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I want to start my HOI journey but I don’t know where to begin. I enjoy difficult and complex games, especially strategy games so the fact that HOI3 has a steep learning curve doesn’t scare me. At the same time, I’d also enjoy the alternative-history aspect.
So I’m not really sure which one to choose. Some people say HOI4 is better nowadays while others still think HOI3 is the superior game. So what’s the best course of action in 2026? Maybe I should just wait for HOI5 and not bother?

Lost Victories: Erich von Manstein

Witnesses of War: Children’s Lives Under the Nazis: Nicholas Stargardt

He Was My Chief: Christa Schroeder

Das Boot: Lothar-Günther Buchheim

Tigers in the Mud: Otto Carius

Für Volk und Führer: The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler”: Erwin Bartmann

Stuka Pilot: Hans-Ulrich Rudel

Beyond Good and Evil; Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Human, All Too Human: Friedrich Nietzsche

Night: Elie Wiesel

The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank

Life and Fate: Vasily Grossman

Stalingrad: Vasily Grossman

The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel: Chief of the German High Command, 1938–1945: Wilhelm Keitel

Hitler’s Interpreter: Paul Schmidt

Until the Final Hour: Traudl Junge

With the Old Breed: Eugene Sledge

Beyond Band of Brothers: Richard Winters

Fires on the Plain: Shōhei Ōoka

I Shall Bear Witness: 1933–1941: Victor Klemperer

To the Bitter End: 1942–1945: Victor Klemperer

Memories of War: Nikolai Nikulin

KL Auschwitz Seen by the SS: Danuta Czech (featuring Rudolf Höss, Pery Broad, Johann Paul Kremer)

At Hitler’s Side: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Luftwaffe Adjutant, 1937–1945: Nicolaus von Below