>Be me, noob to Hearts of Iron in general
>Decide to buy the newest one coming out, looks interesting
>Download and install, start playing
>Decide to start as the glorious American nation because what else
>Spend a few years decking out my army, trying to not be poor
>Fail at not being poor, the Great Depression is kicking my ass
>1940 rolls around, no more poorness, glorious American people can be fat and wealthy again
>Hitler is currently steamrolling France and Poland, no signs of being stopped
>Actiontime.jpg
>Declare war on the Germans, all the Axis declare back on me including Japan
>u wot m8
>Send my superior navy to go kill off the Japanese
>Make a ton of marines and tell them to invade Okinawa and Iwojima
>Have both islands by 1942
>mfw
>Start bombing the literal ♥♥♥♥ out of the Japanese, need to destroy all the weebs
>Move onto the Germans and Italians since Japan is a literal fortress of weebness
>Launch a massive invasion of Africa, all my troops start to die in the desert but we take back land
>Dying for freedom is glorious
>Africa is finally the Allies, at the cost of over 300,000 American lives
>Move onto trying to reenact D-Day
>By this point 1944 is almost here, start to hope to finish the war by the end of 1944
>Naval invade the ♥♥♥♥ out of Germany
>Americans make it safetly, freedom is coming ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
>German army shows up
>Oh ♥♥♥♥
>Americans start dying
>More dying
>This is bad news bears
>So many dead
>Finally Germany starts to run out of manpower, starts to be able to be pushed back
>By this point the Soviets are in the war, also beating the Germans, we start racing towards Berlin
>Soviets beat us to Berlin
>♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.jpg
>Germany collapses, only Italians and Japanese are left
>Invade Japan, no nukes needed
>Japanese die fast thanks to Soviet help
>Start to invade Italy
>British army suddenly decides to land, finally decides to help in the end of the war
>Italy capitulates
>Over a million American casualities
>Blame my generals for the loss of life
>Peace conference rolls around, puppet everything
>Everything must be free
>EVERYTHING
>Decide that's enough puppeting, click done
>Greece somehow gets nearly all of Germany's lands, is now a superpower
>what
>mfw you very nearly recreate WW II but Greece has to ♥♥♥♥ it up

>Be me, noob to Hearts of Iron in general >Decide to buy the newest one coming out, looks interesting >Download and install, start playing >Decide to start as the glorious American nation because what else >Spend a few years decking out my army, trying to not be poor >Fail at not being poor, the Great Depression is kicking my ass >1940 rolls around, no more poorness, glorious American people can be fat and wealthy again >Hitler is currently steamrolling France and Poland, no signs of being stopped >Actiontime.jpg >Declare war on the Germans, all the Axis declare back on me including Japan >u wot m8 >Send my superior navy to go kill off the Japanese >Make a ton of marines and tell them to invade Okinawa and Iwojima >Have both islands by 1942 >mfw >Start bombing the literal shit out of the Japanese, need to destroy all the weebs >Move onto the Germans and Italians since Japan is a literal fortress of weebness >Launch a massive invasion of Africa, all my troops start to die in the desert but we take back land >Dying for freedom is glorious >Africa is finally the Allies, at the cost of over 300,000 American lives >Move onto trying to reenact D-Day >By this point 1944 is almost here, start to hope to finish the war by the end of 1944 >Naval invade the shit out of Germany >Americans make it safetly, freedom is coming bitches >German army shows up >Oh shit >Americans start dying >More dying >This is bad news bears >So many dead >Finally Germany starts to run out of manpower, starts to be able to be pushed back >By this point the Soviets are in the war, also beating the Germans, we start racing towards Berlin >Soviets beat us to Berlin >goddammit.jpg >Germany collapses, only Italians and Japanese are left >Invade Japan, no nukes needed >Japanese die fast thanks to Soviet help >Start to invade Italy >British army suddenly decides to land, finally decides to help in the end of the war >Italy capitulates >Over a million American casualities >Blame my generals for the loss of life >Peace conference rolls around, puppet everything >Everything must be free >EVERYTHING >Decide that's enough puppeting, click done >Greece somehow gets nearly all of Germany's lands, is now a superpower >what >mfw you very nearly recreate WW II but Greece has to fuck it up