We’re going to assume, for the purposes of this guide, that you are playing one of the seven major powers in Hearts of Iron IV – the United States, the United Kingdom, France, German, Italy, the Soviet Union or Japan. Hopefully this short guide will help guide you into, at least, asking the right questions about your game situation and help ease you on a path to stopping the pernicious ideologies that threaten your homeland.
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The tutorial is not especially clear on some things like supply, infrastructure, or how to adjust early game strategies to fit mid and late game situations. There is an assumption that you will have played through the official Tutorial, which takes you through the early game as Italy – winning the Ethiopian war, learning the basics of combat, production, and assigning units and commanders.
Maybe Germany goes after the Soviet Union first, and maybe Italy decides to go its own way in 1938. Of course, the World War II you encounter in a game will bear only a passing resemblance to the one we know from history. You are not shackled to history, but the game is about World War II and World War II will happen. Unlike the broad open-ended stories that are available to you in Crusader Kings II or Europa Universalis IV, Hearts of Iron is a ruthlessly focused game. Hearts of Iron IV is one of Paradox Development Studio’s most popular titles, but also a bit of an outsider.