I had Hearts of Iron 2 for quite a while, loved it, I can't think of anything bad to say about it, control everything from tech stuff, to production and your politics, by far one of my favorites ever produced.
Just bought "Making History: The Calm & The Storm" from Strategy First games. I havent got to deep into it yet but seems a little more complicated that HoI2. There's a patch that fixes some minor AI problems and allows you to be any country. You can't choose your ministers or cabinet but the production and research part is much trickier. You have to produce consumer goods as well as arms, research is tied to your production, it also goes off laborer happiness, if there isn't enough goods for them their productivity goes down. There's to manyh other aspects for me to list here but the game is definitaley showing promise.
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