Maybe they'll give Germany a Communist path too, like the nonaligned/democratic path that came with WtT. I wouldn't be surprised.
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Strongly doubting it. There are much bigger priorities consider all the majors that have yet to e reworked and all the countries without focus trees to begin with.p
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not likely, Communism rising in Germany is highly unlikely for both plausibility and game experience (USSR and Germany on the same side would cause a massive inbalance and delay wars by a lot for the world).
Anyway, 1936 is too late for plausible German path to communism, not that PDX cares a lot about plausibility for their alt-history scenarios. And as said earlier, this would imbalance the game too much.
Currently if you do Berlin-Moscow alliance it makes US instantly join Allies to keep things balanced. There are others mechanisms in the game to ensure that WW2 happens in any case. I don't see any issue with adding communist path to Germany. It would be great addition.
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Or...too early.
There were certain movements after WW2 as well.
The communist party exists even today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Communist_Party
In the mean time, people are talking about it in OT forum..... coincidentally....
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...ast-asia-thread.745662/page-305#post-25773272
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And barely anyone plays that path because it's lacking content and it has no mid-endgame goals. I don't even see how communists would be able to rise in Germany. Kaiser or democracy can be restored because of Wehrmacht, but i don't think they would fight for communists, especially since German army also fought against them during November revolution.
Even with alternative paths for Germany, all of them also share one same goal and that is war against communism.
I share much of the opinions on the subject that does not add a communist path to Germany and less in 1936 if the game started in 1933 it could still make some kind of credible sense but not in 1936
A communist Germany scenario could be possible with 1933 start date, the KPD was known as the most organized Communist Party in Europe. But after the Nazis came to power they hit them fast and hard, and the KPD was unable to resist them, and unable to turn the tide in any significant way.
This, people often forget that the Berlin-Moscow Axis is already a thing in game.
It is quite OP indeed, but that didn't stop them from putting it in from day one, so it does feel like a cop out to play that card.
And plausibility was never an issue for PDX, I don't think anything can top communist Japan as far as outlandishness goes.
The US do not join the Allies; instead, every democracy in Europe & Asia does. The US merely converts from fascism/communism back to democratic (if the case).
I agree they should add more "balancing" options. Yet, they have utterly failed to add any counters to Britain's "Join Germany" path, which makes the UK join the Axis.
The world's best army & best navy, and zero counters to it. France goes alone with Balkan minors, Soviets & Americans take forever to do anything... the game breaks as soon as the UK goes Non-Aligned.
I agree with that but i do think South Africa and Yugoslavia had good Communist paths that are only let down by being old. The Netherlands and UK are alright.
Shouldn't they fix the broken ai, broken balance and fix design flaws before adding garbage ahistorical gfx dlcs?
Yeah, they should get the content designers and artists to work on the AI too! That way it'll be perfect with 20 people who have no idea how to code AI!
...Seriously, I don't understand how this idea of exclusivity still exists.
Most Hearts of Iron expansions that are not cosmetic fixes come with AI and balance fixes.