As i read the development diareies and posts about HOI 3 i was very excited, at last a WW2 game that was not riidly scripted and would allow you to explore more of the what if's of the conflict.
what if Germany had launch operation sea lion before barbarossa, what if Germany did not declare war on the US following the Japanese attack, or what if the Soviets had stuck with their earlier alliance with france instead of signing the M/R pact.
These are historicaly plausible alternate outcomes and i beleive every person who has played any of the HOI series would have loved to see these and other equaly plausiable scenarios play out with ever game taking a different path.
Unfortunately it was not to be, when the HOI 3 Development team got rid of scripting they also got rid of realism and plausibility so instead we have what if scenarios
what if germany loads half its army onto unprotected transports and send them through the combined USN and RN fleets to invade somewhere on the otherside of the world, without being destroyed, attacked, or even seen
what if after 5 hours of game play germany declares war on no one and Japan is defeated wthin 10 minutes
what if the United States - a nation whose isolationist movement was so strong that even after Germany had taken austria, czechoslovakia, poland, belgium, luxembourg, the netherlands, norway, and france it still required the germans to declare war on america to get them involved - decides to join the allies in 1936 resulting in the defeat of germany within 6 months
To be frank the level of plausibility in the average game of HOI3 is so low that i would not be suprised if there was an event for hitlers interest in the occult paying off and him equipping some high lvl mages to deal with the allied invasion.
The game should be advertised with the warning - this is not a ww2 game and any resemblence to ww2 or the political situation of the 1930's and 1940's is entirely coinicidental and unintended.
