Many were very surprised when a list of commanders was added to the wiki today about how few commanders some countries have. This even when taking into account that the new system requires a lot less commanders.
HOI4 list:
http://www.hoi4wiki.com/List_of_commanders
HOI3 list:
http://www.hoi3wiki.com/Command_structure
Though I know this list may not be definitive and comprehensive, I made a quick comparison (not so quick in fact) between the numbers of commanders on this wiki list when compared to the HOI3 list. This counts land officers and admirals (as there is no air commanders on the wiki list). I only counted HOI3 leaders available when the game begins.
The score goes from 35% to 1%, with an average of 15%.
I don't understand why they didn't chose to enforce the same percentage for all countries, with some minor adjustments, instead of so huge disparities ?
Here are the winners and the losers, in % of commanders vs HOI3. Four majors are in the lead, with France and surprisingly Germany lagging behind Canada and Australia. Greece, China and Spain are the great losers and by far.
USA 35%
Japan 31%
UK 29%
USSR 24% -- or 35% (less purged ones - though the HOI4 list may also be subject to purge)
Canada 21%
Australia 17%
France 15%
Germany 15%
Argentina 12%
Italy 11%
Poland 6%
Finland 5%
Greece 3%
China 2%
Spain 1% -- more will probably become available when the SCW begins
Interesting. Canada has John Montague, Thomas Victor Anderson, Charles Foulkes, H.T. Baillie-Grohman and Leonard W. Murray.
Montague was a staff officer in charge of administration and chief of staff at Canada Military Headquarters. Had no combat command I'm aware of and is not even in Hoi3
Baillie-Grohman not available until 1938 in HoI3.
Foulkes not until 1943.
That leaves Anderson and Murray who did have combat commands and are available at game start.
I think a better percentage would be (2 in HoI4 divided by 24 in HoI3)
8.33%. Since you are only counting leaders at the start of the game I should do the same.
Let's look at Germany:
To start we have 21:
Albert Kesselring, Erich von Manstein, Erwin von Witzleben, Ewald von Kleist, von Bock, von Küchler, Gotthard Heinrici, Heinz Guderian, Hermann Hoth, Johannes Blaskowitz, Maximilian von Weichs, Paul Hausser,
Sepp Dietrich, Wilhelm List, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Gerd von Rundstedt, Günther von Kluge, Alfred Saalwächter, Erich Raeder, Wilhelm Marschall
Throughout the game in HoI3:
1937 - Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Günther Lütjens,
1938 - Ernst-Eberhard Hell, Kurt Student, Walter Model,
1939 - Alfred Jodl, Erwin Rommel, Friedrich Paulus, Karl Dönitz
1941 - Walter Krüger,
1942 - Friedrich Schulz, Hasso von Manteuffel,
Hermann Boehm is not in HoI3.
In HoI4 you have 21 leaders at game start
In Hoi3 you have 231 leaders at game start.
That is 9%.
Your original numbers are extremely flawed as you include all of Hoi4's leaders but only a small fraction of Hoi3's leaders.
Let's take a look at EVERYONE.
Canada:
HoI4 - 5
Hoi3 - 104
Including Montague - 4.8%
Without Montague - 3.8%
Germany:
HoI4 - 34
Hoi3 - 838
Including Boehm - 4%
Without Boehm - 3.9%
Using proper data, those numbers look pretty even to me.
