Hearts of Iron I vs. II

Okay, so I have been playing hearts of iron I for around a year now.  One thing I had to do was the editing of leaders and tech trees to make the game run more realistically.  Anyone here ever tried to play as the germans in the 44' scenario?  Talk about no chance.  Over 500 Soviet divisions just on the eastern front to try and stop, who are equal in technology, plus around 50 allied divisions in the province of cherbourg and at least 20 more in Italy.  Then there is that damned rubber.  It seems impossible to keep the economy up and running which makes me less inclined to even build panzer division because of the economic effect.  Usually what I do is build those without deploying them until I am committed to an invasion and then deploy them, wait for their organization to max and then attack. 

Edited by Justinian - 28-Nov-2007 at 01:20

Hearts of iron 2 is the most realistic game!

Do you mean the transport capacity?

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.

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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.

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

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.

'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)?

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)?