Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

Blackice HOI IV TEST
Hungary is a mess!
Ok where do i even begin?

So first off, it seems like the Hungarian flavor mod has been integrated into BICE? That's good but that mod has a realistic and non realistic version and you can choose. In BICE it defaults to realistic by default. Intended? Maybe but i'd like the option, thank you very much

Onto the big problems:

Creating Austria Hungary, while possible, just depends on luck and doing everything as fast as you can before the Anschluss happens. You need to immedietly create an intelligence agency before unpausing the game and recruit as many spies as you can and start boosting the monarchist idology ASAP as the focus requires it to have more popularity than facism. That's extremely difficult to do before the Anschluss. I tried 4 times before i managed to do it about 20 days before Germany finished Anschluss, as you need 66 days to do the focus itself. If your spies get imprisoned often or you dont start boosting immedietly then forget about it. It's extremely harsh.

Then once you created Austria Hungary the problems just begin:

You cannot do "Partition Yugoslavia" due to messed up provinces

You cannot do "Bucovina Question" due to messed up provinces

You cannot demand territories from Italy due to messed up provinces

You cannot do any of the "Extend the Arpad Line" decisions due to messed up provinces

If you do the "Demand Galicia" focus and Poland accepts, say goodbye to those provinces once Poland is defeated by Germany as the Soviet Union randomly takes them from you.

You cannot do "Invite Finland" because you can't get their opinion of you at 50. Even if you could, the focus still requires you to have 2 volunteers on their side in the Winter War which is not possible to do as Austria Hungary. Maybe as normal Hungary you could but even then Finland has to be Monarchist to send volunteers (or you to be their ideology).

"Invite Bulgaria" and "Invite Turkey" needs them to have 75+! opinion of you. Is this for real? How is that possible to get opinion that high? Improve relations only goes up to +75 and then you have the different ideology negative modifier as well as negative modifiers form Increased world tension. And no, as an Imperialist (the default government type for Austria Hungary) you cannot boost Imperialist ideology in any country.

So is it intended that you cannot get any allies via focuses as Austria Hungary?

Also, the focus "Maintain Conservative Government" can be done as Austria Hungary even though it literally requires you to be not Austria Hungary???
Last edited by Grand Admiral Thrawn; 11 Jun, 2020 @ 9:22am