#Darkest hour vs hoi4 mods

Totally agree, after so much years, I am still playing and modding HOI2 (Doomsday Armageddon, Vanilla, no mods) and I like it, had the chance to buy HOI3 when it came out, but passed it, because of the initial negative reviews. If the AI in 4 wasn't #$ trash they could encircle quite a few southern troops before someone notices it, and losing even one division to such bullshit is utter nonsense. And #$ Crimea, why the #$ does the front line ignore it? Seriously, every #$ time, the AI barrels right past it and the front line doesn't recognize it leaving a #$ exploitable hole directly behind the front. So godawful and it overwrites whatever your orders are because #$ you for trying to cheat the game by not being an idiot and manually controlling your units. It also bugs me that the HoI4 AI can't even #$ encircle a tree, they'd rather spend hours trying to run soldiers through it instead.

#Darkest hour vs hoi4 mods

Some mods in HoI2 used to make Japanese Korea/Manchuria a separate nation because Japan AI couldn't even handle shipping their goddamn troops. Handle invasions yourself, PDS games have the worst naval AI. They can't even make intercept missions, my Ic is being bombed to hell by the Brits, it should be the other way around!!!! But hoi3 was nice. In hoi3 the AI (Germany Campagn) would do great till 1941-2 and of which I'll end up losing everything I conquered and my OBWest can't make a naval invasion even after I manually landed marines and then infantry and tanks. I have to money buy Hoi4, is it worth it? USSR, especially mid-late game, I'd understand through.ДЄlso, I kinda liked Sengoku, granted not enough to play more than a few games, but it's kinda nice. I'm not sure why you'd want to hand off control in a wargame anyways, especially Germany in '39, you probably have no more than 100 divisions to manage which is fairly easy. Also, yes, HoI3 AI is trash which is why you should never actually use it. Tbh, it wouldn't've been a problem if there wasn't 5 different field types for each tech and another 2-4 for each research team, all with different #$ numbers. I #$ hated that about DH and it's great it's gone. And playing Germany is all about Immersion.Д¬omplaining that 4 lacks in comprehensibility is kinda a dumb statement tbh, you don't have to google/waste time doing math to find out which tech team is the most optimal for each tech. Even frenchies would act more effective.ДЄnd it looked ugly and had no techteams, lacking every Immersion. Too much micromanagement, since the AI handled frontlines worse then a drunken Mongo. You can't even lose a campaign without picking a shit tier country and doing something incredibly stupid, let alone Barbarossa. I also remember when the the devs said they wanted doing something like conquering the USSR to be an actual challenge, what a joke.

Terrain is also a joke as well, in past games you actually had to pay attention to it, now your tanks can roll through a swamp in the worst winter in human history and still not give a #$. Idk about you but I can never trust my front's AI to actually handle a front either so I end up having to micro it instead of telling them to conquer something. Granted I usually attempt a world conquest then get bored with like a dozen countries left but w/e. I've also yet to spend less than a day on a campaign either. Biggest problem in 4 is terrain modifiers are a #$ joke and can be ignored. Also the micro in HoI3 was only a real problem late game, I would've been fine with the same system in 4 but with the AI being competent enough to handle fronts you didn't care about. There's nothing better in HoI then trapping a 100+ enemy divisions in a pocket and starving them to death.

HoI2 was too small and therefore encirclement's weren't as satisfying. But that's because you just build your armies and tell them in which direction to conquer. Finishing a campaign in a single day is feasible. One good thing I can say for HOI4 is that it's very fast. But that misses the whole appeal of HOI where your hours of micromanagement pay off, and you get that encirclement just right, or get that multiple front and combined arms bonus, or when your mountaineers pay off. So you have to hand things over to the AI. With so many regions and separate divisions, you cannot really micro any major power in HOI 3 or 4. It had less regions, so you could feasibly micro.