Will it be possible to capture soldiers?

[General Baker]

Seems like a good chance to introduce some humanity into the HOI series by giving the option of not killing all of your enemies.

I think most'd be content with very abstracted post-capture POW treatment, which would nicely avoid the ethical issues surrounding POW camps etc in the war.

 

[SFSLovenought]

Unfortunately, no matter how you try to cushion it we will (probably) never be able to talk about this topic.
The forum rules are pretty inflexible.

 

[Augustus93]

No thanks...

 

[TheNotoriousAMP]

To be fair, we already do have fanatical nazi brigades who are even better at repressing resistance than the normal repressive people. That being said, while POW's themselves may not be a part of the game, a reworking of the partisan system could incorporate them. The early basis of the Russian partisans were soldiers who escaped the pockets when their units were shattered and the game could represent this by setting up cells in areas where there were shattered pockets.

 

[TheRomanRuler]

To be fair, we already do have fanatical nazi brigades who are even better at repressing resistance than the normal repressive people. That being said, while POW's themselves may not be a part of the game, a reworking of the partisan system could incorporate them. The early basis of the Russian partisans were soldiers who escaped the pockets when their units were shattered and the game could represent this by setting up cells in areas where there were shattered pockets.

What do you mean "already have"? There is nothing confirmed about SS/Facist militia/other political militias/forces. Or did i miss something?

 

[TheNotoriousAMP]

What do you mean "already have"? There is nothing confirmed about SS/Facist militia/other political militias/forces. Or did i miss something?

HOI 3 Waffen SS brigades got bonuses to partisan suppression and urban combat.

 

[podcat]

not going to happen

 

[Meanmanturbo]

Hehe, that reminds of one time playing as Finland in HOI 2 and managing a truly massive encirclement of close to Soviet 30 divisions. I thought to myself, how would Finland handle that amount of prisoners, there hardly enough supplies as it is? Then, as if reading my mind, the totally unrelated random event event "War hero criticize the conduct of war" + dissent hits. Well, it didn't take much imagination I thought

 

[Sky_WKing]

In HOI3 when an army is wiped out you didn't kill everybody; they just surrender so if you are looking for capturing enemy it's already in the game in an abstract way.

But POW camps, never.

 

[TheRomanRuler]

Hehe, that reminds of one time playing as Finland in HOI 2 and managing a truly massive encirclement of close to Soviet 30 divisions. I thought to myself, how would Finland handle that amount of prisoners, there hardly enough supplies as it is? Then, as if reading my mind, the totally unrelated random event event "War hero criticize the conduct of war" + dissent hits. Well, it didn't take much imagination I thought

Haha that is a good point, you captured more soldiers than you have in your entire army

HOI 3 Waffen SS brigades got bonuses to partisan suppression and urban combat.

Waffen SS is not confirmed to HOI4, just becouse it was in HOI3 does not mean it will be in HOI4. So we don`t "already have" anything.

 

[GermanPower]

Ah yes, the moral high ground thats low ground. Or high.

 

[adam_grif]

PoWs are a banned topic along with forced labor, genocide etc. Paradox only supports the simulation genocide and slavery of non-Europeans via the EU and Vicky series of games.

 

[Secret Master]

That escalated quickly.

Since podcat has already indicated that POWs aren't in, and since people just want to talk about genocide and enslaving others in a forum where it's not allowed, I'm just going to close this thread.