• HOI is one of those games where I have put in almost 100 hours and have never played the base game. The alt-history mods like Kaiserreich are way better. Jack Reed and Alexandra Kollontai has led global socialism to the defeat of the German Empire many times.

    • LadyCajAsca [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      4 days ago

      i think i have like 500 hrs and I haven’t played base game since learning how to use mods

      it’s funny how much alt-history mods I have installed just to establish communism in them. From the classic Rto56 stuff to my shenanigans in TFR, honestly, Endsieg (or Gotterdamerung? Not the base game one) counts too if you play the 1941 start date.

      Oh, and I have never learnt much of the mechanics. Like, putting me into a game without toolpack, player-led and console commands will destroy my country once I join a war… I like, play it sometimes whenever I see a cool mod, and trying to figure out what quirky mechanic added by a HOI4 DLC or mod I have to figure out takes up a lot of the time so I just kinda cheat them once I figure out what debug/console commands they correspond to.