Comments on: If I Had A Heart. Of Iron. Three Of ‘Em, In Fact.

By: Liam Clarke

Liam Clarke — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:30:33 +0000

Serondal – be aware that without scripted events or campaign file editing, the leaders of the three major alliances (Britain = Allies, Germany = Axis, Russia = Comintern) can’t leave their alliances and accordingly you may have issues allying outside your major alliance.

So for example, when I want Fascist Britain to join the Axis, I have to edit my scenario to make Canada the leader of the Allies and remove Britain from it (you also can’t leave a major alliance when WW2 is started) – it’s a trivial edit, though. Check out the Paradox forums for help on anything like that, it’s a wealth of information and knowledgeable players.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:17:51 +0000

Thanks Andrew, I’m about to brave playing an actual campaign and see how well I do. I really want to play as Russia and ally with Germany to see how things might have turned out. Of course I should be clear, if Russia allied with the Axis powers AND was being commanded by a yank with no experience running a communist nation :P

By: Andrew Dunn

Andrew Dunn — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:18:48 +0000

Install both the expansions and patch them up right away. You don’t even need to have HoI2 vanilla installed, as Doomsday is standalone indeed.

And contrary to what Captain Awesome says (belying his name, in fact), they do modify the campaign, with several improvements and suchlike.

By: cjlr

cjlr — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:20:51 +0000

Ah, HoI.

Good times.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:09:48 +0000

Based on what I’ve read Doomsday is a stand along expansion that actually does add to the game and has all the origonal stuff in it just with the added things you mentioned as well as a scenario editor. Where as Armageddon is a booster back for Doomsday adding two new scenarios and some extra stuff for ships allowing you to attach stuff to them like you do normal divisions. According to the website you should now be able to start playing Europea Universalis through Vicotria up into Hearts of Iron to play a massive Fing game but says it may not work as expected considering history could change massivly in the course of the early games and some countries might not even exist. I’m not sure how all that is suposed to work. If it is actually linked up or they just mean you play until the end of the game then start a new scenario with the same country in the next game on the time line.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:48:47 +0000

Do they allow you to play through the origonal scenarios starting before the war and allow you to end after the cold war? Like a grand campagin where you experience the entire thing?

By: Captain Awesome

Captain Awesome — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:24:33 +0000

best damn stretegy game ever made. been playing HoI2 since release, and never gave up.

@Serondal, Armageddon and Doomsday only add new scenarios (Cold War), it doesn’t modify the original game at all.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:15:48 +0000

Okay so I got HoI 2 Anthology. I’ve gone through some of the tutorial missions and find it very interesting. I was expecting something a bit diffrent where you had more direct control over the divisions locaiton (not just in Berlin or in this area or that)

I looked over the US and found that Louisville is HUGE it takes up half of Kentucky , I love this idea as I live in Louisville lol.

Just a question when I got HoI:A it came with the two expansions. Should I install this right away or will they make drastic changes do the game play that I won’t like ?

By: Andrew Dunn

Andrew Dunn — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:58:41 +0000

I still think Germany is the best HoI2 country to start with. In 1936, obviously. Loads of historical events which gradually expand your holdings, plenty of industrial capacity and tech teams with enough skill to make you very competitive, and your wars scale up nicely from Poland to France to Russia if you’re feeling adventurous. It’s got a very nice learning curve, playing as the Nazis! By contrast, starting a 1939 game as Britain really does make it a struggle to have any hope of defending France in 1940, as your army is so terribly inadequate when the game begins. Stalling the Germans along the Rhine and holding on to most of Belgium, grinding down the German manpower in a re-enactment of the Great War over the course of a year or two until their manpower collapsed, was one of my best HoI2 moments.

By: Fenchurch

Fenchurch — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:16:40 +0000

“When you start the game proper, even as the biggest factions, you’ve got plenty of time to look about your holdings and your armies and generally make sense of everything before any bad shit goes down.”

Yes, that’s true, you can pick the earliest time period of 1936, which obviously gives you a lot of breathing space if you pick any power outside of Japans immediate warmongering. Brazil’s an interesting one to start with, you can pick on the other South American countries at your leisure. ;-P

By: Andrew Dunn

Andrew Dunn — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:00:37 +0000

Yep, it really does through you in at the deep end, that demo.

When you start the game proper, even as the biggest factions, you’ve got plenty of time to look about your holdings and your armies and generally make sense of everything before any bad shit goes down.

By: Chris Evans

Chris Evans — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:26:22 +0000

Ok so I played the HoI2 demo and I was a bit overblown, so much is happening and you aren’t really made aware of what any of it means =/