Armored Cars

[Gamethunder89]

my question is will armored cars be showing up in hoi4? Because they were a nice bonus too add to your motorised units.

 

[steve213]

looks like no, but I will be happy to be wrong.

 

[Rudolf Hessbart]

I heard they will not be shows in the game, but I will make a mod.

Ps. There will be some no-lifes who think they have to send you a mod of former threads

 

[CrasherZZ]

Loved armored cars in HOI3. Can't believe they won't be in HOI4 - they were sometimes of great importance historically. They became a proxy for light armor where light tanks were not available or affordable or practical.

 

[The Balbinater]

been brought up numerous times in the last few years of dev of HOI4.....

I want my AB 41!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AB_41

ACs are prolly wrapped up in the recon upgrade

 

[CrasherZZ]

This is what I'm talking about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SdKfz_234

Nice inexpensive addition to any motorized or mechanized brigade

 

[Panzer Commander]

Hopefully

 

[BattleMoose]

Abstracted into recon brigade is my guess, makes the division go faster(?), so where's the problem?

 

[CrasherZZ]

It's abstracted .

Also doesn't add any additonal attack, or anti-partisan. Guess my head is stuck in HOI3...

 

[uther4117]

Hoi4 will be FIXED by mods, don't worry.. Since pdx became a sell-out(themselves openly expressed) , they left their hardcore fans and go for the majority who can't process bits in their heads and just play like a dummy(no offense),, just shame a grand strategy came this low.. Grand arcade would suit more since they abstract the strategy in it

IN SHORT, it will be there, just not on release..

Edit: I personally will still pre-order Coz this is the only game I've waited for so long so passionately checking forums everyday over one and a half a year now..

 

[dav77-b]

Hoi4 will be FIXED by mods, don't worry.. Since pdx became a sell-out(themselves openly expressed) , they left their hardcore fans and go for the majority who can't process bits in their heads and just play like a dummy(no offense),, just shame a grand strategy came this low.. Grand arcade would suit more since they abstract the strategy in it

IN SHORT, it will be there, just not on release..

Edit: I personally will still pre-order Coz this is the only game I've waited for so long so passionately checking forums everyday over one and a half a year now..

Could you care to explain how HoI4 has less strategy than HoI3? Because it dont see that.

 

[LordOfWar16]

It was actually answered a very long time ago by be devs. I reccomend using the search function before posting. If you search for Podcat's posts you will mostly find an answer pretty quickly.

There is no such thing as Armored Car (AC) in HOI4. You have a single recon battalion that can speed up the whole division. I dont think its particularly realistic that just stacking more recon speeds up a division. One will already let you find "the optimal travel route" etc.

In HOI4 I would probably design a motorized or mechanized focused division (maybe a mix to keep cost down and still get armor advantage vs infantry) plus recon to get high speed and assign both AT and support artillery (if we can afford it). A slower, but stronger alternative would be using a mix of light tanks, recon and self propelled arty/AT mounted on light tanks to keep softness down and speed up. Making sure you have an air force that can take on the german one will be important because of how strong air superiority is.

To be perfectly honest though I would dig in behind a large river with units set up for maximum defense, ignore speed and make myself really annoying to draw enough troops from french border over time to give them courage to help me. This worked fairly will in the last MP game I played as Poland.



support artillery is different from front-line assigned artillery. They dont have the same stats and such.

 

[Kazansky22]

Yea I think there should be armored cars as well. I mean there are so many cool variants, 4 wheels 6 wheeled 8 wheeled. Some AC with light smaller arms some Armored Cars with AT guns! Basically an armored car with an AT gun is a really fast TD albeit with no armor. I mean Armored cars you would think would be integral parts of motorized/mechanized/recon units. SO like if you don't keep up on research of your AC or just don't build AC at all you should be able to expect your motorized/mechanized/recon and maybe even MP units to suffer a little bit for it.

 

[dav77-b]

Yea I think there should be armored cars as well. I mean there are so many cool variants, 4 wheels 6 wheeled 8 wheeled. Some AC with light smaller arms some Armored Cars with AT guns! Basically an armored car with an AT gun is a really fast TD albeit with no armor. I mean Armored cars you would think would be integral parts of motorized/mechanized/recon units. SO like if you don't keep up on research of your AC or just don't build AC at all you should be able to expect your motorized/mechanized/recon and maybe even MP units to suffer a little bit for it.

AC with MG, AC with AT-gun , Recon-AC, Supply AC, AA-AC.
Lets make an entire army out of armoured cars. Need for Speed Barbarossa.

 

[safe-keeper]

It's one of the things that will probably be added by modders. Would still love to see them in the base game, of course.

 

[Secret Master]

We're not trolling people on this forum and insulting them pointlessly on my watch.

OP's question is answered, so the thread will be closed.