I recommend this division for countries like the USA, USSR and Germany due to its cost – although quite heavy and impractical in mountains and hills this division will serve well late game with its Anti-Tank capabilities and huge amount of firepower. This division is also boosted a considerable amount by the superior firepower doctrine.ĭepending on your plans marines can be very useful, and getting a good template for them is necessary to make a beach head. This is especially useful if you’re playing as the UK/USA and need to land a D-Day, which although being easier in singleplayer if you leave it too long you may need better divisions. Or if you do not have the resources then you can use a 20 width: The standard 14’4 just made up of marines rather than standard infantry with engineer company can be very effective. If you feel like doing something different and have DLC you could use amphibious tanks, like this:Ģ0 width division using marines and amphibious tanks.Ĥ0 width division using marines and ampbibious tanks. The amphibious tanks are more useful for countries with more industry but can be achieved by smaller nations. You can also use an exploit to get more special forces. Create loads of 2 width divisions and then convert them to unequipped 50 widths. This will increase the special force cap and then you can convert some of the divisions to the marines and get a lot more of the marines. Several countries start with a division template that can be edited to form an average 20 width division:įor example Germany and the UK, this can not only make slowly progressing to larger and better divisions easier but give you more time to do so and keep a small step ahead of the AI for a few in-game months.The long tradition of HoI anniversary surprises, while slightly delayed, has not been forgotten. Today, we have the pleasure of announcing to you the next milestone in the Hearts of Iron story: By Blood Alone. The time and tension impact to generate these depends on the country’s ideology, and if they have some kind of legit reason, like foreign controlled core territory or claims.Over the coming months, we’ll be revealing more on what each of these features consists of, but for now enjoy a snapshot of the future for Hearts of Iron. War justifications can either be given through special National Focuses or be generated through normal gameplay. Even if it's just justifying the war to the local population and nobody else is really buying your arguments. Speaking of unjustified declaration of war a nation in HOI4 will need a reason to go to attack someone. Say a diplomatic annexation of the sudetenland will generate a lot less tension than an unjustified declaration of war and a war settled with minor border changes rather than total occupation and annexation will likewise generate less tension. How much is affected by the nature of the action and the size of the nations involved. World tension is a global value in the game and is raised whenever aggressive actions are performed. This is a new concept in HOI4 and is designed to replace the threat and neutrality system from HOI3. This takes us to the next topic: World Tension. When it comes to freedom for you as a player to do aggressive actions abroad they are somewhere between democracies and fascist dictatorships. Neutral nations have some limitations and special rules, they won’t be able to promote their ideology in other nations like communists and the others (more about that in a future diary) and they are more easily affected by outside interference trying to push them towards another ideology.

Neutral nations, for the most part just want to be left alone to get on with life, but their lack of a solid stance means that members of the main ideologies have an easier time influencing them. Nations like Poland, Greece, or Yugoslavia fit here, for example, instead of lumping them into the ideology we expect them to join. It functions as a sort of catch-all ideology for nations who don't really fit into the big three. After some playing we felt this was too constraining, so we have added a 4th group we call Neutral. When we last talked about parties and ideologies there were only 3 ideological leanings for countries: Democratic, Fascist and Communist. To start off, we have made some changes to previously presented stuff. The team will celebrate by playing some HOI4 multiplayer, but for the rest of you here is the diary!

Hi everyone, it’s time for another dev diary! Today is also Victory Day, the date that marked the end of World War II in Europe with Germany’s surrender in 1945.

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