Three Moves Ahead 360: Hearts of Iron IV

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2016

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Rob is joined by Bruce, Jonathan Bolding, and Fraser Brown to discuss the latest in Paradox Interactive's stable of historical games, Hearts of Iron IV. This latest entry in the series returns us to World War II, except it's not always World War II, but that's kind of the point, except when it's not. Despite a few glaring oversights in documentation, the panel has plenty of good things to say about the joy of being "historish". Tune in to find out: is the whole game great, or just Parts of Iron?

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney.
0:03.2	Joining me today, we have our elite irregular panelist from the Wargames Space, Dr. Bruce Garrick.
0:08.7	Hello, Gamer.
0:11.3	We also welcome back our friend, freelance writer, and board game critic Jonathan Bolding.
0:15.7	Howdy, everybody.
0:16.9	Finally, we welcome back our friend Fraser Brown.
0:19.7	Hello.
0:25.6	So, once again, we're here on ThreeruWoods ahead to discuss Paradox Development Studios, Hearts of Iron 4, which we covered at length last summer following a preview event.
0:30.6	Fraser was on that show and I think our reactions at that time were thoroughly mixed to say the least,
0:36.6	but now the final product is upon us.
0:39.4	We've all had a chance to play it.
0:41.3	And I'm eager to know what you all think of it.
0:43.8	But before we dive in all of this, John, we'll start with you.
0:48.1	You know, what is Hearts of Iron for?
0:51.1	And how do we classify it when we put it in the context of other paradox strategy games?
0:56.3	It is the paradox strategy game that perhaps has the most narrow focus, I think.
1:02.3	It is a war game decidedly, unlike in, say, Crusader Kings, where you've kind of got a war
1:08.7	angle and a home front politics angle.
1:12.1	Hearts of Iron chooses to deeply emphasize the kind of warfare that happened between
1:18.6	1936 and 1950.
1:22.6	It is all about sort of this division scale maneuvering.
1:26.8	It's about the logistics of production and supply, and it pairs back other systems in favor
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