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Historiker -> RE: THE THREAD!!! (8/8/2009 1:13:44 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Dixie
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ORIGINAL: Historiker
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ORIGINAL: Dixie
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ORIGINAL: thegreatwent
Good morning all[:)]. Sorry to hear about your flu bug T, hopefully it immunizes you to what may be a tough flu season this year. With AE out and work I've not had time to examine HOI3, past experience with that game company leads me to believe that it is not my cup of tea.
IL-2 Sturmovik Birds of Prey, while a different genre, appears to be a gem or at least eye candy.
I played HOI2 and enjoyed it for a bit, but it doesn't have the long term interest for me.
If you still have it and have some spare time, look for the "Historical Stony Road" mod. This turns HoI2 nearly into another game. It's an amazing work with thousands of additonal events, new units, etc.
I'll give it a look thanks [:)]
The last time I played HOI2 Germany didn't declare war on Poland so nothing happened in Europe. Japan over-ran all of China before declaring war on the West. The USA sat back and did nothing, the Dutch sent an expeditionary force. The UK (me) had to take back India, and vast chunks of China in a race against the USSR, whilst the Royal Navy carrier groups slowly destroyed the IJN. That war ended with an invasion of the HI followed by chasing the Japanese 'capital' around the Pacific islands before I could force a real surrender. About 8 months after that the Soviet Union declared war and rolled through China whilst RAF Victors nuked Moscow, Stalingrad, Chunking and every other major industrial center I could find.
I must have lost more than a dozen CVs in the war but still finished up with two dozen or so with more under construction [X(]
Poland has a very low chance to hand over Danzig and the corridore. I guess its about 1-5%. If it does so, no war in Europe will start for some years.
Now there are dozends of changes, just a few examples:
- The 50 Destroyers are given to the Brits and are "sunk" from the USN.
- If Japan chooses to do Pearl Harbor, the BBs are sunk by script
- Japan now has several options after conquering China (partion into several puppets, one big puppet, seize all)
- Z-Plan, Soviet Naval buildup, Japanese Naval expansion
- old Italien BBs are "sunk" and come back after some time as modernized ships
- There's a small timetable for Germany to get National Spain on its side. By script, National Spain doesn't conquer Madrid before mid 39, so the civil war lasts that long. After the civil war until the outbrake of WW2, it may join the axis. If done so, France leave the alliance immediately after the outbrake of war.
- Quisling
- Descicion between Surface fleet / Subs with blueprints accordingly
- weaker naval bomber
- SS with all its historic units. Player is asked whether he wants to create this or that historic SS division. This costs some manpower and supplies and the unit is on the map with 2/100, so it has to filled up, first.
- You are warned when playing Germany not to attack anyone until may when poland is conquered. If you do so, there's a coup. You may then descide if crushed or successfull. Don't want to make a spoiler here, if you like to try out...
I only played this mod. It was already made for HoI 1 and its worth it!
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