I love hoi4 and have like 300 hours on it but I really think that it is aggravating that on Historical mode a lot of "Historical things" fail to happen because they are implemented incorrectly or are just not there at all. Now to preface I know this game is not meant to be a 1 on 1 recreation of ww2. It's a video game so there will be tons of differences. My main point is i would like to see basic Historical fronts and event happen(and some not happen) in this game.
1. Italy joining the war early: This is my number one gripe with this game. Italy joins the Axis super early and resulting in a mega invasion into France's southern border that did not happen at all in real life. Italy only joined the war effort when France was about to collapse. This also kicks off the African theater early and leads to some weird things like Libya falling in a few months or Tunisia falling to the Italians. To add we also see odd thing in Italy's Ai like dumping hundreds of thousands of men into Ethiopia and letting Albania and Sardinia fall the British Naval Invasions. A simple event could let the Italians join after Paris has fallen and some rework of their army ai could really help.
2. Germany's invasion of the Balkans: For some weird reason there is an event chain for Germany to invade Yugoslavia after the fall of Paris which will lead them to invade almost a whole year before it was meant to happen. The actual invasion being in April of 1941. This causes the Greco-Italian war to not properly begin in Albania and leads to Greece falling very quickly. Furthermore when the Banovina of Croatia is made the Independent State of Croatia can no longer appear.
3. Finland never starts the continuation war: An entire front of ww2 is left out because it's just not implemented. The fins never invade the Soviets ever. Though i expect this to come with Finlands focus tree.
4. Khalkhin gol: The culmination of Soviet-Japanese tension this Border battle caused the Japanese to abandon the norther expansion doctrine and to sign a non aggression pact with the Soviets. Could be another border skirmish that would be easy to add.
5. Weird wars on Historical mode: In my most recent game as Japan the U.S joined the war a year early against the Germans for no reason and the Soviets started the War a year early by invading Fascist Romania. I really think odd wars need to be removed from Historical focus.
6. The lack of anything in the middle east: The Anglo-Iraqi war fails to ever happen. in 1941 an axis backed gov took control of Iraq and the Brits were forced to invade and take over. The Allied invasion of Persia failed to happen. The Soviets and British did this as the Persian government had Axis relations and they needed a way to send resources to the Soviets.
7. Non ww2 borders take priority over ww2 one: This is one of my biggest gripes with Hoi4. For some reason modern day borders take precedent over ww2 era ones.
The Balkan need to have historical partition borders
Correct Molotov Ribbentrop pact borders
Resize of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Addition of American Samoa
Free city of Danzig
Channel Isles
Zara resize and Fiume needs to be under Italian control
Hatay province added given to Turkey by event
Siam expansion into indochina
Partition of Persia between Soviets and UK
Correct Rhineland borders
1. Italy joining the war early: This is my number one gripe with this game. Italy joins the Axis super early and resulting in a mega invasion into France's southern border that did not happen at all in real life. Italy only joined the war effort when France was about to collapse. This also kicks off the African theater early and leads to some weird things like Libya falling in a few months or Tunisia falling to the Italians. To add we also see odd thing in Italy's Ai like dumping hundreds of thousands of men into Ethiopia and letting Albania and Sardinia fall the British Naval Invasions. A simple event could let the Italians join after Paris has fallen and some rework of their army ai could really help.
2. Germany's invasion of the Balkans: For some weird reason there is an event chain for Germany to invade Yugoslavia after the fall of Paris which will lead them to invade almost a whole year before it was meant to happen. The actual invasion being in April of 1941. This causes the Greco-Italian war to not properly begin in Albania and leads to Greece falling very quickly. Furthermore when the Banovina of Croatia is made the Independent State of Croatia can no longer appear.
3. Finland never starts the continuation war: An entire front of ww2 is left out because it's just not implemented. The fins never invade the Soviets ever. Though i expect this to come with Finlands focus tree.
4. Khalkhin gol: The culmination of Soviet-Japanese tension this Border battle caused the Japanese to abandon the norther expansion doctrine and to sign a non aggression pact with the Soviets. Could be another border skirmish that would be easy to add.
5. Weird wars on Historical mode: In my most recent game as Japan the U.S joined the war a year early against the Germans for no reason and the Soviets started the War a year early by invading Fascist Romania. I really think odd wars need to be removed from Historical focus.
6. The lack of anything in the middle east: The Anglo-Iraqi war fails to ever happen. in 1941 an axis backed gov took control of Iraq and the Brits were forced to invade and take over. The Allied invasion of Persia failed to happen. The Soviets and British did this as the Persian government had Axis relations and they needed a way to send resources to the Soviets.
7. Non ww2 borders take priority over ww2 one: This is one of my biggest gripes with Hoi4. For some reason modern day borders take precedent over ww2 era ones.
The Balkan need to have historical partition borders
Correct Molotov Ribbentrop pact borders
Resize of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Addition of American Samoa
Free city of Danzig
Channel Isles
Zara resize and Fiume needs to be under Italian control
Hatay province added given to Turkey by event
Siam expansion into indochina
Partition of Persia between Soviets and UK
Correct Rhineland borders
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