A dlc of the soviet union is something more than a mere DLC is a matter of justice for players who play the historic mode. It's what I've been waiting for most since the beginning of this franchise.
The eastern theater is the most interesting and unique, which is why I play Hoi4, because the only game you can play on a large scale Operation Barbarossa, otherwise, for me it would be a game of strategy like any other, it would just be an emulation of war with different skins.
And in order to do due justice, they must be something much more than new mechanics and new "re-design" of a small handful of countries.
In my opinion the worst that could happen, is to become just a repagination of Baltic and Nordic countries, that would not do justice to a DLC of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is not just about the Baltic Theater.
Heres some suggestions of basic(and easy) fixes for historical run just to begin(some i remember at top head):
- Finland theater need a fix, is atm just a buffer state, which a human player Germany or Soviet can optionally use as food and eat it in historical run.
- Middle East need be fixed, atm theres no anglo-soviet invasion of Iran.
Also should consider bundle some Post-War/Cold-War improvments, Soviet Union is just dull at end-of-war.
- The script to Europe partition atm, seems good, at my last run, its seems the player can manage to divide Europe close to historical, but sometimes nazi-germany is "born" on few states, which had potential to create a mess and border-gore, sometimes is insta annexed by east germany.
- The Soviet Union focus tree to imediatly declare war on UK should be removed, its a huge mess.
- The Western Allies should not have military acess to Soviet Union, this is another huge mess, UK become crazily dumb moving troops on asia, passing on Soviet Territory.
- Even worst, newborn USRR satellites states inherit UK military acess also, which is insane and mess up Europe with UK troops moving from Asia.
- The UK/Allies shouldnt have military acess to China also, this mess up UK/USA AI insanely.
- The Soviet Union end the war with a 3rd World like research capabilities.., wheres there the scientific research powerhouse that emerged on Cold War? Soviet Union need buffs and progression, not stagnation.
- Theres need for some debuffs/limitation on war declarions to stop to cold war become "hot war" at least for 2years.
- The newborn countries need some temporary buffs to deploy troops, or at least some "poor man" version army, they born just empty from scratch, which make it too unrealistic.
- Put some buff/mechanic whatsover to incentive USA/USRR move trops to the two germanys.
- The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran is one of keys of Cold-War, the USRR refuse to leave Iran is the thing who lead USA become suspicious of URSS intentions for a post-war world order, then later theres some communist uprisings, but the Iran was the pivotal question that started all thing.
As a final consideration: a DLC from the Soviet Union with something much more than reskin from Nordic / Baltic countries is necessary to attract old players. I myself will only buy the "battle of the bosphorus" because I have plenty of money, and because I am a collector, not because interesting in play a "country pack".
The eastern theater is the most interesting and unique, which is why I play Hoi4, because the only game you can play on a large scale Operation Barbarossa, otherwise, for me it would be a game of strategy like any other, it would just be an emulation of war with different skins.
And in order to do due justice, they must be something much more than new mechanics and new "re-design" of a small handful of countries.
In my opinion the worst that could happen, is to become just a repagination of Baltic and Nordic countries, that would not do justice to a DLC of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is not just about the Baltic Theater.
Heres some suggestions of basic(and easy) fixes for historical run just to begin(some i remember at top head):
- Finland theater need a fix, is atm just a buffer state, which a human player Germany or Soviet can optionally use as food and eat it in historical run.
- Middle East need be fixed, atm theres no anglo-soviet invasion of Iran.
Also should consider bundle some Post-War/Cold-War improvments, Soviet Union is just dull at end-of-war.
- The script to Europe partition atm, seems good, at my last run, its seems the player can manage to divide Europe close to historical, but sometimes nazi-germany is "born" on few states, which had potential to create a mess and border-gore, sometimes is insta annexed by east germany.
- The Soviet Union focus tree to imediatly declare war on UK should be removed, its a huge mess.
- The Western Allies should not have military acess to Soviet Union, this is another huge mess, UK become crazily dumb moving troops on asia, passing on Soviet Territory.
- Even worst, newborn USRR satellites states inherit UK military acess also, which is insane and mess up Europe with UK troops moving from Asia.
- The UK/Allies shouldnt have military acess to China also, this mess up UK/USA AI insanely.
- The Soviet Union end the war with a 3rd World like research capabilities.., wheres there the scientific research powerhouse that emerged on Cold War? Soviet Union need buffs and progression, not stagnation.
- Theres need for some debuffs/limitation on war declarions to stop to cold war become "hot war" at least for 2years.
- The newborn countries need some temporary buffs to deploy troops, or at least some "poor man" version army, they born just empty from scratch, which make it too unrealistic.
- Put some buff/mechanic whatsover to incentive USA/USRR move trops to the two germanys.
- The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran is one of keys of Cold-War, the USRR refuse to leave Iran is the thing who lead USA become suspicious of URSS intentions for a post-war world order, then later theres some communist uprisings, but the Iran was the pivotal question that started all thing.
As a final consideration: a DLC from the Soviet Union with something much more than reskin from Nordic / Baltic countries is necessary to attract old players. I myself will only buy the "battle of the bosphorus" because I have plenty of money, and because I am a collector, not because interesting in play a "country pack".
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