Wunderwaffe

[Sharp163]

I thought i should open a thread about the Wunderwaffe, since I didn't see any other posts regarding it.

First of all, I'll make a request to podcat: please make a Wunderwaffe dev diary soon, I'm so excited for it the race to the nuclear bomb is on!

Secondly, to all my fellow world conquerors: which Wunderwaffe device are you most excited for? V2? Nukes? Perhaps giant tanks and planes?

If we're good, maybe Johann will add a rare Easter egg event for die glocke

 

[dav77-b]

I thought i should open a thread about the Wunderwaffe, since I didn't see any other posts regarding it.

First of all, I'll make a request to podcat: please make a Wunderwaffe dev diary soon, I'm so excited for it the race to the nuclear bomb is on!

Secondly, to all my fellow world conquerors: which Wunderwaffe device are you most excited for? V2? Nukes? Perhaps giant tanks and planes?

If we're good, maybe Johann will add a rare Easter egg event for die glocke

Radar guides missles, bombs and rockets.

 

[Lifthrasil]

If we're good, maybe Johann will add a rare Easter egg event for die glocke

Please: no
maybe as a newspaper thingy like Emilia Erhard without any effect on the game. But please let the occult mumbo jumbo out of the game!

 

[Zupanicarr]

 

[xxroxx_2]

Tanks: Ratte or Landkreuzer are the most suitable for World Conqeror

 

[Zupanicarr]

Please: no
maybe as a newspaper thingy like Emilia Erhard without any effect on the game. But please let the occult mumbo jumbo out of the game!

As a random event with no impact on the game and is a vague as possible (and not necessarily about Germany), I think it really should be in the game, though only as an in-universe joke. They've done stuff like this is CK2, and I'm not specifically talking about the "devil child" event, and it's mostly been pretty damn clever.

If it's subtle, humorous, and mostly there as an easter egg to the cliché of Nazi-occultists, then I say yes, that'd be pretty cool.
Though I personally hope they go full eldritch in Stellaris, for some random events anyway...

 

[Secret Master]

They included a Lovecraft easter egg in an event for Vic2.

If you send explorers to find Antarctica, there's a small chance they find Cthulhu instead with no actual game effect.

 

[GhostKiller01]

I thought i should open a thread about the Wunderwaffe, since I didn't see any other posts regarding it.

First of all, I'll make a request to podcat: please make a Wunderwaffe dev diary soon, I'm so excited for it the race to the nuclear bomb is on!

Secondly, to all my fellow world conquerors: which Wunderwaffe device are you most excited for? V2? Nukes? Perhaps giant tanks and planes?

If we're good, maybe Johann will add a rare Easter egg event for die glocke

I'm exited if I'm allowed to build a "Ratte" tank or even a "V3" (for those who don't know, it was an arty piece that could send a shell across the Channel with ease, it was produced by Nazi Germany in 3 pieces and took part in the Battle of the Bulge). With an early V3, the UK would fall even without having to hold aerial and naval superiority.

 

[ApocalypseMao]

Put a nuke in a V2...

 

[Sharp163]

Please: no
maybe as a newspaper thingy like Emilia Erhard without any effect on the game. But please let the occult mumbo jumbo out of the game!

That's what I meant I would be annoyed too if I was winning the war as UK only to see Germany use some wormhole trickery to turn the tide

Tanks: Ratte or Landkreuzer are the most suitable for World Conqeror

Hooray! Shred ALL the roads!

I'm exited if I'm allowed to build a "Ratte" tank or even a "V3" (for those who don't know, it was an arty piece that could send a shell across the Channel with ease, it was produced by Nazi Germany in 3 pieces and took part in the Battle of the Bulge). With an early V3, the UK would fall even without having to hold aerial and naval superiority.

Only problem with the V3 was that it was completely immobile. Once it's built, it's literally set in stone. So they've got no chance for being a tool on the front... Only places they could be of use would be across a channel (like in England) or perhaps in a Cold War...

Put a nuke in a V2...

The technology to do this probably wouldn't be seen by the end of the war... Of course they had ICBM's in World War Two (Germany wanted rockets that could hit New York), but nuclear bombs were large and heavy back then.

 

[Sharp163]

They included a Lovecraft easter egg in an event for Vic2.

If you send explorers to find Antarctica, there's a small chance they find Cthulhu instead with no actual game effect.

So there is a chance for an Easter egg event in HOI4?

 

[Sharp163]

It's a Wunderwaffle

 

[Zupanicarr]

It's a Wunderwaffle

If they'd listened to the Belgians, maybe Germany would have won the war?

 

[ApocalypseMao]

The technology to do this probably wouldn't be seen by the end of the war... Of course they had ICBM's in World War Two (Germany wanted rockets that could hit New York), but nuclear bombs were large and heavy back then.

Sure, the fat man weights 5 tons. If they give up on intercontinental range, the A9 design should have enough thrust to make a tactical ballistic nuke or IRBM possible. Should they put resources into that though? No. It's wunderwaffe, not a single V weapon was practical for anything other than randomly bombarding civilians so if they exist in game at all, they're useless or ahistorical.

 

[MarcoRossolini]

Wunderwaffe? Bah, errant nonsense! Give me more T-34s!

 

[Asfifldjarfi]

Acoustic torpedoes. Those things should help your U-boats, and maybe even make them harder to kill.

I always had one of those in the rear tube in Silent Hunter III, nothing tells that destroyer chasing you to bugger off like firing an acoustic torpedo at it. Of course, that was on easy mode where the pin always managed to detonate.

correction: Acoustic torpedoes and some sort of a detonation mechanic that works when hitting targets at an angle.

 

[agus92]

If they'd listened to the Belgians, maybe Germany would have won the war?

Feed your enemies to the death with chocolate? (or infect them with ISIS? hue hue hue)

 

[Victor Cortez]

Define wunderweapon pls.

As far as I see it, the only wuderweapon is the nuke. All the rest are toys.
After all, nowadays, the nuke is still the only wweapon that can singlehandedly win a war.

 

[kviiri]

Define wunderweapon pls.

As far as I see it, the only wuderweapon is the nuke. All the rest are toys.
After all, nowadays, the nuke is still the only wweapon that can singlehandedly win a war.

Right, but that's hindsight. There were all sorts of ideas on what weapon would be the most decisive - supertanks, rockets, airplanes... But even in hindsight, I'd include V2 as well. Its destructive power wasn't anything special, and they were countered by effective Allied intelligence measures, but it pretty much took rocketry to the next level, paving the road for future ballistic missiles including modern nuclear-armed ICBMs.

 

[Zupanicarr]

Feed your enemies to the death with chocolate?

Waffles. Waffles everywhere.