Austrian and Hungarian restoration

[Augustus93]

HoI3 was basically history railroaded, so it doesn't surprise me about the lack of cores. We'll have to wait and see about HoI4, perhaps it does have more cores now, or simply not having a core isn't so severe as it was.

Also, the aim of HoI4 is in fact sandbox gameplay, so I wouldn't be surprised if more national focuses for minors will be patched in (like national ideas in EU4). I would very much like to do an fascist Hungary playthrough, among others.


To respond to the whole OP topic, I do not believe restoring Austria-Hungary would be plausible at all. Restoring Austrian Empire by force however… that does make more sense.
And creating a new Hungary-Croatia? Well, it is an interesting topic, mainly the question - would Croats let bad blood with Hungary go? Was the situation in Yugoslavia so bad? Quite hard to answer.

I seem to recall that it is even more severe. If I remember correctly you get 5% of the manpower from non-cored provinces(and if they are simply occupied then you get even less of everything).
Edit: it is even more severe since conscription laws come into play as well. So you would have 0.05*level of conscription as manpower from those provinces. So even with scraping the barrel you would get 0.05*0.6= 0.03, so 3% of the population. But more realistically you would get 2% with service by requirement conscription law. In HoI3 you got 25% of the local manpower (local_manpower_modifier = -0.75) and conscription laws could potentially counteract this very well, with service by requirement got you global manpower +100%.

 

[Augustus93]

I disagree, the Luxembourgian national foci are set on world conquest. They have peacefully got a good chunk of Europe to transfer powers to EU institutions based within Luxembourg so it isn't implausible had Luxembourg turned their diplomatic focus into military means!

Yes, but Austria-Hungary was not plausible. It would be more plausible for Hungary to try to restore it (which it didn't want) than Austria. Austria is in a lot of trouble.
1. Austria is the target of a crazy German dictator who needs to bring in his home country to Germany so he could feel more like a German.
2. Austria had internal political problems.
3. Austria is considerably weaker than all its neighbors which it would want to subjugate.
4. Time is definitely not working for Austria, in roughly 2 years Austria would need to build up its military, invade numerous stronger countries and resist the German incorporation attempts with force and win a war against Germany in the process.
That does not exactly seem all too plausible. So, the solution would obviously be to:
1. Play on very easy difficulty
2. Cheat
3. Pray to Cthulhu for protection

 

[Nuklearius]

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