I recently bought this game with a friend of mine to play around with. We're big fans of any kind of cooperative computer game so we got excited about this when we heard about it. And then we heard it sucked so we changed our minds. And then we heard that the company that released it and Europa Universalis II (also good) has spend more then a year patching these games to make them what they should have been. And now we are playing Hearts of Iron all the time, and it's great.
It's a real time strategy game based on WWII. You can choose any nation on earth and play, starting in January of 1936. You play for a total of 12 years and control your nation. It's historically hyper accurate, so you have the resources that your nation had at the time. You aren't comstricted too much by history later, so if you wanted to invade Russia as Turkey you could or if you didn't want to enter the war as America you could stay out (boring game though).
Some of the things I've done with it:
As Venezuela I put together a large force of long range submarines and put the bulk of Italy's and later Japan's trasport fleets into the ocean.
As Australia (the current game I'm still in) I employed a similiar submarine strategy while my buddy played nationalist China. He conquered communist china, outlawed the party and fought Japan to a standstill for three years on the mainland. I cut off, sank, and destroyed their supply efforts and reinforcements and my buddy managed to fight pretty far into the Korea and Vietnam. I also managed to invade the souther area of the Japanese main island.
And my favorite was when I was playing Mexico I managed to invent the atomic bomb (I had to use the entirty of the nation's resources to do it). I built an old prewar aircraft carrier, surrounded it with prewar destroyers and cruisers and had one wing of WWI era stragic bombers on it. I rolled up next to Italy and dropped the world's first ever nuclear weapon on Rome! As MEXICO! (I lacked the range to hit Berlin with it).
Anyways, a great game for strategy fans and WWII fans alike.
It's a real time strategy game based on WWII. You can choose any nation on earth and play, starting in January of 1936. You play for a total of 12 years and control your nation. It's historically hyper accurate, so you have the resources that your nation had at the time. You aren't comstricted too much by history later, so if you wanted to invade Russia as Turkey you could or if you didn't want to enter the war as America you could stay out (boring game though).
Some of the things I've done with it:
As Venezuela I put together a large force of long range submarines and put the bulk of Italy's and later Japan's trasport fleets into the ocean.
As Australia (the current game I'm still in) I employed a similiar submarine strategy while my buddy played nationalist China. He conquered communist china, outlawed the party and fought Japan to a standstill for three years on the mainland. I cut off, sank, and destroyed their supply efforts and reinforcements and my buddy managed to fight pretty far into the Korea and Vietnam. I also managed to invade the souther area of the Japanese main island.
And my favorite was when I was playing Mexico I managed to invent the atomic bomb (I had to use the entirty of the nation's resources to do it). I built an old prewar aircraft carrier, surrounded it with prewar destroyers and cruisers and had one wing of WWI era stragic bombers on it. I rolled up next to Italy and dropped the world's first ever nuclear weapon on Rome! As MEXICO! (I lacked the range to hit Berlin with it).
Anyways, a great game for strategy fans and WWII fans alike.
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