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HEARTS OF IRON DARKEST HOURcounter-attack of his own. Thiswill increase the chance that acounter-attack event will occurduring a battle that favours hisforce.Assaulter: This officer isparticularly good at makingdirect frontal assaults. Theincreases the chance that anassault event will occur for hisside during a battle.Encircler: This officer excelsat encircling an enemy,increasing the chance of thisfavourable combat event firingduring a battle.Blitzer: This officer canachieve amazing resultsthrough small-scale blitzes ofthe enemy position. The blitzcombat event is far more likelyto occur when he is incommand of a force.Disciplined: This officer isable to maintain disciplinewithin his forces, greatlyincreasing the chance ofreceiving a “delay” combatevent during a battle.Selecting andOrganisingUnitsSelecting a field command canbe done in a variety ofdifferent ways:● Click on its sprite on theMain Map. If there is morethan one unit present in theprovince, you will see a stackof units, slightly offset.Repeated clicks will cyclethrough the units.● Left-click and drag yourpointer to highlight a portion ofthe map. When you releasethe mouse button, anycommand that is inside thehighlighted area will be listedin the information panel, atwhich point you may thensimply click on the commandto select it from the list.● Click on a province on theMain Map to display a list ofunits located there, then clickon the command in that list toselect it.● Click the Land Forces HotButton and then select one ofthe units from the list. This willalso center the map on thatcommand’s location.● You may also use a numberof the tables in the Statisticsfolder to select a unit bydouble-clicking on the unit’sname in the chart.● Hold down the Shift key onyour keyboard to selectmultiple units, which do nothave to be in the sameprovince. If you click on aselected command whiledoing this, it will bedeselected. ● Note that the"left-click and drag" methodwill also select multiplecommands.You can merge multiple unitsinto a new, single force if theyare all located in the sameprovince. To do this, select theunits you want to merge usingone of the above methods,and then click the Mergebutton at the bottom of theinformation panel.Remember that the highestranking officer will assumecommand of this force, whileall other commanders will bereturned to theleader pool. Don’tforget to checkthat he is capableof leading thetotal number ofdivisions andreplace him ifnecessary. If youare using autoassignfor officerassignments, youshould wait untilafter midnight toissue orders tothem, since theyare updatedevery day atmidnight.You can split aforce into twoseparate, smallerforces, byselecting theforce and then clicking theReorganise button in theinformation panel. A list ofeach division in the existingcommand will be displayed inthe information panel. Clickthe small “+” button besideany division that you wouldlike to remove from thiscommand and add to the newone. An officer will beautomatically assigned, whowill assume command atmidnight.ShortcutKeysDarkest Hour allows you toassign up to ten different forceselections for rapid access byusing a shortcut key. To setup, select single or multipleunits, hold down the Ctrl keyand select a number key onyour keyboard (not on yournumeric keypad).To select the unit, simply pressthat number. Pressing thenumber a second time willcenter the map on that unit.New assignments overwritethe old one.105