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TABLE OF CONTENTS INSTALLATION 6 DIPLOMACY 34 System Requirements 6 D1.0 Faction 34 D2.0 Cores 34 WELCOME 7 D3.0 Threat (Belligerence) & Neutrality 35 Historical Context 7 D4.0 Diplomatic Relations 35 D5.0 Alignment Drift 35 GAME SCREEN, MAPS & INTERFACES 10 D6.0 Diplomatic Actions 36 A 1.0 Startup Options & Startup Screen 10 D7.0 Alliances 37 A2.0 Main Screen Interface 12 D8.0 Trade Agreements 37 A3.0 Main Map 14 D9.0 Expeditionary Forces 37 A4.0 Mapmodes 16 A5.0 Interfaces 18 TECHNOLOGY & RESEARCH 39 How the HOI 3 World Works 23 E1.0 Technology Concept in HOI 3 39 A6.0 Terrain 24 E2.0 Theory vs. Practical 39 A7.0 Weather 24 E3.0 Decay of Knowledge 39 A8.0 Time of Day 26 E4.0 Research 39 A9.0 Resources 26 E5.0 Technology Upgrades 41 E6.0 Licensing Technology 41 ECONOMICS 27 E7.0 Technology Espionage 41 B1.0 Industrial Capacity (IC) 27 B2.0 Demand for Resources 27 POLITICS & GOVERNMENT 42 B3.0 Resources & Trade 27 F1.0 Governments 42 B4.0 Debt 27 F2.0 Internal Politics 43 B5.0 Special Comintern Rule 27 F3.0 Events, Decisions and Laws 43 B6.0 Oil & Fuel 28 F4.0 Mobilization 44 B7.0 Money 28 F5.0 National Unity 44 B8.0 Consumer Goods 28 F6.0 Governments in Exile 45 B9.0 War Exhaustion (WE) 28 F7.0 Occupation Governments & Policies 45 B10.0 Mobilization 28 F8.0 Liberating Countries 46 F9.0 Puppet States 46 PRODUCTION 30 F10.0 Partisans & Rebels 46 C1.0 Manpower 30 F11.0 War Exhaustion 46 C2.0 Unit Production Interfaces 30 F12.0 Surrender, Peace & Annexation 46 C3.0 Carrier Air Groups (CAGs) 32 C4.0 Reserve Divisions 32 INTELLIGENCE & DETECTION 47 C5.0 Placing Produced Units 33 G1.0 Intelligence & Espionage Concepts 47 G2.0 Detection Levels 48 G3.0 Display of Detected Units 48 4 SUPPLY & LOGISTICS 49 L6.0 Post-Combat Considerations 73 H1.0 Infrastructure 49 L7.0 Tactical Air and Close Air Support (CAS) 74 H2.0 Throughput 49 L8.0 Amphibious Landings 74 H3.0 Logistics Technology 49 H4.0 Supply & Supply Lines 49 AIR WARFARE 75 H5.0 Out of Supply 50 M1.0 Air Orders Interface 75 H6.0 Supply Mapmode 50 M2.0 Detection & Air Defence 76 H7.0 Oil & Fuel 50 M3.0 Combat Statistics & Values 77 H8.0 Convoys 50 M4.0 Air Combat Resolution 77 H9.0 Fleet Supply 52 M5.0 Modifiers to Efficiency 78 H10.0 Airdrop of Supply 52 M6.0 Tactical & Close Support 78 H11.0 Logistics Technology 52 M7.0 Paradrop Landings 78 H12.0 Strategic Redeployment 52 NAVAL WARFARE 79 MILITARY UNITS 53 N1.0 Naval Orders Interface 79 J1.0 Unit Interfaces 53 N2.0 Search, Spotting & Detection 80 J2.0 Movement 54 N3.0 Ship-to-Ship Combat 80 J3.0 Manpower 54 N4.0 Modifiers to Combat Efficiency 82 J4.0 Unit Organisation 54 N5.0 Submarines 82 J5.0 Land Units 55 N6.0 Convoy/Escort Reserves & Deployment 82 J6.0 Air Units 58 J7.0 Naval Units 59 STRATEGIC WARFARE 83 P1.0 Strategic Warfare Score 83 MILITARY MANAGEMENT 61 P2.0 Rockets 83 K1.0 Management Concepts 61 P3.0 Atomic Weapons (Nukes) 83 K2.0 Headquarters (HQs) & Command Structure 62 K3.0 Leadership Concepts 63 VICTORY & VICTORY POINTS 85 K4.0 Theatres & HQ Command 64 K5.0 Doctrines 65 MULTIPLAYER 86 K6.0 Bases 66 R1.0 Starting a Multiplayer Game 86 K7.0 Repair Rate 66 R2.0 Multiplayer Start Interface 86 R3.0 Multiplayer Lobby 87 LAND WARFARE 67 R4.0 The Metaserver 87 L1.0 Movement Is Attack 67 R5.0 Multiplayer Gameplay 87 L2.0 Combat Fronts & Main Line 67 L3.0 Combat Statistics & Values 68 CREdits 89 L4.0 Combat Resolution 69 Customer support 90 L5.0 Modifiers to Combat Efficiency 71 License agreement 90 5 INSTALLATION System Requirements To play Hearts of Iron III you will need to meet the following minimum requirements: • Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP / Vista • Processor: Intel® Pentium® IV 2.4 GHz or AMD 3500+ (single core) • Memory: 1 GB RAM (2 GB RAM on Vista) • Hard Disk Space: 2 GB Available HDD Space • Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6800 or ATI™ Radeon® X850XT and above Video Card • Sound Card: DirectX-compatible Sound Card • DirectX® Version: DirectX® Version 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) INSTALLATION PROCEDURE Place the Hearts of Iron III CD in your CD-ROM drive. If you have AutoPlay enabled on this drive the installation screen will appear automatically. If the AutoPlay doesn’t start – or is disabled for this drive – then click Start>Run and then type X:\Setup.exe to launch the installation program (replace “X” with the drive designation for the CD-ROM in which you placed the Hearts of Iron III CD – usually D or E on most systems). Simply follow the on-screen prompts to install the game. KEEPING UP TO DATE Paradox is deeply committed to its customers and in my experience their product support is almost unparalleled in the gaming industry. The developers read (and frequently participate in) the discussions on the public forums and will often implement some of the best player-requested features or enhancements post release. They also make minor tweaks or alterations to existing features and squish the occasional bug that had previously escaped detection. You can go directly to the downloads page at www.paradoxplaza.com/downloads under the HoI3 heading or visit the thriving community at forum.paradox- plaza.com under the same heading. 