Hearts of Iron I vs. II

Sweet game I'm using the total realism mod too and makes the game even more historical accurate. Although I'm still a noob at this game.

Thanks for the tip Temujin. Its much easier now that I've figured out how to pause it.

A friend gave me IH2 Armaggedon and boy I was blown away by this game's complexity. There just so much stuff to handle, how do you know what to do first?!
Played with Italy in 1939 scenario and got crushed by France and UK as soon as the war erupted... 

Originally posted by xristar '64!!! I have only the basic version (free from a magazine), where you can play until 31 december 1947! Is this '64 version a patch, or infact an expansion (for which one will have to pay)?

'64!!!
I have only the basic version (free from a magazine), where you can play until 31 december 1947!
Is this '64 version a patch, or infact an expansion (for which one will have to pay)?

actually you can only play to the year '64, that doesn't mean that all the events and personalities were included as well.  they only included the countries, but without minsiters, eladers etc it is pretty flavourless and pointless. also, i find the Chiense theatre unbearable. in one of the patches they turned Chian into a secodn himalayas, they turned almost every terrain, in aprticular in the south into hill or moutnian terrain to slow down the Japanse AI advance. to coutner that, human players resort to unrealistic gameplay, that is buildign loads of moutaineers and cavalry, soemthign the Japanese almost didn't had at all. also China itself is pretty unrealistic, but thats mostly due to the game physics. the problem is, China has too few divisions and too much IC, basically. the problem is, China should be able to produce innumerous infantry divisions etc, but no native hardware, like tanks, ships & planes. this is a game aspect that is still the major flaw of an otherwise great game unsurpassed in detail and accuracy.

Sun Tzu - have you tried amazon.com?  I got hearts of iron I and Crusader Kings in a package for like 10 dollars. 

it is pretty normal that a game with a superpower doesn't last longer than '47 or so, depends on what your goals are. if playign germany, you only need to invade britain (which is rather easy) and to defeat the reds, which is also rather easy for experienced players. once you are beyodn that point, the only serious ressistance left is the US but by now you have enough IC to outproduce them and the game gets really boring.

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=255

I've only played the first one, I usually play the Germans, but whenever I play the Americans, I go to reorganize the Navy, the game crashes.