Hearts of Iron 2 has arrived

Murdoch said:
thoughts?
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Yeah, cross your fingers and pray to god that the japanese attack China this time. :D

Other than that I don't think I'd put my forces under direct German control. If you could get a military access deal, you could help them without losing control of your forces. Another thing is that roughly half of North Africa will belong to Vichy France and the do a poor job of defending it (in my experience), so you might want to declare war on France when Germany does, and be ready to grab as much as possible before France falls.

Other than that it sounds like a good plan to me.
 
Flop said:
Yeah, cross your fingers and pray to god that the japanese attack China this time. :D
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I'm thinking of upping AI aggressiveness next time, from the current normal setting. But I think the cold war between Japan and China was a fluke and will seldom be repeated, so this may not be necessary.

Flop said:
Other than that I don't think I'd put my forces under direct German control. If you could get a military access deal, you could help them without losing control of your forces. Another thing is that roughly half of North Africa will belong to Vichy France and the do a poor job of defending it (in my experience), so you might want to declare war on France when Germany does, and be ready to grab as much as possible before France falls.

Other than that it sounds like a good plan to me.
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True, the Allies would then assault Casablanca et al, so I'd need to defend that coast against the historic offensive celled...Torch perhaps? Anyways, France is the fly in my plan's ointment. But as long as I had military access through Vichy I could garrison the coast strongly and not have to worry about garrisoning the (relatively) worthless south of France. This is of course all predicated on Italy not going it alone, which I don't think is very reasonable in the long run.

-sigh-
So many possibilities, so little time...

Also, do you have a profile at the Paradox forums? I'm Murdoch there too, btw.
 
I love this game.
Being a ruthless bastard helps a lot, it seems. Germany and the Axis did not want anything to do with Finland, so i forged an alliance with Estonia and Latvia... First i assumed military control over them, started harassing Soviet forces in Leningrad and when the very much pissed Soviet divisions marched over Estonia and latvia, i calmly conquered the Kola peninsula and traded them back for a ceasefire.
13 divisions against the Soviets 130 and i come out with 1+ provinces
:shock:
 
Murdoch said:
True, the Allies would then assault Casablanca et al, so I'd need to defend that coast against the historic offensive celled...Torch perhaps? Anyways, France is the fly in my plan's ointment. But as long as I had military access through Vichy I could garrison the coast strongly and not have to worry about garrisoning the (relatively) worthless south of France. This is of course all predicated on Italy not going it alone, which I don't think is very reasonable in the long run.

-sigh-
So many possibilities, so little time...

Also, do you have a profile at the Paradox forums? I'm Murdoch there too, btw.
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I'm Flop, too, at the paradox forums, but I really haven't been posting that much. I mostly lurk, to get tips and ideas for strategies. I gotta say, though, that if you want to master any paradox game, you have to lurk at the paradox forums. The manuals are simply too small to explain everything you have to know.

But, yeah, I guess military access through Vishy would probably be the best way to go, since you would need quite a few garrisons in North Africa otherwise, and considering how shitty all the provinces there are, it wouldn't be worth it.

Another (and I have to say, suddenly much more attractive) possibility is puppeting. I don't know if you can actually puppet North Africa, but I doubt it. But still, every puppet you create will give you it's surplus resources, it will start at the same tech level you're at when you puppet it, and whenever it researches a technology you don't have, it will give you the blueprints for free. As Germany, I got a shitload of naval technology blueprints from Vichy. Besides that, it'll help your TC, which I suspect will be a big problem for you as Italy.

All in all, I think you're going to have an interesting game as Italy. Be sure to let me know how it plays out.

Suicide Candidate said:
I love this game.
Being a ruthless bastard helps a lot, it seems. Germany and the Axis did not want anything to do with Finland, so i forged an alliance with Estonia and Latvia... First i assumed military control over them, started harassing Soviet forces in Leningrad and when the very much pissed Soviet divisions marched over Estonia and latvia, i calmly conquered the Kola peninsula and traded them back for a ceasefire.
13 divisions against the Soviets 130 and i come out with 1+ provinces
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That's pretty well played, although I don't understand why you couldn't join the axis. Did you put an effort into influencing Germany before asking them? Also, I think it's an ai flaw that USSR, with 130 divisions, couldn't spare a few of them to guard it's Finnish border while crushing Estonia and Latvia.

I'm currently playing a game as Japan, it's august 1941, and I'm making my final preparations to crush (or be crushed) by USA. I hope they'll put up a good fight, but I have my doubts. Their navy is strong, but their army is pathetic, consisting mainly of garrisons. I suspect that if I manage to land just a few divisions on their mainland, they'll be finished. I guess I'll have to wait and see.
 
