THE GREAT REALISM OVERHAUL MOD
THE GREAT REALISM OVERHAUL MODS

For most designs the sub-techs will be armament and engine techs, all of which must be completed before moving to the next overall design (chassis/fuselage design). We may include short fuselage upgrades that improve the effectiveness of the existing fuselage without requiring a new production line. This is logical because the general design of the spitfire did not change dramatically between the Mk.II and the Mk.XIV however the armaments and engines were completely different. the idea will be you research a new design, then upgraded parts for this design, then another new design. We want to keep the new linear system of researching the next incremental design for a unit type. New chassis/parts will be unlocked via research, which brings me to

Different parts will hopefully produce different end stats. We will keep the variant system for 'tweaking' a build, for example the spitfire Mk.IX had clipped wings for more agility.

The hope is to make modular equipment so you can produce spitfire fuselages and fit them with better weapons and engines as time goes on. This will continue with Spitfire variants etc. This would allow modular building like this. Tanks: The same tank chassis can have different guns, Sherman firefly for example was a Sherman Chassis and Engine with a British QF-17pounder gun. Not going to give different stats to different nations for balance reasons. The SMGs would win in forest and urban fighting, while Carbines win in longer range conflict, so planes hills desert and grassland. SMGs and assault rifles would be late game standard while early game it would be smg's and bolt or semi-auto carbines. Infantry equipment would be split into various types of small arms. Which means currently blobbing is far far too tempting, especially when extra-factional nations have no GiE. There will be a complete rebalancing of global economies into somewhat historical lines too, as, currently, Hungary has an industrial economy about 30% the size of the UK's and an armaments industry about 42% the size. Military Factories: Assemble constituent parts into tanks, mechanized vehicles, infantry equipment, planes etcД¬ivilian factories: Produce other kinds of factories. Heavy Armaments factories: Artillery, Tank turrets/guns, AT guns, Naval guns Small arms Factories: Rifles, Smgs, Machine guns, Auto-cannons for planes and mechanized vehicles, mortars, anti-tank rifles etc Large Engine Factories: Ship engine production Small engine factories: Engines for Tanks, Planes, Mechanized/motorized Vehicles and SP-Guns Steelworks: Produce Tank Chassis and Hull parts for ships, Airplane fuselages etc Production buildings split into Steelworks, Small engine factories, Large engine factories, Small arms factories, Heavy Armament factories, Military Factories, Civilian factories and Dockyards. Overhaul of Manufacturing and War economy: I'd also love to incorporate a good OOB mod, but won't be making it myself because, frankly, I dont know where I would even start.

THE GREAT REALISM OVERHAUL MODS

Prerequisite mods will be a working fuel mod, which I will hopefully be able to help Yossarian with.

THE GREAT REALISM OVERHAUL MOD

With that said, if you are one of those people who hates micro-management the mod might not be for you, any new feature has to be managed and I will try to implement everything as elegantly as possible so as not to be tedious, but it will all have to be 'managed'. I'm also not immune to criticism, if you don't like anything here for any reason then tell me. This will be a multi-year project, no doubt, it is ambitious and I am open to anyone who wants to help although a few people have offered to help me out already. It's probably early pitching a mod before release but we have seen a LOT of gameplay and a number of projects have already been discussed here on the forums. However, it won't tickle the realism itch of certain players and I'm proposing a mod that builds on these new features to create a deeper and hopefully more historical feel to the game. HoI4 is promising to be an amazing game, with a new and completely different naval combat system, an improved AI a great new construction/IC system and huge mod support. So this is an idea I have been toying with for a few weeks and have decided to put to the HoI4 community openly having discussed it with a few people privately already.

The great realism overhaul