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Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV: The Great War
Tyso3 6. maj 2020 kl. 21:41
Suggestion: Gas Super weapons
So currently the gas research simply adds a buff stat which really doesnt do it for me.
What im proposing is taking the exisiting Nuclear bomb function and modifying it for Gas production/Usages.

Why?: Well because you would be limited in its usage (just like in real life), have to develop several different 'flavours' of gas, have a limit based on production, and have to drop it on specific tiles of your choice in order to take advantage of its use.


How?

Research:
Chemical warfare starts quite early in 1910 for example, this allows a gas labortory building to be built, and depending on the current research changes the effect of the attack.
This tree is under the same tree as nuclear weapons!

1910 = Tear Gas ( Light Cohesion damage only)
1914 = Chlorine Gas ( Medium Cohesion, Light Morale Damage)
1915 = Phosgene Gas ( Heavy Cohesion, Light Morale, Division Speed Damage)
1917 = Mustard Gas ( Heavy Cohesion, Heavy Morale, Heavy Division Speed damage)
1925 = Geneva Protocol ( Your troops no longer affected by gas attacks, All gas production is stopped and cannot be rebuilt)
1940 = Atomic Theory (Thus Nuclear weapons)

The Gasmask research options under infantry and be used the lessen the effect of the gas attacks before rather then eliminate their ability.

Usage :
Each Gas laboratory takes up a building slot (single) and produces 0.1 (out of 1) Gas barrages per month. Meaning a country with only 1 production facility can only drop 1 Gas barrages a year.

The barrages use the nuclear weapons shortcut like regular HOI4, But only damage a single province (not an entire state) meaning this are the locations where a breakthrough can occur.

Once the last tech (1925) is researched, YOUR troops are no longer affected by gas attacks, You cannont produce anymore gas, your buildings are demolished and the gas attack option turns into a nuclear option again.
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Tyso3 6. maj 2020 kl. 21:43 
Anyone got thoughts on this idea? Ideally TGW Devs :)
Canadian Lemur 7. maj 2020 kl. 16:22 
come to the discord to talk about this, its a good place for ideas https://discord.gg/Qwyb4qs
Fourmi 26. maj 2020 kl. 4:10 
I wonder if it's accurate to gas an entire province though.
Caradryan 4. juni 2020 kl. 11:53 
Oprindeligt skrevet af Ant:
I wonder if it's accurate to gas an entire province though.
That would certainly be an enormous gas cloud!
Fourmi 5. juni 2020 kl. 8:56 
Oprindeligt skrevet af Caradryan:
Oprindeligt skrevet af Ant:
I wonder if it's accurate to gas an entire province though.
That would certainly be an enormous gas cloud!
There's also the issue of those really large provinces. Imagine gassing a province in Siberia or the Amazon rainforest.
Tyso3 5. juni 2020 kl. 17:45 
No more silly the nuking the entire amazon rainforest
Fourmi 25. juni 2020 kl. 21:19 
Oprindeligt skrevet af Tyso3:
No more silly the nuking the entire amazon rainforest
With how nukes function, there is little reason to nuke the entire amazon rainforest, since nukes work best on capitals and population dense areas. The gas functions described above are far more combat oriented, and as such would be far more likely to be used on every single amazon province, especially since gas should take a fraction of the time and cost to make relative to nukes.
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