Grand Strategy yes............you control the foreign policy, economy, military, research of your nation.....and you can play as any nation in 1936, nothing like leading greece to world domination hehe.

Hearts of Iron is amazing, I occupied the whole Africa with Iraq, (I left the allies and declared war against both the Allies and Axis).

And i once had almost the whole Asia (-soviet) with communist china.

with USA i once took the whole N, S America (excluding: Canada, Cuba, Venezuela & Brasil).

If you play this game you definately have to download the 1..06 patch. It makes the game allot better with the AI.