Developer Diary | Historical Germany

[ManoDeZombi]

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The designers Focke-Wulf and Daimler-Benz are missing the hyphens in their names.

Nice catch, thanks for the heads up!

 

[PDX_Danne]

im very curious about seize foreign industries focus

Here you go:

Where is the reichskommissariat? can we see?

In the German Systems DD coming next week!

Hi, this all looks really neat! Regarding the "Operational Planning" buffs to infantry, artillery, etc, do the buffs apply to the individual battalions of that type, or to the entire divisions of that type?

It's on the Divisional level if I understood our programmer correctly. These are entirely new state modifiers

Still no SS 3D unit models?? I wonder why?

Yes there are. They're in the DD dude

I saw an helicopter designer, we need more informations about this!

Also, I saw a weird fortification icon on the Maginot Line in the German states map, is it something new?

Me and @MordredViking fought HARD to get the helicopters, so I'm happy to show them off!

The icon might have been a Raid icon maybe?

Can't wait for this DLC! But I do have one question: Will an AI Germany with historical AI on follow our timeline a bit more accurately than what we have in game currently? I don't mean like to the exact date but closer to what happened in real life. Cause currently after they attack and defeat Poland they insta invade the low countries and then attack Denmark and Norway. They sometimes also end up taking out France before 1940 or very early 1940. There should be some time before they attack those countries(the Phony War) and they should attack Denmark and Norway first before the low countries.
Anyways I can't wait to see the next dev diary and hope all goes well!

The phony war is tricky to simulate since both France and Germany will exhaust their air forces if they're just staring each other down. We've made SOME changes but nothing groundbreaking

Pretty please?

I’ll give give you lots of Kamelåså.

Kamelåså?! You take me for a Dane!? As a Swede it is my sworn duty to take a huge dump on anything Danish! Joking obviously ;P

Suggestion for the influencing the Americas focus to make it more fun, please consider :
If Germany is winning it should be able to sway Brazil to switch sides. Vargas and the army joined Allies due to convenience only, but as you all know ( Brazil already got a DLC afterall ) they had no problems and were actually friendly towards the germans. Maybe add a little sub branch for South America where you as Germany can actually lean countries like Brazil more towards your side? Would make for a cooler american campaign, maybe get you cool jungle modifiers and amphibious bonuses, wouldn't it be more interesting than what I think most "influence" focuses do, which is a tickling ideology...

There will be more on this next week in the German Systems DD

 

[PDX_Danne]

Also. Does the carrier focus in the naval path give a half-built Graf Zeppelin? I mean, even Sweden has their  Vasa.

There's a lot of production lines under Plan Z:

Why is Reinhard Heydrich not in the "inner circle" when it is said that he was one of the highest ranking and most powerful men in the Reich? I have a feeling that Hitler liked Heydrich better than Himmler....

Himmler is more famous and it would only feel like duplicating Himmler if we added Heydrich

Awesome stuff! Weirdly specific question but will AI Germany now be programmed to do some additional focuses between "Danzig or War" and "Around the Maginot"? Historically they invade in Summer of '40 but at present the AI has usually invaded the low countries and toppled France by December of '39. Would be nice for the Allies to get a little more breathing room since they got it historically.

They will do some other focuses yes, but it won't be a very long "phony war"

Are Rommel, Guderian, Hoth, and Model the only generals unlocked by focuses or are there more? And if so may we see their portraits if they’re new?

No new generals are locked behind focuses in the historical branch.

What does support a coup in Liechtenstein do since they aren’t on the map? Does it allow Liechtenstein to become a victory point or something?

I've posted a screenshot of this focus previously in this thread. I suggest you look it up

So does that mean no Otto Strasser Black Front path?

No, Otto is not getting his own path

It is not quite clear why Oswald Lutz resigns if Hitler brought him back in the same year, the same goes for von Fritsch who was entrusted with command during the Polish campaign (where he died).

