I'd like to add that paratroops cannot take defended areas when dropped. So the invasion of Crete can never happen.
Things that Never Happen in HoI4 (But did so in history)
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One more thing about Yugoslavia is that the focus chain is too long for what it yields. It's quite useless and its better just to fabricate the normal way and invade.
One focus which start off event chain would be better.
I have never seen the AI have Pearl Harbor Happen, with the Americans declaring war on the Japanese.
Very strange. I think they need to tweak the Pearl Harbor Gamble focus for the AI
Very strange. I think they need to tweak the Pearl Harbor Gamble focus for the AI
This is one of the reasons why, before launch, I had said there should be a Victoria 2 style population system or at least something that vaguely resembles it.
This way, countries like the UK or France could raise colonial regiments IN the colonies.
You'd also be able to simulate exiled soldiers better. Instead of just being another division with a slightly different division design, it could be made up of pops from the other country.
I believe the Division designer hadn't been revealed when I first said this would be a good feature so they could easily work the division designer into the pop system. For example; Playing as the UK, maybe you want your mountaineer troops to be mainly made up of your Nepalese or maybe you want your Scottish troops to fill that role. It'd be entirely just for flavour but I'd love that level of roleplay.
- The Poles keeping their remnants of their army in exile and sending forces to the Allies and the USSR.
- King Michael ousting Ion Antonescu and flipping Romania to join the Allies in 1944.
- D-Day landings in Normandy, specifically. The AIlies actually land at Calais in-game, most of the time...which is exactly where the Germans thought (incorrectly) the Allies were going to land in real life.
- The First Indochina War
- The Korean War (devs have hinted they might look into that)
- Italy going into civil war around 1943, or post-capitulation.
- Operation Market Garden (probably for the best)
- Massive month-long battle at Shanghai in 1937
- The Battle of Taierzhuang, or the first successful Chinese encirclement and their first actual victory.
- Invasion of the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore and Burma by Japan. Prior to Oak, the Japanese kept on invading Australia and succeeding.
- Warsaw Uprising
- The Soviets deploying the T-34 tank. They should really stop making BT-5s to go fight all the Panzer IIIs.
- There is no giant naval battle on the coast of Hawaii. Nor does the IJN even get to Hawaii in-game, at all.
- The USA sending aid to China after 1941.
- Stalin doing the world a favor and dying in 1953, then being replaced by Khrushchev after a few years of Politburo infighting.
- The KMT retreating to Taiwan after losing the civil war.
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Some of those like Stalin dying are past 1948 so unless there is a DLC to stretch the timeline PI won't be including those. You'll have to mod that in.
Right, right. The focus tree mod I use for China does patch in an event where Stalin dies and the infighting begins.
Paradox did say in their Cornflakes wishlist dev diary that they're thinking of perhaps implementing some early Cold War mechanics, such as the Korean War. But I don't think they'll go beyond the early 1950s if they do so.
Finland is a tricky one. I have no idea how you could simulate the USSR doing so utterly shite in the Winter War as a player. Half the time the event triggers and its not even in Winter anyway. Likewise for the continuation war. Its just so easy to just stomp Finland. I find it harder fighting in Romania as USSR than Finland. The Purge Mechanic should basically make it extremely difficult to wage any offensive wars until 1941, in an historic game against the AI that should only cover Finland. Org should be maybe max 25% and maybe it gives you negative Army exp points to simulate the refusal of Soviet High command to update tactics/division structure so you are stuck with the same templates you start with until the Winter War finishes.
As per the continuation war I dont really know, maybe there should be an event for Finland to get the Mannerhem line to fort level 10.
The closest you could get would probably be a month-long amphibious attack by Japanese forces on Shanghai, however you'll never see the kind of disproportionate casualties that occurred historically. Historically, of course, the Japanese were there already and the battle began with a Chinese assault on their positions.
To model it properly you'd need to have a multi-state Shanghai to show the Japanese-controlled areas and the international zone.
Debatable whether it was either of those things. The Japanese claim (not entirely convincingly) that they only retreated due to a communications mix-up. Of course, the Chinese ended up losing Xuzhou and Wuhan after that. More to the point you definitely can defeat a Japanese invasion as the ROC with battles in-land so I'm not sure you won't see anything like this in-game.
