Good, whatever time it is where you are, you're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your acting field marshal, T.J. Hafer.

Today, we welcome to the program, author of Dreadnought, April Daniels.

Hello.

And we welcome back Rowan Kaiser.

Hello.

So the topic of today's discussion is Hearts of Iron Four's Waking the Tiger

Expansion and the 1.5 Corn Flakes Patch, which brought quite a lot of changes, especially

in comparison to the previous patches, which just seemed like they were kind of running general cleanup,

at least from my perspective, this seemed like the first patch that felt like a paradox patch,

like we're going to make big sweeping changes to like core game mechanics. Did you guys

find that to be the case as well? Yeah, I mean, especially the general system and how they put generals underfield marshals now.

Right, right.

Makes more sense and is sort of like the diet version of the big old gangly command spiders you'd get in hearts of iron three.

So that was definitely welcome.

And I like the decision system too.

Yeah, yeah.

And like, you know, blowing the, what did it used to be called national unity?

And they broke it up into like war support and uh national stability and war support

i think are the new ones yeah um i'm curious with hearts fire and four specifically uh and i know

podcat has spoken about you know having like some technical debt to work off.

And that's why the first two expansions seemed smaller.

It didn't seem like they were tackling quite as huge of a scope of like new features or like significant changes.

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