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Great review!
I found the following of particular interest, with so much discussion on various threads about making the ability to airstrike a particular province a user-option.
"The only oddity I found with aerial forces has been that missions are now assigned on a regional, rather than provincial basis. For example, instead of assigning air units to launch attacks Caen, they are launched into the wider region of “Normandy”, which includes a number of provinces in addition to Caen.
This means that rather than concentrating on key provinces, air units wind up being dispersed more than they should be, and this can cause problems particularly when attempting to defend key industrial centres from strategic bombardment. Now in some regions there’s up to a one in five chance that fighters will simply miss the enemy bombers as they drop their deadly cargos upon critical factories and railways."
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I found the following of particular interest, with so much discussion on various threads about making the ability to airstrike a particular province a user-option.
"The only oddity I found with aerial forces has been that missions are now assigned on a regional, rather than provincial basis. For example, instead of assigning air units to launch attacks Caen, they are launched into the wider region of “Normandy”, which includes a number of provinces in addition to Caen.
This means that rather than concentrating on key provinces, air units wind up being dispersed more than they should be, and this can cause problems particularly when attempting to defend key industrial centres from strategic bombardment. Now in some regions there’s up to a one in five chance that fighters will simply miss the enemy bombers as they drop their deadly cargos upon critical factories and railways."
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Great review!
Well done Wargamer and well done Paradox!
Why this game is still not on my pc?
Well done Wargamer and well done Paradox!
Why this game is still not on my pc? 
I knew he liked it but wow thats amazing.
Let them have it at the wargamer forum where the majority hated HOI.
Let them have it at the wargamer forum where the majority hated HOI.
Simply a fantastic review. The Wargamer gives some of the most thourough looks out there, hopefully this will inspire a few more people not to miss HoI2 .
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eye-switcher said:
To be perfectly honest, there was a lot to hate about HoI. It was very buggy and took a lot of micromanagement to get the most out of it. I liked the game quite a bit and enjoyed following the development process, but I can easily see why someone else wouldn't enjoy it. HoI2 seems to have really worked to address the major flaws in HoI, and that really speaks well of the Paradox crew. They recognized the weaknesses in the game and worked to fix them without undoing the major strengths.
The last part of the review was the most revealing - the reviewer tried to find major flaws but couldn't. While I'm sure a lot of that was the euphoria that comes from playing a great game, and we'll find problems that need fixing, but overall this looks to be a million times better than HoI was on release.
Congratulations paradox!!!
Now all i hate to do is waiting for the game to reach my desk, put some snacks and coke in front of me, kiss my girlfriend goodbye, lock the door to my study and start playing
Now all i hate to do is waiting for the game to reach my desk, put some snacks and coke in front of me, kiss my girlfriend goodbye, lock the door to my study and start playing
Quite an impressive review. Lets hope the game lives up to it.
Unfortunatley any mainstream review of HOI 2 would tear it up, mistaking WAD features for bugs etc.
Unfortunatley any mainstream review of HOI 2 would tear it up, mistaking WAD features for bugs etc.
Yes, I can tell you that both the Paradox crew and the beta testers did all a tremendous jobs to give you a mostly bug-free AND playable game, and they deserve every praise they can get. Not me though, my Security Studies seminars in university took all my free time. So don't praise me.
Also, I sure hope this review will shut the hell up the anti-Paradox folks camping at the Wargamer forum. In your face, whiners!
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Also, I sure hope this review will shut the hell up the anti-Paradox folks camping at the Wargamer forum. In your face, whiners!
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maartos said:
You know, having a radar station in a province gives fighters on air superiority a chance to intercept planes in adjacent provinces too.
Drakken said:Yes, I can tell you that both the Paradox crew and the beta testers did all a tremendous jobs to give you a mostly bug-free AND playable game, and they deserve every praise they can get. Not me though, my Security Studies seminars in university took all my free time. So don't praise me.
Also, I sure hope this review will shut the hell up the anti-Paradox folks camping at the Wargamer forum. In your face, whiners!
D.
What the evöl Scandi-Cannuck said
Darkrenown said:
Tsk tsk tsk... Don't tell
How are we supposed to beat them in MP eh? 
maartos said:
not really,
you better chew out those bombers before they reach your industry heartland (whatever that province might be) - so defending one province against strategic bombers is pretty useless imho,
those guys will intercept in a certain region - and radar seems to help interception a lot,
basicly this would match fairly well the way it happened during WWII. Bombers where harassed the whole time by fighters on their fly routes,
key industry heartland had extra AA defenses -
Spruce said:
I guess I just showed how little I played the original HOI
o I found it too tedious to play. But I have my hopes high for the new one.PS: Vicky forever