HOI4 Dev Diary - Bag of Tricks #3

[Bratyn]

Looking forward to this DLC! But what about a "True Neutrality" path for the USA, possibly with President Lindbergh? And/or the option to turn the Pax Americana into its own, all-American faction?

You mean, a path that would entail the USA just sitting there doing nothing until 1948? Though they come up some times as ideas from a 'completionist' standpoint when we brainstorm focus tree designs, the sad reality is that they are, in fact, not very fun to play. Especially not considering HoI4 is a wargame.

 

[Bratyn]

How is Wilhelminism supposed to work? It seems odd that entire infantry divisions would desert to the Netherlands while Germany is still doing fine.

They don't. GER gets a spirit reducing manpower weekly, and every 2 months or so a new division is formed from the defectors. It's not full divisions defecting en masse, but rather divisions being formed out of thousands of individual defectors.

 

[Archangel85]

Would the hull + module cost needed to jump from a "light" cruiser to a "heavy" rise over time with 1939, 1941, 1944 hulls or is it static?

If you have a main battery module above 6 inches on a cruiser hull you are a heavy cruiser.

 

[podcat]

@podcat @Bratyn

So I take this as a no? We don't have any way to tell what kind of ships our enemies use? This seems absurd. Please give us some information about this.

Combats give you breakdown on weapons and such so you can get a pretty good idea what the enemy is focused on from that.