What you don't see is the Japanese capturing most of China's main cities, then siting down to try to win a political victory by starving out the ROC and setting up their own puppet government as they did historically until the Ichi-Go offensive. Instead in HOI4 either Japan wins or it loses within a year or two.
Agreed on all other points.
It actually is possible to win paradrop battles where you land on the enemy, it's just rare and impractical because of the low organization and sometimes damaged paratroopers on drop. Nevertheless, against a sufficiently battered enemy I have landed on top of enemy forces, landed adjacent anticipating them forcing my paratroopers to retreat, then was surprised to see I instead took the province.
If Finland would get a good Div template and Mannerheim as a FM they would fare much better against the Soviets. The Mannerheim-line wouldn't hurt either, though the forts are less necessary IMO.
Brazil (or for that matter, any south american country) joining the allies while remaning "non-aligned".
Granted, Getúlio did see eye to eye with Hitler regarding some policies, but in the end, he saw it was better to side with the giant next door than the one across the atlantic.
Granted, Getúlio did see eye to eye with Hitler regarding some policies, but in the end, he saw it was better to side with the giant next door than the one across the atlantic.
- The Japanese recklessly attacking Pearl Harbor and choosing to target battleships instead of infrastructure. Instead, as of now, the game bizarrely gives a nod to the lunatic conspiracy theory about Roosevelt facilitating the attack.
- Yamamoto's Midway gambit, and the decisive role played by reconnaissance, intelligence & radar in turning what should've been a pitched battle into a one-sided annihilation.
I hope this changes with the DLC, and events / focus tree choices will actually result in both Midway & Pearl being given due respect.
- Yamamoto's Midway gambit, and the decisive role played by reconnaissance, intelligence & radar in turning what should've been a pitched battle into a one-sided annihilation.
I hope this changes with the DLC, and events / focus tree choices will actually result in both Midway & Pearl being given due respect.
Replace "Eisenhower" with "the AI" here:
Also it'd be rather simple in coding terms to actually make Romania switch sides during a war, using the Civil War mechanics.
(Or at least it'd be simple for someone who has the faintest idea what he's doing, unlike a certain somebody who had to mess around with the code for multiple days to just get the basics to work!)
I would love that .
But I would be already satisfied if there would be a National Focus for Free France to „core“ their colonies and build units in Africa .
Sure France was not the Big Player in WW2 like in WWI but they should at least do something after the fall of France then nothing. Just seeing them hustling with 3-4 divisions across africa is really sad
In fairness, that's pretty historical.
"What the about the strategic reserve?"
"There is none."
Haha you‘re right .
But I think u know what I mean .
There were battles where the troops of Free France helped quite a lil bit , especially in Africa (Pierre König and his help against Rommel ) and Middle East (Legion d‘orient ) .
I don’t think France should be a Powerhouse , but it should have the possibility to intervene and help ,even when capitulated.
Washington Naval treaty / Panama Canal
Granted the way hoi4 is setup it would be harder to implement than say hoi3, where you have some control over how much armor / firepower / speed a ship is built with. As complex as Europe is I get why Paradox focuses a lot of attention there, but it would be nice if the rest of the world got a little more love.
Personally I'd love to see a DLC variant of the game start in November 1918 when the treaty is being negotiated. No control over industry, research or country development, just a little bit control over how the world gets split up and some of the major treaties like the naval treaty / league of nations or how harshly Germany is treated after the war. I think the 1.5 update would accommodate this approach pretty easily. Then let the game pick up in 1936.
Granted the way hoi4 is setup it would be harder to implement than say hoi3, where you have some control over how much armor / firepower / speed a ship is built with. As complex as Europe is I get why Paradox focuses a lot of attention there, but it would be nice if the rest of the world got a little more love.
Personally I'd love to see a DLC variant of the game start in November 1918 when the treaty is being negotiated. No control over industry, research or country development, just a little bit control over how the world gets split up and some of the major treaties like the naval treaty / league of nations or how harshly Germany is treated after the war. I think the 1.5 update would accommodate this approach pretty easily. Then let the game pick up in 1936.
Hopefully Finland gets the attention it deserves in the inevitable Nordic DLC.
Yeah, but once that drops Sweden will probably be so OP that Finland gets annexed along with the rest of the world long before the Winter War fires!
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