However, so far the AI doesn't seem to totally suck, which is a plus.Īlso, the game looks a lot more like an old-school wargame now! Horrible map colors and all (I seriously expect map mods to come out in, like, a week - it's pretty bad), with attack/defense numbers on units. Given the scale the game's at now (thousands of subdivided provinces, units defined down to the brigade/regiment level) some macro-managing is unavoidable, but the game very much encourages you to trust the AI to figure out where exactly to move your units. You can have as little input as 'Yo, Generals, go conquer Warsaw, k?' and then the AI will go off and do it. So far the biggest problem is that the game can essentially play itself.

Mostly for the better, though grognards are wailing their eyes out over how horribly inaccurate the map is. I strongly recommend trying it before buying, both because it requires a fairly beefy machine (probably not an issue for most here) and because so much has changed. Hearts of Iron III still takes a time investment, and it's still in a league of its own with mindblowing scale and depth: governments are simulated in detail from heads-of-state through cabinet members and generals (each with their own personality that you can use for your own means, else they be used against you), there are tens of hundreds.

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