Hearts of Iron IV Retells History through a Look at Military Technology

[tommylotto]

I have to say, the game looks very nice. Podcat and crew should be very proud.

BTW we finally saw some footage of some crowded borders with the counter + sprite combo along the borders. It does not look half as bad as I thought it would. Looks a little like the jolly green giant and his whole family invaded Europe, but this game should be very interesting to play. I am looking forward to it.

 

[kaspar42]

That map is really beautiful! A video like this shows it much better than screenshots.

 

[Axe99]

Woo, a bonus DD (and very well put together video - expert commentary, models, devs, historical footage and in-game footage!) . Was great to get a bit more of a look at how it looks, and it stands up very well with lots of provinces with troops in it. Nice models as well, the ships and the '88 were very impressive (the infantry were as well, but we'd already had a gander at them ). Any potential for an option to disable animations in-game? It may help with performance, and the look of the French infantry animating on the Spanish border early in the vid could be a little distracting. No biggy, just a thought.

 

[Mannstien]

Thanks for the video, map looks great, one note on the reason why so many T-34's were not recovered was that the Soviets had not yet established the units such as the U.S. Army's Recovery and Repair units just as the Germans had.

 

[Zinegata]

I like it when military vehicle experts talk about military vehicles.



This is true, as well as the fact that the wartime employment rate for women in Germany was higher than in Great Britain. Germany more than any other major combatant had an extremely labor intensive agricultural sector. So it was not rational for the German women to leave their farms and start working in factories, because this would have destroyed German agricultural output.

Maybe it's editing, but Christer Holm is a little weak on larger economic points, f.e. @ 6:39. The relatively small (compared to the United States) German "civilian" car production was earmarked for military use immediately after the war. Like the United States, Germany produced just enough passenger vehicles to maintain transport for bureaucrats, the rest went to the military and virtually none were delivered to consumers. If passenger vehicles took up a larger percentile of production, it doesn't mean that the German automotive industry wasn't "mobilized" by 1942. Just that Germany in the early 1940s was a less motorized country than the United States.

Other than that, I liked the video!

The German auto industry was in fact never fully utilized, in large part due to Nazi mistrust of Opel which was the country's largest and most productive car manufacturer. That it was a subsidiary of General Motors did not endear it to the Nazis, and rather than make tanks some of their car plants were ordered to make stoves. Very silly really.

 

[safe-keeper]

That carrier with planes on it .

Also, is it just me, or does Dan really look like the Angry Video Game Nerd?

 

[varsovie]

That carrier with planes on it .

Also, is it just me, or does Dan really look like the Angry Video Game Nerd?

I wish AVGN would do a video on HOI4.

removed- Had a dad

 

[Darkrenown]

This makes sense. If tree shapes were not uniform, it would be historical railroading. The only thing I don't like about the tree shape is that Super-Heavies are listed as 1943 technology, when they are in my mind a 1945 tech.

Well with research and production they will probably not show up until '44, but I think they could have arrived earlier if sensible people hadn't kept canceling them. The Lowe or KV-4 were planned in 1941, for example, and the FCM F1 was actually ordered in 1940 and might have been used had France not been defeated.

 

[scroggin]

Awesome DD! Please keep them coming! Thanks Pod! Now for the Spanish Civil War.

Playing as Germany I hated in Hearts of Iron III when Republic Spain won the war and I didn't get my Condor Legion. I always wanted to put more German resources behind Franco to win it and get more experience when the Condor Legion came back. I really hope I get that option now in HOI IV. I hope I get the option of how many tanks/Airplanes/and other resources I put behind Nationalist Spain and ensure they win the war and hopefully gain as an ally to go after Gibraltar. Also when I played Italy I would want to send units there for experience. So, please give us options of how much to send and to ensure which side will win the Spanish Civil War. Thank you

Great work pod!! Cant wait to play this game!!

