If you're reading my AAR, it's pretty much my first true game of HoI3 so just keep reading that and I'll try to sneak in my thoughts on the game. At the moment however, I can see the potential and I quite like the added complexity, but it's not as fun to me as the first two HoI games. I'd stick with HoI2, and only get 3 if you saw the game on sale.