{"id":1080,"date":"2008-10-17T15:33:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T19:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/17\/the-biggest-strategy-map-ever\/"},"modified":"2008-10-17T15:33:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T19:33:50","slug":"the-biggest-strategy-map-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/17\/the-biggest-strategy-map-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest strategy map ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paradox is promising that their upcoming WW2 strategy sequel, <em>Hearts of Iron 3<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.paradoxplaza.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=378480\">will have 10,000 provinces.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a point of contrast, <em>Hearts of Iron 2<\/em> had a little over 2600. So, almost a fourfold increase in territories. If my hometown Miramichi doesn&#8217;t get a separate territory, I will be a little sad. <\/p>\n<p>Why so many? Andersson says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is something we really wanted, double the provinces means double the choices of where to attack and doubles the number of spots you have to think about defending. Giving players choices like this is always good; more choices like these means more strategic thought is required.<\/p>\n<p>We also wanted to give combat a more blitzkrieg feeling. With more provinces there is more opportunities for you to carve out armoured breakthroughs and exploitation. Creating opportunities for encirclements or battles of manoeuvre were both sides. Mobile troops attack and counter attack. We are aiming to try and create a canvas were you can practice the operational art.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you accept the dubious math that doubling provinces means doubling choices for the player, it&#8217;s worth remembering that this also means doubling the choices for multiple AI opponents in a series from a studio that is not exactly known for intelligent and effective computer controlled countries. Promoting encirclement and blitzing is great, only I fear that it will lead to lots of extended AI assault vectors that can be easily cut-off and surrounded by a smart player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradox is promising that their upcoming WW2 strategy sequel, Hearts of Iron 3, will have 10,000 provinces. As a point of contrast, Hearts of Iron 2 had a little over 2600. So, almost a fourfold increase in territories. If my hometown Miramichi doesn&#8217;t get a separate territory, I will be a little sad. Why so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,27,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-hq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}