Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

Star Wars: Palpatine's Gamble
sgtjohnson1223 Jun 15, 2021 @ 12:40am
Great Mod, Putting in our experiences from an MP game.
Hey, First off wanna say, GREAT FREAKING MOD, It plays well and Im looking forward to it as another goto game overhaul when we need a change of pace from 56 and owb. Onto our Experience.

Players: Me, (trandosha) My Friend (Mandalore)

Game End: We played all day and reached a win (beat the galactic republic turned empire while we were at war, and installed the jedi order in power).

Desync/Crashs: We only had 2 issues here. One on game start where we dysynced, that one seems to be more on the massive spawn. The Second was when I pinged a hyperlane, it crashed my friend to desktop/ That was the first and only time we used pinging.

Possible Issues: Playing away from the 2 major factions we noticed the following:

AI did not advance the tech level in our game past 2. This could be due to how fast we beat the game working together.

The Market was not stocked evenly. We would have massive amounts of weapons and support equipment in both republic and Neutral markets, We barely had any ships, We had victory class ships on the market before venators, which we could never buy due to tech only being 2 for the game. Clones were rare. Other Items were being pruduced but the tech level was too low to purchase.

The Sep's seemed a bit underpowered. Watching the war from a "neutral" standpoint we got the invasion of naboo but they never invaded, when we started seeing combat none of the republic planets seemed to really fall, The seps were on the run, Made worse by my joining of the war.

The Naval invasions and navy in general can act a bit funky. Im not sure if this is due to our stand point but the rhyme and rhythm of the naval invasion 40% threshold eluded us. We would not have enough then suddenly it would invade, followed by not enough again. We never had navy on navy combat in our game, even though we prepared for it.

The Ai dont seem to use landing zones on naval invasions. Although this would make it harder on our end to win again, The Ai really need to make use of those landing zones. They are a god send when supply is needed and you dont land in a port. That said maybe a building that prevents landing zones from being built is in order. Like a shield gen or the like.

Resources: were a hard to manage issue when playing, Again take with a grain of salt from how we were playing.

Small Nation Power House: This one I feel may be a combo of experience and balance. I usually play as small nations in mods to give myself a challange, so starting minor doesnt bother me. That said I carried the war in the clone wars enough to Get a 10% participation score, after waiting I think 3 years to join it. After the war I became the Head of the Republic and entered immediately into a war with the "Galactic Republic" and their puppets, Carrying that war and getting so much participation at the end I edged everyone out of the peace conference. (I had so much score I restored everyone's planets and removed the then "Empire" without anyone really taking land on their own.) This can also be attributed to the assistance and mutual relationship we had going with Mandalore, but Mandalore didn't get involved directly till close to end game when we were already invading coruscant.

DEBT: Oh my goodness the amount of debt the AI brought on themselves was astounding. I'm unsure of the punishment they receive for that as we never had an issue or needed to go into debt for things.

Vehicle templates were not used: I never saw vehicle templates used. More so the templates are a bit confusing, I had barc speeder templates but they just used speeder bikes, and they were slower, Speeder bike templates also used speeder bikes and were faster. Tanks for use were not used, and I never saw the ai use them either. They were also hard to obtain due to supply and price. Manufacture of them is unknown due to looming resource issues I had late game.


That seems to be everything I can think of. Hope some of this Wall of Text Mess helps with development! Again Great mod, Cant wait to get together on a weekend and try out different planets! :winter2019joyfultearsdog:
Last edited by sgtjohnson1223; Jun 15, 2021 @ 12:41am