Slap on Cold War

[PrivateSpooks]

For MP an additional Cold-war end would add some serious playability and some incentive for a continuation of the game. Although I have only played a handful of HoI3 MP games it becomes stale when the lines have collapsed and everyone is about to go GG before you've even entered the war, if you're playing America you could have waited two to three, 2-3 hours sessions only to have a gaming session end before you've even truly begun. What I propose is not true simulation of a cold war, put simply a cold war that barely got to lukewarm before turned into a boil again.

As an example an axis defeat in 43, for each VP each faction controls they gain a pool of resources which can be spent gaining additional MP/Tech points/IC/Unity basically becoming a bit like CGM and an additional year worth of each resource, both sides then set up their armies as if in CGM (no major deconstruction allowed) to resemble a difficult peace and then the preparation for war with soviets/allies. Truce timer for about 2months, Mexican stand off then 2.1bK war. An uneasy experience between both the soviets and the Allies trying to grab as many VP and strategic locations is really just want the axis need to balance their chances of even pulling off a minor victory.

Thoughts*?

*A proper cold war game would be amazing as we all know but I really feel that an extra ending at the end of HoI will change things up dramatically.

 

[BigMemer7]

It'd be too late to add this to the scope for the release next year, as it is it seems they are going to be pushing the deadline as it is. No doubt there would be a tonne of stuff they will have to cut from the game before release that are actually in scope.

 

[Liquid Sky]

No Shooting == Watching paint dry.

 

[Leermeister]

yeah ive never really seen a game go beyond 42 where one side or the other dosen't rage quit. Sucks when your usa or ussr or japan and games over before you get into the war. As if people say GG after the first battles in 1940

 

[Chromos]

Well it could be fun if the game would take care of the situations where Axis might have won in Europe or historical after war.
So that you could go in a hypthetical CW starting ~45 and maybe just start over ww3 with SOV against Allies.
Would be interesting to see the mess going on all over.
HoI3 had nothing big to offer officially once Ww2 started. No ww3 sceanrio was ever released like Doomsday fro HoI2.
HoI3 had the "Operation Unthinkable"-Sceanrio to play though. But that is much less fun than a Grand Campaign imo.

 

[Moppy771]

I really think like 6 months to a year after release the devs will release dlc for this. Sense this is HOI, it would most likely not be Cold war political stuff going to 1990s, it would most likely be new tech and new scenarios all involving the start of WWIII from like 1945-1965 and nuking each other. Never forget, this game is about war.