 

[PDX_Danne]

This just in! I just got this from our artists:

 

[PDX_Danne]

It is not quite clear why Oswald Lutz resigns if Hitler brought him back in the same year, the same goes for von Fritsch who was entrusted with command during the Polish campaign (where he died).

Historically, Hitler fired them both so you'd have to ask him

Aren't Der Führer and The Supreme Leader the same thing in practice?

Yeeeeaaah, they kinda are ^^ but we needed different names for the traits

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Umm isnt that the modern'ish Bundesadler attached to stuff like the Luftwaffe and presumably the Wehrmacht?

Im German and Im wondering if that isnt somewhat problematic if you mix modern icons that are purposefully distinct from the Nazi era in a game where you play the Nazis...
That eagle for example was the coat of arms from 1928 to 1935, so while it was used slightly into the Nazi time it is more a symbol of the pre Nazi time and also the reason why its used heavily in modern Germany as it serves now since 1950 again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Germany#Nazi_Germany

Those idea icons in the picture might be used without issue once you follow down a democratic path for example but I would assume that most of the time their association with the WW2 helmet and under Nazi rule is somewhat undesirable as there is already enough misusage of otherwise uncritical German icons from bad faith actors so I would hope that a popular game like hoi takes the extra effort as to use proper representations for the nazi era (even if slightly adjusted for censorship like is done with the flag)

Anyhow, good DD and I am excited to play it when the DLC drops. Also hoping for lots of generals from a variety of focus paths.

I think someone else already answered this, but I'll just add that we used these icons because they're neutral enough to work in any ideology for Germany

Will the Generalgouvernement and the Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren be present as puppet states?

Yes

Can you please show some new generals?<3

The new ones are in the DD, you just gotta look for them there might be some in alt-history as well, but you gotta ask me once that DD has been published to see them

According to the first DD´s roadmap, it should be Raids next week. Is it changing?

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It has changed. If there's ever any doubt about anything know that I'm ALWAYS correct and infallible

2 more questions.

- I know this is more a question for the ahistorical Dev diary, but is Kaiserin Victoria still a thing? Including the HRE formable?

- Any changes to the Hindenburg? I would personally love it if we could somehow change history so the world didn't stop using Zeppelins.

We would never dare to remove Victoria! Nor the HRE

 

[PDX_Danne]

I agree. Would be good to know. The game looks unfinished because of the shadow protaits. I've already added cat pictures myself so that it doesn't look empty.

I've asked re: this and will get back once I have an answer (but you might have to remind me tomorrow about it!)

 

[Chakerathe]

According to the first DD´s roadmap, it should be Raids next week. Is it changing?

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We swapped them around to give the devs a bit more time with the Raids DD is all, I was just a bit slow in updating it in the main post that is my fault, I am currently under the weather so I'm moving slower than I'd like

 

[Nattmaran]

I have a question on how this manpower ratio works. Does it just count the number of fully equipped divisions, or does it look at the average strength of all divisions? Will there be a difference between having 50 fully equipped divisions and 100 50% equipped divisions?

It counts only fully equipped manpower. If you have a division that is 50% equipped, it counts 50% of that divisions manpower. So to respond to your last question, it depends on the size of the division. 100 50% equipped divisions of 1000 men would be 50000 equipped men, but if the 50 fully equipped divisions were big chonky divisions of 12000 each... yeah then those are better. If we are talking the exact same division however, I think that should be the exact same but I can't guarantee my memory is correct on this. What is important to remember is that it is calculated on division basis, not your army as a whole (if I don't misremember). This is were stuff gets nasty for the Austrians... you can make many fully equipped divisions... but once the inevitable knock-knock from the Germans come, are those divisions strong enough to hold if the chose to fight?

 

[Nattmaran]

Will the equipped manpower mechanic get in place of the current division count mechanic when it comes to general force comparison between countries?

They are two separate things in script. This new one does not replace the old one, and they will co-exist.

 

[PDX_Danne]

Compared to before, how many cic and mic Germany AI will have before Danzig or war?

Germany currently have slightly less factories and army divisions compared to before in August of 1939 - but not by much (if we're comparing AI that is!)

