National Focus Tree for Australia

[Conqueristo]

Are there any plans for a non-generic national focus tree for Australia? There were indeed specific paths taken during the war, such as forming a War Cabinet, trying to get the US to join against the Japanese before the fall of Singapore, the press cover ups of the bombing of Darwin and the Japanese flyover in Melbourne. We even did chemical warfare trials during this period.
A great source is the national archives - http://naa.gov.au/collection/explore/defence/conflicts.aspx (There's just way too much information!)

Thanks!

 

[Number 7]

Chemical warfare will not be represented in any way in hearts of iron.

it is possible for an australian national focus tree one day, "added in the quiet moments" as the developers put it, but don't plan on it

 

[Axe99]

The word (from the devs) is that the NF trees are a fair bit of work, so we may be waiting a while before either the devs or modders come up with one, but I'm sure we'll get unique national focus trees for at least the popular minor nations (of which Australia has to qualify ) sooner or later.

 

[fuzzymanbowb]

Befriend spiders

 

[Sun_Wu]

What would it have other than breed dropbears for aerial bombardment?

 

[Price21]

What would it have other than breed dropbears for aerial bombardment?

A Kangaroo Cavalry Brigade of course.

 

[joe9594]

Revanchism against the Emus?

 

[Bennyy]

Revanchism against the Emus?

Please don't bring up such a sensitive topic on this forum. Many peoples lives were devastated by their rampage.

 

[MarcoRossolini]

I must admit, as an Aussie myself I don't see much reason for a specific Australian focus tree. The minor European states (specifically Czech, Romanian and Hungarian and possibly Greece and Turkey) followed by South American states (for a slightly different kind of game, an Axis state taking over all of SA then providing a kind of third front for the US would be an interesting change of pace would to me be the obvious choice for expansion.

Personalised Focus trees should focus (ha) on states which had or could've had the option to swing many different ways. Australia, which, lets face it, didn't do much in the grand scheme of things and stuck snugly to the Brits then the Yanks, doesn't really need one. The possibilities for a Comintern Romania or some other connected Balkan state to provide an interest change in the Eastern front is for more important.

 

[Price21]

Revanchism against the Emus?

I would prefer if we didn't mention that here.

 

[Daztek]

Revanchism against the Emus?

We already did that.

 

[Daztek]

. . . Australia, which, lets face it, didn't do much in the grand scheme of things . . .

Australia had the fourth largest air force in the world in 1945, after the USA, USSR & UK, at 6,000 aircraft. They must have been doing something or other. I reckon that's worth an NFT.

 

[scroggin]

Australia had the fourth largest air force in the world in 1945, after the USA, USSR & UK, at 6,000 aircraft. They must have been doing something or other. I reckon that's worth an NFT.

In Hoi3 minor developed nation were hamstrung by a lack of leafership points and the inadequacies of trading for modern equipment. In Hoi4 that should be a lot better. The minors will be more fun to play. Australia actually has a huge amount of resources that was only limited by a lack of demand due to less industry and limited manpower.

 

[Axe99]

I'd say there's a lot of potentially interesting things to have in an Australian NF tree (well, at least for Australian players) - there was the tension between pandering to the UK and pandering to the US (just so long as we were pandering to someone ), there was whether to focus on a force for Europe (we had our own armoured division for a little while) or a force for the Pacific, whether to go all-in supporting the air war in Europe (a lot of Aussies flew in the skies above Europe, both bombers and fighters), I could dig more details out as necessary. It's not a biggy though, more just a nice detail, and MarcoRossolini well says, nations like Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Finland and Spain would be more deserving of one before 'Straya.

 

[The Albatross]

Australia had the fourth largest air force in the world in 1945, after the USA, USSR & UK, at 6,000 aircraft. They must have been doing something or other. I reckon that's worth an NFT.

As Axe99 says -- here are some of those interesting things that Aussies in that era did;
1. The Owen Machine Carbine - best allied jungle capable automatic weapon, known as the Diggers Darling;


2. The AC1 Sentinel Cruiser tank - originally armed with a 2 pdr gun. Later development saw this tank armed with the lethal 17 pdr anti-tank gun.


3. Combat ration packs. Invented by LTCOL Sir Stanton Hicks, these 'ratpacks' were very effective in keeping soldiers fit for battle in appalling jungle warfare conditions.


4. Murray booby-trap switch. Invented in 1943, used extensively by Australians in the Pacific theatre.


5. RAAF emergency water sterilizing kit and combat rations - New Guinea and Pacific.