Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday is a stand-alone expansion for the game of World War II strategy, Hearts of Iron II, released in April 4, 2006. It contains everything that was in the original game while highlighting and expanding the period after historical World War II, including a hypothetical nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the Allies. The new Doomsday scenario takes place two months after the end of World War II. On October 2, 1945, Soviet forces attack Allied forces in West Germany, Austria and South Korea. In response, US President Harry S. Truman orders the United States Air Force... to drop atomic bombs on the Soviet capital, Moscow and Kuybyshev. This triggers World War III. The war continues into the 1950s and ends in 1953, at which point a winner is chosen. There is a new intelligence area. This provides information on other countries and allows operations against them such as stealing technological blueprints, assassinating members of government, and starting coup d'états. Doomsday also features some other changes and additions such as: In March 2007, Paradox released a booster pack for Doomsday, called Hearts of Iron II: Armageddon.
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| Release date: | April 4, 2006 |