OMG this looks so great. One question: will the assassination attempts and conspirations against the Füher influence gameplay?

And will we get a Black Front (Strasserist) path?

The various assassination attempts won't be a big part of the gameplay, unless you almost actively seek it out.
No, there is no dedicated Otto Strasse path - but who knows what may lurk in the murky waters of alt-history?

While this is probably more for the alt-history tree, can Germany also demand South Tyrol during or following the Anschluß?

there will be some content featuring South Tyrol

Will you be able to create a man in the high castle like scenario via the focus "Establish Protectorates in America" ?
Can the player decide whether he wants to separate Canada the US and the Confederacy or create a united American satellite?

That's for the next German DD to discuss; German Systems

1. Shoudn't the following focuses be tagged as historical? (you know, the flags and stuff)
First Vienna Award
Reassert Eastern Claimst
Support Finland

2. I know you can't go for Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and Anti-Soviet Pact->Support Finland, but Germans did help Finns. I know it's handled in Finnish focus tree though.
3. Will Germany finish Poland, then attack Denmark and Norway and only once they're finished with them, attack France and Benelux?

These Frames are a guideline to steer people toward the historical events and decisions and are mostly used when there are several options to choose between

Hi! Thank you for this.

Is there any chance you can change Prussian Legacy to give superior firepower doctrine reduction instead of grand battleplan? It feels strange to get locked into GB doctrine when SF is much more focused on artillery and infantry.

I'll think about it

Will there be way to avoid Hitler death?

Don't lose?

The ideological pie chart of Germany seems pessimistic to fascism. Will Germany's historical focus tree increase fascism's support?

Will there be a way to reform out of the economy of conquest? It is, by nature, unsustainable.
Maybe after world domination, you can focus on restabilizing?

Is there a way to bring back the Weimar Republic?

 

[Arheo]

Hey Developers,
How does the Portraits of the funny mustache man and the others from the inner circle Look in the German Version of the Game? Is it censored (again) or is uncensord now? (Shadow funny mustache man or normal funny mustache man)

As things currently stand, portraits will be uncensored in all versions of the game. Our approach to symbols and flags remains unchanged.

 

[PDX_Danne]

Will there be any content for Germany if Czechoslovakia refuses to cede the Sudetenland? More specifically, the Oster conspiracy. (Yes, I know this is already in the game currently, but I mean some rework or additional flavor)

What about Operation Valkyrie?

The Oster Conspiracy has been slightly reworked, but just how you'll have to find out

Just gotta ask as a germany naval focused player:

1936 hull for them tho...? We can just start building that hull allready in 1936 and the Scharnhorst class is that hull. The 1940 actually looks like the Bismarck class. Why not just let us unlock 1940 hull with Expand The Kriegsmarinewerft or give us a 150% research bonus for 1940 hull.



Unless the icons will change? 1936 hull will be Bismarck (Scharnhorst as battlecruiser varaint) and the 1940 will look like H39?

Is it possible to explain alittle further on what these naval focuses give us, felt the dev diary did not tell much.

New focus tree looks great so far!

This is what the ai considers to be the Bismarck template, but I'l be looking into this since more than you have brought it up

If the generals shown are the only ones we’re getting in this path then what happened to Hasso von Manteuffel and that winter specialist guy? I think a few others were missing as well.

All the old generals will be available through different focuses - and if they're not you BETTER come screaming at me and I'll fix that! We're not deleting any characters, only locking them away behind different requirements or adding new ones on top of the old ones

Historically, Germany instituted Plan Z before unrestricted submarine warfare, something the current layout of the naval tree makes impossible without getting High Seas Fleet, which seems ahistorical. A more reasonable restriction would be to lock the opposing tree once a tree's final focus is completed

To be fair, they never got that far with Plan Z, hence this solution

Is Thalmann avaible as advisor at the beggining?
Because in that case this is historically incorrect as he was in prision

He's an advisor WITHOUT Götterdämmerung, but with this DLC he will in fact be imprisoned

Bewegungskrieg and Blitzkrieg are state modifiers that only apply bonuses for a particular country (in this case Germany). Was that possible before, or is this something that is going to be introduced in 1.15?

