I'd love to see what new stuff they can bring to HoI IV, I hope they incorporate elements from East vs West, such as ship customization and for gods sake, ground forces should be accurate!, I hated it when Tiger brigades had a T-35 as their unit photo, or Jagdtigers had M36 Jackson!. Or things like armament, for example, Maus had "Main Gun: No", so does the Yamato-Class SHBattleship what the fuck?, small things but important for me.
Anyways, picked up my 1944 scenario as Germany again, game was getting a bit laggy and stressful, you will see why.
A large portion of Army Group center was about to be cut off from the rest of the Army, after losing Minsk due to a massive Soviet offensive, a large number of men in +30 Divisions of all kinds found themselves almost completely surrounded. The situation was pretty desperate, the Soviets pushed down from the north, trying to seize a single province which kept the supply lines open. I, of course, ordered a full retreat from the almost-encircled units, the defensive operation started on 15 May, and while the situation is much better now, on 29 May, some units are still retreating from the danger zone, but their rearguard is heavily defended. This was pretty intense, with me pausing the game over and over to think.
The situation for Army Group North is not very good either, several Soviet assaults north of Kaunas have driven back several German divisions. After several unsuccessfull counterattacks, I pulled back huge amounts of troops to Riga and evacuated them by sea, they arrived to Memel in order to prepare another defensive line. Rommel's southern flank and Busch northen flank is under threat of a masssive Soviet assault, 96km north of Brest-Litovsk is the shattered III. SS-Panzerkorps, a breaktrough on this small area will cause a flood of Soviet divisions right by Mitte's rearguard, two Soviet pincers could deliver a deadly strike, one going straight for the city of Brest-Litovsk, the other going north directly towards Konigsberg, none of them could be stopped.
Meanwhile in the Balkans, I must end things here. I've prepared troops for a decisive attack on Allied positions. The attack is very simple, cut the Allied armies in two. My large Balkans offensive was stalled 73km from my main target, Tirana, so it all ended up on this stalemate, with Bulgarian units launching several successful attacks. I will concentrate my main efforts on a 86km long front, it is relatively well defended, but I will attack with brutality. Encircling and destroying the Allied armies gathered around Zagreb will relieve several of my divisions for a last push towards Tirana, effectively destroying all Allied units in the region and allowing me to reinforce critical fronts of the Eastern Front, or send these men to end the Allied armies in Italy once and for all.