Wow.
I played the HoI3 demo, and thought it sucked. Last week I had a chance to try out the full HoI3 1.3, and thought it sucked.
So I decided to fire up DDA (with DAIM) one last time before AoD, and wow... What a game I have on my hands. Playing as the Soviet Union, I did the usual stuff: building 4x25 IC's, and turning down the great purge to give myself a challenge (basically no way of building up until 6 months before the nazis invade). On Sep 3 1939 I noticed I had a 1% chance of couping Germany, so I gave it a shot - and suddenly had a DDR halfway through poland, and at war with the allies. When they asked to join the comintern a few weeks later, I could ofcourse not turn down my socialist brothers - so now it's Comintern vs the Allies! And it's hard. My tech sucks, most troups are infantry '36 (I managed to get all tank and mot. divisions surrounded and destroyed outside berlin), I gave all cavalry and mountain infantry divisions to China (they still got rolled over by Japan), and I think DDR lost quite a few troups and/or got dissent because of the coup. It's now spring 1940, France has advanced to Prussia and I'm fighting hard to save the DDR. Fun, fun, fun!
Of course, a communist coup in September 1939 is not really plausable, but at least it's not pure fantasy as in Hoi3 where Finland tries to conquer the pacific.
Really, really looking forward to AoD.
I played the HoI3 demo, and thought it sucked. Last week I had a chance to try out the full HoI3 1.3, and thought it sucked.
So I decided to fire up DDA (with DAIM) one last time before AoD, and wow... What a game I have on my hands. Playing as the Soviet Union, I did the usual stuff: building 4x25 IC's, and turning down the great purge to give myself a challenge (basically no way of building up until 6 months before the nazis invade). On Sep 3 1939 I noticed I had a 1% chance of couping Germany, so I gave it a shot - and suddenly had a DDR halfway through poland, and at war with the allies. When they asked to join the comintern a few weeks later, I could ofcourse not turn down my socialist brothers - so now it's Comintern vs the Allies! And it's hard. My tech sucks, most troups are infantry '36 (I managed to get all tank and mot. divisions surrounded and destroyed outside berlin), I gave all cavalry and mountain infantry divisions to China (they still got rolled over by Japan), and I think DDR lost quite a few troups and/or got dissent because of the coup. It's now spring 1940, France has advanced to Prussia and I'm fighting hard to save the DDR. Fun, fun, fun!
Of course, a communist coup in September 1939 is not really plausable, but at least it's not pure fantasy as in Hoi3 where Finland tries to conquer the pacific.
Really, really looking forward to AoD.
. Don't worry too much about your INF tech. Your're the SU remember, and have adopted Human Wave tactics ... you have no need for guns