This was possible before, but only for Army Attack and Breakthrough. With this update, you can apply bonuses on a battalion level as well, so Armor Attack, Infantry Attack and all that is brand new

Great DD, however I have some questions regarding historical Germany.

1. Will Germany get some debuffs if they don't manage to knock out Soviet Union fast?
2. If Heydrich won't be represented as a character does it mean that Operation Antropoid won't be even mentioned?
3. Will Germany get pz 35 and 38 tanks from Czechoslovakia?
4. Will Germany be able to give Moroco to Spain in exchange for them joining the Axis?
5. And the last one, will there be an option to better organize Balkan by spawning Croatia?

Yeah, that's the entire idea behind MEFO Bills/Economy of Conquest; if you don't feed the beast you'll pay the price. Heydick IS available - as an advisor. Germany might get some new bonuses from gobbling up Czechia, yes

I have a question regarding the MEFO bills. Historically, the MEFO company partially footed the bill for the government's rearmament (technically delaying its payment, giving out the MEFO bills instead, which is nothing but a promise of later payment), which kept all those purchases out of the government budget.

The old MEFO modifier therefore correctly shifted the consumer goods factor modifier to the negative, allowing for more government IC generation through civilian factories than the official economic law stipulated.

The new modifier imposes harsh penalties, and does the exact opposite of what the MEFO bills were made for. Do I read it correctly that it actually decreases the amount of factories you can use to generate IC for your building queue, because the amount of CIVs used for consumer goods increases? And that it gets worse over time? If that is so, then this is the opposite of what it was historically for.

My question is therefore, what is the reasoning behind actually increasing the consumer goods factory factor, instead of decreasing it? Because the latter was the entire point of setting up the system, so I'm a little bit confused here.

Attached you find the old MEFO modifier for comparison.

The MEFO Bills will allow you to increase the building speed for military factories, production efficiency and output - so building more military equipment faster. The penalty is there because the MEFO Bills put a huge strain on Germany's finances and would have led to an economic collapse sooner or later; it was a temporary fix to increase military production

 

[Arheo]

We're not here to discuss politics unrelated to the game. Let's stay on topic please.

 

[PDX_Danne]

Why Werner Heisenberg was removed from the Theorists tab?

He's a scientist now

Will the German Version finally getting uncensored or a we still keeping Shadow Hitler/Shadow Nazis?

Yes

Just one remark, I like that you are using german words like "Kriegsmarine" and other stuff like "Heer"... But why then use "Wonder Weapons" instead of "Wunderwaffe" ?
Just seems inconsistent?

Because Germany (the country) basically said "Can't have this lads"

Hi devs. I was excited for this dev diary, and now, I'm even more intrigued than before !

To give some context, I'm an AI and balance modder, MP player, with 4000+ hours into the game.
Now I understand the balance is built upon the AI succeeding at achieving historical objectives, but I will take the perspective of MP for my reasoning.

I was hoping for a rework of Germany because how "poorly" its currently represented :
- Historical Germany never had an edge in production vs the allies once WW2 started. They always lacked all type of equipment.
- The German economy was a vampire one, surviving just by expanding in Europe
- Their successes were because of boldness, doctrine, luck.
- Fuel really was crippling them

However, here is how it is represented when playing MP :
- Best industry in the game
- Never really lacking fuel
- Early was is easy thanks to brute force and numbers.

Looking at the diary, I am very glad of what I see. Many buffs to the army / airforce, what seems like a really dangerous MEFO bills system.
My hopes are the German industry will be considerably nerfed compared to currently, to represents its economical and industrial struggle, as the game goes on, so that Germany succeeds by actual planning, army quality and so on, and not by brute force (Looking at you battle of France...). Meaning any stop in the expansion would cause a big economical issue.

But actually, is it ? Is this the design intent behind this new tree ? Or did you guys still intend to keep the German economy strong for AI or balance reasons ?

