The rest of Europe could get lost wandering around in Siberia. The USSR is, for anyone who missed history class, huge.

So the year is 1936 (the only start year Black Ice allows) and we look like this: I don't know much about the game beyond what I've deduced myself so if any experts see glaring errors please do correct me. This post will cover the strategic situation and some gameplay theory. I've already played a few years on them in a couple earlier games, so while there will probably be none of the hilarious fun of me getting blindsided by events and triggers for the first part of the game, there will also not be any of the 'hilarious fun' of me having to restart because I don't understand the mod. In a groundbreaking moment of free-thinking ingenuity I've decided to play the Soviet Union. This isn't intended to be play-by-vote though suggestions will be taken under consideration! Also I'm assuming a reader unfamiliar with Hearts of Iron and doing a fair bit of explanation, so apologies to anyone who already knows all this for the lengthy posts.Īnyway rather than fully review the mod to start with I think I'm going to just bring up aspects as they become salient, though with all the start-of-game decisions that get made a lot of it's probably going to be discussed early on anyway. This will be my first-ever LP too but I've been talking over my play a lot with the friend who encouraged me to try it so I thought I'd try documenting the experience a bit. So I've recently found my interest in Hearts of Iron 3 renewed and picked up the Black Ice mod to mix things up.

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