Game News Hearts of Iron IV: Tank Video Diary

[Whisky]

Tags: Hearts of Iron IV; Paradox Interactive



Hearts of Iron IV has had a new video developer diary. This video talks about historical tanks for the most part, with talk about how tanks are implemented in the game as well.

 

[GarfunkeL]

There was supposed to be a live stream today as well, showing off the new map.

 

[Irenaeus]

Looks interesting.

 

[GarfunkeL]

So I finally watched and the curator repeats some old myths, like the one that Germany didn't mobilize or German women stayed at home, both of which are bogus claims. German industry was mobilized in 1939 and the few cars that were built were all sent to the Nazi party and the military. American car industry also kept building cars for the military and civil service. German women were mobilized to a higher degree in 1939 than British women were in 1944 because the German agriculture was largely non-mechanized and required significant deployment of farm hands meaning that even during peace time, a large number of German women worked at the farms and their importance only went up as men were drafted into Wehrmacht. Transferring women from agriculture to industry would have meant the collapse of food supply in Germany. What could have been done is closing down the service sector and drafting all those women into war industry, which is what Speer did in '43.

But the often repeated claim that civil society in Germany kept on living like it's business as usual until Speer mobilized the society is bullshit.

 

[Irenaeus]

So, more leftist propaganda against the Third Reich?