We're trying to walk a tight line here; Germany will probably be stronger than they historically was when WW2 breaks out, but they have slightly less factories compared to how it used to be on the live version. What will mess Germany up in the long run are the MEFO Bills, which eventually will tank the economy

Hopefully something that will make Manstein (father of the assault gun) and me very happy. That together with Arado (nice red symbol) means that I will definitely buy the DLC.

Here ya go!

Looks like there ain’t a spot for Alfred Rosenberg, eh? Maybe he’ll pop up in that Reichskommissariat diary?

Maybe he will

Can you show us the 4 year plan focus?

It's nothing special really

 

[PDX_Danne]

Is there a reason why you didn't use the actual, much better known logo for Auto Union? So the one with the four rings, which Audi uses today in a modified form. Since the Auto Union was very important for the history of my city, that would be very important, at least to me.

Some time's that's just not possible

Is there a way to get Karl Donitz as leader of Germany? Maybe by losing hard as Germany? Id love some way for him to become the leader somehow

Maybe not Dönitz, but there could be some one else lurking in the shadows.....

1) Shouldn't Viktor Schutze in the high command give bonuses to submarines, as opposed to against submarines?

2) Is there any particular reason why someone, other than roleplay, would choose Manstein over Guderian? Isn't Guderian advantageous for the same doctrine, but provides an additional bonus? Perhaps Manstein should give an alternative bonus?

Thank you for all of this wonderful work!

No, there is no reason whatsoever to every go Manstein > Guderian. I agree that it would be cool if he had his own trait. BUT if you go Prussian Legacy you don't have Guderian anymore and have all the more reasons why you should choose Manstein ^^

Are there ways to play with an expansionist Germany without that Hitler crap in power? Like the Valkyrie operation, for example. Or maybe I'm just being eager and more details will come in the Alt-history Focus Tree.

Maybe there is You'll learn ONE way this Wednesday in the German Systems DD

 

[PDX_Danne]

Astonishing focus tree,
but,
I am wondering if you could please show what the "Negotiate Old Colonies in the east" does. Does it give you claims on Tsingtao? Does it give you back the former german pacific islands in Japanese hands or what? Does it create decisions with multiple choices? Does it give you an event chain were you could try to negotiate back some colonies and have some of them remain in Japanese hands?
And what are the requirements?
Does Germany have to have won against the West? Does Hitler have to not be the current country leader? Or does it have no requirments?

I am very curious.

Also,
There should be a historical mutually exclusive focus with "Negotiate Old Colonies in the east", considering that Befriend Japan is the historical path (Germany Negotiating and Retaking their colonies are not that historical).

Though as for the new Generals, are Fritsch, Blomberg and Lutz the only new ones?

Other historically important Generals like Eduard Dietl are still missing. He commanded the Lapland Army and was an important figure in many German military activities in Scandinavia.

I am sure there are others but it'd be nice if you still managed to add him.

Also the portrait of General Hans-Karl Freiherr von Esebeck is in the game, but he isn't implemented as a General.

He commanded various Panzer-Corps and was a member of the military resistance against Hitler during Operation Walküre, where he was tasked to take command of the Vienna Military District.

If not now, then maybe during a war effort patch. However we can never have an accurate enough OOB and it's especially a pity if already finished portraits lie somewhere in the game files, unused and not implemented.

They're the only ones we've added for Historical Germany - there might be other lurking about tho, in other branches!

Hi, question about sudetland. If Uk or France disagrees with Germany's demands (also Chezhs) and Hitler start war, will it be chance of event that Hitler will be opposed and killed by some generals or maybe player can choose ? If i correctly remember, some of generals would kill mustache man if he gets involved in a losing war, like crisis with Austria or Chezhoslovakia

There might be something like that still around

 

[PDX_Danne]

I agree mostly, but Guderian is just as important. Whether it’s Rommel or Guderian, they shouldn’t be locked behind a mutually exclusive decision. Not only because both were already present in 1935 and it’s ahistorical when playing as Germany, but also because they are extremely important, and it basically forces you to take this path to get them.

