Only two start dates?

[fuzzymanbowb]

1943-1944 start date ?

 

[safe-keeper]

I actually don't know the reaction, but I personally like it. However if they are going to do something ridiculous, it needs to be all or nothing.

Yes, that's right, we need a start date for when the War of the Worlds starts, humans vs martians, make it happen.

Yep, War of the Worlds fits perfectly, date-wise. Fingers crossed .

 

[griffor]

i'd pay for a dlc but i would rather they focus on other things first

 

[MGL 86]

Just little scenario like hoi3 is nice.

No diplomacy, country management. You are a manstein and ordered to take Stalingrad etc

 

[fredgiblet]

Just little scenario like hoi3 is nice.

No diplomacy, country management. You are a manstein and ordered to take Stalingrad etc

Honestly there's tons of wargames out there that probably do that better than HoI. Like maybe Operational Art of War. If all you're looking for is the individual battles then you might want to go for wargames instead of grand strat games.

 

[fredgiblet]

I don't think I've ever played the later dates, not sure why, just didn't hold the same interest for me. I have played some of the mods that had earlier start dates though - there was an excellent one that started with the Spanish civil War, but wasn't able to find it again after my computer ate itself a couple years ago.

The reason I don't play the later dates is because there's less influence to have. If you start in '44 things are mostly set. The only influence you can have would be deciding whether or not to go Unthinkable unless you abuse the AI to win as Germany. And honestly if I'm gonna do Unthinkable I want to start earlier to starve the Soviets of aid.

Don't listen to the haters I think some good alt history DLCs, like communist 1936 Germany, would be very popular

I agree with this. Honestly this wouldn't take a lot of effort to produce IMO as you can set it up with identical/similar orders of battle and just swap around allegiances and ministers, then adjusting a few events. It would result in ridiculously unbalanced fights at times, but that would be part of the fun. My most desired scenario would be fascist/communist US. Not even necessarily to play as, just to see what happens if you're Germany with the US backing you from around '39.

 

[Mr. Capiatlist]

So that's why everyone loved Kaiserreich.

Paradox didn't make Kaiserreich and the people who use it want to use it - so yes, I'm not surprised it gets high praise (as well as being a great mod). But not everyone uses Kaiserreich (as is to be expected). What happens when there are official ahistorical stuff is those who don't want to use ahistorical mods claim that the devs' time could've been or should've been spent on more important things (usually bug fixes, balancing, &c). To an extent they'd be sort of right, but with Sunset Invasion it was pointed out that on the dev side it was only a very minor amount of work (a few events, a few things added to the common folder). The majority of the work was graphical and the graphics people weren't even working on the upcoming patch, so their labor was "free" in the sense that it wasn't delaying anything.

No good.

The bile continued.

Those were rough days.