Germany is officially broken in FTM

[Darkrenown]

Appreciate this detailed response. But it begs the question. If you know this, and most know this, how do the devs not know? Are they aware that the UK never defends it home isles, or that Germany makes stupid builds as you pointed out? It seems like they expect we the customers to fix their poorly designed games.

Not sure what definition of "broken" you're using, but Germany's invasion of the USSR did fail, and it's entirely intended that it's difficult for Germany to win. Is France also broken? They hardly every hold off the German invasion...As for "stupid" builds, Germany did have an overwhelmingly infantry based army, ran out of Manpower in Russia, and did not build any strategic bombers. Now perhaps ingame it's more optimal to build only CVs, strat bombers and Paratrooper/TD divisions but if we do that people then would say how stupid their ahistoric building was instead.

 

[Darkrenown]

Germany's invasion of the USSR did fail, but not by much. Some decisions made by Germany could have changed the war, such as going after Moscow and forgoing the Kiev pocket, some decisions made during the Stalingrad campaign, etc.

I just think that people want Germany to beat the Soviets some of the time. Unless I've helped them as another Axis country, Germany as an AI has lost every FTM game I've played in the USSR by '43. When that happens every time, it just makes it hard to play any other country but Germany.

It's debatable, people can makes good cases they were but one nutty Hitler decision from victory or that the plan was doomed from the start. I don't really want to get into that here though. But I'd agree it makes for more interesting gameplay if you they have a higher chance of winning, I was mainly just objecting that Germany is "broken" and "stupid" for doing what they actually did. I've certainly seen GER win in FTM, but maybe they need to do so more often, it's just risky as with only a slightly too large buff they can easily go to winning every time instead.

I didn't know he is the main dev of Hoi3. I really congratulate him on his work.

Just a dev, not the main one. The Paradox avatar and title should hint I am not a moderator though