None of them became generals until AFTER the French campaigns in 1940 and both owed their positions to Hitler. We were toying with the idea of locking them behind the Fascist, historical branch but decided against it since the were in the army and could still have risen through the ranks without Hitler.

"Infanterie - die Königin der Waffen" is an old Prussian saying "Infantry - queen of arms".

Whether it was back then or today, the ingenuity of the German military is to improvise. A German military leader will tell a subordinate what they need to achieve, but dictate a how to. It is a mission-oriented order.

We've tried to represent this exact thing with this focus:

To be honest... I have a grudge with anything that requires Decisions to be used regularly. It just makes you have to click even more than you want. It is kinda a cookie-clicker thing. I hope you don't expect people to use that stuff against the Soviets every 60/45 days because that would drive people nuts fast. ^^

So I cannot say that I will be a fan of the operational planning stuff. Even if it gives buffs for short durations.

Somehow wish that it either would rather be a static flat buff or somehow an automated system. Because I bet I will forget to click the decision most of the time.



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And I am kinda looking forward to how the MEFO thing will turn out because to me it looks like a slap in the face.

Either you take the bitter pill with crippling your economy immediately using the alternative economy path which effects you might feel way too late in the campaign (I did enough math for the current version Germany to know that tons of civil economic buildup never really pays off because by the time it would you are already sitting in the Kreml and who would even stand up against you by then.)...

... or if historic path you will probably be pressed on a timer to have done certain things by a certain date or otherwise the MEFO bills will eat you alive.

I cannot say yet what will be worse, but it feels like both are not so nice. But then again I have not put my fingers on the new systems yet.

You will only be able to use Operational Planning once a year against a country (to represent the various German counter/offensives during the Russian invasion)

There ARE ways to mitigate the MEFO Bills - but only temporarily. Sooner or later you WILL have to go to war to keep the mounting Consumer Goods Facorites factor down - but more about that in tomorrows German Systems DD

 

[PDX_Danne]

Will the Reichskommissariats get their own tags or will they still just be cosmetic tags?

Yes they will, more on that tomorrow

Hi, love the DDs and the whole new approach to the expansions. I have a question - are there any changes to the oil/fuel situation of Germany in the new expansion? Currently, it doesn't exactly feel like the Germans have a big problem with supplying their tanks, ships, and planes, which was a major consideration and a big reason why they struck south in 1942.

I saw the dev video today where there was a 15% penalty to supply efficiency (new mechanic?) from the German army spirit, and the devs mentioned that in their stream, was just wondering if anything else has been done to provide a bigger sense of urgency in that regard to the German player? Thank you!

We're working on improving (well, worsening) the oil status for Germany but I'm unsure just how much will get done before release

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Now Blitzkrieg supporters won't have a winter general? Germany has neither a general for landings from the sea nor a general for the mountains (Falkenhorst and Dietl, respectively).
Will there be an option to unlock generals by decisions? For example, after the start of "Barbarossa", will it be possible to call generals that are unlocked by focus?

We've decided to give Germany generals that were actual generals from roughly the game's start and unlock others that got promoted later (like Rommel and Guderian) through focuses. Schulz and Hell were never promoted to the rank of general (if memory serves me right) so we put them here instead

GER instead is supposed to start with only 14.

Have you seen the stats of the Hungarian generals? German generals are way better; almost every single one of them are level 3 or 4, compared to Hungary's level 1's and 2's

Two questions, would the "Inner Circle" system be talked about for the "German Systems" devdiary?

Yes, we're talking more about it tomorrow.

If I forget to click decision due to negligence, such as when Germany fighting against the Allies, will it make my gaming experience worse or even completely unable to defeat France?

You might struggle a bit more, sure, but I don't think the Operational Planning bonuses are that big - and they only lasts for a short while. Plus, they're only repeatable against the same country once a year

Will you be changing Señor Hilter's portrait in the game? Or are there any planned changes to the Fourth Reich (Argentina) focus?

