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Can anyone recommend a good tutorial for this? I've played Darkest Hour quite a bit but never could quite understand the layout of the UI in Hearts of Iron III.
True that, though I've had some good game while playing as the British, even through the Germans managed to fully break through France and defeated them. Even though I had around +300,000 troops stationed in both Belgium and France.Jhessail said:WW1 mod is pretty great but it has an problem with the British AI, as it doesn't properly support the French AI on ground, making it far too easy for Germany to hold off Russians in the East while knocking France out of the war.
True, it's quite demanding and for me even crashes quite often making it sometimes just unplayable. Though I do like all the historical events that include special units etc. A lot of these events are being missed out in the Vanilla.Jhessail said:BICE is a massive collection crap rolled together. It's so big that it significantly expands the RAM requirements of vanilla HoI3. Basically, a handful of dudes wanted to revamp everything that is possible to change in HoI3. There's a ton of new units - units that the AI doesn't know how to properly build and utilize and a massive number of scripted events that attempt to make the game more challenging. I wouldn't recommend it.
I would recommend Hungary. Small enough to start and you can get neutrality down quickly enough to have a little Balkans romp before the big war starts. Alternatively, play as Yugoslavia and swallow all of Balkans. Then you can decide which alliance to support. Finland is ****ed thanks to low MP and leadership making it almost impossible to survive Winter War (I am very butthurt about this) and most other European minors are just speedbumps for Germany or Soviet Union and non-European minors are either unplayable or totally boring.Goker said:Sure does. Perhaps I just need a pick a small country at first.
Do you have any more stupid questions? It's a Paradox game!Captured Joe said:Is it this unstable with major non-Balkan powers too?
We're using all the expansions, and Japan had the highest threat to me at the time (due to the crazy amount of conquering I assume). I think the problem there was the early war preventing multiple different events from happening, which could have lowered my neutrality. Some things triggered, allowing me to get neutrality low enough to start doing lend-lease, but after that it was just twiddling my thumbs.Jhessail said:Get the expansions. It sounds like you're playing vanilla.
There should be a diplomatic option called "Gear for War" that reduces your neutrality. Also, Germany should have highest threat to you - increase their threat even further. USA relies on events, though, so the early war is probably crippling your style.