Suicide Candidate said:
13 divisions against the Soviets 130 and i come out with 1+ provinces
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You have to unlock the "Lauren" difficulty setting, which will prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future.
 
:D

Also, I think it's an ai flaw that USSR, with 130 divisions, couldn't spare a few of them to guard it's Finnish border while crushing Estonia and Latvia.
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Well... At that time the Blitzkrieg was still going strong. If the germans had not fared so well i would have been bitch-slapped to norway :shock:

Edit: i lost that one province now... :cry:
A bitter bitter peace.
 
Aww... I love this game!

I've fucked Poland up the arse with every country in every situation imaginable, made Dutchiestan a Belgian puppet nation, and brought the glorious revolution to the USA...

It's too easy, though. Even on 'hard' the AI strategies suck. If you blitzkrieg, you can get even the USA on it's knees in less than two months...
 
Best Paradox game ever.

I'm a Market Liberal France that's set up puppet FGR, Czechlovakia, Italy, Austria, Poland and Lithuania. I'm blazing towards the East now, having destroyed the Third Reich, in May. My Renault G1R's are going top speed towards Moscow. I expect to be in Moscow before Christmas.

I'm in love with this game and the Renault G1R

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Would somebody mind explaining the color schemes for provinces in the game? The screenshots confuse me.
 
There are 8 diffirent color schemes. The main ones are terrain (most are tan, mountains are grey), political (France is gray-blue, America is blue, USSR is red, Germany is black) and supply (green is in supply, red is not).
 
Been playing the game for awhile. Definitely pretty fun, though it'd be nice if there were a way to set production priorities. Managing the sliders every day to achieve maximum efficiency stops being fun pretty quick.

Waiting around for historical events is also pretty confusing. I missed my Operation Barbarossa by a year, because I was expecting an event trigger. Just as well, though, I still crushed the Stalinists and "liberated" their European Nations. :)

What I appreciate most, oddly enough, are manpower concerns. After maintaining the Russian invasion through one Winter (before they sued for peace) and invading Britain and Ireland with spastic supply convoys, I'm at my operational ends. I could invade the Soviet Union again through my puppetized Russia to take the heat off of Nationalist China, or I could invade the Balkans. Either way its a matter of playing the Waiting game for Manpower to accumulate.
 
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Winter War.
:roll:

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Swedish troops establishing their greater-kingdom

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And getting some sunny places to stay.


Otherwise than Ai that fucks up sometimes, great game.
 
Good stuff Kormy! Have fun trying to keep Moscow though!

And are you playing with any mods? Some aspects of your interface don't look normal to me.
 
Murdoch said:
Good stuff Kormy! Have fun trying to keep Moscow though!

And are you playing with any mods? Some aspects of your interface don't look normal to me.
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I used graphic-mod by stonyroad.de, which changed some interface/flags/minister pictures to better ones.

And since then, i have installed Stony Road HSR (which rocks).

Couple more pictures if intrested.

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bombing capitalists with ICBM.

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blitzkriegin british.

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irony? :wink:

More here :

http://koti.mbnet.fi/jani_r/Games/
 
Can anybody tell me how to increase my pool of transports and escorts for my convoys? I've looked over the manual trying to find anything, but I haven't.

All I can find is a reference to prioritizing convoys with an arrow pointing up. Something I also can't find.
 
I just started playing the game a few days ago for the first time and after you get over the learning curve, it's really fun!

I played as the 3rd Reich on easy and it's June, 1939 and I've already taken Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania, and France. I'm NOT going to attack the USSR until Britain is COMPLETELY defeated though. Don’t want a repeat of history now. :P

Those allied assholes keep bombing me and I have to take it until I produce more fighters. :?

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Now that France has fallen, I have to wait until my Navy and Air force are built up for the Battle for Britain. This includes a big-ass landing force. :D I also have to wait anyway for my dissent to go down.

I have a question though, does successfully cooing the government of another nation make them your puppet? and if so, how can you maximize the chance of a successful coo? And finally, how do you combine units? I know how to split them up, but I can't seem to figure out how to combine them.
 
If you select multiple units there's a button in the bottom right of the army display that lets you combine them.

Succesfully launching a coup will make the target nation your puppet, and to maximize the chance of that, you can change your Intelligence Minister to someone who can increase the chance of coup success. Coups also have a higher chance of success in nations that have forms of government similar to yours. Dictatorships have an easier time deposing other Dictatorships.
 
Damn calculon, that's gotta be the slowest loading image ever. But aye, all this talk about the game is making me consider buying it. I've got the first but maybe I'll go crazy and get hte second one too.
 
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