Hearts of Iron 3 - Japan and the Pacific War

[cellyboy3000]

this game is amesing, you have to think of like 1000 things at the time. and every move you make does affect the game

[Rexie021]

what theater does Japan need if invading US?

[MrTlMMAY]

This is the kind of game I would love... but its so hard to understand and the tutorial is horrible and I cant find out how to play.

[giantrobots1122]

Holy crap, what is this bullshit company. I have to think when playing their games. :rage:

Keep up the good work, Paradox. :salute: Eagerly waiting for the HoI3 expansion.

[nicamex73]

wtf................ gay as video

[2015ww3]

This is a game for strategic thinkers, not mindless first person shooters.

[TheIrredeemable]

@2015ww3

Indeed, but not all FPS games are mindless.

Arma II is a fine example of this and requires just as much skill and planning.

[Russian3600]

@TheIrredeemable YEAH ARMA 2 the game of the century

[TheIrredeemable]

@Russian3600

Indeed!

[dmied1]

@Russian3600 agreed, oh but of course with ace mod

[maddingo12]

I'm waiting for the inevitable expansion pact before buying this game. Hopefully by then all the AI issues and bugs will be resolved, also I don't like the 1936 to 1946playing time. That's way too short. I liked HOI2 Doomsday where the game would go on for decades. It allows you more time to plan and execute your plans.

[Filipe1XX]

does this game have tutorial?

[lester2222]

i dont get how i start war with an other nation. my neutrality is 60 % or so and other nations are like 25% and for some reason i need to get about the same percentage but i dont know how to. how to WAR in this game??

[Jazga]

Much like in the real world.. Starting a war is pretty hard in HOI3

If you feel like skipping the annoying part of using espionage/propaganda to get the war started.

1. Pic a nation where you are guaranteed to get in on the action.

Japan, Italy, Germany, etc... All these will SURELY see their share of the action.

2.Align your self with the Axis and prepare to fight the British empire.

3. Use espionage.

Spys at home lower neutrality.

Spys at the target country increase their threat

[lester2222]

Yeah i got it now, i already raped UK, Soviet Union, scandinavia and my fellow axis countries have annexed other countries too with my help in turkey and greence and yugoslavia and so on.

But my game keeps crashing, really buggy game, so its annoying to play now, else i'm busy taking over africa.

[Jazga]

Never had the game crash my self.

[MadsDreier]

Its 1000 times more complicated than total war, I can assure you

[IndependentIV]

more complicated more awfull from TW!

[CBAPirate]

Shall I get this game? Can you compare it to something like Total War?

[Foerris]

Compared to the games of the Total War serie, I think a lot of people will find this to be quite "dry" and boring.

There's a lot more micromanagement (it doesn't nesescarily need to be since you can assign tasks to the AI) and requires more planning.

It is as MadsDreier puts it, "1000 times more complicated" :p

(I'm not saying it is a bad game when mentioning that a lot don't like it, personally I love it, but I think far more people enjoy the Total War games).

[Jazga]

Yeah.. HoI isn't exactly geared towards the Xbox generation. :D

[Blackie3391]

I just tried the demo, and it is boring as hell and frustrating because of all the popups I get - but something keep pulling me back into the game, like I want to do that and try that and because the most powerful nation - its kinda wierd

[deaconate]

Yeah.. this game has a very steep learning curve.

[bigj687]

I too am a fan of the total war games. Imagine the total war games without actually being able to command armies on the battlefield. However, the campaign map has ALOT more detail. Also, the game isn't about conquering the whole world, it's about winning WW2

[bman1052]

why dose my hoi3 say it stopped working when i go to load games

[12345Fok12345]

the music sounds great!!! did every country have his own music???

[Henners1991]

Mostly a "Theme"; Mostly for the main countries... otherwise, if yer Oriental you'll likely just get music like this, Europeans get classical, etc.

