A 9 INF 3 ART division in this mod is now roughly equivilant to a 9 INF division in vanilla. – In addition to the above buffs, a large portion of infantry equipment’s defense and breakthrough values have been transferred to artillery equipment. Rocket artillery is great for cheap breakthrough units but doesn’t have the sustained fire to blunt attacks like regular artillery does.
– Rocket artillery has gotten a 10% boost to soft attack and a 20% boost to breakthrough. If you want to hold the line you better bring artillery. – Non-rocket artillery soft attack has been increased by 10% and defense has been increased by a whopping 50%. This mod isn’t balanced around 40 width divisions because I consider those to be an exploit, but if you do use them they shouldn’t be any more broken than they are in vanilla. The optimal 20-width infantry division should now consist of 9 INF and 4 ART/AA/AT battalions. – Artillery, anti-air, and anti-tank battalions each cost 0.5 combat width. The de-emphasization of artillery doesn’t just offend the sensibilities of perfectionist history nerds such as myself – it negatively affects the game’s balance by devaluing advantages in industry and leaving the AI too vulnerable to things like tanks and paratroopers. It also seems that Paradox made a deliberate decision to abstract line artillery into infantry battalions, which explains why no countries start with any line artillery in their divisions.
On the other hand, the weird combat widths of artillery, anti-tank, and anti-air battalions seem designed to make them as unoptimal as possible, and make it impossible to create an even vaguely historical-looking division without it being laughably bad. On one hand, players and the AI are encouraged to build divisions with a width of 20. I’ve always been bothered by the way the division designer in HOI4 works. If you think the current balance of artillery in Hearts of Iron 4 is flawed and ahistorical, this is the mod for you!
Historical Artillery rescues artillery from the dustbin of Paradox’s questionable design choices and restores it to its historical importance, all with a keen focus on game balance and playability.
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