Is encirclement possible? -🔥Hearts of Iron 4 #140 (Expert AI, Let's Play, Gameplay German)
12🔥 My approach to this Let's Play is to achieve a certain degree of historical credibility or plausibility in my decisions. My goal is not to maximize stats (min-maxing) or perfect gameplay.
🔥 An overview of planned focus areas and research, as well as factory conditions, can be found in this accompanying document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_JSagJOaZuoIliPpGn8KBpa-KCE7DLwEdhFSi5EuDiI/edit?usp=sharing
🔥 House rules of the Let's Play:
All types of decisions are generally made from the historical perspective of the country's leadership (here: dictator Stalin and the key figures from the Communist Party).
In the focus tree, I try to roughly base myself on historical dates so that the order of our focus areas makes historical sense.
When producing military goods, I try to roughly achieve historically verifiable vehicle production numbers and therefore weight the distribution of available military factories (and shipyards) according to the concept of a planned economy. During war phases, however, I allocate factories more based on logistical considerations.
In war, a lot of micromanagement is almost unavoidable, because otherwise the AI ​​does some really strange things. Nevertheless, I would like to make use of the attack and defense plan tool, as long as the AI ​​doesn't behave completely absurdly.
I cheat my way to political power points (PP) for various purposes without waiting for their constant minimum generation. This applies to all areas of advisors and laws, some of the decisions, and other aspects. The basic problem I've observed in-game with the Soviet Union is that there are numerous ways to spend a lot of points for the sake of historical credibility, but the generation is FAR too low compared to that. Overall, it's a balancing problem.
Experience points (land, air, naval) are generated via cheats if there aren't enough points available to create new patterns.
I "cheat" certain focus points at historically plausible times using the console command "focus.autocomplete." The reason for this is that the fixed number of days a focus point needs to be completed (35 or 70 in-game days) leads to an ever-growing pile of focus points otherwise piling up.
[More rules to follow in the future]
As always, there are exceptions to the rules. I'll address these in individual cases in the Let's Play!
🔥 The list of mods I use on Steam:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3024063332
🔥 Game version: 1.12.14
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La Résistance
No Step Back
I purchased all other major DLCs, a few smaller packs, and the main game myself.
🔥 "Hearts of Iron 4"
Global Strategy/Grand Strategy by Paradox Interactive (Release 2016)
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