Actually, DH did better than expected. Collaboration between DH and FTM is just not going to happen though. Most of us who turned to DH were severely disappointed by HOI3. TBH, the game lacks "depth". It is highly eurocentric and basically ignores the rest of the world. The supply system is still screwy as hades. Even playing Germany, I have units in "poor supply" inside core Germany during the invasion of Poland. All core areas of Germany were built up to 100% infra. It was June, so you can't blame the weather. The supply system just plain sucks and needs to be scrapped and redone from scratch. The only really good thing about HOI3(imo) is the map, and DH has a map almost as good.
If you're involved in DH, it would be courteous of you not to badmouth HoI3 on its own forum, thanks.
In other news, there will be no DH/HoI3 union. No idea how that idea got started.