![]() Tungsten as a steel substitute might also be something to consider, Portugal would be grateful.Īn alternative would be to fuse chromium and tungsten into a single resource called "rare metals", which would replace them everywhere they are currently needed for to make all resource deposits important.īut whatever the choice it, it'll make trading even less realistic. Heavy tanks are almost never used but they are still the most common thing that needs chromium. By the way, are there any mods for such erzatz-production?Ĭlick to expand.I thought about something like that as well. If anything, like one can currently pay XP to boost certain research, he could probably use Chromium to substitute Steel (as odd and perverted as that would be from a historical viewpoint, as apparently it should be the other way around). This all just feels wrong for a game meant to reflect conflict which arguably was all about securing mineral resources in the first place. ![]() The last pic shows a three-way war with 3 powerful factions close to scrapping the barrels, and one would expect them longing for technological edge too, and such extreme competition normally implies using fancy rare stuff, but nope, not the case. Poor Turkey sits at Chromium deposits untouched forever along with Cuba, and Greece normally isn't in the 'club' just due to also having Steel to sell (and getting overrun quickly). I've been playing Sweden since the release, and I remember for sure that at most I managed to export a few batches of Chromium many patches ago, while my Steel (under Free Market) is constantly and at any patch all sold out the moment a couple of majors go fighting all-out, and quite often even before that (I rush Excavation tech in 1936/37 precisely to satisfy the demand and secure a few CIC in the long run). Why do we still have (that's been quite a while already) a real pressure for Aluminum and Steel, yet Chromium (i.e. I'm not a metallurgist, but I'm fairly sure in practice, say, a battleship construction historically had to incorporate certain compromises so as to save rare metals, as obviously otherwise these things would be used not for war but for banking (serving as collateral or conveniently replacing your common gold reserve - all in one ingot). 'Standfast at Nicopol and Krivoi Rog! We can't lose these mines!' - unlike historical Hitler-Manstein's squabble, just can not happen.īut why is it like that? IRL, should one have 'free' trainloads of rare metals excavated daily, he'll easily find ways to accomodate it for production. 'I am not going for X, as it uses Chromium' - sounds more like a comedy. 'I am not going for Jets as those would use Tungsten I need for Medium Tanks' - with some reservations, makes sense. one can design a very decent 1940 non-armored Cruiser suited for his particular needs and consuming as little as 2 Steel), so given the practical gameplay there are no real incentives to fight for or acquire Chromium. Thanks to Navy being just as useless and weak as ever, aside from sheer self-entertainment one has little reasons to build modern expensive ships (which would be the main Chromium users, bar heavy/modern tanks which the AI isn't coded to use anyway), and middle-war vessels on top of being Chromium-free are way more metal-friendly overall (i.e. Despite the global war raging on and majors competing for literally every single bit of mere Steel, as I do here, even if you're pressed hard on the fronts and tight on resources, it might be anything else but never Chromium to cause one's final collapse in production. Yet ingame as of now rare metals all grouped under Chromium label sit there freely available at the common market. A bit off right here, but an interesting fact nontheless : German Nuclear project was spread over several scientific groups, and at one point one of those decided to build a nuclear pile using cubic uranium structures as opposed to sliced ones used previously but as they had no Uranium left by then, the group had to take slices from the other one and 'bolt' them into cubic shape they wanted.German tank armor was getting less and less sturdy over the years for the same lack of strategic resources.Before going into mass-production, Jumo 004 jet engine was redesigned in order to use less rare metals, which caused an obvious delay and worsened it stats. ![]() Based on my forum readings, it's been quite an accepted notion that - given the sheer distribution of Chromium within the game regions - it actually stands for a whole assorted list of metals to differentiate those from common Steel.Ī few very random points regarding rares for WW2 (from the top of my head): Here in HoI4 we have a nice round icon which would display 'Chromium' once you hover it.
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