[DesertEagle505]

I love the Japanese history

[charlesedward1]

I think so too. My best friend is a direct descendant of the samari of the Nagaoka line. One city and one temple have been named after these great warrior line..

[DaMoviesMan43]

japan 4 me has such fascinating history and culture. anyone else think so?

[TheFunkDR]

Personally im a fan of russian history, and looking at african cultures, in the least nerdiest way, and as a whole, I find China and korea even more ineresting than japan, but yeah japans to asia like England was to Europe sort of....except there wasnt really a time when japan ruled the world by seas, just in the sense that its diffrent because it an island.

[Malvadeus]

Japan only became a true power after the Restoration, they were never to Asia the same England was to Europe.

[spitss]

they where

[cdnishk]

China too! haha XD

[Journier]

In HoI 3 japan has as much chance of invading germany as it does of attacking the USA. Check the forums. :/

[NLFonsseals]

Yea, so colorful and so many ways you didnt predict it was...

[DaMoviesMan43]

i would play japan 4 the music alone...

[bigj687]

I like all the new map modes, especially the infrastructure one and the one which shows supply lines.

[niketas0104]

I preordered this already on Steam, being a fan of Paradox Interactive... but I have never quite gotten into the HoI series and am worried about what looks like a steep learning curve... I can't wait until they update Vicky though 8^)

[cnave21]

just wondering but i though that the navy didnt go by divisions

[kheczko]

I just hope that beta testers did their work right ;)

[Ironzealot7531]

hope they fix some of the issues that HOI2 had.

Conquering London should knock britain out of the war, I shouldn't have to continue fighting a britain that is solely composed of some caribbean colonies.

[sveinndagur]

True, i really hate it how i can't annex the UK even after talking over all of England and Scotland just because they have colony's in Africa and India. I mean in the real world many of those Colony's like India for example could possibly just have broken away for the UK altogether if they wanted too in case the UK were invaded. But it appears we no longer have to suffer from this problem in Hearts of Iron 3 as the developers have said that the new games uses a country morale system that

[sveinndagur]

calculates the enemy's victory's vs defeats and uses that information to create a % from 0% to 100% so once the % gets too low then the other side will simply surrender. You know what that means? WE NO LONGER HAVE TO SPEND YEARS TAKING EVERY SINGLE PROVINCE IN THE SOVIET UNION JUST TO ANNEX THEM!!!! HORRAY!!!!!!

[lonewulf44]

Hmmmm ... I think it should be a terribly heavy event ... but the UK player should have options to still play something.

[bigj687]

theres a new 'government in exile' system. I don't know all the details, but basically, if your mainland gets taken over, even though theres nothing to govern, you can exist in the safety of an allied country (should the choose to take you in) and conduct intelligence missions and fund partisans

[thecomando]

Which will be completely badass.

[iOnlySignIn]

@Ironzealot7531 But Churchill explicitly said "We shall fight on the beaches"...

[lostmuskrat905]

@Ironzealot7531 Yet that's exactly what the Germans had to do with France and the Netherlands.

[goldolf1]

EPIC game.

[21StCenturyWarfare]

CANT WAIT FOR THE GAME!

HURAH!

[Kuula10]

Im going mad while waiting to game to be released!! waited for loong time

[loveisreal13]

I wish they would make a superpower 3

[GothikOrk]

Banzai for the Emperor! Go South-east Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere!

[nopoet406]

This is an awesome remix of my favourite tune from HOI2. I can't wait for this game to be released... no doubt my computer wont be powerful enough to run it though...

[killlerzombie222]

im definitly gettign this the second it comes out

[larrythehyde]

omg omg omg I pissed myself a little.. and look those convoy routes! It's going to be hell protecting them from the yankees <3

[BlastingFatHerns]

I can't wait to play as Japan and back door bandit the Soviet Union when Germany attacks :)

[HandBinc]

lol you play nasty

[BlastingFatHerns]

It's the only way Japan gets down yo! kick 'em while they're down, they need every advantage they can get :) cheers.

