Hearts of Iron II MP game

[Dell19]

A few people seem interested in the idea so it makes sense to start a separate thread.

Ideally I would like some sort of AAR element as the mp game is likely to move quite slowly as there will only be certain times each week when everyone is free and HOI II is not a short game. I don't have a specific number of human players in mind although I guess somewhere betwen 3 and 6 would be a good target.

The two options really are playing a historical game in vanilla HOI II or one of the mods where we can't declare war except for the historical events. It'll probably make any AARs associated with the game however it could be difficult to split the number of human players fairly.

The second option would be to use the Armageddon mod and play the Abyss scenario where the world is split in to similar sized nations (that have a back story) which should leave to a more balanced game although it might not be the best option if several people who are interested don't have the extra expansion. Currently this scenario is my preference as it would not be fun to play the 1936 scenario as a nation that doesn't join the war in 1939.

Here are the main nations in the Abyss scenario:

Stalinists:

European Soviets (UK, Lowlands, Denmark)
Roma (Italy and Yugoslavia)
PRRS (Japan)


Market Liberal:
Bourbon (France and Iberia)
Sweden (Scandanavia)

Social Liberal
USA
Republic of China

National Socialist:
Prussia (Most of Germany and Poland)
Russia
Confederates

(Plus a number of other nations (Ottomans (National Socialist, Cossacks (Social Liberal) and a couple of others)


Interested people:

Dell19
Carmen510
Karmic Knight

Lurking:

Dachs

 

[Dachs]

Interested but I don't have the game or money. So I'll be lurking with extreme prejudice.

 

[carmen510]

I may be a minor nation in vanilla, or perhaps the Chinese in Abyss, since I'm somewhat of a n00b, though I have a moderate amount of experience.

 

[Karmic Knight]

In the Abyss, I would preferably like to play as Australiasia, the Libertadores, or the European Soviets, and I would be willing to play as anything in the Grand Campaign, no preferences.

Edit: Which version would the game be? Armageddon, 1.2, 1.1, 1.3beta? Doomsday?

 

[Captain2]

a MP AAR? sounds awesome

Sadly the multiplayer is a bit testy and tends to refuse to let people join up at all, or even speed up the game once its started so you'd have a game on normal speed.

 

[LightFang]

I could play, maybe, but we'd have to use Hamachi.

 

[Dell19]

I'm hopeful that we can just use the in game tools to set up an MP game. Maybe we should try setting up a trial game at the weekend to see if there are any issues.

I did have a quick look at the Abyss scenario in SP and I was slightly disappointed by it as Prussia was gobbled up by Bourbon, UK and Roma so maybe we would need quite a few human players to make it work. So if we do end up with three people then one of the historic scenarios may make more sense.

Version wise its likely to be the latest version, game wise we haven't yet decided as it depends how many people are interested.

 

[Karmic Knight]

I would personally recommend Armageddon 1.3b, as it has fleshed out and fixed the Intelligence system nicely.

 

[carmen510]

But I don't like beta patches!

 

[Karmic Knight]

But I don't like beta patches!

The 1.2 patch then?