disclaimer: this idea was written down in 5 minutes and has probably not been very well thought out. There's a chance I'm overcomplicating the last days of a game that for all intends and purposes should be over by then. That said, what do you think of the following:
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First a few lines of background to show where the idea came from:
A while ago I played a game of HOI3 as the USA. Due to a heavy focus on the Pacific theatre I failed to notice the turing of the tide in Europe, and suddenly saw the Soviets liberate Poland.
Immediatly, I scrambled forces to try and liberate as much as possible. Obviously, such a hurried invasion was a problematic event. There were still many German divisions occupying France, so I decided to strike in Italy first.
Landings in the south and centre quickly linked up, but I wasn't fast enough and the Soviets occupied the northeast of Italy, including 1 of the cities required to release the country upon surrender. I owned the other 3.
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Now, is't this situation very similar to what happend to other countries IRL? Germany was split in a few occupation zones, pretty much where the armies halted, resulting eventually in 2 Germanies.
Korea split in half for the same reason. resulting in war a few years later.
Greece is a different case as it erupted in civil war between various resistanc armies after the Germans left. But it's a different, though somewhat similar scenario. Again there is 1 country in the wake of conflict left in control of rival factions.
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Now, I can think of 3 post-WW2 instances immediatly where this issue occured (Germany, Greece, Korea). But if the war had progressed even slightly different (which in HOI is almost always the case) these ideological borders would probably end up somewhere completely different.
Would it therefore be a good idea to allow for these nation splits to happen to all nations, and not just those that had one IRL? We had East and West Germany because that's how the war ended. What if the fronts had met up halfway in Poland? (ignoring the quircks caused in a war against Germany with all of Germany occupied, but you get what I mean). Or what if Stalin had pressed hard through the Balkans and taken Northern Italy before the Allies could?
summarizing
most likely, these kind of situations will only occur at the end of WW2, so I'm not sure how important or unimportant such events might be. the more I think of it actually, the more it turns into a Cold War extended timeline idea that would be best syited for a mod.
comments, thoughts, feedback or just telling me it's crazy is appreciated.
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First a few lines of background to show where the idea came from:
A while ago I played a game of HOI3 as the USA. Due to a heavy focus on the Pacific theatre I failed to notice the turing of the tide in Europe, and suddenly saw the Soviets liberate Poland.
Immediatly, I scrambled forces to try and liberate as much as possible. Obviously, such a hurried invasion was a problematic event. There were still many German divisions occupying France, so I decided to strike in Italy first.
Landings in the south and centre quickly linked up, but I wasn't fast enough and the Soviets occupied the northeast of Italy, including 1 of the cities required to release the country upon surrender. I owned the other 3.
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Now, is't this situation very similar to what happend to other countries IRL? Germany was split in a few occupation zones, pretty much where the armies halted, resulting eventually in 2 Germanies.
Korea split in half for the same reason. resulting in war a few years later.
Greece is a different case as it erupted in civil war between various resistanc armies after the Germans left. But it's a different, though somewhat similar scenario. Again there is 1 country in the wake of conflict left in control of rival factions.
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Now, I can think of 3 post-WW2 instances immediatly where this issue occured (Germany, Greece, Korea). But if the war had progressed even slightly different (which in HOI is almost always the case) these ideological borders would probably end up somewhere completely different.
Would it therefore be a good idea to allow for these nation splits to happen to all nations, and not just those that had one IRL? We had East and West Germany because that's how the war ended. What if the fronts had met up halfway in Poland? (ignoring the quircks caused in a war against Germany with all of Germany occupied, but you get what I mean). Or what if Stalin had pressed hard through the Balkans and taken Northern Italy before the Allies could?
summarizing
most likely, these kind of situations will only occur at the end of WW2, so I'm not sure how important or unimportant such events might be. the more I think of it actually, the more it turns into a Cold War extended timeline idea that would be best syited for a mod.
comments, thoughts, feedback or just telling me it's crazy is appreciated.
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