Please, please revisit the major's focus trees before adding any more new ones

[TheDungen]

No not before, but meanwhile, it'd be nice if they'd update one old tree with every DLC as well as adding new ones. That way there's a continuous rolling update of old focus trees while not getting bogged down with updating the majors forever and never getting to the smaller nations.

 

[Khevenhuller]

The KPD was never a threat for the Weimar Republik, not after the Spartacus rising. The best election was in 1928 with 12,8 %, thats hardly a big support for the KPD. The Weimar Republic was not doomed because of the KPD or the Nazis, thats nonsense.

The Republic was doomed because:

- Versailles Treaty
- No trade with France and UK
- The great depression
- The USA stopped the trade with Germany in 1929

KPD election result in 1932 Federal election was 14.32%. It's attacks also hamstrung the SPD, and provided the establishment right with real fears of revolution, particularly as the KPD vote was concentrated in big cities like Berlin and Hamburg. They may not have been a threat to Weimar as it was going to go Communist, but I think you missed my point. The KPD were no fans of Weimar. By 1930 there were very few fans of Weimar around.

Why does Versailles 'doom' Weimar? I am unclear about this.

There was trade between Germany and Britain and France, and it was considerable. For example, the first BMW car to go on widespread sale was a licence made version of the Austin 7.

The Great Depression. This only dooms Weimar as there is an alternative to vote for. In 1923, facing an equally difficult crisis situation (spiralling inflation, the French occupation of the Ruhr) there was no alternative so Weimar simply limped on, unloved.

The USA stopped trade with Germany in 1929? Really? Tell that to Ford Germany or Opel (owned by GM) which continued to expand their operations until the USA entered the war. US raw materials and machine tools continued to flow across the Atlantic. The only limitation was Germany's ability to pay for them.

There was no way the USA could limit trade, indeed US policy was precisely the opposite. The US banks did want their money back, Weimar no longer had access to US loans, as the Wall Street Crash had forced them to pull in overseas investments.

K

 

[Khevenhuller]

Damn, my mistake, not, Anchluss, but Checkoslovakia's fate. There were a long and troublesome and eventually fruitless diplomatic movements in 1938 based on USSR's guaranteing Checkoslovakia's independance and support against Germany on terms of Poland or Romania allowing Red Army's passage to Checkoslovakia, which, nor France, not Poland, nor Romania would not accept. Still could be a separate events for non-historyc branching of gameplay.

Lots of different equipment which required lots of different ammunition and maintenance. It was a mess. Still, GB, France and Germany suffered from this as well, but to a lesser margin.

There is evidence to suggest that Romania did agree 'as long as it was done quickly' and they did agree to the overflight of Soviet aircraft. Benes seemed to have been thinking of Soviet aid similar to that which had been sent to Spain (presumably without the NKVD!) On the other hand, was the Soviet offer of help just an attempt to look good overseas and shore up their credentials as a fan of Collective Security? The Politbureau privately agrees that the Czechs should adopt a 'conciliatory position' (that is from Hochmann) which is not all that different in tone from British and French advice.

So, in theory at least, the Soviet Union could, with France twisting the arm of the Romanians, send troops to Czechoslovakia.

In terms of tanks, certainly Britain had no heavy tanks at all in 1936, but that sort of relies on how you define a Heavy Tank. The British had a three type approach: Light/Cruiser/Infantry. The latter gets shoehorned into both heavy and light in HOI4 (Matildas and Valentines as light, Churchills as heavy) which just makes a joke of the tech tree in that regard.

K

 

[Khevenhuller]

Everyone, who says that "democracies do not fight with democracies" forget about second part of this rule. "If democracy attack democracy, second state is claimed to be not democratic".

Not aware of that rule myself. Or that Israel invaded Lebanon in 1967...I am also not sure Carballo counts as a democratic President, insofar as I am not sure that instituting death squads and murdering opponents is particularly democratic. Then again, Hitler was elected and formed a coalition government...

K