


Total strategic war: The war is not only won on land, on the seas and in the air, but also in the laboratories, the factories, the backrooms, in international trade and in the hearts and minds of men and women.Will you relive or change history? Will you change the fate of the world by achieving victory at all costs? It is time to show your ability as the greatest military leader in the world. You hold the power to tip the very balance of WWII. Also check out our big slew of tips about preparing your units and armies, and other Hearts of Iron IV tips.Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II the most engaging conflict in world history.įrom the heart of the battlefield to the command center, you will guide your nation to glory and wage war, negotiate or invade. Sometimes starting at the beginning makes sense. These are just the basics, but Hearts of Iron IV isn’t always as intuitive as we would like. You can even make battle plans with multiple steps: just draw further front lines and your units will push forward after getting to the first ones. The arrows, representing your forces’ paths toward those positions, will autopopulate based on the front line you draw. You aren’t drawing the armies’ movement path, but the new front they’re going to advance toward. When you're drawing your battle plan, don’t think that’s the path your armies will actually move along. This one’s a little obvious… unless you’re messing it up, in which case you’re probably really frustrated. Try building lots of civilian factories at first, then start splashing in military factories when your production has some flexibility. They’re an investment, but they’re worth it in the long run. So they accelerate your overall production rate down the line. Here’s the lowdown: they increase the number of structures you can build at once (and, to some degree, the speed in which you build them). The Hearts of Iron IV tutorial loves to tell you to build civilian factories, even before military factories, but it doesn’t do a great job of explaining what civilian factories actually do.

