absolutely, C&C 4 destroyed the series
And yeah HOI 4 for me is a bit of a dropoff. It did add some cool looking views and zoom ins and outs, but it added too many weird tech options for me. But I was spoiled by HOI 3 being so good. Especially when I figured out how to win the game as Italy. The most difficult part was figuring out how the heck to take Malta and Gibraltar as Italy. Italian marines and a serious game flaw ftw
I had tried to invade Gibraltar, and realized you couldnt take it from the Mediterranean (what?). So I built my Marines starting right away so I could get 6 marine divisions with 1/3 of my surface fleet and transports before Italy got into the big war (I also stayed in the Ethiopia war to take advantage of the war economy longer than I should have). After I upgraded transports and marines, I put nothing into air or naval, everything I could to production and the rest into infantry and armor. So I loaded my marines and fleet and sent them all the way around Africa to sit at sea for months rofl just off Gibraltar in the Atlantic. I then got some surface fleets and transports and 6 more marine divisions ready near malta. And then I loaded up my armor and infantry in ports to get them ready for Africa.
Then when I got to declare war, I landed at Gibraltar and Malta and kept those surface fleets to help bombard, invaded Egypt on land in Libya with only infantry, and then moved my fleet with armor ad infantry along the coast of greece and Turkey and landed in Syria behind the British.
that made the British ion Egypt panic and run east. My infantry surrounded them and finished them while my armor took off for Saudi Arabia and eventually India, taking all the ports.
When my fleet at Gibraltar was finished there, they headed to Germany and eventually French ports in the west of France. By then, I was railroading tons of infantry and armor through france to the new ports. I then invaded west Britain and unleashed everything there across Britain, which only had 5 or 6 divisions. By then my German allies needed help with Russia, so I took most of my army back to Europe and into southern Russia (along with some armies moving across to India up around Turkey to Russian oil in the south.
TONS of fun even if I had to game the game to get it done with Italy.
And I did it all without any air and few naval units after the first 3 months of war. Sometimes I even declared war on Turkey to see how that would go (the Russians would send units south into Turkey that got bogged in the mountains and eventually surrounded by my guys and wiped out
Makes me want to play another game of HOI 3.
KD