Why do you need these? Well You really, really need to be the one triggering the war, and you want to ensure you have control of as much land and units as you possibly can. And we have increased the amount of things you can get from countries supporting your cause. Among other things, you now use Command Power to recruit units, rather than Political Power.

So we decided to make it _slightly_ less hard, while also introducing a few new elements to make the war even more interesting. And while that might be to some degree realistic, it isn’t that fun. “Realistically hard” someone might argue. I believe we mentioned last time around that the civil war was hard if you chose to go down this path of the focus tree.

The last month has (other than lots and lots of keyboard-scrubbing.) seen some significant changes to the branch, and while we’ve kept much of the original design, we’ve also incorporated feedback from you guys, the community, and did some further iteration of our own on how the tree looks and works.

Hi guys! This is and part of the CD team on the Exiles branch for the Soviet Union. This applies to any widths that match up like 30+10 say). Targeting is now changed so that divisions will select targets up to its own width (so a 40w can fire on two 20w), but doing so spreads the damage over them relative to their width (and just to be clear, it’s not just for 40w. One way 40 width (and also larger) divisions were stronger than smaller ones was how they could concentrate all of their damage into one target overpowering defense more easily. To expand on this we have changed how targeting and damage spreading works. In there we outlined several changes such as varying terrain width without easy multipliers to exploit (meaning you can still make optimums for particular terrains but not all), as well as reduced penalties to going over widths. Back in the Combat and Stats Changes diary we outlined our quest to break down the 40 width meta and try to combat an “overall best division”. Hi everyone, here for a little guest appearance to tell you some more about the combat changes coming with Barbarossa.

In addition, Comrades and return for a dive into changes to the Soviet Exiles branch of the focus tree, based partly on community feedback. Today we have two important topics to cover, for which we have reinstated with a battlefield commission, in order to detail our latest efforts to combat the width meta.

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