HoI4 Dev Diary - God Save the King: British Focus Tree Rework

[Fulmen]

2 new historical focuses, 68 new alt-history ones...

Finally, we intend to add more focuses to the naval path in particular, but this requires finishing up some other features first.

I certainly hope so...

I was hoping for more interaction with the colonies, but looks like that'll be restricted to the alt-history department.

Also, why aren't historical British puppets like Iraq, Oman, Bhutan, Nepal, and some might argue Yemen, British puppets in HoI4 like they were in previous HoIs? Ditto for USA and Liberia. And while I'm on the topic of should-be puppet states, Sinkiang was historically a Russian puppet state until Stalin gave it over to Mao.

The path about resisting appeasement I found to be OK. Even if it's not very realistic, it's still a lot less outlandish than a communist or fascist takeover of the UK. If alt-history focus paths must be done, I'd prefer it to be of this kind rather than totally out there. Just my opinion.

I also don't think the Dominions would've outright left the Empire over Wallis Simpson, but there certainly would've been rumblings. The Dominions were very much against the King marrying her, IIRC even more so than the English people themselves. But I get that the logic here is to give some extreme repercussions for going down that path, just like how the Great Purge is handled in HoI4; what with the officers launching a civil war when IRL the whole "Trotskyist plot" was pure fabrication.

 

[Torma25]

It was mentioned that dominions will be able to break free if England goes fascist or communist. Will the dominions be able to ally with the US or each other for protection, or will they be left completely alone?

 

[Spartanlemur]

2 new historical focuses, 68 new alt-history ones...

The point of these focus tree reworks is to add alt-history paths for the original major powers.

The historical paths were there on release.

 

[Dakka]

To all Americans among us, happy 4th of July!

Thank you

As the theme of the DLC is naval (and today is Independence Day) it really shouldn’t be a surprise that we’ll be starting with... the United Kingdom.

You bloody troll! Dan had me all excited with his American teaser

But the British stuff looks cool I really like how keeping the dominions in line can be a real challenge if you go Commie/Fascist instead of just folding to your wishes. It’s a good improvement.

 

[Bratyn]

It was mentioned that dominions will be able to break free if England goes fascist or communist. Will the dominions be able to ally with the US or each other for protection, or will they be left completely alone?

They will indeed form a "Commonwealth" alliance between themselves. The USA may well have something to say about meddling with them afterwards, especially if you choose to make Canada communist...

 

[Bratyn]

You bloody troll! Dan had me all excited with his American teaser

Haha! To be fair, he did say it would be the British focus tree this week in last week's dev diary...

 

[Dreamer812]

Oh my God, guys please name one of the British focuses "Taking back that Sausage Factory in Tanzania"

 

[Dakka]

Haha! To be fair, he did say it would be the British focus tree this week in last week's dev diary...

I guess it was fitting for his teaser to be of the White House in ruins... I’m still mad at you though

 

[Bratyn]

I guess it was fitting for his teaser to be of the White House in ruins... I’m still mad at you though

It's actually not the White House, but you'll no doubt see the origin in a future dev diary

 

[Spartanlemur]

Also, what's going to happen to the democratic British Empire focus trees if Britain goes Communist or Fascist and they split off?

 

[General Waluigi]

In the industrial tree (Starting w/ Limited Rearmament), have some the effects there been altered? I always thought that the UK's "Industrial Effort" was a little bit lacking.

 

[Temudhun Khan]

What happen to the dominion countries if they chose the Wesminster path in their focus tree and then Britain take a decision which force them to declare independence? They would be unable to take the most logical pathes.

Also, will Burma finally have its own tag? It was historically separated from the British Raj one year after the game begin.

 

[Mechaffinity]

Shouldn't there be some Orwell-related events/decisions in the event that Britain chooses to become Communist? I'm aware that he had a change of heart later in life, but I believe during this time period he was a very pro-communist voice in the UK.

 

[Miszek]

Since there is a decolonisation path does that mean that there are more releasable nations in the colonies, like for example Malta or Ghana? Also, is the third nation in the Raj going to be Burma?

 

[WhiteDragon25]

Why has nobody noticed this yet?

Look below the Party Popularity pie chart: Exiled Governments!

 

[Company007]

So the WT limits on shadow scheme and general rearmament have been removed?

 

[Indyclone77]

Just wanted to say thanks @spader7 and @Bratyn for the new GFX Resources from this dev diary that I will now be using for all the mods I work on!

 

[Company007]

In the industrial tree (Starting w/ Limited Rearmament), have some the effects there been altered? I always thought that the UK's "Industrial Effort" was a little bit lacking.

I don't think more early game industry is needed for UK as UK gets such a shitload of industry from America in the mid-game.

 

[Link777]

I would also love to see a peaceful way to form a federation with the colonies in the democratic path.

 

[Torma25]

Exiled Governments!

Blegium update confirmed!!111!!!11!!!exclamationmark!!