No, nothing concerning Argentina or Señor Hilter, buuuut a certain Elizabeth might make an appearance somewhere

Looking up on the aircrafts shown in focus that German built, why is Ju 87G and Ju 88 mutually exclusive when Ju 88 is the more numerous aircraft built throughout the war?

You're getting a template based on the focus you pick - but it's not locking you from creating your own

May I ask why he has the second of those? It seems to make him out to be some kind of military genius when he was anything but and notoriously micromanaged parts of the army at key moments to disastrous effect. I know it’s hoi4 and he’s a leader of a major, so he needs to have and give good buffs, I understand 100%; but when you present him in a way that gives the impression he was a genius military and administrative leader by putting all three of those on him personally, especially given his health and track record by late war irl, it starts to feel a little uncomfortable to look at given we’re talking about Hitler here…

To be clear, I’m absolutely not accusing you guys of having an awful agenda or anything. I’m just questioning if maybe it’d be worth taking another look at if he needs to have all three of those buffs personally as a leader (as opposed to one or two being spirits or something) and how that might come off to others - especially those looking to get into the game for the first time and checking out screenshots. But I’m not a dev and we’ve not even gotten the dev diary on German Systems yet, so maybe I’m overly worried for nothing and this all looks fine in context.

You get the Supreme Leader trait through the "Supreme Leader" focuses. Those focuses are locked behind Germany having a certain amount of subjects and defeating a major power - and any German country leader can get those.

I was mainly just wondering if you could take it if you weren’t the funny orange ideology

Yes, all of the industria focuses are available for all ideologies. The Fascists can do Prioritize Economic Growth, and the Social Democrats can do Four Year plan

I would like to ask why the Decision was made to not include any new Generals other than Fritsch, Lutz and von Blomberg for Historical Germany in the upcoming DLC.
I understand that people like Dietl, Hube or Lindemann will not be added, as there were a Number of Generaloberste in the Wehrmacht, and it would likely be very hard to adequately add them all to the Game. On the other Hand there are currently only five Fieldmarshals for Germany missing, of whom three, Keitel, von Brauchitsch and Schörner are allredy In-Game as advisors. As such only Walter von Reichenau and Ernst Busch are completely absent from the Game. Especially Reichenau was of major importance in the early stages of the war.

We figured that Germany already had so many Generals that it didn't really need more, and some of them never actually achieved the rank of general so we locked them behind focuses - or f they owed their careers/rank of general to Hitler. You can always promote division commanders if you need more generals

What most people disagree with is locking Rommel and Guderian behind mutually exclusive focuses. Which means if we want Rommel and Guderian we won’t be able to get Friedrich Schulz and Ernst-Eberhard Hell, all 4 of whom served in WW2. And that means that Germany starts with fewer generals than befare the update.

Considering many players (myself included) thought that Germany already had too few generals, will find themselves having even less. Which for me is the single major hang-up with this dev-diary, the rest is amazing.

Also on that same note Charles de Gaulle should not be a general since he became one AFTER the war began.

And finally, I genuinely appreciate that you communicate with us, Katten.

First off, this is not Katten - this is Danne, one of the designers the German rework
secondly, Germany have quite a few generals to begin with - most of them are good as well (if not all but one). Some generals we've locked behind focuses sice they actually never achieved the rank of general or if they owed their advancement due to Hitler. You can always promote division commanders if you need more generals

 

[PDX_Danne]

Sorry Danne! I will bring you lots of Surströmming.

Please don't!

 

[PDX_Danne]

Small question. Will we ever see units that are under Corps/Army command functioning basically like the railway gun? So giving the units under the army or corps command (the divisions) certain modifiers. A great example would be StuG batteries/battalions or heavy artillery units. You could do this with every support unit like logistics or maintenance too.

Would be a neat feature in my opinion.

There's nothing in the pipeline right now, but I like the idea!

Are there any plans to add filters to the advisors? For instant "hide non available advisors" to have a cleaner overview of who can be picked?

There's nothing in the works right now, but Germany will hide Advisors depending on with Political Path you take and what Ideology you are to make the Advisor overview easier