I hopew so. Not neccessarily on inidividual small countries, but whole regions, like the Nordic countries or south-east Europe (Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria)? Definitely.
Huge armies can't just leap into action without warning. They need time to plan and prepare, simple as that. Also, it makes the game feel more real by giving you a reason to build in pauses between offensives, and perhaps also focus your offensives in one place.
not true - devs already said that 64bit version isnt planned.
If the maximum combat strength bonus is +100%, as podcat said earlier, then I guess you can imagine it yourself. Your units are fighting at, say, 150% strength (more or less what a 3xINF+ART division with a decent leader and some combined arms bonus has in TFH), while the enemy gets 250%. With this kind of disparity in raw power, you're very much screwed regardless of your skill as a player. Unless you're Mother Russia and can fall back thousands of kilometres, waiting for the enemy's planning bonus to decay to 0.
Ok, I assumed that's what it is since nowhere does it say that it's something else. All this talk about percentages sounds to me like a combat strength modifier. I could be wrong, true. But if planning bonuses were different for different doctrines, I think podcat would say at least something like that. And it'd be pretty strange if at this point of development, they had no idea of what those bonuses are...
a front line needs to be drawn only on the border of an enemy, so if you hold back troops as to hide them you cant get them the bonus. they need to be in position for it to start ticking up (and a good thing it is so you can get some heads up that a front is heating up)
Do I remember correctly that we can get greater entrenchment bonuses in HoI4 than in 3? Cause in 3, it was +20% max, which is rather little to make up for +50-100% offered by offensive plans.
