Hearts Of Iron 4 Manual

Jul 06, 2016  Hearts of Iron IV Video Game. Genre: Strategy developer: Paradox Development Studio publisher: Paradox Interactive platform: PC Hearts of Iron IV is the next installment of the popular strategy game series in which the player conducts the politics of one of the countries from the war and interwar period – the timeline of the game is set between 1936 and 1948. Hearts of Iron IV is a grand strategy wargame that primarily revolves around World War II. The player may play as any nation in the world in the 1936 or 1939 start dates in singleplayer or multiplayer, although the game is not designed to go beyond 1950. A nation's military is divided between naval forces, aerial forces, and ground forces. Jun 09, 2016  If you want a step by step description of all the major mechanics in HOI4, this is the video for you. We spend a few hours going over all the major mechanics. This guide is intended to help players make that next step. It assumes a few things. You have a basic understanding of how things work in the game. You under-stand movement, can read tooltips, know what the fundamental terminology is, and so on. You do not already have hundreds of hours of time in Hearts of Iron IV, in. “Hearts of Iron 4 wields complexity like a swift armor division during the blitzkrieg, allowing it to serve the idea of layered, cerebral, strategic warfare instead of letting it needlessly bog down the experience.” 9/10 –.

A correction note: The page numbers in the below list differ by +2 in relation to the printed manual. So for example 'Industrial Capacity' is shown as being on page 7, but it actually is on page 5 in the manual. So mentally adjust the numbers accordingly.

