Scientist groups, leaders and all that purchaseable!

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I disagree with any form of generation of new leaders out of thin air. Where should an officer of a small country gain the necessary experience to be a general with a lvl 3 skill? Technically such a generator would cost developement time and difficult to balance with other features.

It would be much more feasible, if you could give each "Default Joe" (Major General, lvl 1) a name. That way he would have his own identity and could gain experience and skill levels over time. It would also be more realistic, because a Major General of a small country, who finds himself suddently in the boots of a Field Marshal, wouldn't have the experience to fill that role with much skill.

Hmmm...To clarify: I meant that out of all the random generals out of all countries should have couple rank 4 and few rank 3 generals. Normal rank could be say 1 or 2 depending on doctrines. It always possible that Peru had the greatest military genius in history of mankind, but was never assigned to command an division.

 

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We could have random leader generation based upon certain technologies - doctrines. If you are a backwater nation with no 'modern' military tradition (doctrines), you are not going to get great leaders. However, you should be able to get some basic leaders if you expand your military, and they should be able to learn via experience. The more military doctrines you have, the higher chance a 'random' leader emerges with skill above 0.

as the HOI system is, I would be glad only to get some "0" skill leaders as they can at least improve and be promoted later.

I think the idea of Norway or Nepal becoming super powers is rediculous.

It is, but I think these ideas have nothing to do with that argument. Wether they can get some random leaders and/or scientific teams won't affect it much. Apart from the first patch(es) and before it became impossible to do a WC in HOI, problem being manpower, while another was how the low industry would leave the country way behind the others in tech. Even if a random generator would push out 10 skill field marshalls that won't make it possible for Norway to take over the world.