Am I the only one who really enjoys the order of battle mechanics in hoi3? To be completely honest, it just scratches an autistic itch I have. Are there any other strategy games or hoi4 mods that try to implement proper Order of Battle?
I mean I cant be the only one...Back in the day, they even made third party programs so you could visualize it
>>1905464Yeah, I remember starting each war with a nicely ordered OOB where I had a general gist of what each corps was supposed to do and, after my lackluster micro, ending the war with an utter clusterfuck of divisions all over the place, some of the corps being spread across half a continent.Gives me "Marine infantry fighting in the mountains adhoc" vibes
>>1905486Its really satisfyingHoi3 just kinda sucks because there is no way to automate without completely surrendering to the AI
>>1905464War in the East.
>>1905464>1st AC Divisionshameful i always renamed my divisions to language appropriate namesi like the oob too you really do get to know your star generals and rely on themi just wish the game had a button to general crappy max 3/4 star generals because late game you see a lot of ? divisions as underloved nations>>1905486this kinda represents administrative spiral and how difficult it actually is to be organised but hoi3 did reward it with some pretty significant bonusesif you distribute your generals effectively and keep everyone in range then it makes a huge difference
>>1905464What mod/dlc do you have to get slider thing in picrel?? I have vanilla and I can't even define theatres using the map, I can just set "stance" to "defensive", "attacking", "prepare" & "blitzkrieg"
>>1905884idk what dlc it is but you need the dlc even if it's not a dlc feature
>>1905464I remember looking up the actual OOBs on Wikipedia and trying to recreate those in game.
>>1905464>Am I the only one who really enjoys the order of battle mechanics in hoi3?No, hoi4's army system was an enormous downgrade. But 4 is better in most other respects.
>>1905464yes any actual wargame. Stop playing hoi slop
>>1905464Yes, autists loved it. For me it was too much autism, you had to spend an hour each time unfucking it if you wanted to start a game.And then all these games suck anyway. You're pausing and unpausing it constantly and clicking your million pieces against the shitty AI
>>1908817you can queue up orders
>>1908817You aren't doing it right.Open the 44 scenario as Germany. Very Hard Difficulty. Let the AI run Germany for four months until October 20th 1944. Now step and try to save the Reich. Go on, try it. Fight a war of nail biting desperation. But you will not do it. Because you are a spinless little bitch and know you are not man enough to stand up to a real challenge. I urinate on you.
>>1908817> For me it was too much autismYou have not even scratched the surface of the layer on snow on top of the iceberg of autism that is computer wargaming if HOI is your idea of 'too much autism'.
>>1909057ok, CMANO was too much autism, HOI3 was too much clicking and busywork, and it's a shit series.
I mean I still played it for hundreds of hours, but I don't want to go back to those times. I started the series with Hearts of Iron 1, before I knew what the fuck was going on.
>>1909044Fuck you smuck. No fuel. No rares. Cant build shit and cant trade for anything. The AI lost half its fucking Eastern front army, the allies are in Yugoslavia, Norway and have nearly reached Milan. Meanwhile the German OOB is a CLUSTERFUCK of unparalleled dimensions.Jesus fucking Christ on a pony.
