Hoivengers Games Archives

This page is purposed to archive details to all previously-hosted Hoivenger multiplayer games.

Europa Universalis IV
Although the Hoivengers - Discord Sect is well-acquainted to Hearts of Iron IV, the community also intermittently plays other Paradox titles, such as Europa Universalis IV.

Unnamed Game (Indeterminate Date)
The first Hoivengers Europa Universalis IV multiplayer game was initiated by Pyro, sometime during the period of the Hoivengers Steam Group. However, it was quickly aborted due to internet concerns.

Hearts of Iron IV
The foundations of the Hoivengers were built upon their desire to play Hearts of Iron IV (hoi4) with each other. The group hosts Hoi4 games on a semi-regular basis.

Kaiserreich Game (2021.04.02)
Pyro hosted a Kaiserreich game on the 2nd of April, 2021, to commemorate the newly-opened 'Hoivengers - Discord Sect' Group. However, the game was cancelled by Pyro after a few in-game months.

Warcrimes/Xi Europe Game (2021.05.23)
A multiplayer lobby was intermittently opened by Warcrimes on the 23rd of May, 2021. With the State Transfer Tool and Player-led Peace Conferences mods on, Xi joined as Poland while Warcrimes played as Czechoslovakia. Warcrimes eventually restored Austria-Hungary. Xi also chose to go Communist and helped invade Germany with Warcrimes' Association of Free States. The game was mostly a success.

Central Powers Game 1 (2021.08.08)
Pyro and Corn planned another multiplayer session on the 8th of August, 2021. Notwithstanding technical difficulties, Corn was eventually able to set up a lobby. Xi also joined the game as Germany. This game's main derivative was to restore the Central Powers faction. The team built up their respective nations until their efforts were vitiated by Pyro.

Instead of selecting the usual path towards Austro-Hungarian unification, Pyro decided to manually justify a war goal against the Hungarians. This resulted in the United Kingdom guaranteeing Hungary. Pyro was undeterred by this guarantee, and soon declared war on Hungary.

Initially, the war against Hungary was a monotonous struggle. Pyro attempted to break the Hungarian armies stationed against Austria, but was repelled. Xi joined the war late, offering 8 40-width infantry divisions to aid the ongoing struggle. By this point, the United Kingdom had gained military access through Yugoslavia and were siphoning reserve units into Hungary.

The war was decisively won after Xi annexed all of Czechoslovakia after completing "Fate of Czechoslovakia". The Hungarian forces were caught in battles against the Austrian border, and could not withdraw to the Slovakian front. Hungary capitulated to Austria, leaving the United Kingdom to fend for themselves. The United Kingdom could not retreat fast enough to halt the advances of the German-Austrian armies however, which dealt around 80 thousand British casualties.

Japan, Soviet, and Italian Game (2021.08.09)
After winning the war against Ethiopia, Xi released all Italian African colonies, much to Pyro's dismay. This trend of unnecessarily releasing small puppet governments was coined "Self-determination" by Corn, who also released Tajikistan. Shortly thereafter, Xi pledged Italian allegiances to Corn. Pyro temporarily joined the Comintern faction but later left.

Later in 1936, Pyro planned to invade Shanxi, but his computer crashed before he was able to. Pyro planned to use a separate save file to restart the playthrough, but left shortly after creating the new lobby. Returning to the original save file, Corn and Xi continued their campaign. They both aided Republican Spain in the Spanish Civil War and intervened in Chinese conflicts, such as the Dunganistan-Xinjiang War.

In 1937, Corn declared war on Poland through the Free City of Danzig and annexed the two polities.

Japan/China Test Game (Indeterminate Date)
In this test game, Corn and Warcrimes tested to gauge how difficult it was to defeat Japan as China with a human player. This test did not go accordingly: According to Warcrimes, Corn ignited a communist civil war but lost rapidly, capitulating in just two days.

Tunganistan Game (2021.11.21)
While awaiting Pyro's return, Corn, Warcrimes, and Xi decided to play a multiplayer session. In their first game, they played as Tunganistan with the Road to 56 RP (RT56RP) and FPS map (FPS) mods enabled. Nothing notable happened however, as Warcrimes quickly returned all of Tunganistan's territory to Nationalist China before Corn ever unpaused the game.

"Nations Released Game 2" (2021.11.21)
Immediately following the failed Tunganistan game, Corn decided to host another multiplayer game, this time with the RT56RP, FPS, and Releasables Revived mods enabled. Corn initially chose to play as the Muscovite SSR, but later switched countries to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). Warcrimes attempted to unite the United Kingdom as Mercia, while Xi chose to contest Corn's monopolization of Russia by playing as the Astrakhan SSR. History Section WIP