They should combine HoI and EU to play from ancient Greek/Persians up until 1991 with the fall of communism with the entire world and essentially to play as any country that existed at those times, plus an in game feature to create your own nation etc. That would be epic and the ability to change any aspect you want such as religion to any one and culture types. Imagine so much history and information on rulers and wars would be required but generally these games file sizes are small in comparison to other games.

I just want the battle system to be more robust. I'm tired of having winning or losing come down to whoever has the bigger army with the better tech. I wish there was some strategy aspect to it, like the total war series.


Well thanks for the demo link, let's see how this baby runs

The tutorial was kinda funny. Odd how they demonize the poor guy so much. Soon our children will grow up thinking he had horns. You'd think despite him being an asshole, they'd acknowledge his skill a little more. But I digress. It seems very similar to hoi2. Problem is, I dunno if i want to start a game. It would take a while to wrap my head around it and.... honestly I just don't like the time setting as much as say.....eu3.

downloading it.. only 670mb though, I thought it would be bigger lol

I registered in the forums yesterday and got the strategy guide, it's really huge, I'm sure it will be helpful

Any update about gameplay and etc, please post.

Hearts of Iron 3 is a good game, but be warned its complex and there's a lot of micromanagement.

That´s exactly what I like about this type of games.

THERE IS A THIRD COMING?

OMG

I love the Hearts of Iron games!

Honestly, I tried the Hearts of Iron 2 demo, and it was WAY to complex for me. And then I heard the third game would be even more complex - that really put me off. But I'm going to try to get into it one of these days.

I played it a bit last night, but it was fucking slow. it seems the AI is overly active in this one and there are some tweaks that get you precious seconds for each hour. other than that, it seems that 1.1 (which is included in the GG version) introduced some game breaking bug that adds a huge amount of Consumer Goods demand when mobilizing, something like that.

although I don't really know how to play the game, I'll wait for the next patch, chances are that any bug right now can make the game even harder for me.

KillerGran: it's indeed complex, however, every single aspect can be controlled by the AI. you can almost watch the AI play the game. you can set AI control for: production, tech research, diplomacy, politics and intelligence. add that to the Theatre's system (which lets the AI handles operations in certain areas) and you have can play the way you want. I guess it's even better for newbies this way, so if you don't know what to research, let the AI do the job for you. don't know what trade deals are the best for you country? let the AI handle them.

the in-game tutorials sadly is just a walk through the screens, so it's better actually to print/read the manual. but the real help is the strategy guide that you can download, which is 70-page long. there's also a quickstart guide which is also helpful. although they still could improve the in-game tutorial, there's no better game to RTFM instead of crying that the game is complex, because it indeed is.