The issue is just that Cores are either really, really strong or basically worthless depending on what you can core. If you can core territory with a big population then you get infinite manpower. This is what makes China boring. You literally cannot lose because you have like 20m manpower while other country's barely have a 10th of that.
If a core has a tonne of factories then it makes your production insane and you'll quickly have more than you can actually use. This happens easily if you can core another major's territory, like that viking formable that cores the UK. But then, if you're getting all your power from coring the UK, why not just play the fricking UK?
If a core doesn't have insane manpower or insane factories, then it's just kind of pointless. This is the category that the majority of formables fall into. It's unlikely you're going to run out of building space in your home area before a campaign has run its course, which means new cores you have to build up are irrelevant and don't make any difference. The point of adding cores is to access more of their manpower and all of their factories. For resources, you can just puppet things. But the design of the map concentrates manpower (often unrealistically) in specific states, because manpower directly translates to warfighting capacity, which means the majority of states that aren't either already a major's core or else a specifically designed manpower source (like India, SEA or some parts of Africa) are just offering you frick all.
HOI2's (and by extension DH) essentially nonexistent supply system which amounts to "units having all their needs being 100% fulfilled as long as they have a land route back to the capital" basically killed it for me once I played the later titles. Even 4 is better, always funny when some DH player calls HOI4 "dumbed down" when they can stack 100 divisions on some 20% infra Siberian province with no penalties besides a small increase in attrition
4 was dumbed down though, almost 8 years after release however, it's now suffering from the same problems as EU4 instead, DH reigns supreme and it's mostly thanks to people not working on it anymore.
this never bothered me at all. my main issue with DH is that it doesn't have enough tiles around the map which can lead to stalemates in silly places like the Sinai or Baluchistan
Tried BICE once recently and got tired of the crashes. I feel a lot of shit in BICE is unnecessary bloat but I might give it another try.
Doing a campaign right now in vanilla where I invaded Poland as the Soviets in early '39.
Waiting for Germany to declare war on the UK but it hasn't happened. Japan attacked burgerland and somehow the Japanese mainland is being invaded by the French.
DH + TRP
TRP is utter trash.
Darkest Hour with formable nations mod
Darkest Hour doesn't have formable nations? Not even Scandinavia or Austria-Hungary?
Scandinavia is a meme formable anyway
>Small formables are a meme
>Big formables are too overpowered
I just like formables.
The issue is just that Cores are either really, really strong or basically worthless depending on what you can core. If you can core territory with a big population then you get infinite manpower. This is what makes China boring. You literally cannot lose because you have like 20m manpower while other country's barely have a 10th of that.
If a core has a tonne of factories then it makes your production insane and you'll quickly have more than you can actually use. This happens easily if you can core another major's territory, like that viking formable that cores the UK. But then, if you're getting all your power from coring the UK, why not just play the fricking UK?
If a core doesn't have insane manpower or insane factories, then it's just kind of pointless. This is the category that the majority of formables fall into. It's unlikely you're going to run out of building space in your home area before a campaign has run its course, which means new cores you have to build up are irrelevant and don't make any difference. The point of adding cores is to access more of their manpower and all of their factories. For resources, you can just puppet things. But the design of the map concentrates manpower (often unrealistically) in specific states, because manpower directly translates to warfighting capacity, which means the majority of states that aren't either already a major's core or else a specifically designed manpower source (like India, SEA or some parts of Africa) are just offering you frick all.
They are releasable through conquest in vanilla but you can’t form Scandinavia by annexing Denmark and Norway as Sweden, for example.
HOI2's (and by extension DH) essentially nonexistent supply system which amounts to "units having all their needs being 100% fulfilled as long as they have a land route back to the capital" basically killed it for me once I played the later titles. Even 4 is better, always funny when some DH player calls HOI4 "dumbed down" when they can stack 100 divisions on some 20% infra Siberian province with no penalties besides a small increase in attrition
4 was dumbed down though, almost 8 years after release however, it's now suffering from the same problems as EU4 instead, DH reigns supreme and it's mostly thanks to people not working on it anymore.
>it's now suffering from the same problems as EU4 instead
Bloat?
A stupid paypig fanbase?
A israeli developer?
DH + World in Flames 2
or
HoI3 + Black Ice
this never bothered me at all. my main issue with DH is that it doesn't have enough tiles around the map which can lead to stalemates in silly places like the Sinai or Baluchistan
Wish the E3-FN map would get finished.
hoi3+bice
Part of the map for reference
looks like a unplayable shit
Recommend me some tutorials or something alike.
Darkest Hour + Iron Cross
1933 start as Nat. China
>b-but mod
DH is already a mod, you dingus
3 + Black Ice is my favorite
how do you play Black Ice
the game either crashes constrantly, bugs and crashes or AI shits itself and no ww2
Tried BICE once recently and got tired of the crashes. I feel a lot of shit in BICE is unnecessary bloat but I might give it another try.
Doing a campaign right now in vanilla where I invaded Poland as the Soviets in early '39.
Waiting for Germany to declare war on the UK but it hasn't happened. Japan attacked burgerland and somehow the Japanese mainland is being invaded by the French.