Hearts of Iron 2: Game Walkthrough and Guide

When a young Swedish company Paradox Entertainment took up the adaptation of a certain board game to a computer, with its hard drives and processors, no one perceived this idea seriously. But later… Noise, Foresting Reviews – Glitter! Although they praised, in a sense, an advance: a lot of shortcoming, immunity and banal program errors greatly interfered with the greatness of the design.

But Northerners, undoubtedly, knew how to work and correct mistakes – if no one essentially bugs for them. Followed continued, successful and very high quality, and after it began production already fully independent products. One of them became, as he is known to us, Russians, “Victory Day”. It is said that such global strategies hold exclusively on fans, becoming slowly the center of a tiny isolated community, such as dumplings or clubs of Indonesian crafts. But, I’m not afraid of this word, Millions appreciate the “Victory Day” exclusively for the strategic depth, without creating itself idols (digging in the code, discussing the Nights of the Formula Length to the page…), and simply enjoying a magnificent game.

Although in the light of the recent triumph (fifth place in the sales ranking!) the continuation of the “Victory Day” epithet “tiny” looks ridiculous – in the United States, brought up on comics and Hollywood films, the crowds of the true fans of Paradox creations, not dynamic or pretty drawn, inspires the sacred trepid.

In Russia, the series is not yet on the pedestal. I would not say that, for example, “Victoria” we have especially famous. And if you do not eat, then the situation is much worse: it is hardly an ordinary user who is pretty and milking, and real-time strategies, at least once heard (and safely forgotten) Banal names from the Swedish game line. Probably I exaggerate, but still…

And, by the way, we put “crowns” and “Order” to them, and honest with you, dear readers, assessments perfectly deserved. But then dissent will ask to justify such an incomprehensible decision, right? Well, I explain.

The main argument is the strategic depth and… Realistic. In the head whispering voice:

“That’s right. All truly. Everything was so. Could be if… This is certain. Yes yes it’s so. All right “.

Here are the recent “Knights of honor”. Global Strategy Global Strategy. Mediterranean, mysterious medieval, kings, princes, khana-kagans… And the action of the field teachings of tin soldiers looks like, when the commander beat the valiant warriors with a finger in the chest, and they fall the struggle. Not felt behind them world living people….

Explain. If the villainie special services finally took up repeatedly with the films of the “Simulator of Reality”, then “Victory Day 2” would completely walked for the draft. Because it is a model of the era, and not the bubbers, designed only to entertain. Supply of cartridges and food (up to transport aircraft with medicines, especially for armies taken in the ring), front line, martial spirit, industrial centers, intriguations in the government… This is a window in reality. Very compact time machine. Life in the end.

And this is already a qualitatively different conversation.

Tankers on radio

Looks gameplay here is like. There are missions (about them in a special chapter), there are campaigns. Start the last on a certain day – January 1, 1936, June 22, 1941 and T.P. Always end in December 1948. We lead any country to choose from Iraq with the Puppet Government to the United States of America.

Government – Ministers with harshs – sits in the capital and engaged in pressing affairs. We are allowed to dismiss them their own will and again appoint posts. True, the official who lost the office will become dissatisfied, but this is not fatal. Potasoving the deck of bureaucrats, we will achieve new advantages and minuses – economic, diplomatic, military.

Army – Gameplay key link – Protects domestic villages and Niva from the occupiers. As it should be, includes land forces, Air Force and Navy. Manage the military you personally, assign commanders with various skills and talents, order to attack or defend… But the soldiers want to eat, which means the economy is obligatory.

The map was divided into provinces – something like chess cells, only mosaic, like puzzle-Puzzle. They produce riches of subsoil and the plants, defense lines, radar stations, and T.P. Plants – the backbone of the economy, if they supply raw materials, produce industrial glasses daily. They are preparing new units, feeding the army and civilian population…

And, of course, diplomacy. Typical, familiar to any user with little decent experience “declare war / conclude the world” and “Create a Military Union” are combined with trade and the system of agreements allowing to exchange, for example, gold and steel on the province.

Did not sentence and science. Special teams are engaged in projects, however, mounted pluses – a model of a tank combatable, the industry is better, an atomic bomb, in the end.

Well, the goal is quite natural – by entering the composition of one of the three then military blocks, to defeat the remaining two. There are no special innovation foreseen.

Memo recruit

They say, newcomers, seeing the diversity of the buttons and the sliders, are tritely lost, fall into cerebral paralysis and t.P. I do not know. I saw such “newbies” that… But I agree, the Intellect of Academician and the curiousness of Alice is not everyone. And therefore, looking at the screen, let’s stop… And let’s eliminate the stupor, and it is indecent like something.

Economy, and very good, not lazy to create. For anyone to launch a mission, for a long-suffering Soviet Union or Panama, there will always be plants and mines. As a result of dubious venture with industry in the “Victory Day II”, she suffered greatly. The consequence of this was the magnificent wildness of the whole areas of the globe, who did not bother to start at least a small factory.

But we are not talking about, but about one reception, the “economic optimization” named “economic optimization”. As you know, veterans, industry points add up to a common boiler, and then various goodness, type of tank division, a radar station or a soldering for the envious number of civilian citizens are bought for them. However, that this useful action makes it necessary to provide the plants to provide raw materials. Dachshund – 2 units “Energy” (type of coal, firewood…), 1 steel and 0.5 rare metals (say, nickel, uranium…). These wealth are mined in the provinces and daily at 0:00 are stored in the capital, minus ruined for the benefit of the uninterrupted supply of factories.

