Turrets and superstructures can also be changed to provide different benefits, such as a ‘fixed superstructure’ that allows you to affix larger guns to your tank and provides bonus defense stats.Īnd suspension can also be altered – from bogie, Christie, torsion bar, wheeled and half-track (for light chassis), and interleaved roadwheels systems – to influence reliability and speed.Įvery chassis also has four slots of ‘special modules’, which provide supportive features, such as radios, ammunition storage, sloped armour, and secondary turrets, as well as amphibious tank capabilities for those players who also own the Man the Guns DLC.īut to customise your tanks, you’ll first need to unlock their chassis in the new armour tech tree, and additional modules in the modified artillery tree. Also included will be the Electric hybrid engine, which the dev diary says was initially developed as a joke, but later integrated more fully to bolster the mobility of tanks in uneven terrain. But you’ll need to research higher thicknesses to do so.Įngines, too, come in fast gasoline, reliable diesel, or fuel-hungry gas options unlocked through jet engine research. You’ll also be able to tweak the exact thickness of the armour as it’s applied to your tanks, theoretically letting you pack out a light tank with masses of plating, if you have the resources to spend, or construct heavy tanks with thin sides, if your coffers are drying up. The diary gives the example of high-velocity guns that sport poor soft attack, but good piercing damage.Īrmour will come in three types – riveted, welded, or cast – each offering different defensive bonuses at varying costs. You’ll be able to choose between 23 main weapons, spanning heavy machine guns to rocket launchers, each of which has reportedly been designed with its own speciality, and based on the merits and drawbacks of their historical counterparts.
Paradox says you’ll need to pick carefully between them to balance the mobility, firepower, protection, reliability, and cost of your vehicles. The customisable features include armour type, engine, turrets, suspension system, main weapon, and four additional ‘special modules’ of miscellaneous elements. Similar to the ship designer system introduced in the game’s Man the Guns DLC, the new tank designer system will allow you to select a chassis type and outfit it with several different modules, dictating and improving the combat capabilities of your tanks.
Hearts of Iron 4’s upcoming, yet-to-be-named DLC, and its accompanying free 1.11 Barbarossa update, will introduce a tank designer system, letting you customise the chassis, main weapons, engines, and other modules of your armoured units, developer Paradox Interactive revealed in a dev diary earlier today.
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