Why so few formable nations?Devs,please answer.

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In HOI 3 they were very few formable nations.It seems that i will be the same in HOI 4.So why,while you have a ton of formable nations in other games like EU 4,there are so few in the HOI series?
 
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Well, in the timeframe in which EUIV is set, many new nations were actually former (Prussia, Russia, Commonwealth ect.) However, when you think of WW2, I can't think of many/any nations which formed into another country through the aquistition of land.

Also, it only spans about 12 years, so not exactly much time to form a whole new nation.
 
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East and West Germany. Vichy France. Syria and Lebanon. India, Burma, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Libya. Slovakia. Israel, Jordan.
 
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Most of those nations are able to me created through events/rebels/war/already exist.
Montenegro, Serbia, and Croatia as well, though these could be formed by events (in HOI III, only Croatia was formable).

I do sense that a puppet government feature may be added in an expansion a la client states in EUIV.
 

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Most of those nations are able to me created through events/rebels/war/already exist.
I'm not saying they are or aren't. But you now have access to the updated Wiki:

http://www.hoi4wiki.com/Countries

All I was answering was the point that someone couldn't think of any new countries formed during the period ;)