Upgrades

[leemonk]

Hey,

A new HOI4 player here.

If I design a new piece of upgraded kit (thinking 3rd tech for guns) I see the game wants to upgrade all my current troops before raising stock levels.

Is this generally the best thing to do? If so, what happens to the old equipment? Can I issue new divisions with old equipment? How do I turn off mass upgrades if I do not want them?

I find the same happens with planes too.

Regards

 

[browd]

You can revise the templates for your existing divisions to prohibit them from using the newly created equipment, but why do you want to put the new stuff in stockpile and force your existing divisions to keep using the old stuff?

As the game works now, your new equipment is auto-deployed to your existing divisions, whereupon their most obsolete equipment is returned to the stockpile as the new equipment arrives.

 

[HaruhiFollower]

The old equipment goes back to the stockpiles and can be reused. In the division designer you can select the types of equipment given template will use in the "Division Equipment" menu.

 

[Dalwin]

Whether it is replacing losses or building new units, the system will use better equipment if it is available and older if it is not. Since at first you will have insufficient quantity of the new gear there are a few settings to control what gets priority.