The German infantry poured through the gaping hole in the French line and allowed the Germans to largely bypass the Maginot line. Also the Germans ruled the skies in 1940. The Belgian defence line had also collapsed and the allies had yet to score a real victory. The Netherlands had collapsed before the French really reached it. The allies were already losing before Rommel's race to the coast though.
#HOI 4 VICTORIA III GERMANY MOD#
Saying that a total overhaul mod can model some of these issues so the base mechanics of HOI4 are suited to model all of them is just fallacious. Most of these, if they are handled in mods, have to be handled through events instead of mechanics. Division bloat with the way the division designer works encouraging larger and larger divisions as time goes on (something that actually does work well for WW1 but is completely ahistorical for WW2, and, regardless, is a sign of it needing an overhaul), the way casualties are tallied (with the greatest numbers being in encirclements and static fronts only providing comparable numbers with the usage of command points, something totally unsuited to the western front), the fact that there's not much use for a strategic reserve or that you can just keep drawing up active divisions without any economic penalty as long as you have the manpower, or just simply in how trenches are constructed.Īnd that's not even going into stuff like chemical warfare (excluded from HOI4 for obvious reasons), food shortages and mutinies, the shakeup and restructures of army commands that occurred in the first few months of WW1, most of naval warfare, white peaces and truces, revolutions and ethnic revolts, so on and so forth.
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I mean basic limitations of HOI4 that modders have had to bend over backwards to just jury-rig solutions. When I say the realities of trench warfare, I don't just mean how the frontlines form and shift over the duration of the war.