Hearts of Iron II: Armageddon
| Hearts of Iron II: Armageddon | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Paradox Interactive |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X |
| Release | April 2007 |
| Genre(s) | Strategy |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
Hearts of Iron II: Armageddon is an expansion for the game Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday, released in April, 2007. It contains everything from the previous entries of Hearts of Iron II, and includes some extras.
New items
- Player can allow or disallow democracies to declare war on the main menu options screen
- Player may choose when the time of play will end, ranging as early as 1940 to as late as 1964.
- Player may choose to get full IC (Industrial Capacity) of an annexed country, or not to.
- Player may choose to use tech teams of an annexed country or not.
- New brigade attachments for ships and aircraft.
New scenarios
Two new scenarios are entered into the franchise offering a new world to play in. The Abyss is a level where none of the 19 nations are at war, whereas Armageddon is a war between the Allies, Axis and Comintern. The game includes scenarios designed not just to reflect history, but also to provide balanced scenarios for multiplayer use. An example of the alternative history involved includes:
- The American Revolutionaries captured Quebec and as such took control of Canada in the Treaty of Paris. Thus it became the United States of North America (USNA).
- The Confederates win the war but Virginia and Kentucky defect back to the North due to its economic strangle hold on the south. Eventually, the Confederates merge with Mexico and form the Confederate Empire.
- France never suffers from revolution and in fact it is annexed by the Spanish Crown after the last King of France dies leaving the King of Spain as heir to the throne. Later, Portugal is annexed too into the Bourbon. A good portion of historical French North Africa is also transferred to the Bourbon Kingdom after the war against the Ottomans.
- The British Empire falls apart after the failure of the King (Queen Victoria never succeeds to the throne) to suppress the Chartists. As such all the remaining members of the Empire revolt or leave. However, Britain inherits the thrones of Hanover, the Netherlands and Denmark; the combined nation turns into a Stalinist nation which is called the European Soviets in honour of the failed Russian Revolution of 1905.
- Italy not only becomes unified, but it crushes and absorbs a major portion of the Austrian Empire after the latter's many revolutions in 1848. It succeeds in wresting Tunisia and Libya from the Ottomans, but fury due to lack of massive territorial acquisitions and losing the greatest portion of men in the war, the elections lead to Tito coming into power and establishing a communist state.
- Germany never unifies and is left instead with a Prussia that extends across most of Central Europe. When the game starts, Kaiser (or more likely Koenig) Wilhelm II is not the head of state, but rather his son.
- Sweden still encompasses all of the Nordic Region (with Denmark and Iceland as the exceptions). At the beginning of the game it holds most of the Baltic States and even controls Leningrad (the names of the provinces were not changed).
- After Russia lost the Russo-Japanese War, the Ukraine broke off from the Empire and established the Cossack state that later came to encompass sections of the Danube.
- Though losing a good portion of territory and the Ukraine in the Russo-Japanese War, Russia remained in control and never fell into the revolutions of 1917. Neither Nicholas II or his son, Alexis, are the Tsar but rather Kyril Romanov (the pretender to the throne after the Romanov dynasty was extinguished at Yekaterinburg).
- All the sub-Sahara territories not under European or Ottoman control form under a unified communist state under Heile Selassie (the historical last emperor of Ethiopia).
- Most of South America forms into a communist state after many repeated attempts by the Bourbon Kingdom to retain control over the empire.
- Australia and New Zealand break away from the UK after it becomes communist, declaring itself the independent state of Australasia and captures PNG, a small portion of Indonesia and all pacific Islands between New Ireland and Tahiti from their respective rulers, forming a modest empire under Australasian control.
The purpose of the scenarios is to provide relatively equal nations to choose from for multiplayer games.