A new interview with Johan about HOI4.

[PhantomXtrike]

I guarantee that every day that passes brings the release of HOI4 one day closer.

Good enough?

This is true. Just like anything that hits water becomes a little wetter.

water hitting water does not become a little wetter.

This is interesting. haha

 

[jamesd]

Preparation for D-day started way earlier than that.
Monty just finalized the plans.

Yes preparation started earlier, but the battle plan that was actually used was completely redrafted after he took command. The initial planning was completely hamstrung by there not being an actual commander in place, so they were working on a 3 division invasion (2 on the British beaches & 1 on Omaha) as that was all that could be landed according to the guidelines handed down from the combined chiefs of staff. Monty took a look and said that won't work, and they had to restart the planning on the basis of expanding the force to 5 divisions, by inserting a 3rd invasion beach in the British section and by expanding the US section to the other side of the Douve and postponing the planned invasion of southern France to make shipping available. You may be interested to know the tactical air component of the plan was only settled a couple of days before D-Day. The earliest that any of the assault divisions got a look at the plan was 60 days prior to D-Day and I'm not sure they saw it then, as that was the high level presentation of the plan to Eisenhower, Churchill and others higher up the chain of command, meaning the divisions may not have seen it until the second presentation on 15th May, 3 weeks before D-Day.

Edit: in HOI4 divisions will not start accumulating a planning bonus until they have been assigned to a battle plan, which suggests they need to know about it.

 

[Zaku]

Yes preparation started earlier, but the battle plan that was actually used was completely redrafted after he took command. The initial planning was completely hamstrung by there not being an actual commander in place, so they were working on a 3 division invasion (2 on the British beaches & 1 on Omaha) as that was all that could be landed according to the guidelines handed down from the combined chiefs of staff. Monty took a look and said that won't work, and they had to restart the planning on the basis of expanding the force to 5 divisions, by inserting a 3rd invasion beach in the British section and by expanding the US section to the other side of the Douve and postponing the planned invasion of southern France to make shipping available. You may be interested to know the tactical air component of the plan was only settled a couple of days before D-Day. The earliest that any of the assault divisions got a look at the plan was 60 days prior to D-Day and I'm not sure they saw it then, as that was the high level presentation of the plan to Eisenhower, Churchill and others higher up the chain of command, meaning the divisions may not have seen it until the second presentation on 15th May, 3 weeks before D-Day.

Edit: in HOI4 divisions will not start accumulating a planning bonus until they have been assigned to a battle plan, which suggests they need to know about it.

I wasn't fast enough.
I deleted my previous post, because I realized it was offtopic, and I don't want to spam this thread with it.