Hearts of Iron 4 announced

[MikeJ]

@jpinard

How can I see outline of annexed territories? For instance, as Russia I’d like to see the outline of the territory of Ukraine but I can’t find a map mope that shows it.

There is a concept of core versus colony states, but I thought USSR has core on Ukraine states?

@jpinard

When Quill18 was doing his tutorial he had some kind of event that created a war goal with Finland so he didn’t have to Justify a War Goal. How did he do that (he skipped explaining)?

There are a lot of focuses that give you casus belli against historical opponents. I assume the USSR focus tree has one for Finland for the Winter War.

@jpinard

Since I’m following along with Quill and he chose Russia, when I do Russia it seems I do not want to the focus tree stuff that involves revolution. So why would anyone want to go that route?

Just for alt-history fun I guess. USSR is probably next on the list for a more interesting focus tree in the next expansion.

@jpinard

How do you see that “width rating thing” for territories? Also, possibly related to this - when you’re in division designer what is significance of having more units 4 deep vs. going to the 4th spot to the right (if you were to add one more infantry in screenshot below)?

Battles have a combat width but I think it is the same for all locations (base 80 plus 40? per additional attack direction?). The geometrical arrangement of battalions on the division designer doesn’t matter. Each frontline unit adds some width.