Re: Hearts of Iron IV
I completed my first 'world conquest' game last night as Germany, and it was overall an enjoyable experience I'd say with a few exceptions. I took the Netherlands early because taking their rubber and oil in Indonesia is extremely useful, since Germany doesn't have either handy. The Soviets declared war on Poland, I was playing ahistorical so they claimed Eastern Poland, so I invited Poland into my faction and together we crushed the Soviets and Romania who joined the Comintern. Italy declared war on Greece and brought the Allies into the war, but weird stuff happened with France. Their color had turned the lighter blue of the French Commune, but they were fully democratic. I took France went through the Maginot Line and turned towards Yugoslavia and Greece and knocked them both out, but left Italy to deal with Africa with the exception that I helped take the Suez and Gibraltar. America joined the war and tried to invade Africa, but failed because AI Italy had 800+ divisions spread across Africa and Asia.
By this point the only major powers left were UK, America, and British Raj against my faction of Italy, Japan, Nationalist Spain, Finland, Poland, Belgium, Iraq, Afghanistan, Mexico, and a few other minor nations. Trying to invade Britain through the English Channel was impossible because each time they would drop thousands of bombers and CAS into the channel and apparently having 8000+ fighters to their meager amount (a few hundred) means all my convoys sink. I eventually invaded through Ireland and Scotland to knock them out of the war. I couped both America and British Raj with astounding success, then knocking out both in short order afterwards. I enjoyed the game immensely, but the game has brought to light a few glaring issues to me.
1. I think bombers, cas, and naval bombers are far more effective than they should be. It doesn't make sense when I have overwhelming air superiority that they can easily drop a bunch of those planes into and area and destroy my ships then leave only having lost a few hundred planes. I've lost so many ships to naval bombers just striking ports that I honestly hate having to build ships in this game honestly. An Italy game I played my huge navy was destroyed in port by British naval bombers when I controlled the skies around the area. I don't know if anyone else has had similar experiences, but it is just extremely annoying.
2. The AI does not seem to understand supply at all from what I've seen. Going to fight the British Raj the Italians and Japanese had stacked hundreds of troops along the narrow border that I could do nothing against them. Massive attrition and organization loss when going anywhere near the border. I eventually just couped them and sailed troops into the new land.
3. I went down the befriend Scandinavia NF tree and had no intention of going to war with any of them, no justifying or anything like that, and they all joined the Allies, with the exception of Norway and Finland who joined me when the Soviets declared war on them. It left me extremely confused for them to join the allies for seemingly no reason outside of world tension I guess.
Sorry for the long reply, but just wanted to get my thoughts down and see if others were experiencing the same things. Overall, in my opinion the game is extremely fun, especially trying to take a minor nation and make them a world power.
Originally Posted by Sooh
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