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Northernlion HOI4 preview on YouTube
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I love the conference system. That'll make multiplayer games far more interesting. Can't wait to sit there negotiating a peace treaty with a friend, working out who gets what after having conquered an enemy 
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When you have lots of units in one province/area, though, it'd be nice if the counters were organised into several coloumns when you zoomed out, rather than a single incredibly long coloumn. They look a bit overwhelming.
.When you have lots of units in one province/area, though, it'd be nice if the counters were organised into several coloumns when you zoomed out, rather than a single incredibly long coloumn. They look a bit overwhelming.
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that one is actually a bug where it doesnt combine allied troop counters properly when under different commands. fixed it when I got home from the event
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That's true. I hope the devs will rework that. I would like to have to something like a "mapmode feature"(supply, experience, region, strength and so on), which sorts the divisions just as i would need it in the moment.
I love how you say "devs will rework that" right after podcat says that it was a bug and they already fixed it.
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There are VPs, Quill said that. Capitals give a lot of VP.
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He was probably simplifying. Remember this video is mostly for his audience, not with HoI veterans in mind. The very last screen of the video (pause just before the video ends) have a tootip saying that Romania controls 31% of its VP and that it will surrender when it has 30% or less. So, yeah, VP are in.
Yeah nothing new for me but the video was sick! Loved watching the ussr so slowly taking over turkey and romainea!
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By far the best Video yet !!
One of the tool tips showed a province has given him 1 vp.
Liked pretty much all I saw; and looked like he had more interesting planning than we've seen so far.
One of the tool tips showed a province has given him 1 vp.
Liked pretty much all I saw; and looked like he had more interesting planning than we've seen so far.
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That one was particularly bad, I guess from what I observed and you say, it was because there were UK expeditionary forces with the French, and so there were up 10 types of Div in the area.that one is actually a bug where it doesnt combine allied troop counters properly when under different commands. fixed it when I got home from the event
Personally, on a very much zoomed out view showing half of Europe, I think an icon showing there are multiple types on a single counter is good enough. This would simplify the overall strategic view of political boundaries, showing you where your Armies are located with the approximate strength (from the single number on the counter). At that zoom level I don't think you gain much from knowing that the Romania front has 4 MTN Divs and 43 INF.
This level of detail is only relevant when you zoom in a bit to show Romania. Then seeing that he had one of the MTN Divs assigned in the southern wing of 32 Divs attacking along the coast far from any mountains was very relevant. And that he had some Arm in the northern wing attacking the mountains.
The Army UI needs work. These very long lists of Divs are not helpful, and slightly intimidating. Particularly as we can see, he was happy to use FMs with 100 Div limits and give them lots of Divs to control a whole front. Perhaps with more experience he might have split some of the fronts with 2-3 generals.
Nevertheless, it highlights an issue with the lists. They should be ordered with those in each subgroup appearing next to each other. But on reflection I think they should be shown in a tree, with each subgroup a branch. At the top of the branch there would be space next to the +/- to allow a text box. People could name their subgroups for immersion, or call them something meaningful like "Southern flank attacking Budapest".
I noticed he had one tiny front objective with just a single Div assigned to it, and this was probably a mistake that the tree view would highlight. But it showed that the arrow can have the Div name, rather than "1 Division". Change this to use the text for the subgroup, if the player has entered anything.
You could include all of the drag-and-drop functionality you put in the HOI3 Army organiser UI, so Divs that are within the Army list can be reassigned to a different subgroup easily. Like in this case, just drag the MTN from the southern subgroup and drop it in the northern within the tree view. Then the AI should move the MTN to the northern part of front.
I think you would get the grognards forming Army sized formations with Corps size subgroups, and naming them historically. And would then love to see that name on the arrow on the map, "X. Mountain Corps" instead of "3 Divisions".
And in the example we've seen there, the ability to ensure that the MTN are together in a single subgroup (Corps) with their own front objective/arrow would be very useful to the expert players who don't so much care for the immersion, but they can ensure the MTN are used 100% effectively, without the need to take them out of the formation and group them in their own formation under a Maj.Gen.
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Would be cool if a dev could show off some advanced moves with the battle planner (encirclements, naval invasions, that kind of thing).
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damn this is nice! can't wait to see the peace process get balanced since you still have the HOI 3-esqe limitation of having to take everything just to be guaranteed to successfully demand an inch.
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I think a dev video would help to ease a lot of people's worries. I mean, they've shown the invasion of Poland enough, what's one more time?
(that's a joke, but I really do think it would be helpful)
Well, nothing strange actually. The time is december 1937. So there is not much new technologies discovered and implemented. And so romanian, turkish and soviet armies is almost equal or with very little advantage of soviets. Add to this winter time and hill/mountain terrain. Also we dont see videomaker really help his forces to do something better. Just few clicks and thats all. Try to do same in HOI 3 and you get same result.
Hope that they keep this--
Get a score around 1946 for end of WW2- then can play on in the game.
So as allies smack down the axis- then sort the red menace
Get a score around 1946 for end of WW2- then can play on in the game.
So as allies smack down the axis- then sort the red menace
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Hope that they keep this--
Get a score around 1946 for end of WW2- then can play on in the game.
So as allies smack down the axis- then sort the red menace
Or smack gb, france and the ussr and then turn to the u.s. as germany
