Hearts of Iron

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Grumbold
Since the UK version will not be out until February

wow, we have to wait a looong time for this.

[Dauphin]

[Apocalypse]

I just messed around as Greece and Yogoslavia. I conquered Albania right off the bat as both of them. When I played Greece I declared war on Turkey next and fought a fairly even war. A stalemate. I just quit there though. As Yugo, I was able to annex Hungary, but then Germany and Italy turned their sights toward me and I didn't last much longer.

I played Yugo a second time, but didn't annex Hungary. Nationalist Spain won and went on to join the axis and beat up on France, including taking the Vinchy province so there is no Vinchy France. The Axis attacked me again though. I had tried to join them, but nothing worked.

Furthermore, I learned that improving industry generally isn't worth it as it cuts IC in half. I should do much better in future games now.

[General Ludd]

I am downloading it now and will likely buy it soon (tommorow, if I have enough money left over after geting a new soundcard) Looking forward to it.

[Grumbold]

Originally posted by Apocalypse
Furthermore, I learned that improving industry generally isn't worth it as it cuts IC in half. I should do much better in future games now.

Upgrade provinces with small amounts of industry in. The same applies for all other activities that halve the IC income of the province. Do them in the small provinces. Stupid but true. Expect a patch to alter this eventually.

[Ramo]

I take back what I said about the AI. I just played a game as Republican Spain, and when I invaded Germany, the AI left absolutely nothing in the Western front (and it was at war with England and the US!!! ). So I steamrolled with 7 infantry divisions across France, the Low Countries, Germany, Austria, and Poland (after conquering France, I made peace with all of Germany's allies). With the Soviet AI too incompetent to finish off Germany and her main ally Czechoslavakia, which conquered plenty of Russia alone, I invaded, annexing Germany and all her lebensraum in '46, and Finland and uber-Czechoslavakia (with lots Soviet territory) in '47.

Mind you this is with Spain (although I have conquered Portugal, but that doesn't change much), a country industrially impotent compared to Germany.

[David Floyd]

What difficulty was that set on?

In any case, I'll probably pick this game up tomorrow...

[Ramo]

Normal.

[David Floyd]

Dammit, Best Buy doesn't have it out yet. Figures. I'll just have to pick it up at Gamestop tomorrow - I WAS gonna get it after work tonight, but I guess not.

[Ramo]

The one in the Arboretum (part of Barnes and Noble) had it on Wednesday.

[vishniac]

HELP!

Can someone post a link to an online shop where I can order it NOW?
I need it shipped outside of the US, I'm living in Switzerland. (so no Amazon.com, etc...).

[David Floyd]

I just went to the Arboretum store (as well as Best Buy North and South Austin, Circuit City, CompUSA, and WalMart, as well as calling two other Gamestops), and I found nothing. Oh well.

[Main_Brain]

Checked some Online shops didnt find international shipping ..
does amazon.com send games to europe?



to add to David Flyods Quote:
I'll take Penis Might'er for 500!
-The Pen IS Mightier Mr Connery.
Well if it was Penis mightier you might be sitting on a Goldmine Trebec!

[General Ludd]

I've experienced the same thing as you, Ramo - Somtimes that AI does really well, and somtimes it is completely incompetent.

For instance, in a game I played as the USSR, Germany and it's european allies did a very good attacking me, while Japan did next to nothing and let me walk all over their unoccupied territories.

And I also tried playing a few games as Communist China, 4 out of 5 tries the Nationalist China AI did really well and kicked my butt. The fifth time, it just sat around doing nothing at all and let me march across all their provinces with no resistance (except for the armies that they'd already parked somewhere). Yet when I had broken through their lines in another attempt, they did good job of catching my army and stoping it - then attacked my provinces with everything they had and crushed me.

It's really quite puzzling... but EU2 was much the same way when it was first released. I don't doubt that they will fix all of the problems, though.

I also noticed that there was no copy protection, and that it's going to be added in the 1.02 patch - just like EU2. I wonder if they release their games in a shoddy condition just to mess around with software pirates.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet


wow, we have to wait a looong time for this.

I hate it when this happens. This will no doubt attract disbelief, but these days the main reason I ever *ahem* acquire a game online is that it takes so damn long to come out here, and by the time it does I have finished it and am not going to buy the game.