Good work, you have indeed been brief and fun. You can't stop now, after the tease of 'most bizarre circumstances' you've got to at least reveal what happened next.
Thanks! I won't welcome you, as I would in other AARs, because I don't think this will be long enough for that to matter much. I'm glad to have ANYBODY reading -- I'm a little surprised to have feedback at all.
Thanks for dropping by, El Pip, and for your compliment.
HOI was a fun game! My first introduction to the Paradox family also. I appreciate the nostalgia; I can envision the map and battle sequences in sepia tones....
Yeah, I've always said HOI 1 was the game I'd always intended to make on my own, but never had the capabilities to make. I had, in fact, tried creating various versions of grand level strategy games including one that I played with a friend on the wall of my college dorm (more on that down below). But when I found HOI 1 while browsing at a store -- it must have been a year old already, or six months anyway, since its release, I knew it was the game I'd always wanted. It did not disappoint. Subsequent iterations have made improvements, but the basic game was already there way back then, and I was psyched!
Rensslaer: ...Everything had to have been perfect, for what happened to have happened.....
The most bizarre circumstance anyone -- certainly not I -- could have imagined!
methinks that you have been reading
too much of
Storey's work ! !
anyway, great start ! !
looking for more ! !
Ha! You know I set my own standards for cliffhangers, back with Fire Warms!
Great to see you, GhostWriter!
Good old Hoi1 deserves some new AARs and it is interesting to see that you have started one Renss. It seems like the game started pretty hard, and I fear for the future if the Allies start sending more troops into your lands, but it shall be interesting to read how it all turned out…
I agree, Lord E, HOI 1 may be old, but it doesn't deserve to be dead. I remember it fondly.
Yeah, I was kind of surprised at how difficult things got, real quickly! But like I said, I figured I'd fight it out and see where things took me.
Anyway, back to a memory Whisperingdeath reminded me of....
In college, me and my friend were both WW II buffs, and I came up with a project. I would buy ceiling tiles to mount on my wall to act as a sort of bulletin board. I hammered what must have been 6 x 2 x 6 = 72 nails into my dorm room wall (I had a single room) and snipped the heads off so I could mount the tiles onto those. On top of this went the USGS massive scale world map, with mylar sheets over the top of it so we could write with grease pens over the map. The whole setup was about 10 feet tall by 24 feet wide. Then I bought hundreds of pushpins in about 12 different colors and put hundreds of colored spots on top of each pushpin so that they represented the different armies of the world. USA was white on blue, Germany was red on gray, UK was white on red, Japan red on white, etc.
For the course of several months me and my friend played out our own alternative WW II scenario on this map on my dorm wall! It was so unusual that it became a tourist attraction! Girls, especially (don't ask me why -- maybe let's go see that nerd on the 10th floor like we're going to the circus!), would knock on my door at 8 or 9 at night to see this oddity! lol
We had alot of fun, but I was glad when I found HOI 1 would relieve me of all the massive bookkeeping responsiblities of a tabletop (or wall-mounted) game.
Update coming sometime tonight. Hopefully just after dinner.
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