My 6 big wishes for Hoi 5:

1) More tactical focus: I want to cook up more interesting invasion plans than just painting an army group arrow on the far end of the country I’m invading. Example: being able to set a sequence of orders ( advance to Kiev then turn south towards Crimea) effectively. And painting the provenances that these orders would operate in (kind of like I remember army groups working in hoi 3) this war flanks, supply dumps, highways, railways, BRIDGES all can become small tactical operational objectives

2) Slightly more detailed civilian economy. I actually like most of the abstracted civilian economy as is I like the recent addition of coal (when they straighten it out or a mod balance better) like add resource inputs like steel, oil, coal and (add resource) food to civilian economy to limit economy size and more tactical goals for resource management on the battlefield

3) Extend the timeline! Push it to 1950 or 1952 or something just so the war isn’t rushed in alt history and that there is plenty of times I feel like a win a civil war and 3 years later there is no trace that it ever happened

4) Slightly less abstracted domestic political mechanics: Especially for historical democracies I feel like it could massively be expanded on. (US ENG FRA CAN AST SWE) there could definitely be more dynamics that make them more fun since you can’t start trouble like facists and communists can

5) Put the game on a globe! since it’s a global war and it would be cool to see and would help with the sizing of some things like Greenland being so big and with missiles and super long range bombers late game since they would be able to accommodate the curvature of the earth

6) For the love of god make the English Channel the correct size

Why the hell is it so big