6 welcome Historical Context contributed to a resurgence of socialism as a moderate The odor of war was in the air throughout Europe and East alternative to “extremist” communism. In the early 1920s, Asia in the mid-1930s. Benito Mussolini had introduced a nationalistic form of Never had the world as a whole been so agitated and populist socialism into Italy, calling it “fascism” in honor of anxious. Everyone feared a resurgence of war, yet most the glories of ancient Rome. Into this tinderbox was tossed refused to think about the possibility. But denial would the economic crisis of the late ‘20s. The onset of the world- not make it go away. Strife increased through the 1920s wide Great Depression enflamed and empowered each of and 1930s, so that by 1936 war already raged on two con- these non-traditional ideologies, which stood against the tinents and threatened elsewhere. An uneasy and faltering conservative monarchies and liberal democracies across peace threatened to collapse in Europe. Even the so-called the continent. “Pacific” Ocean roiled with suppressed tension. Fascism of one shade or another took hold in Portugal, The Russians had withdrawn from the Great War in 1917 Spain, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and elsewhere. while in the throes of two revolutions, stomping all vestiges Even the more liberal governments began adopting authori- of one of Europe’s legendary absolute monarchies into the tarian tendencies to combat rising socialist and communist frozen mud of the steppes. Since then, the Russian people movements in their countries. But it was in Germany where had suffered a short but bitter counter-revolutionary war at fascism fused with ardent racism to form the nationalist- the hands of western powers, and emerged as the Soviet socialist Nazi party of Adolf Hitler, whose gains in the Union, which felt isolated and fearful of foreigners. Then Weimar Republic elections emboldened him to demand came the disruptions of industrialization and the madness appointment as Chancellor by President Hindenburg. The of Stalinist totalitarianism, making the Russians even more emergency powers previously employed by Depression-era afraid of each other. governments to stabilize the foundering German economy Massive China was a cauldron of competing warlords were just what Hitler needed to seize total control over the who fought with each other for supremacy when they were German Reichstag and impose a dictatorship. not fighting the insurgent communists or the intruding As members of the British Commonwealth, Australia Japanese. Japan had decided her future lay in the conquest and New Zealand also felt the coming of war. They remained of China, but she had taken on more than she could handle. resentful over their stinging losses in the Great War of 1914- The United States would not countenance the bloodbath in 1918, but this looming conflict was more personal, brewing China, and so cut off Japan from badly needed oil and steel closer to their shores. exports. In the minds of many of her leaders, Japan’s only In similar manner, colonial lands throughout South Asia, “escape route” from the China quagmire would be yet more the Middle East, and Africa also sensed a rise in tension. war, to capture other lands for the rubber and oil resources Virtually every scrap of land in those regions was subject she desperately needed. to the dominance of a European power. Persia and Ethiopia But Japan had fallen into turmoil of its own, with political were key standouts. The independence of Ethiopia tempted factions – aligned toward liberal democracy, communism, Mussolini into the first of several ventures of imperialist ag- fascism, and even Navy versus Army cliques – vying for grandizement, but his armies were stunned when they failed power. Assassination had become a political tool, and the to win the rapid victory they expected. military was on the verge of using a constitutional loophole Only North and South America remained havens of to seize de facto control of the government. self-absorptive ignorance.
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