Здравствуйте товарищи! - Greetings comrades! And welcome to a new Hearts of Iron 4 Dev Diary! I hope that you are all having a great summer, and that you are prepared for a little reading, because...
As usual, HOI4 does some great man of history BS that feeds into pop-culture understandings of history rather than trying to portray the events themselves. I guess you could say that they're trying to make interesting gameplay decisions around the purges, but it sounds like everything boils down to "spend your political power now or risk losing random government advisors/generals later", which is hardly a compelling choice.
TBH once I got good enough at HOI4 to beat it, it got boring fast, and the fanbase has proven themselves time and again to be better historical CYOA writers than the Paradox devs.
As usual, HOI4 does some great man of history BS that feeds into pop-culture understandings of history rather than trying to portray the events themselves. I guess you could say that they're trying to make interesting gameplay decisions around the purges, but it sounds like everything boils down to "spend your political power now or risk losing random government advisors/generals later", which is hardly a compelling choice.
TBH once I got good enough at HOI4 to beat it, it got boring fast, and the fanbase has proven themselves time and again to be better historical CYOA writers than the Paradox devs.
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CK3 was pretty good at launch imo