[IlkkisJulkkis]

I just can't wait this game to come out!

Did that music sound litle too much like EU3 music?

[packets1]

I Think paradox should have stuck with real music...their own compositions are merely adequate, I want to play while listening to the epic 1812 overture, not some cheap imitation of it.

But i suppose i can always turn the music down and open up winamp.

[peerLAN]

I think this is Asia/Japan specific music. If you play with an European country it will probably something else. Anyway, it's moddable :)

[IlkkisJulkkis]

It would be great to have spesific musics for every continent but i think they are going to make the music just like they have done in every HoI....all tracks are played in every country but that Japan track just game the the EU3 feelings. In the other videos i can feel the HoI in the music tracks =D

[sveinndagur]

Actually, Paradox said they were giving each country there own tracks. So if your playing as the Soviet Union for example, then you would only hear Soviet style music and nothing like what you just heard in this video.

[lionhead123]

they are making this more like EU3 then HOI2.

[chefportnen]

I know, as soon as I saw the interface I thought, "This just seems like EU3 in a modern setting." Oh well, it's the gameplay that really matters, and I can't wait for it.

[sveinndagur]

It's not EU3 in a modern setting. I have both Hearts of Iron 2 and EU 3 and there is a huge gameplay difference. This may look like a EU interface at first glance but it's still a whole different kind of game.

[chefportnen]

I have each installment in the HoI series. I know that the gameplay is vastly different, that's why I said that it "looks" like EU3.

[sveinndagur]

Oh! Sorry about that, my mistake.

[ashbery76]

Can you build cities and chop wood,etc?

[ddblackhawk]

I hope your joking, but if youre not then no, you cant.

[ballball1109]

lol

[nikermaster]

I got a flashback of EU3 music...

Cheers;

Nick

[Brendissimo35]

Looks absolutely great. Keep it up Paradox.

[Daikini0]

the new "3D" map sucks, everything else looks fantastic

[Tuskin38]

Why do you think it sucks? I see nothing wrong with it.

[dasupremefriend]

Are those folds and creases in the campaign map? If they are, that's really cool.

[Amathev]

Ah yes, best country ever.

[kallanz87]

Can't wait until release, this looks amazing

[nawussica]

It makes me crazy.

[vizigothe]

Cool! Japan was always my favorite nation to play as in HoI2.

[BigRIJoe]

I challenge anyone playing as Bhutan

[JurishzteR]

hahaha its wasting time playing that country hehe

[quikijiki]

Looks absolutely wonderful. Can't wait. If this game is half as good as it looks, it'll be the best strategy game of all time.

[bpscool]

1 month to go!

[ntnimara]

I guess capturing Japan won't be quite as easy anymore.. now that there are so many provinces

[FFulmenTheFinnish]

ntnimara: And rightfully so! What's even better is, that you can edit the borders, provinces (add new ones) etc. far easier and practically than in HoI2!

[Brandt761]

muahahaha...I will simply edit my country with so many provinces that it will be too tedious to capture even for the AI...fufufu

[sveinndagur]

Yea, Japan was really easy to take as the Soviet Union simply by building building some paratroopers and then have them invade the main land. And once you got nukes you could more or less cripple the whole of Japan simply by launching nukes at there 5-7 mainland provinces. I hope things won't be as easy this time around!

[gianlucanders]

Continental asia and japanese flag looks strange...

[Fux4Bux]

Awesome. I really hope the automation AI is competent enough to do coordinated landings. Micromanaging that in HOI2 was something I rarely had patience for and it would only be that much worse with so many more provinces.

How bout some long gameplay videos or a detailed AAR for us forum junkies?

[LLiivveeeevviiLL]

I guess one will always be disappointed in the decisions of any AI, but if it can perform those task - just without excellence - it would be swell.

[goatshredder]

i came (again)

[DgM37]

Looking great. Thanks for posting the video.