or little transport ships and have a mountain unit to get to Narvik. Will f.e destroyers do that job? 1 cannot carry a div but when we combine few (each ship should have a minimal possible load) into 1 fleet (like 10 destroyers) can it do that job?

We will see when its done if not earlier, the pure fact that all ships got a value ( 0 weight ) at all makes me certain that its easy to correct via editing a text file otherwise.

 

[Easy1]

They aren't.

Its one of the worst kept secrets ever. They deny it, but everybody knows that the dev team are ferociously anti-swedish, the mutilation of Sweden is most likely both intentional and going to be there in the final edition. In fact, that part of Sweden is might very well be the one that most likely resembles the real Sweden. Why do you think we haven't gotten any screenies of northern Sweden? I strongly suggest you drop the issue now! Otherwise you might be "accidentally" permabanned. I've seen it before, it ain't pretty. But thats just the way it goes, the dev team are just nationalistic and anti-swedish to the bone.

They seem to anti-german too.

 

[dublish]

I love how we can see an enemy's resources with our spies now. Can't wait to play this game.

 

[JRHINDO]

They seem to anti-german too.

What is that all about?

 

[Easy1]

What is that all about?

They seem to +be.....

Thinking about the german "island" Rügen

 

[unmerged(76495)]

They seem to anti-german too.

Uhm.... You do know that I meant it as a joke right?

 

[Easy1]

Uhm.... You do know that I meant it as a joke right?

Yep

 

[unmerged(76495)]

Yep

Excellent

 

[Zwiback]

Intresting, I can't see any airports on the map?

 

[Easy1]

Intresting, I can't see any airports on the map?

Airports would make it easier for Nazi Germany to win the war. Like I said, they are anti-German....

 

[Chaingun]

CV looks like a bridge floating in water or something.

Though thinking closer about it, it looks decent.

Edit: And yeah, that's a shallow observation, I'm totally satisfied with the gameplay I see.... Tech screen looks awesome.

 

[Mrdie]

They seem to anti-german too.

And anti-Albanian for making Albania look weak and useless.




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[unmerged(131989)]

Damn!
Bornholm looks a bit odd..

Swedens southern coast also looks weird in the hoi3 screenshot..
I hope they are gonna change that!

I think there are many areas of the map which NEED to be addressed. Hong Kong and Macau aren't particularly nice, either.

 

[Osprey22]

I concur, changes need to be made.

 

[L'Afrique]

I hope flavor names aren't all acronyms in the final game. It's not the biggest issue, but the only thing less flavorful than generic Social Democrats or Stalinists are acronyms that I don't even know the names to.