Your Focus Tree Wants, Needs, and Ideas

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Basically- what focus trees do you want in the game(personally), what trees do you think are needed in the game(are important in WW2 and should have their own branch for gameplay sake), and what ideas do you have for focus trees?
 
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I would like Portugal to have a focus tree to either go with Allies, Axis or like in real life helping both.

It would also be cool if Nationalist and Republican Spain had their own focus tree.
 
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Nations that definitely should get their own focus tree includes Spain, China, Romania, Finland, Netherlands, and Turkey.
No Sweden?
 
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Yugoslavia, they did sign a pact historicaly with Germany to keep the nation out of war, ofc the British didn't like that so they staged a coup, Hitler got pissed and that's how they got into war. And there's the liberated commie Yugoslavia with famous Tito in charge. Also Yugoslavia was made from several states, so there really is a lot of political options. There was also a plan to make "little entente" the one you saw at France tree. As of expansion I believe they had problems with Italians about the territories Italy has on Balkan soil (which Yugoslavia gained after the war). Now as of Industry and army idk much but I'm 100% sure they had a LOT of plans. I mean not so long after war they were 3rd most powerful country in Europe after Brits and Soviets.
 

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Nations that definitely should get their own focus tree includes Spain, China, Romania, Finland, Netherlands, and Turkey.
Very good list. The only country I find is missing from it is Czechoslovakia. Difficult to balance, but very rewarding. Could plausibly have triggered an early start to the war, a coup in Germany (the generals who opposed the early war were actively plotting one in '38), and if France and Britain throw them under the bus at Munich, could try to go all in with the Soviets, who offered support at that point. It was also the linchpin of the Little Entente and it would be fun to play Czechoslovak diplomatic efforts to preserve democracy in E. Europe.
 

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Very good list. The only country I find is missing from it is Czechoslovakia. Difficult to balance, but very rewarding. Could plausibly have triggered an early start to the war, a coup in Germany (the generals who opposed the early war were actively plotting one in '38), and if France and Britain throw them under the bus at Munich, could try to go all in with the Soviets, who offered support at that point. It was also the linchpin of the Little Entente and it would be fun to play Czechoslovak diplomatic efforts to preserve democracy in E. Europe.

I didn't include it because historically Czechoslovakia was annexed before the way even began and didn't come to existence until the absolute end of the war.

As you said, difficult to balance and could throw the entirety of the war off if not done well, but yes czechoslovakia was important to how the war began and therefore ultimately played out.
 

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Czechoslovakia
Option between static (forts + artillery) and mobile army (tanks + fighter planes)
Option between Little Entente (+France) vs Soviet Union defense pact (would require Poland/Romania to grant access to SSSR).
Solving Sudenland crisis (improved manpower + national unity) (should get some sort of penalty at the start)
 

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At some point Mexico (Whether it be on its own or with the rest of Latin America) should get a tree. Between the various Fascist and Communist (The PRI was in control at the time) influences and Mexico's location near the US could spring some interesting idea. (Zimmerman Letter #2?)