GAME MANUAL - Steam

HEARTS OF IRON DARKEST HOURbe placed in this province.Click anywhere in one of thevalid provinces and the assetwill be deployed there. Invalidlocations will be ones thatdon’t belong to you, arealready at maximum capacity,or that are completely cut offfrom your capital.Deploying Military Forcesand RocketsThe deployment of newmilitary forces and rockets issimilar to the method used forprovince improvements, butthere are some additionaloptions and restrictions.Please see the Combatsection of the manual forinstructions on how to do this.Military forces will tie up someof your transport capacity untilyou deploy them so youshould usually try to do so assoon as you possibly can.NationalResourcesWe now turn our attention tothe right half of the ProductionFolder and will begin with theinformation displayed in theupper left portion of that sideof the screen: a summary ofyour national resources. Thedata that you see displayed inthe national resources area ofthe production screen reflectsyour current stockpile or poolof each resource type, with thedaily change to this valuedisplayed in brackets. This isthe same information that youcan view on the top bar. Theinformation displayed isupdated ever day at midnight,with the exception of thesupplies stockpile, which isupdated hourly, and themanpower pool which updatedas soon as manpower is usedto order a new unit and alsodrawn from daily for anynecessary reinforcements.It is also important to note thatthe values reflect only yournational stockpile levels anddo not include any resourcesthat might be located at yourdepots. The daily changevalues indicate the rate ofchange to the nationalstockpile, so the figure yousee displayed reflects anytransfers that you are makingto and from your depots, andany trade agreements that youmight have in place. If this isbeing impeded or otherwiseaffected by enemy convoyraiding or a shortage oftransports, then the valuesmay not reflect your potentialrates of change or anychanges to your depot levels.This can be a fairly importantconsideration that many newplayers overlook.OilOil is available in the form ofnatural petroleum reservesand can only be found in alimited number of locationsthroughout the world.Historically, it was alsoextracted or synthesised,albeit inefficiently, from otherresources (coal, “oil shale”,etc.), which is represented inDH by the ability to convertenergy resources into oil. Thiscan be toggled on and off bythe checkbox next to the oilicon, but the amount that maybe converted is based on yournational IC level and yourtechnology. Only a smallamount of energy, determinedas a percentage of yournational IC value, may betransformed into oil on a dailybasis, and the conversion rateyou achieve will vary dependingon the advances you haveresearched. At the beginningof the game, this will be verypoor but will improve steadilyas your scientists discovernew methods of refiningsynthetic oil.Oil is the fuel that powers yournaval vessels, aircraft, andany other military units thatare motorised (tanks, mechanisedinfantry, etc.). If youlack the oil to supply them,these units will grind almost toa halt, incurring largereductions to their movementrates and causing them tosuffer large operationalpenalties in combat such as areduced organisation value.You can see a unit’s daily oilrequirements by viewing theunit details and looking at the55