HOI3 Minister End Dates? Immortal Ministers?

[Bittenfeld]

Sorry if this is a known issue already, but I got the game recently and noticed this... Seems that, since ministers don't have "end dates" in the country file, the game will use "dead" ministers if you start the game after events that kill them. For example, if you start a game as the USSR in any year AFTER the Great Purge event of 1937, you can select any of the minsters the Purge event kills, such as Yagoda, Tukhachevsky, Orlov, etc.

Is there a known workaround for this?

 

[marxianTJ]

Yeah if use the 38' or 39' scenario the game doesn't recognize that those ministers were killed in the purges. Heck in a normal game some Soviets who *were* purged are not purged (particularly Uritsky, Alksnis, and Rychgov). Including many generals such as General Stern occasionally the game will also forget to purge Marshal Blucher.

 

[Bittenfeld]

That last part is odd because, if you look at the Soviet decision file, the leaders to be removed are set, so leaders like Blucher shouldn't "survive" the purge...

EDIT: Actually Blucher is removed by the Battle of Lake Khasan event

 

[marxianTJ]

Yeah but if you'll note if you do a 39' start here's still there lol. Also sometimes the Lake Khasan event won't fire so even in a 36' start he may make his way through to the end lol.