Hearts of Iron IV

[Syt]

[Valmy]

I mean ok maybe forming an Islamic Caliphate might not be too crazy...but Al-Andalus? WTF?

Does this mean we can also recreate the Byzantine Empire in HOI IV?

[garbon]

Well yes that's been possible for quite some time...

[Valmy]

Well yes that's been possible for quite some time...

Seriously? Well then I guess forming Al-Andalus isn't out of bounds if we are already that crazy.

[Barrister]

I guess if you're still playing HOI4 at this point you've probably conquered the world as each of the major powers a few times so you're looking for a more extreme challenge...

But honestly how would you even go about such a thing?  What country would you even be?  Turkey maybe?

[Valmy]

I guess if you're still playing HOI4 at this point you've probably conquered the world as each of the major powers a few times so you're looking for a more extreme challenge...

But honestly how would you even go about such a thing?  What country would you even be?  Turkey maybe?

Nationalist Spain who converts to Sunni Islam. Francisco Franco reveals he is the scion of the Umayyads and he just competed his centuries long masterplan.

[Syt]

Dev Diary.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/hoi4-dev-diary-formables-and-releasables.1312060/

But perhaps players wish to live out an alternate history where the Naha Prophecy was fulfilled and Kamehameha united the Pacific several years earlier. With the Polynesian Empire game rule, Hawaii will begin the game having already conquered the entirety of the Polynesian Islands and built up a fair-sized industry.

Spain can of course be fractured from the start of the game by selecting the appropriate option in the game menu. However, I noticed Catalonia, the Basque Country, and Galicia simply weren't enough to make Iberia look "shattered" so I took the liberty of adding an "11th of November" game rule, and I will leave it for you all to speculate what that option does.

When it comes to the second formable, one must be opportunistic and take full advantage of the instability in Spain and Portugal. The Moorish people once reigned sovereign over all of Iberia, and owners of La Resistance will be able to restore the long-dead state of Al-Andalus.



Andalusia was once an Islamic Sultanate that ruled from the Iberian peninsula and a beacon of the Islamic world. Through struggles with the Catholic kingdoms in the medieval era, the Andalusians would slowly be pushed out of Iberia, ending with the conquest of the Emirate of Granada in 1520. However, the Moorish people continue to exist to this day in Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, and Algeria, many of whom are descendants from Moorish refugees fleeing the Spanish Reconquista.

Andalusia will be formable by any of the North African countries; Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Algeria, or Libya. In order to form this tag, one must occupy a large portion of both Spain and Portugal's southern states and forming the tag grants cores on the entirety of the Iberian subcontinent.

But that isn't the end of Andalusia. Similar to Byzantium's "triumph" decisions, Andalusia will be able to sweep across the Mediterranean and beyond, restoring their old claims and titles.



If a player can enact all decisions relating to the Andalusian conquests of North Africa and the Med, they will be able to press on for Egypt and Arabia and declare themselves the Umayyad Caliphate reborn, granting cores on the Arabian Peninsula.



Upon doing so, Andalusia will unlock their final set of decisions, allowing them to restore the entire former claims and titles of the Umayyad Caliphate, effectively reuinifying the Islamic world.

[Valmy]

I wish they would spend some time making it be a better simulation of World War II but hey whatever.

[Josephus]

I wish they would spend some time making it be a better simulation of World War II but hey whatever.

That's never been their thing though. Even back in HOI2 when people started complaining about that, their response was "it's not a WW2 game. It's a Grand Strategy Sandbox that starts in 1936."
I gave up on the HOI series. It just isn't my thing.

[Valmy]

Then why start it in 1936? If you just wanted a grand strategy game of this era 1920 would be a far superior starting date.

[Barrister]

Then why start it in 1936? If you just wanted a grand strategy game of this era 1920 would be a far superior starting date.

I think you know why they start in 1936.

[The Brain]

Tell me honestly: is that the face of a murderer?

[Barrister]

Tell me honestly: is that the face of a murderer?

And what a murderer he was!

[Razgovory]

It is very important that the Soloman Islands to be ruled by a guy who looks like Walt Disney.

[Josephus]

Tell me honestly: is that the face of a murderer?

And what a murderer he was!

Did he actually kill anybody?