Hearts of Iron

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

Patching HoI is like putting a bandaid on a traumatic amputation.

[NefariousKoel]

Great! Been waiting for that patch! Now maybe it won't be quite so easy.

You need a tourniquet for that Les?

[Frank W.]

i had now the change to check out "HOI"

played 1st time persia, where i conquered 2 afghan provinces, to support the war on terrorism. but then almost my whole army met 4 or 5 afghan divs, and was routed. after some days the message came: your army has dissolved due to lack of suppies!
i had learned this the hard way, too: don´t underestimate the afghans....

2nd time brazil, funny conquered whole south america up to the panama channel, i was not bold enough to attack the US. so i declared war on the allies, attacked british and french islands in middle america. all went okay, so far. but then a huge surprise again this time with the whole left french fleet, which must have fled from europe to the american seas. i routed them serverall times with tac. bombers and my high sea fleet consisting of 2 old BB, 1 old CA and 3 modern destroyer fleets. the french fleet dissapeared somewhere, so i took my transport fleet ( 4 TR, 1 DD fleets) to conquere the remainders of the french territory in america, but suddenly the french fleet appeared again and sank half of my battle fleet and crippled all other fleets seriously. wonder how they could repair so fast.....

3rd time finland this time "hard" difficulty and "agressive" AI. soviets attacked in 39. first they had some succes and took 2 provinces from me. but AI made a huge mistake by going with 9 or 10 divs to attack, but only leaving 2 or 3 for protection of their back. now the germans attacked the SU and the bombers, which were very nerving seemed to moving away from my front to the german border.... after this i took mannerheim gave him 4 good inf divs and attacked the 2 divs of the russians. i won this battle. so the other 9-10 divs were trapped. AI doesn´t notice the danger and did not counterattack with 6 or 7 divs they had on my southern frontier. they just stand and watched
okay now 2 newly build inf div´s and mannerheims army attacked the 2nd soviet conquered province. not much fighting spirit in the russians, these 1 or 2 divs retreated right into the last now trapped province where the other 9-10 divs waited (for what perhpas they had orders simmilar to paulus in stalingrad ). the rest was no prob, after some more fighting the whole russian army group surrendered and the germans where standing meanwhile before moscow and conquered it finally. i took all furter russian provinces in the north, and then joined the germans, took 3 or 4 more huge russian provinces. all other where conquered by the germans already, so there was no more prey for me.... i finally attacked norway which i took fast, and sweden, which i thought must be tough because they had better tech and double the size of my army....but they finally lost, too.
axis won a overhelming victory with me on the leading front....

i notice that britain is too weak in this game and US very seldom joined the allied..

waiting now for the german version to come out.....