Hi everyone,

I've recently started playing a number of campaigns and trying out some well polished mods. Two of the mods I tried are World Ablaze and HOI4 Ultra, which both have worked together to attempt to create a reasonably accurate distribution of IC and resource production around the world, based on historical books, research, and papers. However, I find that these mods are lacking in much of the production and research aspect, one which I feel BICE and Total War excel in.

That said, I booted up Total War recently because I've heard it's in a really good place and was surprised to see just how little resources you start with as Germany: not even enough steel to use my initial starting factories. Compared with the "industry/resource" realism mods, in which Germany boasts healthy production of steel (enough to support the growing industry at least until 1939-1940), the German research situation in Total War has me importing steel from January 1, 1936 onward.

My question then is, how "realistic" or "balanced" is Germany's starting position in this mod? With such stark differences between this mod and other mods (with respect to IC distribution and resources), is the industry/resources in this game based on anything historical, or has it been arbitrarily constructed to create a "balanced" or "challenging" campaign, dismissing historical accuracy?

Thanks