Three Moves Ahead 309: Hearts of Iron IV Preview

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Games & Hobbies, War Games, War, Strategy Games, Games, Strategy, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2015

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Paradox returns to World War II with the upcoming Hearts of Iron IV and a recent press event found Rob, Rowan, Fraser, and Gamers with Jobs' Sean Sands playing a preview build of the simulation. The results? Mixed feelings. Amidst glimmers of hope for an improved HoI on the order of the successful EUIV and CK2, the panelists found a confusing interface, a lack of direction, and plenty of room for improvement before the final build.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.
0:03.5	Joining me today is a grab bag of podcast friends and semi-regulars.
0:09.5	First, we have our buddy, Fraser Brown.
0:11.7	Hello.
0:13.0	We also welcome back, freelance writer Rowan Kaiser.
0:16.8	Hello.
0:17.8	And finally, returning for the first time since our record setting, EU4 fanboy discussion,
0:24.5	Sean Alessium Sands.
0:26.7	Hi, thanks.
0:28.5	So, EU4, great game, right?
0:32.0	Yeah, let's just screw it.
0:33.2	Let's just talk that again.
0:35.4	I have an agenda and you're falling right into my trap.
0:38.7	So guys, what about...
0:41.1	I'm ready for EU4 and I want that code to show up in my mailbox.
0:45.0	I'm an excuse.
0:46.4	I started checking my inbox, my PR filter for common sense codes this week, even though it was like Calvin and the Beanie, the Sugar
0:58.2	Bomb Beanie.
0:59.5	I knew intellectually there is no way that code was going to be there.
1:03.4	But we started talking about the common sense expansion to EU4 over the trip, and the more
1:08.9	I heard about it, the more I liked.
1:10.5	So I just started being like, well, maybe Troy sent me the code.
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