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Section	Page
Advanced Air Strategies	94
Advanced Comand Organisation: HQ and Leadership	78
Advanced Land Combat Overview	77
Advanced Land Combats	77
Advanced Naval Strategies	88
Air and naval combat	13
Air Bases	90
Air Combat	92
Air Combat and Air Missions	91
Air Combat Modifiers	94
Air Force Overview	88
Air Force Types	89
Air Supperiority Mission	92
Air Supply	66
Air Wing Deployment, Supply, Reinforcement and Upgrades	91
Air Wing Details	89
Airborne Assault Mission	93
Alliances: Offer Alliance/Bring to Alliance/Join Alliance	51
Amphibious Assault	87
Annex Nation	55
Anti-Submarine Warfare	87
Appointment of Ministers	45
Ask for Military Access/Cancel Military Access/Revoke Military Access	53
Assume Military Control/Relinquish Military Control	52
Ataching/Detaching Carrier Air Groups (CAGs)	82
Attaching Brigades	65
Attack	87
Attacking an Attacker	75
Attrition	65
Basic Air Movement	91
Basic Army Movement	67
Basic Combat Resolution	70
Basic Land Combat	69
Basic Naval Combat	84
Basic Naval Movement	83
Belligerence	48
Bomb Convoys Mission	93
Brigade Types	59
Broad Front Defensive Counter-Attack initiatives	79
Building provincial assets and using the 'quick orders' button	33
Cabinet and Ministers	45
Cancel Non-Aggression Pact	53
Cancel Trade Agreement	50
Cancelling and reassigning a project	30
Carrier Air Group (CAG)	80
Carrier Airbase Strike	87
Carrier Port Strike	87
Changing the game options	15
Combat	12
Combat Events	73
Combat: The Art of War	56
Combining Air Wings into Squadrons	91
Command, leadership and experience	10
Complex Land Combat Overview	74
Consumer goods	38
Context-sensitive information	24
Convoy Raiding	87
Convoys	39
Coup Nation	54
Credits / exit	17
Declare War	54
Defences and fortifications	11
Demand Territory	53
Deploying Divisions form the Force Pool	65
Deploying Flotillas from the Force Pool	82
Deploying military forces and rockets	35
Deploying unassigned provincial assets	35
Diplomacy - International Affairs	47
Diplomacy and trade	8
Diplomacy Overview	47
Diplomatic Mapmode	28
Disband	67
Dissent and partisans	8
Dissent and partisans	46
Division Details	59
Division Types	58
Domestic policies and government	8
Domestic policy	43
Domestic Policy Overview	43
Economic Mapmode	27
End of Combat	73
End of Naval Combat	85
Enemy Occupation of a Port or Base	86
Energy	36
Entrenchment: Digging in	69
Envelopment and Multiple-Front Attacks	75
Envelopment, Encirclement and Supply	79
Events	19
Exchanging Fire	71
Field Comand Details	61
Field Officer Traits	63
Field Officers	62
Fleet Details	81
Flotilla Details	80
Flotilla Types	79
Flying Bombs and Rocket Bombs	95
For beginning players	5
For HOI players… What's new?	6
Force Composition Effects	85
General overview	42
General Overview	56
Getting started	5
Governmet	45
Ground Attack Mission	92
Guarantee Independence	52
IC allocation, production and gearing bonuses	7
Implementing new technology	30
Industrial capacity	7
Industrial capacity (IC) and IC allocation	37
Influence Nation	51
Infrastructure	7
Initiating Basic Land Combat	69
Initiating diplomacy	49
Initiation of Naval Combat	84
installation	5
Installation procedure	5
Installation Strike Mission	93
Interdiction Mission	92
International trade summary	39
Introduction	5
Introduction	79
Keeping up to date	5
Key concepts	6
Launching the game	5
Launching the game	15
Leader Traits	81
Leader Traits	90
Leadership	81
Leadership	90
Leave Alliance	52
Liberate Nation	53
Logistical Strike Mission	93
Main Map Overview	20
Manpower	37
Message boxes	18
Metal	36
Modifiers That Affect Battle	72
Money	37
More Complex Land Combat	74
Move	87
Movement is attack for land battles	12
Multiplayer games	15
Multiple Attacking or defending Field Commands	74
National Relationships	47
National resources	35
National transport Capacity (TC)	39
Natural resources	7
Naval and air basing	11
Naval Combat Overview	84
Naval Combat Patrol	87
Naval Combat Resolution	84
Naval Interdiction	87
Naval Orders	86
Naval Orders Interface	86
Naval Orders Overview	86
Naval Strike Mission	92
Naval Supply	82
Navigating the main map	20
Occupation of an Air Base	94
Occupation of Enemy Territory	74
Offer Non-Aggression Pact	52
Offer Trade Agreement	49
Oil	36
Open Negotiations	50
Orders	13
Organisation and entrenchment	10
Other Nations' Domestic Policies and Cabinets	47
Other Nations' Domestic Policies and Ministers	46
Out-Of-Supply Effects on Naval Combat	85
Overseas Supply	66
Overview	31
Overview	69
Overview	94
Overview	94
Overview of Force Structure and Field Comands	57
Partisan and occupation effects on resources and industrial capacity	37
Partisan Mapmode	28
Placing a production order	32
Political Mapmode	27
Port Strike Mission	93
Ports and Naval Bases	81
Preparation and support of the military	9
Production	38
Production orders and the production Queue	31
Production Runs	32
Province Defensive Structures	69
Province name	21
Province ownership and control	21
Provinces	21
Provincial assets	23
Provincial borders and crossing points	23
Quick build buttons	25
Rare materials	36
Rebase	86
Rebase	93
Rebasing a Fleet	83
Region and Area Mapmode	28
Reinforcement	67
Reinforcement, Upgrading and obsolescence	82
Reinforcements	38
Release Puppet	53
Research Projects	29
Ressource depots	41
Right click menus	20
Right-click provnce menu	25
Runway Cratering Mission	93
Sea Transport	87
Selecting a nation	15
Selecting a scenario or save game	14
Selecting and Assigning a Project	29
Selecting and Combining Flotillas	82
Selecting and Organising Field Comands	63
Selecting and Using a Statistics Sub-Folder	56
Selecting Research teams	28
Send Expeditionary Force	52
Shore Bombardment	87
Shortcut Keys	64
Single player games	14
Softening Up the Enemy	78
Special Orders: Anti-Partisan Duty	76
Special Orders: Garrisons	76
Special Orders: HQ Divisions	77
Special Orders: Marines	76
Special Orders: Mountaineers	77
Special Orders: Paratroopers	77
Special Orders: Reserves	76
Special Orders: Support Attack	75
Special Orders: Support Defence	76
Spheres of influence	49
Squadron Details	90
Staggered Attack Strategy	78
Statistics Overview	56
Status overview	17
Strategic Bombardent Mission	93
Strategic Redeployment	68
Strategic redeployment and the force pool	13
Sue for Peace	54
Supplies	36
Supplies	38
Supply Chains	66
Supply Mapmode	27
Supply, outfitting and transport capacity	9
System Requirements	5
Targeting	94
Technical Support	96
Technolgy sumary	31
Technology	9
Technology Overview	28
Terrain	21
Terrain mapmode	26
The Active Combats hot button	26
The Air Force as a Hammer	94
The Air Force as a Leveller of Nations	94
The Air Force on Defence	95
The Air Force Used Indirectly	95
The Air Forces	88
The Air forces hot button	25
The Bomb	95
The Chief of Staff	46
The Chief of the Air Force	46
The Chief of the Army	46
The Chief of the Navy	46
The convor management and convoy Details interface	40
The date/pause button	18
The democratic - Authoritarian slider	43
The diplomacy folder	42
The Engine of war	7
The fog of war	13
The folder tabs	17
The Force Pool hot button	26
The Foreign Minister	45
The Free Market - Central Planning Slider	43
The game management menu button	18
The Gearing bonus	33
The general interface	17
The Hawk Lobby - Dove Lobby Slider	44
The Head of Government	45
The Head of Military Intelligence	46
The Head of State	45
The History Log	28
The Hot buttons	25
The Intervensionism - Isolationism Slider	44
The Land Forces	57
The land forces hot button	25
The main map folder	20
The main menu	14
The Mini Map and Mapmode buttons	26
The Minister of Armament	45
The Minister of Security	45
The Naval Forces hot button	26
The Naval Forces hot button	79
The Open Society - Closed Society slider	43
The Plitical Left - Political Right slider	43
The production folder	31
The production queue	34
The province hot button	25
The Standing Army - Drafted Army Slider	43
The Statistics Folder	56
The Technolgy Folder	28
The Three Factions: The Allies, The Axis and The Comintern	48
The top bar	17
Time of Day and Weather Effects on Naval Combat	85
Timing Your Attack	70
Tool tips	19
Transport Capacity and Supply Efficiency	65
Transporting Paratroopers	68
Transporting Troops on Ships	68
Troops Mix, Terrain and Weather	77
Tutorials	17
Upgrades	38
Upgrading	67
Victory	6
Victory point value	21
Victory Points Mapmode	28
Visibility	84
Visibility	94
Weather	22
Weather and Time of Day Effects on Air Combat	94
Weather Mapmode	27
Weather, terrain and time of day	12

