Basically speaking, you’re playing an alternative Cold War simulator. This is the main difference between the mod and vanilla HoiIV. The rest of the world quickly experiences the domino effect, facing internal crisis and new dangers from outside. The Greater Germany turns into a few lesser Germanies, jumping at each other’s throats. The Great Gibraltar Dam, or how to literally drown billions of Reichsmarks and ruin Iberian economy (a loading screen from the demo version) Sure, everything plays slowly at first, no matter which country you choose, you’ll probably focus on choosing internal policies, managing your budget and developing new technologies. When you start the game, it’s year 1962 and the wind of change brings the smell of imminent trouble. Other Axis countries aren’t faring much better, with the Iberian Union being crippled by its dysfunctional political system and Italy struggling to keep hold of it’s huge colonial empire. Finally, the dreaded SS rebelled against Hitler’s government and Germany plunged into civil war. The economic disaster was followed by a massive Russian insurgency which managed to recover large parts of the former Soviet territory. Germany quickly learned that you can’t base the economy on pillage, slavery, and spending all the money for humongous public projects. Eventually, the walls of their shining fortresses began to crack. Sure enough, the Axis powers (not just Germany and Japan) managed to defeat their enemies and enjoyed the spoils of war for a while. However, you’ll quickly discover it’s not exactly the case. The economy flourishes (or at least there are no signs of a crash incoming), the technological progress sends the first Aryan to the Moon, the machine of terror is omnipresent and works flawlessly, but ordinary German citizens live in peace and prosperity.įortunately, the development team behind The New Order: Last Days of Europe, a total conversion mod for Hearts of Iron IV, decided to take a different approach.Īt first glance, it looks like another alt-history scenario with Nazis winning the war and ruling forever while a handful of brave resistance fighters tries to bring them down. For example, how is it possible that the evil Nazis have enough manpower to occupy half the world and suddenly don’t need all those Italians and Romanians as cannon fodder and police force? (at least in Panzer General II you were able to invade Bronx with your Romanian marines) What’s even less plausible, the final victory is indeed… final. Quite a few things are laughable in grim-dark visions of future presented in such works as the Wolfenstein series or The Man in the High Castle. ![]() A Vietnam war, but in Africa (second demo version) I’ll definitely have more to write when this issue gets solved, so this time I’ll just sum up my experience with playing the two demo versions released earlier this year and following the subreddit community. ![]() Sadly, as it was to be suspected, the mod is still ridden with game-crippling bugs at this stage and I couldn’t manage to make any progress with my chosen factions. As a sceptical and jaded person, I’m usually immune to the so-called hype, but I’ve been counting months, weeks and days to see this moment. Deep in the night, the first full version of Hearts of Iron IV: The New Order mod was released on Steam.
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