
Compared to their last game, Europa Universalis IV, there is a much heavier focus on troop management, warfare and technological development and less of a focus on diplomacy, mostly just because there are fewer countries and a shorter time period. You can, of course, pause the game to think and issue large numbers of orders at crucial moments. Then, as the clock runs, all those things happen simultaneously. You and your opponents choose what you want to research, make plans, prepare invasions and order troops. These games take place in real time, rather than the turn based system in Civilization. This game takes us masterfully through the revolutions in technology and strategy that occurred during the period (1936-1951+), from the wooden planes and trenches of the First World War through the technological revolution and grand strategy of Second World War to the world of missiles and A-bombs of the Cold War.įor those not familiar with Paradox’s games, you choose a country and play through a specific period of time (in this case WW2): training and positioning troops, declaring war, managing technological progress, developing economically, engaging in diplomacy, dealing with internal and external politics and so on. Want to try and ally with the USSR or invade them? Want to change your system of government entirely? Think early development of nukes would have changed everything? HoI4 gives you the ability to explore the grand strategy of World War 2 using Paradox’s “Clausewitz” engine for simulating global strategy and development. Hearts of Iron IV, the latest game from Paradox, puts you into the head of someone fighting World War 2 and gives you a surprising number of options and opportunities for strategic thought. All of these things are difficult, require massive investment and make you feel accomplished. There’s nothing quite like sinking your first carrier, completing an encirclement, causing a superpower to capitulate or dropping the world’s first atomic bomb. This was written in August 2016, but it's already became a classic and the top review for Hearts of Iron IV.Hearts of Iron IV is the most fun you’ll have taking over the world. commie France has 44 reactors and 30 nukes France nukes every major and minor city on the USA’s east coast communist states of America happens in Alaska France can into Berlin, except no because the peoples republic of china takes Berlin 0.0 commie France begins researching nukes somehow mamma bear cant into Germany because Poland is in the way France cant into Germany because I cant play the game right Sweden and peoples republic of china become fellow comrades Here's one i found on Youtube a while back (from someone named "BenBomb5"): >And you did it all for the glory of Bolivia >A country of two million you made into an empire which took half the world to topple >Whose people have hearts too noble for silver but too modest for gold >Center of your short-lived empire whose scale was greater then Bolivar could have ever dreamed >Where the children play as hard as the foreign soldiers fight >Where the men carve nature to their will >Where the women are twice as strong as the men of other lands >When it falls La Paz will no longer be a city biult of brick nor will it be one chisled of marble >When the new regime entered La Paz was a city of brick on a mountain >The Desert Fox, The mountaineer, The Hill Fighter, The Ranger, The Engineer, The legend >You get the achievement "No Country for Old Men" >You make a desperate push for their new capitol >Jorge thinks you can win but only if you beat Brazil quickly >You feel that your army is ready now for your greatest conquest >You continue to improve your army whilst you devour Uruguay >You have a score to settle with Brazil from what they did almost a century ago >Brazil and Uruguay are the only ones left who haven't felt the wrath of the HNF >The war drags on, but you eventualy push him to his capital >Jorge has mixed feelings about the war, thinks many men will die >Jorge is seasoned now, has seen many deaths >Venezuela joins you're faction, it's called the Hispanic Nationalist Front >He doesn't want to unless the war's already started >You prepare to get Venezuela in a faction with you >Have nothing but five men, an airfield, a claim on a neighbor and a dream

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Some of you may have not read this yet, in which you should because it details a beautiful story and it does entail what Hearts of Iron IV is all about. This was written in August 2016, but it's already became a classic and the top review for Hearts of Iron IV.
