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Funny that I also didn't learn blitzing from MTW..

I actually also bought STW first, but even earlier I got HOI and HOI2, so I played Germany or the Soviets, so with a WWII game, one can learn blitzing quite well..:P

with STW I learned to turtle and to play defensively, which is why I play Hojo or Shimazu all the time.

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I take the liberal path, trying to develop peacefully while expanding my influence. You'd be amazed how many times that requires me to invade my neighbours with overwhelming force (to maintain the peace) or take down their leaders with assassins or inquisitors (in the cause of justice).

Good men sleep peacefully in their beds because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf...

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I'm a perfectionist, so I tend to turtle and build "perfect" armies and then expand slowly.

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Ok, I like to play as catholics and I know that I must expand, otherwise others will do. First step is to take rebels, bribe them if this worth or by conquest and to develop naval trade. Usually I'm hunting for every rebel province on map, no matter where is. If I can't reach it by land I try by sea, otherwise I'm crusading against it.
After all rebels are gone I will use spy to try to make rebels. If this step fail I hunt for provinces with iron and trade resources. Usually I'm hitting someone weak and which not worth to conquer to receive Pope warn and then I'm heading to HRE or Spain for resources. Then for Hungarians. This way usually let me in Early to have near half of the world.
I have anytime provinces building or upgrading troops. Usually I do not wait until tech troops are available I use what I have on hand to push the war.
Normally I'm stopping to consolidate the conquest, to avoid rebellions and I'm supporting my allies, this is fun to relieve sieges for my allies. I look to have good relations to not affect trade, so I'm fighting usually only one enemy at time, but war is constant for me, peace is only as long as rebels are available.
Also I do rebels from Catholic factions to keep Pope in silence, by murdering a full royal line (assassins and/or inquisitors).
I preffer to have short borders but usually my empire is shattered along entire map.

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Hey doctrellor - what's HOI2 like? I played HOI for a bit, but eventually got a bit bored with it (I find it doesn't have the replayability of MTW).

I don't think I learnt blitzing from any particular game - I tend to blitz when the situation calls for it. Despite what I said earlier I probably am more balanced as I do turtle when I need to. But I guess I only turtle so I can build up my troop and training capabilities for future conquest, and maybe to get some cash.

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My style of play would depand of my faction... As the French, I rushed to the English, then HRE as they attacked me, and the french king have been at war 9 years out of 10.

However, with the danes, I took Scandinavia, then started a trading empire, taking all the ressource-filled rebel provinces around the baltic sea. Then, I only took rebel provinces, from the start or civil war, with one exception, a heavy strike on 3 HRE provinces to balance a western european conflict.

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HOI2 is defeinately worth it for a WWII game (1936 - 1948), since it has some pretty good replayibility.. depending on what faction you play... especially with alliances...

I play the Stony Road Mod which most would say is the best for HOI/HOI2

The new one, some would call it HOI3, which is Doomsday/Armageddon.. .one can play up to 1953, and so tech is upgraded/more realistic/complex...lol

I like the spy networks and what a good proganda/assassin can do..:P

I still like to play the Italians and go after Turkey/Spain/Vichy France/Balkans and do a "Roman Empire" start before I choose which alliance I wanna be in..lol

Or the Germans and change thier government so that the Kaiser is still in power.. or the Americans and have a Communist govt and ally with the Soviets...lol

There are some very fun tweaks one can do....so yeah the replayability is enhanced...

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My last campaign was interesting as my empire was very small. At one point another member was worried when I asked for help, but I wasn't worried as it was a GA campaign. I sometimes expand a little, trying to firm up my borders. But generally I like to build and play defensively. In my last campaign I had over 50 years of peace, then I was attacked, otherwise it may have been longer.

I try to build troops for balanced armies, and I will attack and bribe, but again generally I expand slowly and take places that help with money or for buildin troops, or finally defining my broders for defense.

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