Hearts of Iron 2

[ncc1701e]

If I had to choose between Darkest Hour and Arsenal of Democracy.

Which one to buy? And why?

[altipueri]

Almost the same.

I play Darkest Hour - but only the scenarios.

They cost nothing, or virtually nothing so try them.

As an aside, I've never really got how to play Paradox continuous time games. A click fest; or stop every day, week, month, year and re-start. What do you do?

[Aurelian]

I play at the slowest speed and pause when necessary.

[ncc1701e]

Thanks, it is true that both are unexpensive now.

[CaptBeefheart]

I set a lot of actions to "stop and notify" or whatever the terminology is. I get a new tech, play stops. I get attacked somewhere, play stops. I lose a leader, play stops. A new ship gets built, play stops. You get the idea. Then I just run the game as fast as possible.

To the original question, the two variant games are something like $2 each [EDIT: On sale, at least]. I'd buy both. It's been awhile, but looking at my Steam statistics, I've played AOD more than DH.

Cheers,
CB

[Rising-Sun]

I have tried them both, i didnt like how AoD is setup and still some issues with it. Darkest Hour would be your best bet, cause of realism and details of the game.

I did some sprites for IJN for AoD, but i have abort the projects due to issues with the game...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ ... 1616399922

Also the team working or improving AoD doesnt seem friendly, when i try offer my help to fix it or least explaining the details. Guess some teams rather be left alone, doing their own things like PDX does.

[ncc1701e]

Well funny, Darkest Hour is 80% off on Steam until May 15th.

[Rising-Sun]

Well funny, Darkest Hour is 80% off on Steam until May 15th.

Still a good game for the price, plus you could find mods that suit you from PDX forum.

[ncc1701e]

So happy to rediscover HOI2 with Darkest Hour. Still remembering the musics.

After the disappointment of HOI3, I did read some feedback on HOI4 but it seems I won't like it.
Playing Darkest Hour all the afternoon, no crash. Miracle.

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[Rising-Sun]

HoI3 does have issues, idk what it is. Alot of players doesnt like HoI4 cause lack of realism and feel wonky.

Glad you like Darkest Hours, its my favorite too.

[gamer78]

HoI3 does have issues, idk what it is. Alot of players doesnt like HoI4 cause lack of realism and feel wonky.

Glad you like Darkest Hours, its my favorite too.

I think realism is very subjective, it is about player interest most.. I enjoy Iraq and Afghan focus trees in HOI'4 than a simple boardgame design. But if I'm more interested in WW'2 I would play Matrix games instead.

[RangerJoe]

I used to play HOI2 over a decade ago. I see where Steam has the game with the two expansions on sale. Quite cheap . . .

[Rising-Sun]

There used to be Iron Cross, not sure why that got pulled.