The new expansion will be called Their Finest Hour, and it comes three years after the release of the original game. This is in direct result of Paradox Interactive listening to what their online international community has to say about their products.

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New features of Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour include:

• Announced features for Hearts of iron III: Their Finest Hour include:
• Expanded espionage system with new and reworked missions, including new covert operations that can be performed on the map.
• New 'battle plans' mode where you can load historical plans, or draw your own and share with your allies in real-time in multiplayer games.
• New unique elite units for each major nation's army - Gurkhas, Rangers, Imperial Guards etc.
• Deeper naval invasions system including the development of specialized landing and assault crafts to improve the effectiveness of your assault.
• More detailed control over strategic warfare and a generalized lend-lease system to support your distant allies with your industrial might.
• Leaders are now able to gain traits, and assigning them to duty is more important than ever with the new combat tactics system for battles.
• A new custom game mode for both single and multiplayer. You start with a clean slate and can instantly produce units, research technologies and affect political alignment before the game begins. This allows you to model interesting 'what-if' scenarios and speeds up the early years for those who would like to jump straight into the action with no slow build-up.
• Two new detailed battle scenarios, the Russo-Finnish Winter War and the Spanish Civil War

Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour is expected to start its offensive later in 2012. 

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2012 will be Paradox Interactive’s most ambitious line-up of titles to date with such anticipated releases as War of the Roses, Starvoid, A Game of Dwarves and Dungeonland. It is also expanding its presence in the free-to-play arena with upcoming games such as Salem: The Crafting MMO.
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