all good points.
I'm also wondering if there is a way for puppet AIs to be reworked as well from HOI3 - I hope they'll show us DD or in one of the play-throughs how this works. In HOI3 I found puppets didn't have enough economic independence to make their country realistically workable and when I play as USSR, and sometimes other countries, I like to puppet more than anything else but I want them to also be effective "allies" in the sense of being able to manage themselves rather than just be pointless leaches
Hm, true, like helping out Mongolia and make them do something for a change? Found them useless in my USSR playthrough, though, it was a long time ago since I last played USSR, so it might not be valid anymore. I wonder, the whole "land-lease" they got going now where you give weapons and equipment instead of IC, does that mean if I as USSR upgrade my infantry weapons or planes, I can give my old ones to Mongolia for example so they can field a larger army without having to use all they production on weapons and equipment. Dunno if it works like that, but would be cool.
