Hearts of Iron II!?! Cool! I love that game. Welcome to the site. We should re-start the thread on it. I'm actually playing as Italy at the moment on it. A bout to invade Nationalist Spain. MUAHAHAHAH!
I don't use any MODs. I've never been very good at deciding which MODs are good or not. The best MOD-ed game was freelancer, 'cos it had a MOD manager to just turn 'em off when you wanted. I'll find the thread.
ooohhh.... I can't resist.... I need to link to the Total Realism Project pages
If you know Vanilla HoI2... please, try our MOD will be a completly new experience