Welcome Fellow gamers What follows is an AAR for my first grand campaign with version 1.1 on default setting as Germany.
My first thought is this is not a sequel to HOI but an entirely new game.
I began my preperation by reading the manual front to back and playing the
tutorials.
Given the newness of the game I decided to play very carefully and not get involved in a war before the date of my choosing. (to skip to middle that ended up being Sept of 45!) My primary focus was the maximizing the economy; thus I chose ministers that reduced consumuer demands or military supply. In addition I grouped my armies so that I could put them under the command of leaders with the logicisticts trait. Finally I moved my govt tab one to the left for a more open society to better assist economic growth.
The net result of this was Cash and lots of it, though I had to put up with great War deminstrations every so often but given the high out-put of consumer goods the dissent didn't last long.
I set up serial runs for convoys escorts and transports (I thought at the time I would be doing a lot of overseas warfare) I had over 390 convoys by 45.
I spent the rest of my efforts on technology. I wont go into the details but I spent most of my efforts on improving my industry and items related to technology.
A note on research - They are not kidding about researching techs before there time. Try developing a tech two years before its time and it takes forever- Your team could research 3 techs in the time it would take to get something way early.
Well to make a long story shorter I more or less followed the historical pattern but made no deals with the russians and backed down against the Poles. I began to upgrade my military in ernest by 39 various serial runs of inf arm and art brg. and the occaisional HQ.
A funny thing happened - no one attacted and with all the extra money I have fairly good relations with every one considering. In fact Japan never attacted the usa!
Well you may say how can you win? By looking at the victory point total I have decided to leave the ussr well enough alone and take just enough victory points to edge out the allies. Given this is the first go around with the grand camp there are many things in the diplomatic field I could have done differently but I does seem that you could achieve victory with out getting envolved in a full blown war. Given I know the cut off time Dec of 47 my military camp is planned for a short sprint to the finish line. I hope to keep the usa and russia completely out of the war. I'll let you all know how this path ended up in my next post.
'I rather be lucky than good'
My first thought is this is not a sequel to HOI but an entirely new game.
I began my preperation by reading the manual front to back and playing the
tutorials.
Given the newness of the game I decided to play very carefully and not get involved in a war before the date of my choosing. (to skip to middle that ended up being Sept of 45!) My primary focus was the maximizing the economy; thus I chose ministers that reduced consumuer demands or military supply. In addition I grouped my armies so that I could put them under the command of leaders with the logicisticts trait. Finally I moved my govt tab one to the left for a more open society to better assist economic growth.
The net result of this was Cash and lots of it, though I had to put up with great War deminstrations every so often but given the high out-put of consumer goods the dissent didn't last long.
I set up serial runs for convoys escorts and transports (I thought at the time I would be doing a lot of overseas warfare) I had over 390 convoys by 45.
I spent the rest of my efforts on technology. I wont go into the details but I spent most of my efforts on improving my industry and items related to technology.
A note on research - They are not kidding about researching techs before there time. Try developing a tech two years before its time and it takes forever- Your team could research 3 techs in the time it would take to get something way early.
Well to make a long story shorter I more or less followed the historical pattern but made no deals with the russians and backed down against the Poles. I began to upgrade my military in ernest by 39 various serial runs of inf arm and art brg. and the occaisional HQ.
A funny thing happened - no one attacted and with all the extra money I have fairly good relations with every one considering. In fact Japan never attacted the usa!
Well you may say how can you win? By looking at the victory point total I have decided to leave the ussr well enough alone and take just enough victory points to edge out the allies. Given this is the first go around with the grand camp there are many things in the diplomatic field I could have done differently but I does seem that you could achieve victory with out getting envolved in a full blown war. Given I know the cut off time Dec of 47 my military camp is planned for a short sprint to the finish line. I hope to keep the usa and russia completely out of the war. I'll let you all know how this path ended up in my next post.
'I rather be lucky than good'
