#HEARTS OF IRON 4 WORLD MAP SERIES#

If you want to produce lots of cheap, easily replacable tanks, have factories churn out basic units and ignore the new research that rolls in. The aim, or so it appears to me, is to provide control of the bigger picture. It's the kind of thing even an war-weary fellow like me can get his head around.Д¬reating the necessary armies is as simple as choosing factory output. This allows for pincer movements, the creation of fronts (which can be painted onto the map at borders) and the splitting of forces to create multiple pressure points. Planning an invasion involves gathering troops and sorting them into stacks, and then dragging arrows across the map into the country of your choice. It's the maps you want to look at there, particularly the arrows and other assorted marks on them. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. How pleasing, then, that the latest entry combines streamlined production and an equisite battle planning system, which you can glimpse in the trailer below. The military emphasis doesn't fit with my usual strategic styles of play and I fear the micromanagement. In fact, I have about as strong a grip on it as I do on a family of eels in a bucket of caviar.

#HEARTS OF IRON 4 WORLD MAP SERIES#

It was one of the games that I was most interested to see because of the four Paradox grand strategy series (Europa, Crusader Kings and Victoria being the others), the World War II simulation HOI is the one I've never quite managed to get to grips with. In the distant year of January 2014, I saw an early version of Hearts of Iron IV at the annual Paradox convention.

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