Personaly I think Hearts of Iron III is avesome game.
One thing should be noted though, this game is not easy one to manage as announced,especialy in order to deliver proper results.
For instance I played Germany,I go historicaly as possible and made "casual" arrangement using AI mostly diplomacy,inteligence, polithics .. and composing my army quickly just to get my recreation of WW2 combat on battlefields. Than started war with Poland,of cpurse ahistoricaly becouse of my neglection of diplomacy and Inteligence.It gone slowly, badly for my army and perspectives of continuation the game looked chaotical to me.
Than I started another ,same game.I spend hours literaly to manage all assets of the game,for instance compose armies and place commanders to their place meticuluosly taking care where commanders in army hierarchy will show their potencial.This next game of mine is totaly different. I choosed trough polithical gameplay that WW" starts on 1-st of september 1939.My prepared armies were arranged and placed awaiting orders to GO!
My Wehrmacht is smashing anything that oposes him.
My meticuluosly arranged blocks of armed forces I upgrade,move and manage with joy now.
Every my unit has its"individuality".
For instance what a joy is to track combat history of my elite panzerkorps under Guderian.
So game is hard to play if someone wants quick dinamic campaigns.
But slow clever and meticulous designing of affairs in game is enormous joy for me.
Simply,HOI III cant be played quickly as HOI II.Forget promisses about game being suitable for part-time strategians.
Its game ONly for hardcore strategians.
Personaly if some HYPOTHETIC addon will add aditional chain of command for Airforce and Navy HOI III will be perfect.
So ,after dealing with lags and CTD problems and after learning how to play,and to play patiently,is that HOI III is allmost certaily BEST GAME EVER MADE (for hardcore strategians).
