Here the player can toggle ironman and historical focus on or off and use the difficulty settings to make the game harder or easier for the player and also boost the relative power of one or more of the more important nations (this makes them stronger, but not smarter). Basic Infantry Equipment vs. Incompatible graphics card settings: try manually editing the settings.txt file by first navigating to the settings.txt file (typical file path C:\Users\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\settings.txt). Left click on an air wing and then right click on the region where it should operate. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. Each of these has rollover text that explains in detail how to use this instruction. Saved games are set to the game version and, Video display button - Clicking the gear icon opens the video display menu. Click on this flag to open a view of national status. 100%). Excess equipment is left in the national stockpile. Below that is a mini overview of the equipment, which shows the variants of that equipment (i.e. The architecture of the Service Layer is illustrated below:. Assign commanders to your fleets by clicking on the silhouetted portrait and choosing from available naval commanders. After clicking on a nation to interact with, there will be a portrait of its leader, and a little bit of information about what the nation is up to. New Zealand Mobile tank designer (5%) + UK Blitzkrieg theorist (10%) -> 14 * 1.15 = 16.1 km/h, Variant Speed +5 (+20% of speed of base model) 14*0.2 = 2.8 -> 16.1 + 2.8 = 18.9 km/h, Elastic defense (Land doctrine) +10% -> 18.9 * 1.1 = 20.79 km/h, General trait "Improvisation Expert" +10%, Field marshal trait "Improvisation Expert" +5%, All shown together in one tooltip: 5%+2.5%+10%+5% = 22.5%, Alan Brooke (Chief of Army) +30% (bug, should be 15%), Mobile Warfare (Land doctrine) +20% (bug, should be 10%), Field Marshal (Miles Dempsey) Panzer Expert+2,5% (Tooltip showing 5%), Blitzkrieg theorist (+10%) -> 14 * 1.1 = 15.4 km/h, Variant Speed +5 (+20% of speed of base model) 14*0.2 = 2.8 -> 15.4 + 2.8 = 18.2 km/h, Elastic defense (Land doctrine) +10% -> 18.2 * 1.1 = 20.02 km/h, Mobile tank designer (5%) + Blitzkrieg theorist (10%) -> 14 * 1.15 = 16.1 km/h, Walther von Brauchitsch (Chief of Army) +20% (bug, should be 10%), General (Hasso von Manteuffel) Panzer Expert +5%, Field Marshal (Albert Kesselring) Panzer Expert+2,5% (Tooltip showing 5%). Naval invasion: Use this for amphibious attacks on enemy territory. If one does not like the way fleets are organized, one can drag-and-drop silhouettes of ships from one fleet to another. when all division are at half strength and have half of their organization, the experience is scaled to 25%. I know it is hard to get them ranked and personally find it annoying as a hoi3 player, but in my experience if you give a field marshal 100+ divisions on the Eastern Front they will soon find themselves all the experience they will ever need. Like generals, admirals may have skills that are assets in particular battle situations or while commanding certain types of vessels. this method allows you to rank up generals. Also suffering some attrition gives you organizer quickly. These two effects do not stack with each other, i.e. If not, you might be able to add that in instead of the LARM recon (assuming it doesn't give a smaller bonus on hills.). The very top border of the screen will include important summary information about the state of the game and the world. Factory productivity and efficiency can be improved in the Industrial research tree. Choose the. The host of the game is able to start a fresh game or load a previous session that was not completed. But with the following methods, even if you're below Keep Level 20, you can easily earn 10 times more than that. This is useful because you won't have to waste time teleporting to the next NPC City. Most of the world's Chromium can be found in the Soviet Union, Turkey, South Africa, France, Cuba and Yugoslavia. Fighr deceisive battles and crush the enemy helps a lot. Generals may be promoted to field marshals at the cost of command power and the temporary loss of one skill level. For a list of commanders by country, see list of commanders. In the lower right corner of the map before starting the game are the game settings. If the general then gets Infantry Leader, they'll only get 60 XP towards applicable traits whenever they get 120 XP towards leveling up. This page was last edited on 3 March 2023, at 10:03. Note: Doctrines are no longer part of the research tree with the release of patch 1.11.0 Barbarossa. If it's to fast, then let me know, i can always create a 2nd one with lower values, or tweak the values in this one. So, for example, if the Allies defeat Germany and the United States achieved the most in the war followed by the United Kingdom, the United States will have the first chance to make demands on the Germans, followed by the United Kingdom. Different Factions have different disadvantages and advantages when it comes to securing resources. For generals and field marshals they are: Commanders gain experience when the units under their command engage in combat. This will open the air information map mode. The number of shared structures that can be built is