Looking at the current systems in Hearts of Iron 4, the people you choose to lead your armies, or fill your cabinet, are fairly passive and represent stat buffs more than anything else. You ask any military historian worth their salt and they can tell you about some of the real political challenges around who was in charge of what operation, how area of operations were defined, even the competitions for favour between Hitler’s generals.Ĭrusader Kings III has done a lot to champion the power of individuals in grand strategy games, and it looks like Victoria 3 is going to be running with this concept as well to some extent. WW2, despite being an iconic clash of big power blocs, also featured a notable amount of clashes of personality, even between those on the same side. If there are ways the developers can make modders’ lives even easier in Hearts of Iron 5, great, but as long as it doesn’t get any harder we’ll be happy. This is less of a ‘new’ thing we want and more of a desire to see the current levels of support continue.

Want mods that offer even wackier alt-history, take you back to World War 1, or even give us that modern-era grand strategy wargame we’ve been lacking up till now? The Hearts of Iron 4 mod scene is where it’s at. Hearts of Iron 4 has one of the best and most creative mod scenes out of all the Paradox grand strategy games, losing out only perhaps to the fact that it can’t really handle a decent Star Wars conversion ( though someone is trying), or big fantasy-style mods along the lines of Lord of the Rings or A Song of Ice and Fire.īut if you’re passionate about warfare and the early 20th century, this game offers the perfect sandbox. Here are the top five things we would want from Hearts of Iron 5.

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