Plains provinces get a new combat width of 90. Provinces’ width stats will now range from 75 (mountains) up to 96 (urban). Now, the post says, in a bid to “shake up the 40/20 width meta”, many terrain types are having their maximum combat width tweaked away from multiples of ten, to encourage different shapes and sizes of divisions to be used. There is still no announced release date for either the Barbarossa update or the accompanying, unnamed DLC.įor most of the game’s lifetime, combat width (how many troops can effectively fight across the border between one in-game province and another, at the same time) has remained at 80 for almost all terrain types, meaning players were at a heavy disadvantage if they designed their army divisions to have any combat width other than 20 or 40. Hearts of Iron 4’s forthcoming 1.11 ‘Barbarossa’ update will make some pretty meaningful alterations to the game’s critical combat width mechanic, the way armour-piercing attacks work, and the reliability stat for divisions, according to the latest dev diary, posted on developer Paradox’s Forum on Wednesday.

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