I'm hoping for a better Spanish civil war mechanism too It was a bit of a non-event in HOI3 so far as being able to send troops then get them back with a bit of experience. I did manage to mod an event to send a expeditionary force to spain but it was very clunky.

 

[Poh]

Well with research and production they will probably not show up until '44, but I think they could have arrived earlier if sensible people hadn't kept canceling them. The Lowe or KV-4 were planned in 1941, for example, and the FCM F1 was actually ordered in 1940 and might have been used had France not been defeated.

TOG II could also have been produced from '41 (TOG will be sad if you forget TOG )

 

[eleetsdier]

I don't agree entirely with the analysis of the various tanks, but I'm perfectly ok with the devs having an excuse to talk to me standing in front of a Tiger.

 

[frolix42]

Well with research and production they will probably not show up until '44, but I think they could have arrived earlier if sensible people hadn't kept canceling them. The Lowe or KV-4 were planned in 1941, for example, and the FCM F1 was actually ordered in 1940 and might have been used had France not been defeated.

This also makes sense. So immeadiately after said I didn't want historical railroading, I inadvertently practiced historical railroading.

 

[podcat]

This also makes sense. So immeadiately after said I didn't want historical railroading, I inadvertently practiced historical railroading.

dont worry I'v bookmarked all these posts when people start complaining about ahistoricalness after release <3

 

[Delta107]

Don Podcat, a wonderful video!

 

[perujuan]

I'm hoping for a better Spanish civil war mechanism too It was a bit of a non-event in HOI3 so far as being able to send troops then get them back with a bit of experience. I did manage to mod an event to send a expeditionary force to spain but it was very clunky.

Yes!! Give us more options.. If playing Germany/Italy give us options to ensure Nationalist Spain comes out the winners, or not send at all, leaving Franco to fight his own war. Or if France/Britain player wants to send arms to republic Spain to ensure Franco is put down. But YES! please make the Spanish civil war more eventful for players. Especially for Germany with the Condor Legion.. and ensure Spain gives the Spanish Blue Division up to Germany for the invasion of Russia

 

[NurAbSal]

Will there be a possibility to convert unused equipment from storage, for example old panzer I and II into tank destroyers, or will you have to build those from scratch, as variants, but not convert existing, unused hulls?

 

[Darkath]

Will there be a possibility to convert unused equipment from storage

That's the point i think.

 

[safe-keeper]

Yes!! Give us more options.. If playing Germany/Italy give us options to ensure Nationalist Spain comes out the winners, or not send at all, leaving Franco to fight his own war. Or if France/Britain player wants to send arms to republic Spain to ensure Franco is put down. But YES! please make the Spanish civil war more eventful for players. Especially for Germany with the Condor Legion.. and ensure Spain gives the Spanish Blue Division up to Germany for the invasion of Russia

It could have been better implemented in HOI3. My take is that it could give a bonus called "Spanish Civil War Experience" or something that gave all your troops a boost to their fighting ability, to simulate that your nation had learned lessons from the civil war and put them into action.

 

[Le_Carabinier]

Except the tree goes light 1 - light 2 - medium 1

The fact that the word "Medium" is written right above Light 1 and Light 2 doesn't help the average viewer in reaching that conclusion.
But I'm glad the tanks have their correct designation.

EDIT : 7716 hours in paint :

This is the same tech tree, except clearer.

 

[Poh]

The fact that the word "Medium" is written right above Light 1 and Light 2 doesn't help the average viewer in reaching that conclusion.
But I'm glad the tanks have their correct designation.

EDIT : 7716 hours in paint :

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This is the same tech tree, except clearer.

Nice editing. i was otw to do something similar myself.

But your picture depends on 1 thing. What kind of battalions the Pz1 and Pz2 are placed in. If they are placed in a Light Tank Battalion i agree with your picture. If however they are placed in a Medium Battalion i do not.

Though i would like 1 thing to be changed. mirror the tree. Starting from Left -> Right with Light, Medium, Heavy, Super Heavy.