So, it is desirable to compare the indicators from the pop-up tips (the mouse on the raw icon) and the number of plants, and after ordering to travel to the provinces to order to develop industry in the amount, mine mine. Alas, IC pay off (Ic = 1 plant, build 1 factory = 5 IC * approximately 365 days, depending on the infrastructure – organizedness of the province), as can be seen from the brackets, is extremely reluctant. Five years minimum. How to treat – the question is controversial, but the same thing is undoubtedly.

When in the near future, a full-scale conflict is not foreseen, which arises always at the dawn of the epoch between the Chinese and the Japanese, the supply of the army with the newest equipment and ensuring the delivery of replenishment is in the last place. Similarly – with “Race Arms”. Well, stick the crowd of lemmings, you will be proud of the power, and then what? If not to beat the neighbors in the face at once? But the soldiers love to eat and, although not rebellious if they do not give food, as in “DP I”, but still…

Sometimes it turns out that investment (or rather, “collaboration”…) is different as in the industry, under supremacy, nowhere. And then, the paradox, it is more profitable to give them there. So do not mock the unfortunate archaeologists, sticking to Kolyma from fat radar station and runway 10th size. Someday you will force the fat to fit, and it is best if it helps with industrial glasses, and will not be put in the storage chamber on the damn cakes.

So, the first action already know. It came a turn of the second, namely, personnel permutations in the government. With the happy owners of the cabinets and portfolios, the conversation is short: if his skills contribute to peaceful development – we leave, no – change. Here, for example, the Minister of External Intelligence. Very nice that he is talentedly smearing the whole of the opponent’s ground forces, but this is when the troops “in winter apartments”, the world has been concluded with everyone, and not only the saboteurs are not visible on the borders, but also banal infantry divisions. Better let that uncle plows, he is special for industrial spying, some hypothetical schemes of aggregates finds out, and this is a considerable plus to IC.

So, showered officials in the country of increasing, ordered the collectors. BUT?..

On the diplomatic screen, in addition to persons politicians, charismatic and not very, there are also inherited from the old woman “Europe”. This “condition” carries some pros and cons. So, bring up in subjects of conquerors (to interventionism-y!). So far, without comment – we will have time for the topic of ministers and accompanying. But per year is given a single point for changing the state of society, and it is advisable to manage with the mind.

And how to be?..

Immediately on the technological screen – to assign performers scientific projects! Newcomers, apparently, will be surprised by the number of directions, and most importantly – the scarce of reference information, which would fit on the baby’s marigold. And the elderly crocodiles, probably, are almost picked up on a new system – panic horror before drawing up a research plan in the applied sciences for a new model of the aircraft up to the beverages of the pilot (with certificates, chemical formula, analysis of taste sensations and historical certificates…) much more terrible, believe me.

You know, it is easy to manage with a restless economy of eggs. Take a rule not to touch the projects investigated in reality later than the year (in a prominent place), now the woven near the watch in the corner of the screen and follow in the choice of their skills. The rest will leave for later.

Summing up. In the personal reminder of the young fighter, it is from now:

• Develop industry, if raw materials are much and no war;

• Show ministers, assign correct;

• Immediately launch the maximum number of scientific projects.

Consider, this is just the first day. Only dealt with the annoying introductory atavism of the engine, immediately engaged in these three things. Few? Right, little. But the principal of the pro is gradually prepared. Ready to Day №2?

Hypnotic dollar

Industry indifferent that and when stamping – plush toys or automata. Yes, it was suggested at least separating military plants from civilians, but the public was not noticed. True, earned in the main plants Money (Money) – They are paid to researchers, on them, instead of the diplomatic glasses in the summer, foreign policy actions are bought.

Troops are ordered, both land divisions and squadrons with ships, on an economic (or industrial) screen. A list is drawn up, special buttons division is pushing to its beginning or moves to the end. A certain period is given to preparation, after its completion, the detachment falls into the mobilization reserve, from where it is removed by the Light of God (in the preliminary province) pictogram in the upper left corner of the main screen. As you can see, everything is very easy.

Complete army out Conscripts (Manpower) – “Raw materials” supplied by the provinces on a par with steel and the rest of the treasures of the subsoil.

In addition to the usual warnik, we are seduced by anti-aircrafts (knocking up airplanes, being deployed in the province), radar stations (with them it becomes easier to see squadrons), nuclear reactors (with such a much easier to work on atomic technologies), rocket testing complexes (researchers are better coping with rocket projects), airfields and ports (there are airplanes and ships), finally, the convoy and accompanying ships (some of the raw materials around the sea, others protect them from free fleets-hunters of unfriendly powers).

Surprisingly, these wealth are similar to the armed forces, with the exception of convoys and escorts, immediately reaching the right bins of the Motherland. However, in contrast to the armies capable of rising to run, some port is not capable of redeployment, like his colleagues on this paragraph.

Plus, provincial construction situations started by the top-end panel buttons are included in the list of general rights – plants (without comment), anti-aircraft gunners (yes, anti-aircraft guns fall into the province not only with the help of a mobilization reserve, but also directly), strengthening and defensive shafts (protectfrom attacks from sushi and from marine assaults).

It is important: Liberals, consider democracies in peacetime, relies minus to real industry points, equal to 50%. Alas, it can not be overcome otherwise than to declare a war to someone.

However, to perform all types of orders, they must be provided with industrial glasses, or rather – to plan the budget correctly. IC are indicated in the upper right corner. T.to. The composition of the government is also influenced by the composition of the government, and the ideology (all below), it was necessary for three numbers: the first – how many factories plow in-fast (this is when it was allocated to something with excess), the latter – how many factories in the provinces are physically, secondary -The most ICs that we scatter sliders on budget items.
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