Idea for more customization

[Salatmander]

I had a little talk with a friend of mine and an idea came that i would like to throw in here, maybe it brings something up for the future (or DLCs)

Well it is known that you can change the manufacturer to tweak with the stats of your arsenal a bit.

But why stop there ?
It would be nice to be able to choose between different guns for your divisions too, so you can change a bit about the strength and weaknesses of your soldiers there.
Maybe machine guns give a bonus in defence, while Assault riffles help when you re the attacker. Some Sniper rifles are helpfull if the Divison assists in a battle that allready started (I know there would never be a complete division only equiped with Sniping-Rifles but thats just to give you an Idea what i mean.)
It could also influence the stats of the devision it self or helps in specific area types while it is worse to use in others.
This could also be implemented as a different tech tree to specialice in an aspekt or bring in another thing to trading, so you can buy a weapon type or model you do not have yourself from other countrys (just like it is with assets now)

maybe this can also be extended to tanks or aircrafts too.
Give it different techs in Armory or Gears.

I have kind of the Tech-tree in HOI 3 in mind, but maybe not THAT complicated (some visualisation helps a lot there)
Just like it is with the tech in HOI4 right now, give it 3-5 different options, maybe something where you have to make choices (either a moto that gives your planse a bit more speed/Air Combat durability or another one that extends the operation radius it has but makes it a bit more vulnarable if it meets other planes)
((still don t know how aircrafts will work exactly though))

so that much to this idea, what do you guys think of it ?

 

[PhantomXtrike]

I think this is going to be HUGE immersive addition to the game and not to mention the replayability, but I think it will be a mod thingy

 

[Carnelion]

Don't forget that a division is more or less 20000 troops. It sounds a bit absurd to give them the same weapons like you stated yourself. We could customize that with the smallest unit we can manipulate ( the brigade ) but even then its ~3000 troops).

However I like your idea. We could choose to set ratios to weapons that each battalion gets to use.

i.e. 3:4 ratio of Battle Rifles to Sub machine guns or 1:15 Marksman rifles to Battle rifles etc... each type of weapon giving them a certain advantage.
If you're trying to hold a flank it would be advantageous to supply your men with more MG42's than say Sub-machine guns....etc.

Same idea applies to armor and maybe even support units. Just needs a brainstorm to get ideas of how they could be customized.

 

[panzerzombie]

Well, if you can assign customization models to each tank model then you may be able to mod the same ability into InfantryEquipment I- III or SupportEq. I-III So you could tweak and produce your favorite Acme-Equipment (tm). How the AI would know the difference for replacement purposes of same-tier equipment or if its "better" i dunno.

 

[mdw1985]

I like your idea!