Demo - Questions and Help

[Cavalry Scout]

One question I have has to do with Div designer. I tried to make a Garrison div with 1 Gar BDE, and 2x MP BDE and it wouldnt allow me to make it. When I put 2 Gar with 1x MP it allowed it. What am I missing? Also, are you not able to change the template names?

 

[Aubrey]

2) Is there a tab that shows you the battles that are being fought?

3) Is there any way that shows you when your unit arrives or start an attack?

Not sure if anyone answered this for you (still something like 10 pages to catch up on), but the menu on the right side of the screen that shows all the units also shows this. The easiest way is just to click the little buttons to not show land, air or naval units...it will then show combats. If you want a complete unit listing, just click the button to show those again.

On that topic, it would be helpful if those buttons had tooltips as otherwise you hve to use trial-and-error to figure which one does what.

 

[walrus]

One question I have has to do with Div designer. I tried to make a Garrison div with 1 Gar BDE, and 2x MP BDE and it wouldnt allow me to make it. When I put 2 Gar with 1x MP it allowed it. What am I missing? Also, are you not able to change the template names?

Probably because the MP brigades are 'support' brigades, while the Gar is a 'combat' brigade. While I haven't fiddled around with it enough to confirm this, its probably because you can't build a division with only one combat brigade - you need to build one with at least 2, then after construction, you can split them up.

But of course, I might be utterly wrong

 

[unmerged(141614)]

The problem with people wanting changes because of nationalistic reasons are wrong a lot of the times. I'm not saying you are but that's just the case. I'm not sure if you have played the EU games but the balkans were always reason for debate because his 'faction' would consider culture A better than B in province X.

And I don't think having a small province wrong in one of the Baltics makes that much difference in sales.

Although I agree that blatant errors (Stalingrad) should be changed on the way.

This is a blatant error. This has nothing to do with the Balkans and their constant fighting about their territories.

Fact 1: Abrene was Latvian at the time (this is not up to discussion, it's a fact).
Fact 2: Abrene is renamed to Pytalovo and belongs to USSR in the game.
Fact 3: I won't be buying HoI if the Fact 2 remains unchanged.

It's not just "one small province" for us. I don't want to go into politics, but, just to give a little insight here - theoretically we were in a war against Russia until 2007 because of this small province.

 

[vertinox]

Dumb Question:

How do I get the EU3 like outliner up and visible?

 

[prettyhate]

It's a game, not hardcore politics...

 

[Lord Strange]

Press the + symbol in the top right hand corner.
Also, this is embarrassing from a HOI2 veteran, how do you strategic redeploy in HOI3?o

 

[conanthelibrari]

Is there any way to see exactly how many troops you have and how many of each. For instance if I was going to research tank techs, I would like to know if I have more light or medium tanks. I'm sure there is a list somewhere I just can't find it.

 

[unmerged(62478)]

This is a blatant error. This has nothing to do with the Balkans and their constant fighting about their territories.

Fact 1: Abrene was Latvian at the time (this is not up to discussion, it's a fact).
Fact 2: Abrene is renamed to Pytalovo and belongs to USSR in the game.
Fact 3: I won't be buying HoI if the Fact 2 remains unchanged.

It's not just "one small province" for us. I don't want to go into politics, but, just to give a little insight here - theoretically we were in a war against Russia until 2007 because of this small province.

Dude I have also directed paradox interactive to some errors considering the Mediterran area, but even if its not fixed i will get the game. Bit i certainly wont get the game as long the autosliders (Production) isnt included.

 

[Red_Communist]

Ok, I finished downloading the Demo, it only took I would say about.. 45 minutes? So then I went to play the game, pressed the shortcut to it and it said it was corrupt. I downloaded the game off of gamespot or something. I really want to try the Demo!

 

[walrus]

Also, this is embarrassing from a HOI2 veteran, how do you strategic redeploy in HOI3?o

Ctrl+RightClick, then there's a tick box at the bottom of the screen that opens?

Edit:

Bit i certainly wont get the game as long the autosliders (Production) isnt included.

Thats a rather odd decision, I never used autosliders before, and the new addition of being able to in one click, set the sliders to the minimum value required, almost totally negates the need for autosliders

 

[vertinox]

Dude I have also directed paradox interactive to some errors considering the Mediterran area, but even if its not fixed i will get the game. Bit i certainly wont get the game as long the autosliders (Production) isnt included.

How about we answer it like this...

If there is an edit war in Wikipedia between two nationalities about the province, then Paradox is not going to touch the issue.

Out of curiosity, I have found the Abrene Wiki discussion between the Russians and Latvians just as heated as the FYROM article...

 

[Darkrenown]

One question I have has to do with Div designer. I tried to make a Garrison div with 1 Gar BDE, and 2x MP BDE and it wouldnt allow me to make it. When I put 2 Gar with 1x MP it allowed it. What am I missing? Also, are you not able to change the template names?

You need at least 5000 men in a division. 1GAR+2MP = 5000 though, so it should be allowed. It works when I try it too.

 

[Darkrenown]

Is there any way to see exactly how many troops you have and how many of each. For instance if I was going to research tank techs, I would like to know if I have more light or medium tanks. I'm sure there is a list somewhere I just can't find it.

Page 3 in the ledger (statistics).

 

[Volt]

1. I like the style of the tutorial and think it's quite funny, but the practical value was indeed small. Oh and it should definately be removed from the German release

2. I found the chain of command at times quite confusing. It would help a lot if, for example, units belonging to a certain HQ would be highlighted when the HQ is selected.

3. It's hard to estimate how many units there are in one province at a glance. I often get confused when I see the symbol of an army, I assume there is a whole army in that province when it's really just the HQ.
Some time ago someone had proposed adding additional "soldiers" to the sprite, and I still think that's a very fine idea. Anyhow, whenever there is no unit selected in a province, the counter or sprite should in some way indicate the amount of troops in that province.

 

[NeFuRii]

I'm at work, not able to check it, but I remembered my question from yesterday.
Do provinces in hoi3 have beaches like hoi2, or was this concept dropped and now every province reachable from see can be assaulted? I remember not being able to find any sort of graphica hint as to which province might be with a beach.

 

[safferli]

Dumb Question:

How do I get the EU3 like outliner up and visible?

Click on the "+" symbol on the upper right of the screen!

 

[unmerged(62478)]

How about we answer it like this...

If there is an edit war in Wikipedia between two nationalities about the province, then Paradox is not going to touch the issue.

Out of curiosity, I have found the Abrene Wiki discussion between the Russians and Latvians just as heated as the FYROM article...

Im talking about actual historical facts, here. I checked what Namejs said and its true, if you do it you will find it allso.

 

[Alex_brunius]

Looking at the files CAG Airwings doesn't seem to get nation names at all. For example Japan and USA CAGs won't have any special names even if other units that they didn't build at all have names.

Clarification: I'm not talking about model names but names for the CAG airwings.

 

[unmerged(141614)]

Im talking about actual historical facts, here. I checked what Namejs said and its true, if you do it you will find it allso.

Thanks for showing some common sense.