It’s becoming tough to keep up with the ever-expanding alternate history map-painting experience that is Hearts of Iron IV. With many unique expansion, country, and asset packs to purchase and download alongside the core experience, a newcomer will find it challenging to enter the fray today. But that won’t change anytime soon, as the Hearts of Iron IV Graveyard of Empires country pack is available!
As per the official press release for the country pack, Hearts of Iron IV: Graveyard of Empires consists of:
- Iran: Iran is a potential great power hemmed in by the pressure of the Soviet Union and the British Empire. A significant new Focus Tree allows the player to resist the imperial incursions that historically weakened Iran and offers potential for a revived and modern Persian Empire in the heart of Asia.
- India: The Raj is the jewel of the British Empire, rich and strategically vital. However, a growing independence movement threatens to disrupt the war effort and dissolve the empire. A large focus tree on the struggle of Indian Independence offers many alternate historical paths, including the revival of the East India Company as a corporate nation, possible freedom of the Princely States, restoration of the Mughal Empire, and more.
- Iraq: Take control of this British client state and try to chart your own path, embracing the calls for pan-Arab nationalism and siding with the Axis against the Allies. Manage the many competing ethnic and religious factions in Iraq and develop the strategically important oil fields.
- Afghanistan: The historic Graveyard of Empires, isolated from the wider war, offers many alternate paths. Continue the historical path of neutrality and isolation, or choose the road of rapid industrialization and building a new power in the mountains of Central Asia.
Alongside expanding the abovementioned nations to include more flavor and possibilities to rewrite history, the minor expansion also offers additional art, leader portraits, infantry models, and unit models.
If you’re a fan of strategy games but need a palette cleanser after conquering the known world in Hearts of Iron IV, playing Two Point Museum might scratch that itch!