GAME MANUAL - Steam

HEARTS OF IRON DARKEST HOURquarters divisions, a unitunsuitable for direct combatwhich however improves thelikelihood of achieving positiveresults.Manpower,Conscription andMobilizationleader also has his own levelof combat experience whichwill increase as you continueto employ him. You may findthat at some point you maywish to promote him to aneven higher rank in yourmilitary, increasing the numberof individual units he cancommand without incurring apenalty. Junior ranked leadersaccumulate experience morerapidly than senior oneshowever, so this will oftenprove to be something of abalancing act. In order toimprove the overall supplyefficiency of large numbers offorces and to double thenumber of units that a leadercan command withoutpenalties, it is possible toestablish special head-Manpower represents thequantity of recruits available inyour country for reinforcingyour armed forces andcreating new units andstructure. In DH, manpowergrows slowly at peace(proportionally to the naturalgrowth of population of yourcountry) and a bit faster atwar. However, this growth isnot enough to sustain aregular army. To increase thequantity of manpower at yourdisposal, it is possible tochange your conscription lawat peace and move tomobilization once at war. Thelevel of militarization of acountry, ranging from havingno armed forces at all to a fullymobilized population, isrepresented by the politicalslider mobilization/demobilization. This slidercannot be modified by theplayer freely but only byevents and decisions. Eachstep of the slider reflects aparticular military system, withits own bonuses andpenalties:In order to change yourconscription or mobilizationlevel you need a certainamount of supplies and themove generates some dissentas the people do not alwaysappreciate compulsory militaryservice. Democracies canmove to partial mobilization onwhen at war or under particularcircumstances whereasauthoritarian regimes canpartially mobilize their countryeven at peace. When yourcountry mobilizes, reservetroops replenish your divisionsso in time of peace it is wise toavoid reinforcing your troopsand wait for war to mobilizeand take all your division up tofull strength.While mobilizinggives you a high amount ofmanpower and reduces thetime needed to train newdivision, it also has itsdrawbacks: among other16