# Hearts of Iron2:Doomsday

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hearts-of-iron2-doomsday/393836>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 27, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hearts-of-iron2-doomsday/393836 "2007-02-27T02:33:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hearts-of-iron2-doomsday/393836/1 "2007-02-27T02:33:17Z")

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So, I’m playing this.

It’s awesome.

Has anyone else played it? Suggestions? Advice?

What I usually like to do is take a small country that really didn’t do anything serious is WW2, and try to turn it into a player.

In my current game, I’m gradually shifting the government of Turkey over to a more… militant one, shall we say?

I don’t have the manual, so I am a bit hindered by that, but having played the original HoI, I’m finding this to be much easier to interact with.

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hearts-of-iron2-doomsday/393836/2 "2007-02-27T02:56:50Z")

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I love this game. I usually play as one of the big guns, but I should play a game as a minor power one of these days- Turkey is an interesting choice- not only because of its position in central Europe, but because it could have been a help to either side of the war based on its geographical position- I imagine an Axis Turkey could have helped Germany invade the Middle East and the Caucasian Soviet Union. (In reality, Turkey entered the war on the Allied side in mid-1945- too late to do any major efforts.)

The [HOI2 Wiki](http://hoi2.nsen.ch/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) is a nice resource.

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**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hearts-of-iron2-doomsday/393836/3 "2007-02-27T03:06:23Z")

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Indeed. When I played the original HoI, I enjoyed using Mexico to conquer my way down to the Panama Canal, and then quickly get smoked by the US.

I’m going to go check out the Wiki now, thank you for the link!