How to play Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour on Mac

PlatformsComputer

Game summary

Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour puts you back in the commander’s seat during World War II. Win the war with new units, strategies and enhanced game modes. Destroy your enemies from within with an expanded espionage system that includes new missions and covert operations. A new battle plan mode allows you to load historical plans or draw your own; all of which can be shared with allies in real-time during multiplayer. Along with the enhanced gameplay there are two new battle scenarios and a new custom game mode that lets you jump straight into the action. Features: *New unique, elite units for each major nation's army - Ghurkhas, Rangers, Imperial guards and more *A deeper naval invasion system with the ability to develop specialized landing and assault crafts *Increased control over strategic warfare with a new lend-lease system for lending your industrial might to allies *Leaders are now able to gain traits and allocating them is more important than ever with a new combat tactics system *New game mode for single and multiplayer. Start with a clean slate and instantly produce units, research technologies and affect political alignment. Speed up the early years and jump straight into the action *Two new detailed battle scenarios, the Finnish Winter War and the Spanish Civil War
First released: Sep 2012

Play Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour like you would on any PC.
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