limited by the number of slots available in that State. https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/index.php?title=Commander&oldid=60564, Play The player will be prompted to choose a national focus for the country if none is active. The amount of experience you wish to add to the General/Leader you currently have selected. The gray button at the top of the screen marked with a gavel opens the Events and Decisions menu. The hotkeys for these menu buttons are noted below. No matter which is selected, a map of the world is then displayed to allow for change in the choice. Yes, the stright-line path between two tiles is increased. Please note that many of these commands come in and out with each DLC making some of them not work. The gray button at the top of the screen marked with an eye opens the Intelligence Agency menu. Try to attack with all 24 divisions. Airplanes produced will be deposited into a reserve pool. This is a community maintained wiki. Russian troops retreat victoriously, Ukrainian Army runs after them in panic. A commander leads a number of units and provides bonuses to them based on the commander's skills and traits. Countries will gain army experience mostly through combat, but one can start a trickle of early experience by having soldiers "exercise". The only ships that don't require Chromium are Destroyers I-III, Light Cruisers I-III, Heavy Cruisers I-III, Submarines I-III. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Corrupt user files: Try clearing the user directory. Additional commanders can be recruited at a cost of 5 Command Power for each existing commander of the same type (admirals do not count when recruiting generals, or vice versa). Many of the commands we're about to list below will require country specific tags such as 'CHI' for China or 'SOV' for the Soviet Union. When one selects naval invasion, one will be asked to left-click on an origin point. Fighting is the only way, but I recommend using the minimal number of generals. Players have the option to define a general difficulty which will apply modifiers globally to themselves and/or the AI. Press that arrow to activate the plan. New production lines will take time to be perfectly efficient, and if factories are added to a production line, some efficiency will be lost. Hearts of Iron 4 How to Level up Generals and Gain Traits is a Hoi4 Guide showing you how to grind general and command xp to get traits for hoi iv. One may choose to, for the moment, focus on industrial or technological growth, or orient the country's diplomacy towards certain other countries, forming research pacts, starting factions, gaining claims, or threatening war. The gray button with the excavator opens the construction menu. All plans take time, and amphibious invasions take a lot of time to plan. I mean I really hate that after a entire war, and despite all the dead and fallen my primary general has never gained past one skill point. Interactions with nations occurs within the scope of diplomacy. Eg soviet vs sinkiang. To use your Rockets, hit F3 to bring up the Air Theater Interface. Division Training Divisions train at roughly the same speedyou can train ten divisions at once at the same speed as just one. The Tutorial game may be continued as if it was a standard playthrough after finishing it. Resources are typically traded in units of 8. When leveling up a commander gains three points in specialized skill, randomly distributed (many generals' traits skew the distribution). By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. on Paradox technology, Legal Ships will be automatically grouped into fleets at ports as they are constructed. The larger the airfield, the more planes it can efficiently use. Stackwiping or inflicting/suffering a lot of casualties are the fastest ways to get Generals and XP. All the research trees are marked along a historical timeline. This menu has 3 dropdown menus; Display Mode, Resolution, and Refresh Rate. To defeat Kamaitachi, you need more than 30 keep level 30 and more than 450,000 tier 12 cavalry, but you'll get 4,500 EXP after you get that far. These traits can be earned by generals collecting relevant experience. The gray button with a hand ready to be shaken opens the diplomacy menu. This guide is intended as a beginner's tour of the interface and mechanics in Hearts of Iron IV. What traits are those exactly? An army out of supply can take no offensive actions at all, including simple movement, even if unopposed. To assign an air wing to a region and a mission, click on an air field. This is why it is particularly important to maintain and defend contiguous States between home and the front lines. When this happens, the game will pause and a peace conference will begin. Most national focuses take 70 days to complete, at a cost of one political power point per day. When researching, try not to rush too far ahead since there are significant penalties to pursuing technology too early in the timeline. Doctrines should be picked carefully and with consideration. The number of factories available for construction will depend on the size of the nation, how many factories are being dedicated to providing consumer goods for the country (the Economy Law), and how many factories that are traded for strategic resources.