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This unofficial guide for Hearts of Iron IV contains all necessary information helpful during the first hours of the game. It also contains useful advices related to all aspects of the game's campaign.

In separate chapters of the guide you will find information about specific scenarios available in the game. Each chapter presents gameplay differences and gives you advices helpful in starting the campaign and being successful in the global conflict. In the guide you will also find description of most interesting nations selected by the developers and helpful advices related to selecting a side of the conflict.

Other chapters focus on all basic parts of the gameplay. Politics and diplomacy chapters focus on strengthening position of your country in the arena of international politics. Economy chapters contain a compendium of knowledge about securing a good base for military actions and overall welfare of citizens.

In military sections you will find commentary related to all unit types available in the game and advices related to waging war. In the guide you will also find 'General advices' chapter in which you will find advices useful no matter which scenario you select and which nation you will control.

The guide to Hearts of Iron IV contains:

• 'General advices chapter' containing information about each aspect of gameplay
• Detailed description of game interface
• Commentary for each playable nation
• Explanation of basic country management mechanics
• Useful advices related to selecting nation's strategy
• Detailed information about technology development
• Advices related to international trading and diplomacy
• Description of all aspects of industry and production management
• Advices and notes related to military actions, creating and supplying armies
• 'Good start' chapter consisting of condensed advices for beginners and notes related to long-term expansion

The guide was created based on version 1.0.0.19830. (a467) of the game

Lukasz Wisniewski

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Author : Lukasz Wisniewski for gamepressure.com

last update : July 6, 2016

Guide contains : 33 pages, 233 images.

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Hearts of Iron IV Video Game

• genre: Strategy
• developer: Paradox Development Studio
• publisher: Paradox Interactive
• platform: PC

Hearts of Iron IV is the next installment of the popular strategy game series in which the player conducts the politics of one of the countries from the war and interwar period – the timeline of the game is set between 1936 and 1948. It is up to the player to choose the appropriate strategy and foreign policy and to keep up with enemies in the arms race of the 20th century world.
The distinguishing feature of the forth installment in the Hearts of Iron series, just like in the case of the previous releases, is the very accurate recreation of history, together with the full freedom of creating an alternate future. In Hearts of Iron IV players will meet many real historical characters of World War II (Prime Ministers, Army Commanders and other political and military figures); the armies and technologies of each country are also perfectly accurate. You will also come across countless historical events in the form of smaller quests that you can choose by yourself, which can be considered the next steps in the long journey of your country.
Just like in the previous games of the series, the players can control a country actively engaged in the war effort, like France or Great Britain; they can choose to take a back seat as one of the nations whose political situation is not as obvious as a state of open war, e.g. one of the South American countries. The developers of the game put a lot of effort into reducing the need for micromanagement – a major issue in the previous installments of the series – allowing the player to focus more on the overall strategy and worry less about the specific tactics and movements of every individual army or unit. The possibility of converging several provinces into a region was also introduced into the game, making it easier to manage different parts of your country and its newly conquered territories.

• Paradox Development Studio - Developer Website.
• Paradox Interactive - Publisher Website.
• Hearts of Iron IV - Official Website.

Hearts of Iron IV PC version System Requirements

Recommended: Intel Core i3-2100 3.1 GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 850 3.3 GHz, 4 GB RAM, graphic card 1 GB GeForce GTX 560 Ti/Radeon 6850 or better, 2 GB HDD, Windows 7/8 64-bit

Minimum: Intel Core 2 Quad 9400 2.66 GHz/AMD Athlon II X4 640 3.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM, graphic card 1 GB GeForce GTX 460/Radeon HD 5770 or better, 2 GB HDD, Windows Vista/7/8

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