HoI 4 - hoi4 strategic redeployment bugs

[momoneb]

Description of issue
hoi4 strategic redeployment bugs

Game Version
Barbarossa v1.11.4.e26e (b22c)

Enabled DLC
Together for Victory, Death or Dishonor, Waking the Tiger, Man The Guns, La Resistance, Battle for the Bosporus, No Step Back

Do you have mods enabled?
Yes

Description
Strategic redeployment does not work on the territory of the USSR
Occurs when traveling long distances despite infrastructure and railways This applies equally to allies

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[skarpedin]

I believe that you are experiencing the effect of the resistance. However, it appears that the game mechanics are somewhat unrealistic.

I am playing Germany. The USSR fell years ago in my timeline. There is still 10-20% resistance in the former Soviet republics west of the Ural mountains. In the regions east of the Urals the resistance is less than 10%. I need to send troops from Bremen to Vladivostok. My troops will board the train in Bremen and travel by train until they hit territory with resistance at least 12%. Then they leave the train and continue under their own power *all* the way to their destination. They do *not* board a new train when they enter a zone of low resistance! The same issue appears when traveling from Vladivostok to Bremen. Infantry walk at 4 km/h and my armored personal carriers drive at 12 km/h. Regional bonuses and penalties apply with plains allowing for faster travel and forests being traversed slowly.

It is clearly a flaw in the programming that troops do not board a train when they enter a region with low resistance!

It makes sense that resistance will slow an army a bit, but not a lot. It will be necessary to scout ahead, clear road blocks, guard fuel dumps and convoys, assist local garrisons and so on and so forth. If resistance is so strong that trains cannot run, then the troops will spend time fighting until the rebellion is crushed. It is not realistic that a large body of troops will first have to abandon their trains and can then continue at their *normal* walking/driving speed. In my timeline the USSR lost 5 million troops defending their country. There is nothing left that can be more than a nuisance to an army of 24 divisions.

It is worth mentioning that my troops experience no difficulties traveling in freshly conquered Turkey where resistance levels are above 50%. I can only imagine that it helps that they still vividly remember my strategic bombers blackening the skies ...