Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday
| Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday | |
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| Developer(s) | Paradox Interactive |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X |
| Release | April 4, 2006 |
| Genre(s) | Strategy |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday is a stand-alone expansion for the game of WW2 strategy, Hearts of Iron II, released in April 4, 2006. It contains everything that was in the original game while highlighting and expanding the period after historical WW2, including a hypothetical nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the Allies.
Plot
The new Doomsday scenario takes place two months after the end of World War II. On October 2, 1945, Soviet forces attack Allied forces in West Germany, Austria and South Korea. In response, U.S. President Harry S Truman orders the United States Air Force to drop atomic bombs on the Soviet capital, Moscow and Kuybyshev. This triggers World War III. The war continues into the 1950s and ends in 1953, with either the single player winning or losing.
The Allies
The Comintern
Intelligence folder
There is a new intelligence sub-game for spies. This provides information on other countries and allows operations against them such as:
- Steal Technology Blueprints
- Sabotage Production
- Assassinate ministers and leaders
- Spread propaganda
- Talk to the mass media
- Sabotage infrastructure
- Fund partisans
- Coup
Other changes
Doomsday also features some other changes and additions such as:
- Additional graphics such as bomber sprites
- Escort Carriers
- Hospitals that recover manpower losses
- A "do not upgrade" button for divisions (much requested by fans)
- The option of automating the production sliders (much requested by fans)
- Submarines have separate stats for convoy raiding and naval combat
- An extended timeframe - the game end date has been changed to 1953
- New technologies to bring the game into the cold war era
- An included scenario editor
- The ability to trade divisions between nations
Further expansions
In March 2007, Paradox released a booster pack for Hearts of Iron II Doomsday, called "Hearts of Iron II: Armageddon". The centerpiece is a new campaign setting based upon an alternate history and providing evenly balanced countries for multiplayer play. Also included are new game features such as naval attachments like radar and adjusted air battle dynamics.