HoII Doomsday

[Ecthy]

The funny thing about that game was that Japan never declared war.

[N35t0r]

pah.



On other news, HoI 2 DD rocks

I just short of conquered the world with the Soviet Union... too lazy to reach australia and new zealand, was three province short of annexing south africa (I forgot my troops there when the assault on America began) and had all of america either puppeted or annexed. I decided to call it quits when I hit the 'annex' button on the US diplomacy screen (normal / aggressive)

[Ecthy]

Conquering the world playing a great power is fun. More fun is to conquer great powers with underdogs.

Go Nationalist China

Today I served a young lady from "Republic of China". The script on her passport read "zhong hua min guo" in hanzi which had me puzzled at first, I had expected "zhong hua renmin gong he guo". Then I understood. And nodded.

[Nikolai]

I did not understand. Care to elaborate?

[Serb]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Conquering the world playing a great power is fun. More fun is to conquer great powers with underdogs.

Go Nationalist China

You call Nationalist China an underdog?
It's a powerhouse with nearly unlimited human resources.
You should try Greece, Yugoslavia or Bulgaria to get the picture about counquering the world with underdogs.

[Ecthy]

They start out with almost 0 industry. Of course once you build them up you can get going well, but you have to survive Japanese aggression.

I understand there are smaller nations that are part of the European struggle and much harder to play.

But still... ever managed to outresearch the tech tree playing Naitonalist China? Ever produced a Nationalist Chinese nuke? No you haven't

[Ecthy]

Originally posted by Nikolai
I did not understand. Care to elaborate?

She came to rent a bike. Showed me her passport which read "Republic of China" on it, as well as Chinese types and a sun wheel symbol. At first I didn't grasp.

Republic of China is the official name of the old Chinese state that survived the civil war only on Taiwan, after all of mainland China had been conquered by the Reds. In the 70s diplomatic relations of most western countries switched to Red China, so the Republic of China is now just known as Taiwan.

When I saw her passport I associated it with mainland China rather than Taiwan. Forget about the Chinese talk.

[Serb]

Originally posted by Ecthy
They start out with almost 0 industry. Of course once you build them up you can get going well, but you have to survive Japanese aggression.

I understand there are smaller nations that are part of the European struggle and much harder to play.

But still... ever managed to outresearch the tech tree playing Naitonalist China? Ever produced a Nationalist Chinese nuke? No you haven't

In HOI1, I have produced a Greek nuke (just for fun, cause ALL major powers, except the USSR, were already crushed by Greek tanks, dive bombers and advanced aircarriers)

[Ecthy]

You'd have to conquer India from the Brits playing China t do that. At the moment I'mwondering why I've never done that. The Germans always conquer all of Europe usually so it shouldn't be hard to do.

Hell, even when the Germans start their war against the USSR very early, they often manage to outproduce them and reconquer poland after some insecure months. I've seen red advance well into the East of Germany (Prussia, Silesia) and yet a German victory in the end. Something's wrong with the game

[Grumbold]

I've not bought doomsday because fighting on after 1945 doesn't interest me. Have they done anything significant to the 1936-45 part of the tech tree? How about variable unit graphics so you can tell a PzII from a king tiger?

[Serb]

All new features (new tech tree, new units, espionage, etc) ARE AVAILABLE for any campaign, including "The road to war" (1936-1953).

[Serb]

Originally posted by Ecthy
You'd have to conquer India from the Brits playing China t do that. At the moment I'mwondering why I've never done that. The Germans always conquer all of Europe usually so it shouldn't be hard to do.

Hell, even when the Germans start their war against the USSR very early, they often manage to outproduce them and reconquer poland after some insecure months. I've seen red advance well into the East of Germany (Prussia, Silesia) and yet a German victory in the end. Something's wrong with the game

What version of HOI do you have?
I see no problem with kicking everyone arses playing as China. China has enourmous manpower - the most valuable resource in the game.

[Dinner]

HOI2 didn't last long for me either but I bought it out of loyality to Paradox. It's hard to find a company that really supports their product with new patches years after it has stopped selling so I wanted to support them. That said I've spent most of my free time playing Doomday for the last week or so; my laptop is kind of old so I can only play low hardwear spec games like Doomday but I'm having fun. We'll see if I keep playing it after I get home.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by VJ
So... anyone up for a semi-regular mp game? If yes, what times of week would work for you?

I'm game. Any day is good for me.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Nikolai
More time(1953 instead of 1948), revised tech tree, more options for making it easier to control and tweak the game as you want it to be, new features like espionage, scenario editor, new campaign based on WW3 starting right after WW2, between the Allies and SU. And probably much more.

The AI has also been revised to make it better. The US now actually invades people.