Hearts of Iron questions

External Since: May 10, 2004 Posts: 28

OK, I got this game. I have to agree with those who said the manual
isn't the greatest. And, in my opinion, the game could have used some
help to make it more intuitive.

So, I have a few questions. Playing America, I landed a couple
divisions on one of the Pacific islands and easily defeated the japanese
force there. But the Japs never left the island. The fighting stopped,
but I had an opposing force that I couldn't get rid of.

What happens here? Chasing the Vichy across Africa, they always
retreated away from me. I didn't want to leave the island and "unpin"
my opponent, but I needed my forces elsewhere.

Secondly, is there any way to increase odds of destroying an opposing
force completely? Somehow, an infantry unit was able to keep ahead of
my tanks. I chased him almost all the way to Saudi Arabia... any sane
commander would have surrendured somewhere near Tunis.

On the plus side, though, I got the emotional warm fuzzy of having the
Hiryu being my first kill.

External Since: Jul 24, 2003 Posts: 120

bbottorff.TakeThisOut@nomail.com (Boyd Bottorff) writes:

>So, I have a few questions. Playing America, I landed a couple
>divisions on one of the Pacific islands and easily defeated the japanese
>force there. But the Japs never left the island. The fighting stopped,
>but I had an opposing force that I couldn't get rid of.

They leave eventually, in my experience. It just takes a dreadful
long time to evacuate forces from those little Pacific islands; there's
not a lot of placees to go (and I tend to have their shipping pretty well
bottled up). It seems to be the computer's side of that nasty catch
where an assault fails and your troops spend a month marching to the
nearest island in their retreat.

>Secondly, is there any way to increase odds of destroying an opposing
>force completely? Somehow, an infantry unit was able to keep ahead of
>my tanks. I chased him almost all the way to Saudi Arabia... any sane
>commander would have surrendured somewhere near Tunis.

That I haven't figured out, but there are enough riotously
insane things that happened in the real World War II that I can't quite
accuse the game of being unrealistic in that regard.

>On the plus side, though, I got the emotional warm fuzzy of having the
>Hiryu being my first kill.

Playing the US I've finally gotten around to rooting Japan out
of most of the Pacific islands -- including Formosa -- although I've
been trying to gather forces to concentrate on Europe first. Finally
I made it to my first D-Day invasion in France yesterday; it was touch
and go for a while but I got to the liberation of France. Unfortunately
I gave Italy such little attention their forces are grabbing up chunks
of southwestern France, but I'm trusting as my new mechanized infrantry
gets going I'll be able to hold the southern front under control.

Preparing the invasion can be boring, but *man*, once the action
starts it doesn't let up. I bet anyone who doesn't like the game would
change their attitude if they included a 6 June 1944 scenario.

--
Joseph Nebus
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