Hoi2 is a fantastic game. Personally I was hoping that Rome would have been a hybrid of HOI and Victoria which - for all its complexity - remains absolutely the benchmark in terms of ambition as far as I'm concerned. It's Pop system and in particular the way troops can be recruited (Regular troops from provinces with a high number of your national pops, dropping down to colonial and native with the attendant drop of quality depending on where you are,) would have been utterly perfect for Rome. It's colonization and infrastructure building systems (much improved in the XP,) also would have suited a Roman era game down to the ground. There was a classical mod in production for it. I must find out how it was getting on.
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