Tank size

[MGL 86]

And Mexico is going to pay for it

Infantry is stealing millions of pixels from tanks.
Make tanks great again
English is not my first language. But that guy talks in my level.

 

[TheRomanRuler]

I actually made a thread about this a long time ago. Back then people disagreed and said sizes are good. I am happy to see they have changed their opinion now that we have seen way more pictures and gameplay. It was something that immediately started to bother me.

 

[Dichologos]

Honestly, the tanks being "proportionally" sized would end up with them either being extremely large and impossible to fit many of on the map, or make infantry so small that you would have to zoom in incredibly far to see much of them.

Though I do think it is a bit silly that the tanks are *smaller* than the infantry. Perhaps they should be increased in size a bit - not to a realistic scale per-se, but at least to be a bit larger than infantry so that they stand out a bit better.

 

[TheRomanRuler]

Honestly, the tanks being "proportionally" sized would end up with them either being extremely large and impossible to fit many of on the map, or make infantry so small that you would have to zoom in incredibly far to see much of them.

Though I do think it is a bit silly that the tanks are *smaller* than the infantry. Perhaps they should be increased in size a bit - not to a realistic scale per-se, but at least to be a bit larger than infantry so that they stand out a bit better.

Or maybe have each tank division have model of 1 tank and each infantry division have model of 3-10 humans. That way all of them could be correct scale.

 

[Sic Domine]

I would really prefer a lot of tiny soldiers and a few bigger tanks rather than a few huge soldiers. Lots of tiny soldiers may be graphically more demanding but it looks cooler. Gives a feeling of actual war.

 

[Caesar15]

Aw, you Trumped my perfectly good Attack on Titan reference.

Trump's wall won't have infantry sprites inside it though.

 

[Baron Jukaga]

Play with NATO counters, this is a wargame not some low end RTS. Never liked sprites, never will use them since HoI1.

 

[The Lord Drake]

Play with NATO counters, this is a wargame not some low end RTS. Never liked sprites, never will use them since HoI1.

I believe it's already been repeated stated that counters as they existed in Hoi III are NOT in the game.

Trump's wall won't have infantry sprites inside it though.

His wall sucks.

 

[Zaku]

Play with NATO counters, this is a wargame not some low end RTS. Never liked sprites, never will use them since HoI1.

It's not the graphics that makes a wargame.

 

[Caesar15]

His wall sucks.

All I'm going to say is that a giant mexican isn't going to break down the gates...unlike other walls you've mentioned.

 

[MGL 86]

Walls seldom work. Great wall of China and Maginot line comes to mind. Especially in modern times when you can fly over it

 

[Gort11]

Play with NATO counters, this is a wargame not some low end RTS. Never liked sprites, never will use them since HoI1.

3d models are not sprites.

 

[Caesar15]

Walls seldom work. Great wall of China and Maginot line comes to mind. Especially in modern times when you can fly over it

Walls worked all the time..around cities, not much else though.

 

[Nicolas I]

Would someone explain the link between tank size in HOI4 and walls ?

 

[KalZakath]

Would someone explain the link between tank size in HOI4 and walls ?

OK. First off, there was the cavalry. It was fast, and early infantry feared it, and often would just run away when it came at them. Then, due to horse-based books and movies such as 'My Friend Flicka' and 'National Velvet' and 'A Day at the Races', people started to love the horses and not be so scared of them. Military people just couldn't have this, so they decided to come up with something even scarier than horses had been. They looked around the farm where all the horses were and saw a big thing holding water on a tower. 'Hmm,' they thought. 'What would happen if we put that on wheels and had guns sticking out of it?' Thus the idea for the tank was born.

Of course, they couldn't have anyone see what they were trying to build, so they built a high wall around the compound to keep prying eyes out. It did it's job really well - no one ever was able to see what they were building inside the compound. After a lot of mistakes, they finally had their first prototype tank ready to roll. The problem was, it was too big to fit through the door they had made in the wall for it to get out, and thusly, they couldn't even run the field tests they needed to. Instead of panicking, they decided to make the same tank, only a lot smaller - so small that they were now smaller than the infantry that they were supposed to scare off.

HOI4's sprites are a tribute to these first tanks that were stymied by a wall, and wound up smaller than people.

 

[Kovax]

No wonder there are threads about infantry being overpowered.

Forget the shiny animated figures AND the NATO counters. I can live with text files showing me the number of men in each province and how many will move to the adjacent province in the next 24 hours. I want more realistic game mechanics.

 

[Lambykins]

Luckily I'll just be using NATO counters.

 

[The Lord Drake]

All I'm going to say is that a giant mexican isn't going to break down the gates...unlike other walls you've mentioned.

That part is probably true. Though technically that guy just kicked the door in.