

If you like automanagement, good for you.Ĭomparing a game made six years after Vicky 2 and saying it looks better is just silly.
#VICTORIA III HOI4 UPGRADE#
Tech is absolutely vital to army progression in Vicky 2, moreso in HOI4 because you can encircle there, I don't know where you're getting off thinking you can not upgrade your artillery or theory and still have a decent chance of victory. Less variables on the dice rolls would be nice, but that's easily achievable by shortening the possible range of the dice roll and making other modifiers (terrain, generalship, army composition) matter more. Hoi4 doesn't have a monopoly on FoW, and still uses dice for tactics and initiative, albeit ones you can't see. You do realize that trench warfare only applies for the last few decades of Vicky, and that the overwhelming majority of gametime would be spent fighting in a largely similar fashion as the Napoleonic Wars, right? Even then Vicky 2 still represents meatgrinders like Verdun (which went on for 302 days, which absolutely would not happen in HOI4 because of breakthrough and tanks) better. Its really pretty random and when u get 3 times a 0 or 1 in a row u can lose big battles for no sense vs clearly inferior enemies. I like the system of hoi4 that you give an army an order and it plans its offensies and defensives itself, instead that u always have to do every fucking single thing in micromanagement.Īnd last but not least are the hoi4 fights much better looking and have a higher atmosphere than the fights in vic 2Īlso is the "dicesystem" of EUIV and Civ 2 really annoying. and less on "luck", i prefer that.Īnd: In the lategame its in vic2 annoying that u have to manage every single unit in big wars, like in Africa. The combatprogress in hoi4 is more based on techs, equipment, units, stats etc. The effort to use units for scouting like in hoi4 makes that much more realistic, especially in trench wafare.Īlso is the "dicesystem" of EUIV and Vic 2 really annoying. The italians allready used Zeppelins for bombing in the italian-ottoman war for Lybia and Aegaean islands.Īlso in vic 2 u can always see by "magic" what the enemy has. Also traveling and bombing with Zeppelins and later planes were a huge aspect arround 1900 which is completely ignored in vic2. The napoleonic wars would fit to it, but the bunkersystem of HOI4 fits quite better for the trenchwarfare than the fortsystem of vic2.
