Ya Ali! A Hearts of Iron 3 Campaign Diary: November 1939
With October’s successes hinting at a subtly precarious situation, can the Axis forces and Iran keep up the pace?
Ya Ali! A Hearts of Iron 3 Campaign Diary: October 1939
Here’s part 2 of my Hearts of Iron 3 Campaign Diary, detailing October 1939. We see an Italian blitzkrieg dominating Western affairs, while the forces of Carton de Wiart; a low ranking, but obstinate British division commander prove every bit as wily and stubborn as his grizzled reputation suggests.
Ya Ali! A Hearts of Iron 3 Campaign Diary – Prelude/September 1939
With Hearts of Iron 3 proving to be such a leviathan game, I decided to accompany our verdict of it with a long term campaign diary to demonstrate how a full play of the campaign could turn out, and have a laugh a long the way.
East India Company – The Verdict
The East India Companies were perhaps the closest thing to Eve Online but-on-earth that history has to show for. They were vast nefarious organizations exploiting and backstabbing each other and whole native populations while cutting a profit. These things destroyed nations. They shaped whole continents in ways still felt today. So why on earth is East India Company so damned boring? I think the simple fact is, Nitro has managed to capture the basic mechanics of early-modern capitalism without embracing…