Hearts of Iron 2.. Arrg I suck at it.

Got this game a few weeks ago... its been taking forcing me away from Eve-online ever since...

Sooo fun and yet sooo annoying sometimes.

For an older game its fantastic!

[Janus]

Yesterday I continued with my Japanese 1936 scenario (Doomsday). I am in February '39 and I still have to conquer those low infrastructure and mountaineous western victory point provinces of the Chinese to be able to annex them.
The partisan activity over there is insane.

What nation do you play Rilder?

Usually jump around a bit, currently messing around with a Canada Campaign.. allows me to mess around without influencing too much.

Though usually I play a campaign then get mad and start a new one when I lose a battle.

[Janus]

My first nation to play was Argentina. I restarted from scratch numerous times, trying out different focuses on research, productions and so on. What I like about smaller nations is the reduced need to manage large stacks of armies and IC.

I only have to think of playing UK and having to manage all those remote depots and forces drives me mad already

Right so its Early 1942, Canadian troups have withdrew from the african coast after General Vernier (sp?) Judges that the battle is lost there, but he doesn't go home, he disembarks in Portugal, and after several short battles annexes them, Even with this small victory though, the allies are losing ground by the day, (and the Commiterm) Britain is in German Hands, giving Germany basicly a One Front war with the soviets.

Knowing the profits Hitler is reaping from Germany I draw up Plans for Operation Reclamation... The Liberation of the British Isles, hoping that Hitler had made a mystake and under garrisoned britain.

My Gamble payed off and less then 2 months after Landing on the South Shores of Britain the Entire place is back in there Rightfull owners.

[TheSatyr]

Since I always start in 1936,my games get weird. Last time I played Germany I had Nationalist Spain as one of my allies. As soon as war started they attacked France...and conquered France before I was even done re-positioning my army after defeating Poland. I still can't figure out how that happened.

And in another game,England decided to Intervene in the USSR-Finland Winter War. Made things alot more interesting for Germany...lol

[KeptinCranky]

about weirdness..

In my current USA 1936 campaign I have 20 mechanized/armored corps, 6 marine divisions, 2 carrier taskforces and numerous planes standing by to invade wherever I feel I can take a nice chunk out of the axis...
All built up according to plan, just waiting for December 7 1941

However, it is now juli of 1942 and nothing much has happened, Japan has failed to conquer China, Germany took Poland but the allies did not declare war so Germany is just sort of sitting there and building nasty Panzer divisions, hell they even have a decent Navy by now...all the while Hungary is allied with Greece, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria since 1940 and fighting the Soviets, those Balkan countries are holding off the entire Red Army in the one province of Hungary that actually borders USSR

I am now not at war with anyone, nor can I declare war on anyone, they're all being too nice...I might have to change the US government to a totalitarian regime

[TheSatyr]

I think the wildest game I've played as Germany is when I had Hungary,Rumania,Nationalist Spain,Bulgaria and believe it or not,Poland as allies. In late 1942 EVERYBODY attacked me,even though I was behaving myself and just working on techs. After that,I allied with Italy and Japan.

Since i had been sending all my allies techs they were in decent shape. Poland even managed to hold off the USSR long enough for me to send a large army to back them up.

Nationalist Spain immediately went after France,as did Italy,while Japan went nuts in the Pacific. For some reason the USA AI had kept the bulk of it's fleet in the Atlantic. The Japanese AI actually tried to invade Australia,but got beaten off.

The end result is that by the time the game ended (time ran out) I had taken part of the USSR and held off the Western Allies...though they did conquer Spain. I played a more defensive game,which is something I rarely do. As for the Japanese,they grabbed Vladivostok,the Phillipines,Wake,Midway and a host of other areas. The USA AI sent it's fleets into battle piecemeal and got chewed up by the Japanese Navy.

[Janus]

Originally Posted by KeptinCranky

about weirdness..

In my current USA 1936 campaign I have 20 mechanized/armored corps, 6 marine divisions, 2 carrier taskforces and numerous planes standing by to invade wherever I feel I can take a nice chunk out of the axis...
All built up according to plan, just waiting for December 7 1941

Mechanized corps in 1941? Did you research 3 or 4 years ahead of time?

Originally Posted by Janus

Mechanized corps in 1941? Did you research 3 or 4 years ahead of time?

Seems possible, iirc mechanized infantry require only the second version of Motorized infantry.

Usually whenever I play USA I end up organizing a coup on japan and allying with them, at which case my new brosef and I declare war on Germany.

[Laffertytig]

u guys should check out the total realiism mod, it really adds to the game.

http://www.totalrealismproject.com/

Originally Posted by Laffertytig

u guys should check out the total realiism mod, it really adds to the game.

http://www.totalrealismproject.com/

I thought about it but theres like no info on the mod, just a link to download it. Its like a game company realeasing a game called "Game" with no screenshots or anything just a white box with the word game on it.

[Oberon]

TRP is good but IIRC primarily aimed at Germany, makes the game much harder, I couldn't break into the USSR come Barbarossa, that's for certain, but then again, I suck a fair bit at HOI2 too

Playing stock HOI2 (Arma, IIRC) now as the UK, history went south very early in the game when France DOW'd Germany, Poland DOW'd France, and the Soviet Union DOW'd Poland and Germany.
I've been spending most of the time building up my defence and kicking Mussolini out of Africa, it's quite amusing because as quickly as Germany is coming west, Russia is chewing its way west as well. We may well see the Reich in Portugal before long!

Well, better dig in because I have a feeling that it'll be cold war time sooner than anticipated...

Just finished my USA campaign, (well not so much as finished it as ran into a game crashing ctd that I can't get past)

Anyways.




The greek empire I formed.

Also yes I'm allied with japan thanks to a coup.

Was a fun campaign tbh.

[Raptor1]

I too suck at HoI 2, I'm playing as Canada right now and the people in my country must be thinking stuff like "WTF are they doing developing ICBMs when our infantry is in the stone age" or "WTF are they doing annexing countries in South America", I'm probably the leading country in terms of Nuclear Weapons, Tactical and Strategic Bombers, But most of my ground forces are still in the 1930s, I've been mostly staying out of WWII (Which hasn't ended yet, It's 1947) and starting my own little wars in the Caribbean and South America (I have no idea why, just wanted to bomb someone I guess...), So far I annexed Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Chile, Argentina (After a long and bloody war), Uruguay and Paraguay, I also "helped" the UK annex several other nations like Cuba and Ecuador (I think that was it), Damn freeloaders...

Sooo, Yeah, I suck at this too...