Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game

Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game

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Gameplay tips
By Legata Flavia
Few gameplay tips, to master the game.
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1. Diplomacy
1. When the other nations will declare war against you:
A) High belligerence AND bad relations
B) By triggers and events (Spanish civil war,...)
C) If some country is at war against you and they join the allied, axis or commitern aliance


2. How to diplomatically isolate the invaded nations:
A) Trade away all of their money before the war
B) Coup nation (Change their ideology in to something unpopular)


3. How to improve the relations with foreign nations:
A) By trading to +50 points
B) By influence nation 5< points
C) By events (League of nations,...)


4. How to lower the belligerence:
A) Be not at war for a long time AND end mobilisation
B) Liberate the conquered nations AND make them puppets


5. How to be the most unpopular nation in the world:
A) Dont do anything from this tutorial
2. Manage your industry
1. How to create new industry:
A) Click on the province (yours) and click on the icon of factory

2. How to keep the industry working:
A) Have rare materials, energy and oil

3. How to get foreign industry:
A) Conqer country
B) In menu before load save turn on Full IC take over (Cheat-alike)


4. How to manage your national industry:
A) Simply move the bars, based on what is the priority for you

5. How to lower the opposition:
A) Produce a lot of consumers goods
B) By events (Invest, propaganda,...)


3. Leader and ministers
1. Different bonuses of the ministers:
All ministers have different bonuses, you can see what bunuses have all of the ministers by moving mouse cursor above their's picture, you can change ministers by clicking on their picture and choose someone else, but this action will cause + 1% of the opposition.

2. What do you need for your country:
My strategy is easy, I have priority for the industrial ministers, but its your choice what is the priority for you.
4. Army structure
Ideal structure of 1 army group are 3 divisions.
Ideal structure of the brigades in 3 divisions is: AA + ART + ENG

Its good, if you create army groups by types. Its better to have 3 armor divisions in 1 army group and have bonus of speed, like have 2 INF + 1 ARM in 1 army group and lose speed, because of 2 INF.

1 armor and 2 Motorized have great speed and get a combined arms bonus (+15) on Defense, its useful to secure extended Pincer Moves with acceptable Cost. (Max dH)
41 Comments
kirkehrhardt16 5 Feb, 2024 @ 9:58pm 
how do you strategic move land troops
Nekommissar 15 Apr, 2022 @ 11:34am 
Bruh. Okay,thanks.
Legata Flavia  [author] 15 Apr, 2022 @ 11:32am 
The game have issues probably because the cpu have to calculate all of the other countries actions and units, so annihilation should help you.
Nekommissar 15 Apr, 2022 @ 11:27am 
The year is 1950 in my Soviet playthrough now. When game speed is 'fast' fps is really dies. Is there any advice for the increasing the fps in later game ? (I started from 1944 and set the year limit 28 years)
[PRINCE] AaRrii 4 Apr, 2021 @ 5:15am 
I still have not a single clue how to play this
Iuvenis Animo 3 Apr, 2021 @ 1:38pm 
I am a newtime paradox player and I dont have enough money for HOI4 but i have played some DH - This helped a lot

DH is very hard
[PRINCE] AaRrii 31 Dec, 2020 @ 6:33pm 
DH is one of the game I really wanted to play yet the complexity and unforgivingness makes it hard to play, it's nearly immpossible to play as a minor nations for example
[PRINCE] AaRrii 31 Dec, 2020 @ 6:32pm 
Nah navy's pretty broken I don't even know how they work
Legata Flavia  [author] 31 Dec, 2020 @ 6:29pm 
I love the HoI IV. The game is pretty polished and the navy combat got pretty interesting.
gmsh1964 31 Dec, 2020 @ 6:27pm 
6 years ago!! Wow, I just realized there is no date on these guides. BTW, I have about 1800 on HOI 4, it has jumped the shark. I think HOI 2 and HOI 3 are the way to go, but that is just me.