
The pack also included a reworked autonomy system (different levels of puppet states), the option to ask your allies for a land-lease, when you lack the much needed equipment, a spearhead battleplan command (for more control when encircling enemy troops on the battlefield) and last, but not least – technology sharing. The dominions were given the choice to either stay loyal to the Crown or oppose the British and follow their own path towards independence. These were the countries from the British Commonwealth – Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the British Raj. It introduced a couple of interesting game-changing mechanics to the game, including the first ever reworked focus trees for non-major powers countries.

We will start off with the first ever expansion DLC, that was released back in the final days of 2016 – “Together for Victory”.

That’s why I am writing this article, to help you guys choose your next DLC. Unfortunately, there weren’t if any, then certainly not qualitative enough information sources, whether or not a specific DLC is to be preferred for beginners to start off with. Later I found it interesting to learn more about those DLCs and what do they bring to the table.

I was shocked to figure out, that Hungary had completely bigger focus tree and a large part of it was dedicated to the single reason of recreating the Habsburg monarchy.Īt first, I thought that this was some kind of a mod, but soon I realized it was one of the DLCs that I had to this point completely ignored (remember guys, I was a complete noob back then 😊). I remember that one day I wanted to restore the Austro-Hungarian Empire and since it looked hard, I needed to help myself by taking a look at some HOI4 videos on the Internet. I was so into mastering all the countries that had developed focus trees, that completely forgot about the existing DLCs and at first, honestly, didn’t really feel the need of them. Well, that was what I was thinking back in the day, when I started playing the game. “Hearts of iron 4” is by far one of the most amazing strategy games out there and when you launch it for the first time, you might think, that its gameplay mechanics and alternative history scenarios cannot get any more detailed and complicated than that.
