Hearts of Iron 3

I own Hearts of Iron 2.  It was the most in depth game I ever played.  That being said, I only played 2 games and spent about a month going through them before I put it down and never touched it again.  I loved the detail, but that wasn’t a game, it was a career.

I had the same experience except i bought HOI 1 and 2. :roll:

@Imperious:

I had the same experience except i bought HOI 1 and 2. :roll:

You’d be glad to know that I played Spain on my first game and split France with Germany as the 4th Axis member.  Then I kicked the Brits out of Gibraltar and had very little left to work with.

You got that far?

I got close to a split too. I was gonna split the disks in half and throw them away. Now they just sit on the shelf and i play L4D1 and 2 which are real games.

@Imperious:

You got that far?

I got close to a split too. I was gonna split the disks in half and throw them away. Now they just sit on the shelf and i play L4D1 and 2 which are real games.

What is L4D1 and 2?

Left 4 Dead a co-op kill zombie game

Hearts of Iron 2 Doomsday is better than 3. It’s way faster and has less bugs. In HOI2 you don’t have AI Mexico doing D-Day on Hamburg in 1939, etc  :-P

I have played many times HOI2 and where it shines is playing minor powers. Republican Spain is great, you must fight Germany almost alone after fall of France until soviets come into the rescue. I also like commie China, it’s a real challenge. And once a time I played a game as Turkey and ended parachuting to Japan. I also tried Bolivia and is more interesting that seems  :lol:

On the other side, playing mayors is really boring, just stomp all the world without much resistance. For mayors, continue playing A&A  :-D

@Imperious:

You got that far?

I got close to a split too. I was gonna split the disks in half and throw them away. Now they just sit on the shelf and i play L4D1 and 2 which are real games.

I need to get L4D2.  I loved the first one and spent so much time playing multiplayer.  And now I hear they a releasing an expansion scenario this month for 2 that has the survivors meeting 3 of the survivors from the first one (the 4th sacrificed themselves to save the others and appears as a Special Infected).

i will look this up. Defiantly will buy it.

What a coincidence, I just got off of HoI3. I love it, but don’t play much for obvious reasons, what with the slowness and all. I have a feeling it’d be far better with others to play with.

@Imperious:

i will look this up. Defiantly will buy it.

I’ve been playing L4D2 for a couple of weeks.  Better than the 1st, but I don’t think it has the staying power of the first.  I did about die laughing the first time I played as the Jockey though.

@Jermofoot:

@Imperious:

i will look this up. Defiantly will buy it.

I’ve been playing L4D2 for a couple of weeks.  Better than the 1st, but I don’t think it has the staying power of the first.  I did about die laughing the first time I played as the Jockey though.

Play The Passing yet?

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@Jermofoot:

@Imperious:

i will look this up. Defiantly will buy it.

I’ve been playing L4D2 for a couple of weeks.  Better than the 1st, but I don’t think it has the staying power of the first.  I did about die laughing the first time I played as the Jockey though.

Play The Passing yet?

Yup!  Slightly disappointing (so little interaction with the original survivors) but very good and worth the money.  Particularly the Mutations game setting.

I bought Alien vs. predator. worst game ever.

I was thinking it might be like L4D, but the people move like they do in COD4… very slow and the guns suck and its very dark even on maximum brightness.

don’t buy

I played mostly HOI2 doomsday, which prolongs game play into 1953, and then got the Armageddon upgrade which has an alternate universe risk style game which is alot of fun.
I’ve always enjoyed playing these games, and have gotten pretty into several of them, My favorites being Nationalist China, Soviet Union, Republican Spain, and Italy.
I was extreamly disapointed by HOI3, as the combat system seems very flawed and has been made overly complicated. I think the game it its stride with the Armageddon upgrade, by far the best and most accurate game they have made so far.
I still play, its kinda of like A&A on steroids as I head it put once. The level of depth is amazing, and even though it follows history so closely, a good player can still take his nation to greatness. I’ve played Japan once or twice and have managed to overrun China, and rather then attack south, I would always strike north, and help bring down the Soviets, which would be better position me to strike south sometime in 1943 (always played on the fastest setting) One game as Italy I managed to take Egypt, most of northern Sudan and push all the way into Iraq and nearly take Baghdad with the 2 divisions of the DAK and 2 corps, comprising 6 divisions, 2 of which were armoured, and 4 of which were motorized inf, being my principal striking force.
What great games they were and are, as no 2 games are ever the same.

Steam is offering a sale on the Complete Hearts of Iron 2 game (orignal title, and all its expansion and patches) for like 8 bucks or so, its worth checking out

that game was fun, but I never knew we could talk about video games,  :-D :-D

I love these games, mainly because of their depth. I like being able to effect things on a deeper level. Its not just about moving your arimes here or there, or buying this unit over the other, like in A&A. What type of doctrine you research on how your army will function, building more advanced infantry with ample Artillery support, or building a fast moving mechanized army of tanks and motorized infantry. Also the tactics you as the player employ are extreamly important. It can change the war on a more profound level.
I have played several games out to their logical conclusion. I have played games that have begun in 1936 and streched into the 50’s. I had one great game as France where I extended the Maginot line all along the Belgium border and kept the Germans out (I call it the fortress France stratgey). The game concluded with the Russians over running all of Germany and me driving hard into the low countires to keep the russkies out. I had also conqured Italy and Austira, along with a chunk of the Balkans. I had develpoed rockets and the A-bomb, and by the late 40’s I was lobbing nuclear tipped ICBMs at the Japanese home islands destroying their IC (which still didnt slow them down too much as they had conqured China earlier in the 40’s and quite the manpower edge anyway). This was only one of several amazing games I have played with HOI, and I enjoyed them all sooooo much.
I can understand why some dont like the game, its a bit much to take in. Also, unlike me, not everyone is a fan of games that require to put such consideration into logistics and production. But as Zhukov was said “Amatures think stratagey, Professionals think logistics”  :-D