Darkest Hour: A Hearts Of Iron Game, is an independent Hearts Of Iron game developed by a group of experienced Paradox forum mod creators. The game is more advanced and realistic than the Hearts of Iron II and includes a mix of short and exhaustive campaigns through the darkest episodes of the 20th century. Play from the outbreak of the Great War to the beginning of the Cold War (Or play longer if you know how to modify the game to last until 1991 or longer, but you won't have any additional events).
In the video game we can control a series of different nations (All that existed at that time as Germany, United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, France, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, Nationalist and Communist China, among others. This is a province that is adjacent to the sea), and to be able to arm your army, so much terrestrial, naval and aerial, with which we will have to fight for our survival if we are a small nation or to conquer other territories.
History
We are in 1936 (This is the main campaign on which the game focuses), after the Great Depression, an event that occurred because most US stock market investors worked mainly with borrowed money instead of doing it with their own economic liquidity, causing the stock market bubble to be created because the stock market companies only rose in value due to speculation and not to the real profits of the company, and when this bubble exploded the quotations of the companies of the same one losing great value, and the investors were forced to sell due to the great losses that these companies had, and began suspensions of payments of the banks and the bankruptcies of the same ones, taking with them other banks to the same destiny.
The countries begin the reconstructions of their economies to some countries has not affected much due to the little industrialization or diversification of their economy as France or simply did not belong to the international market as the Soviet Union and some countries remained in a fatal economic state as the United States and Germany, USA made a series of economic reforms and Germany managed to reconstruct a country that was practically in ruins since 1919 with programs of construction of highways and the creation of a great amount of industries in the country, and then annexing in 1938 to Austria in the so-called Anschluss, then Checolosvaquia during the Crisis of the Sudetes and then the total annexation of the same one, and finally the Invasion of Poland beginning as such the Second World War.
The United Kingdom, which was already in crisis due to the great losses it suffered during the first 3 years of the First World War, and with the great depression had to face a period of violence and radicalism, unemployment, a series of inefficient governments, industrial problems, debt acquired with different countries by the previous war, among other economic and social problems. It also had to face the fact that in case of a war it would not be prepared, due to the lack of military personnel and adequate armament and the different conflicts and crises that were created during the inter-war period that were created as the Invasion of Italy to Ethiopia in 1936, Occupation of the Saarland by Germany in 1936, The Invasion of China by Japan in 1937 and the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, Crisis of Poland 1939, among other important conflicts.
France, due to the war would have lost a significant part of the population (1.4 million dead and 4 million wounded), due to the First World War, for this reason imposed such harsh conditions in the Treaty of Versailles (Although most countries rejected these harsh sanctions because they were too strong for any country), for which Germany would have to pay a strong indemnity to France, which could not pay and would have to give Alsace-Lorraine, the African Colonies, give the Memel Zone to Lithuania, give Danzig to the newly independent Poland, the cession of the mines of Saarland and the industrialized zone of the Rhine and finally the embargo of its merchant fleet, arms and the imposition of only being able to have 100000 active soldiers. In the end, due to these impositions and the great French debt, France put strong pressure on Germany for its payments and in the end the two nations ended up in bankruptcy and worsened with the Great Depression, in the end French diplomacy and politics would be plagued with riots and corruption (Oustric Case and Hanau Case) and would be very weak at the international level as it could not participate in the decision making of the different crises that the first German, Italian and Japanese conflicts had.
The video game consists of trying to be the maximum power in the world by conquering the strategic provinces which will give us victory points (such as; Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Naples, London, Stalingrad, Leningrad, among others), although we can also set some goal, such as play faithfully to history, play a small nation and make it big or simply play with a nation in the middle of the war as Belgium, Denmark or Greece and try to survive. We will be able to take our government from Left to Right or vice versa, Militarist to Pacifist, Planned Economy to Free Market, among others. Giving us different ministers which will give us some advantages or disadvantages (Increase in the production of resources, advantages in diplomacy, etc), and if we change these ministers when a change of government is made for elections, it will generate dissension among the population which will not be very serious if we do not have it in a very high amount. And it's a very interesting game and it's worth trying.
