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Originally posted by Arryn:
Despite my feelings about the lameness of the EU engine AI, I do recommend you get EU2 and HOI. I also recommend that you spend an extra 6 bucks and buy EU1 just for the EU1 manual which has some very interesting historical info in it.

I'm not as interested in HoI as I am in the other two, as I tend to shy away from "modern warfare" games unless they're science-fiction. World War II is an interesting period in history, but not one which I personally find very entertaining in games. The one exception to this would be Pod9's oustanding Gear Krieg miniatures wargame/pen-and-paper RPG, as it's much more of a "what-if" scenario with steampowered mecha, etc.

IMO, Victoria is still too buggy to be worth buying. It needs at least 1-2 more patches. A good friend of mine plays Vicky every night, has been doing so for months now, and he never has anything good to say about the game. I own the game myself and he keeps reminding me why I shouldn't play it.

Duly noted; thank you.