Hearts of Iron IV: Prototype Vehicles Unit Pack

Hearts of Iron IV: Prototype Vehicles Unit Pack is a DLC for the grand strategy game titled Hearts of Iron IV, originally released in 2016. Similar to the base version, the expansion was prepared by the team specialized in this genre, namely by the Paradox Development Studio.

New features in the expansion

As the title suggests, Hearts of Iron IV: Prototype Vehicles Unit Pack is a unit add-on for the game Hearts of Iron IV. It showcases vehicles and machines that, although they functioned in the minds of military engineers (and some even saw prototypes), for various reasons they never appeared on the battlefields of World War II. While the implementation of some concepts ran out of time for their designers, others were so fanciful that bringing them to life turned out to be essentially impossible. While creating them, the developers relied on archival sketches and plans, and prepared them in the form of 3D models.

List of new units

The described DLC introduces the following units:

1. Grasshopper serving as a unique hybrid of a tank and a helicopter, capable of moving on tracks or hovering in the air;
2. Skoda SK 13, a combat vehicle powered by coal;
3. Praying Mantis - another combat vehicle, this time capable of peeking out from behind cover;
4. Biemmi Naval amphibious tank;
5. 2B1 "Oka" - a gigantic mortar equipped with a powerful cannon;
6. Jasquet Articulated Tank, consisting of several interconnected segments;
7. Modra Revolving Tank, equipped with a rotating hull of a rounded shape that allows it to deflect bullets;
8. Giacomini Entrenchment - a unique combination of a tank and a bulldozer;
9. So-To Anti-Tank, operating like a mobile armored gun transporter;
10. Moto-Guzzi Semovente tank, equipped with two independent tracks and not afraid of sloping terrains;
11. "Cobra" Light Cross Country Combat Vehicle with varied armament, in one version equipped with four large-caliber guns;
12. M-V-Yoh, which is an American tank equipped with a small gun turret and also has spare tracks;
13. Belyayev DB-LK - a "double airplane", with two cockpits and two positions for shooters;
14. The Bachem Ba 349 Natter - a "disposable airplane", requiring the pilot to eject.