Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

Deo Vindice: Expanded
slatt  [developer] May 13, 2023 @ 5:27pm
Suggestions
Somebody in the comments asked for a suggestions thread, so here it is.
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Drazarus May 14, 2023 @ 1:38pm 
My Suggestions mainly are for the USA. Idk how deep of a complete rework your going for but heres my general but simplified idea

The US Fascist path however shouldn't just be complete Silver Legion rise, because OTL they were a pretty small group to my knowledge, and while they likely would be bigger here, they wouldn't be massive.

My idea is generally this and simplified. It can also depend if you want to alter lore or not. My Idea is the US is more divided by the time of WW1, One Bloc wishing to Join the Germans to oppose the British and Confederates, the other being the Main Neutral or British aligned. While the Pro German Party gains more support throughout the war, the US manages to stay Neutral long enough for the Entente to win and Confederate divisions to land in France.

Because of this, American revanchism takes a blow. and skipping to 1936 + great depression. America had fallen into a battle between the Moderate Parties, The Radical Right Coalition and the Socialists. America would then have 3-4 options in the 36 elections. Republicans/Dems, Say for WIP "America First Party" (Rightists) and Communist party.

I could go more, but this is enough. To very simplify the suggestion, America should be portrayed as more divided with the 1936 election deciding between dem, fascist, commie
El Paso May 14, 2023 @ 3:27pm 
I think expanding on the Democratic focus would be good (Liberalism, Conservatism, Social Democracy and Progressivism). I notice a lot of people who mod tend to focus on 'edgy' ideologies and completely shun Democratic focus trees. But that's just my opinion.
slatt  [developer] May 14, 2023 @ 4:28pm 
@Drazarus
I was thinking of having a very polarized US in terms of politics, however, I was going to have the Republicans and Democrats both be completely dead, and have some other smaller parties make a 4 party system. The other idea I had for the US was to have the Business Plot succeed and have a Smedley Butler authoritarian state. However the idea you proposed is pretty good. I’m still in the planning stage for the US so I’ll update on what I go through with.
slatt  [developer] May 14, 2023 @ 4:30pm 
@El Paso
I did want to add a democratic tree to Mexico but it really didn’t make sense to add it since the december coup is led by right wing parties, and free/open elections is what led to (within the lore) the giving up of Sonora and many problems Mexico had. I’ll think about creating a democratic tree in the next update.
El Paso May 15, 2023 @ 12:12pm 
@slackus
I was more referring to the Confederacy as I noticed you made a Huey Long tree. I understand Mexico not having a Democratic focus tree as Mexican Democracy has pretty much always been unstable and still is.
slatt  [developer] May 15, 2023 @ 9:41pm 
@El Paso
Oh, I see. I’ll look into expanding the democratic tree for CSA. I do think there should definitely be more unique candidates for the presidency and such. And as it stands, it doesn’t have much content.
Robert May 23, 2023 @ 9:14pm 
Here's a couple of Suggestions,

This is sort of an immersion thing, but what would really help the mod aesthetically is a rework of some of the Portraits and Unit models.

The Confederates were always really big on the 'wearing of the grey', and to this day it summarizes what a rebel is/was. In the scenario of Deo Vindice, it is highly likely the Confederacy would have still been using Grey as a base for their Uniforms, and while I don't doubt the usage of British Firearms and such, I do doubt the use of British equipment such as the Brodie Helmet, when the Confederacy most likely would have adopted their own. Updating the Unit Models to look more like Confederate troops would be very immersive.

Same thing with most of the General's portraits, some of which are wearing U.S. Uniforms, which really kind of ruins the immersion. Even just changing their uniform color to a Grey hue and removing the "U.S." Collar pins would make it 1000% Better.

There are a couple of other Confederacy mods that already do this, one has not been updated for over two years, and the other isn't anywhere as near as fleshed out as this.

But still, great job with everything, this mod is by far the Best Confederacy mod I have ever played, only hope it gets better!
slatt  [developer] May 24, 2023 @ 8:21pm 
@Hermann_Mecklenburg thanks for the suggestions. As for the unit models, theres not much I can do as I don't know how to 3D model or any of the sort. However, I do plan on updating the portraits for the generals, as well as the portraits for all of the starting leaders. The british equipment and such is an addition by csabadass, so I'd recommend you comment on his mod about the equipment and such.
WATCH LAIN Aug 15, 2023 @ 11:42am 
Fleshing out the existing CSA paths, especially the fascist and communist paths, would be a really good step forward. Focusing on the descendants of the Golden Circle for the fascist path could be cool, such adopting some sort of "American Lebensraum" to dominate Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela. A communist path that I think could be really flavorful would be a black revolt against the sustaining racist institutions of the South, including industrial slavery (which likely still exists under a different name, given that slavery was kind of the entire reason the Confederacy even existed and the constitution forbade laws to abolish it), sharecropping, and Jim Crow. A pan-racial confederacy dedicated to liberating all races of the Americas would be awesome.
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