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HEARTS OF IRON DARKEST HOURthe queue. You should avoiddoing this too often since itwastes valuable resourcesand you could lose anygearing bonuses on that order.Fortunately, there is anothersolution: changing the priorityof an order. Moving it to thetop will ensure that it receivesany available IC and beginsproduction immediately;however, this will also causeyour other orders to bebumped downwards in priorityand will result in at least oneof your other orders nowstopping or slowing inproduction. Any degree ofprogress that this bumpedorder has received to date willbe saved and included onceproduction resumes, but anygearing bonus that an order isreceiving will be forfeited. Youmay also send an order to thebottom of the queue if it isn’tparticularly urgent, or you mayshuffle its position by makingsmaller adjustments to move itup or down one positionrelative to the other orders.Once the production of anorder is complete, the orderwill be removed from theProduction Queue and thenewly built item will appear inthe Deployment Pool. If youused the quick order methodfor a province improvement, itwill be deployed automaticallyto the province instead of tothe Deployment Queue. TheIC that the order was using willbe applied to the next order inthe queue that is currentlyrunning at less than 100%capacity. Note that if youallocate more IC toproduction than iscurrently required to fillyour orders, the excesscapacity will not be usedand no resources will beconsumed.Two final notes aboutthe Production Queue:At the beginning of somegames, you may discoverthat there are some itemsalready in the queue andthat they require low ICallocation. This iscompletely normal and isbecause they have been“prepaid” for you as aspecial bonus in thescenario’s design (but theIC cost will be updatedafter the first day of the game).The other important note isthat the IC allocation in theProduction Queue and in allother information displays inthe Production Folder is onlyupdated at midnight each day.If you are placing sizeableorders, be sure to check backonce a new day has begun.Deploying UnassignedProvincial AssetsIf you placed an order forcertain province assets usingthe simple Production Ordersmethod, you will need todeploy them from the forcepool once production iscomplete. All other provinceasset orders will be deployedautomatically to whateverprovince you have alreadychosen to build them in. In allcases, choose the locationcarefully because provincialimprovements can’t be movedafter they’ve been deployedand are vulnerable tobombardment and capture.Building up industry that iswithin easy striking range ofenemy bombers will likely be awaste of assets, and there isoften very little point in heavilyfortifying a province that ismany miles away from anylikely front.Deploying a new provincialasset is quite simple. Click onthe View Map folder tab andthen click on the Force Poolhot button. This will display alist of any assets and militaryunits that have not yet beendeployed. Scroll through thelist until you see the provincialasset that you wish to deploy,then click on it. The provinceson the main map change to acolour-coding view as soon asyou do this, with greenindicating that the asset can54