What is the funniest and least fun things to do in HoI2 DD?

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What is the funniest and the least fun things to do in HoI2 DD?

Choose:

1. The three funniest things to do in HoI2 DD
2. The three least fun things to do...

1.

a) Naval combat
b) Research
c) Encirclements

2.

a) Land-wars of immense scale (e.g. Barbarossa, China-Jap war)
b) Keeping track of stacking/overstacking
c) Rearrangement and renaming of starting units for major powers

 

[Panzerotto]

for 1) of cause encirclements

and for 2) Fighting a war in Indochina or South America (only mountens and Jungle)

 

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1. Liberating Israel as Nazi Germany.

I don't care if that's not a choice you set out. That made me el oh el pretty hard.

 

[Chaplain]

I think the fun parts are many - technology development, naval strategy, air strategy, operational planning, politics, espionage, diplomacy.

But you asked for the most fun and least fun, so ...

FUNNEST = planning naval strategy, esp. Battle of Atlantic (but also the Med and the NEI).

LEAST FUN = micromanaging supply convoys to make sure ground troops are supplied. I wish there was some way to say, "Always discontinue resource shipments in favor of supply shipments."

Don't get me wrong - I love the fact that we have to deal with supply issues and with supply transport issues. This is very realistic. But the convoy management AI is an erratic beast, at best.

 

[bubbelties]

1) Naval battles and daring invasions

2) Reorganising at the start of a scenario

 

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1.
a) Building ships, rearranging fleets, and naval battles.
b) Researching, building industry, armies and preparing country for war.
c) Hard land wars where you are outnumbered and have to really fight.

2.
a) Intelligence micromanagement.
b) Bombing and how easily bombed divisions are destroyed.

 

[Jebus]

1.-Rearranging and renaming armies in peacetime, awarding special names to divisions for special accomplishments and the like
-Deploying new carriers
-Fighting multi-front wars
-Chasing enemy fleets throughout the atlantic
-looking at the 'sunk ships' tab

2.-Deploying vast amounts of garisson divisions
-waiting during autosave
-realising you're playing as the Nazi's

 

[Pasta_Man]

Nah, you're playing as Germany... German and Nazi are not synonymous. Just look at von Mannstein as a good example.

 

[mib]

Most fun:

1. Encircling 90 japanese divisions in Manchuria
2. Nuking Tokyo
3. Modding

Least fun:

1. Destroying Chinese warlords, carefully trying not to annihilate any of those divisions.
2. Renaming all units to correct names
3. Mod bugs

 

[unmerged(12779)]

Least fun and most time consuming:

Adjusting production sliders about 50% of the time


JIM

 

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Fun: Attacking through Germany.

Not Fun: Attacking through Siberia.

Fun: Building an army.

Not Fun: Building transports.

Fun: Taking Batman.

Not Fun: Taking Guam.

 

[GM-san]

1. In DD most fun is with naval battles.

Like this one:

Baltic Sea. In my last SOV game battle has started July 1941: 15 GER surface ships vs my SOV 18 subs under one of my lessers admirals - mr. Papanin. Its now August 1942 and both fleets are in same nonstop battle. I lost one sub, Germans lost nothing. And eternal fighter admiral Papanin has skill 8.97!!! I bet, this battle never ends.

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Naval battles :rofl:

2.And a real nightmare: unwanted expeditionary forces. Take them away from me!!!

 

[unmerged(54240)]

Fun:
-Rampage through the empty American homeland from Atlantic to Pacific

Not Fun:
-Trying to control partisan activity of SU
-Jungle battles
-Getting raped by superior navy of Britain or US

 

[unmerged(53569)]

Most Fun: Dropping a nuke on New York.....the sound is soooo cool

Least Fun: Waiting for strat. redeploy and waiting for a retreating division to be usable again

 

[unmerged(55833)]

It's pretty fun to nuke America into a civil war.

That's just plain funny to me.

 

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Oh and one of the things I hate most: waiting for 3~5 years for a war to break out.

 

[MagisterMundi]

Fun:

1. Conquering all the neutral countries as Argentina (British: What? Tibet and Ireland are controlled by ARGENTINA?! )

2. Building up 400+ Panzer divisions and merrily blitzing across the entire world.

3. Conquering the UK as Ireland.

4. Nuking Uruguay (because SOMEBODY has to ).

5. Taking a stupidly small country (like Haiti) and doing something useful with them (like joing the Axis and conquering the Straight of Gibralter, plus Mexico and the Carribean).

Not Fun:

1. Conquering South America as Brazil... or anyone else, for that matter.

2. Having your main Rocket/Nuclear/IC/Infrastructure city get nuked.

3. Trying to coordinate massive transpot expiditions across the ocean.

4. Playing as Communist China in Doomsday.

5. Fixing idiotic computer troop locations every single time you start up a scenario.

 

[unmerged(42341)]

Fun: Research, Building

Not Fun: Espionage (Micromanagment Hell), Regrouping Troops (uncomfortable Micromanagment Hell), avoiding overstaking at attacking ("Where is my FM in this stack of 20 corps?")

 

[unmerged(50559)]

Fun!
1. Research with Germany!
2. Bankrupting your minor power by trying to buy a Panzer division from a major! (they ought to allow partial payments!)
3. Free/stolen blueprints!

Not so fun...
1. When it's clear that you won the game already but still have to trek through and take every last bit of tundra/desert/jungle/pacific islands...
2. Soviet armies that mixes infantry with tanks, CAS with STR, obsolete with modern...try reorganizing them in wartime!
3. Taking dissent hits. I have an obsession with keeping it at 0. :rofl: but i have no one to blame but myself!

 

[Comrade Kalle]

Fun:
* Defeating Germany as either France or Poland
* Making the world red as USSR ^^
* Conquering China as Guangxi Clique (and entering an alliance with Yunnan and Japan)
* Trying to resist the soviets as Finland. Me and three of my friends did this once, we were playing as Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland and made our own alliance...
* When Soviet Union declares war on you after you've taken Korea and Japan (and all of western Europe) as USA and then you notice that Soviet have 350 divisions at the border to Korea. Nukes away ^^
* Trying to recreate the roman empire as Italy.
* Enormos land battles :rofl:
I'm talking about 250 divisions vs 30 and such
*Bombing the poor Allies back to the stone age after easily defeated their air force.

Not fun:
* Keeping track of all spies and intelligence ops.
* When your production is slowed down without any reason. There are no spies within the borders either...
* Lack of manpower... as Sweden for example.
* Playing as China (any of them) after conquering entire China. Nothing else to do... everything takes so long time
* When your stupid puppets declare war on the Allies/USSR although you have a NAP with them, or, the Allies/USSR declares war on your puppet, since there is no NAP between them.
* When you get a sh*t load of dissent after "liberating" Europe from the Germans.
* When you notice you can't annex the UK since they still have 1 single VP somewhere in the Pacific
Do they honestly think that they have any chance at all to win when they have 1 IC and I have 700+ IC, as well as more (and better) troops, aircraft and navy?
* That you need to be allied with another country to trade provinces.