Deciding which Hearts of Iron III Units to Build That means that adding production won’t speed up the arrival of a unit that is already at 100%, and taking it away will nip its way up from the bottom of the list, first slowing those units, then the ones at the top. Green units are being built as fast as they can, yellow is underway, but not as fast as possible, and red means no work is underway. The unit at the top of the queue is filled to 100% before production goes to the next unit. The units in the production queue on the left have percentages which indicate the speed at which they are being built, which is a function of how much production each unit gets. The relationship between production and time of completion is important. Clicking the need button automatically sets the slider to that number. Consumer Goods is the industrial production needed to keep dishes clean on the home front. Production is how much you are putting into the new projects in the large window on the left. Supplies represents how many supplies you make for your troops domestically: these are stockpiled and can be bought and sold through diplomacy. Reinforcement is used up by troops as they return to full strength over time. Upgrades gets newly researched tech to troops in the field.

How Production Affects when You Get New Units in HoI IIIīefore we buy anything, lets check on our IC. Each of these is probably worth at least one article on their own, so for the purposes of this production guide we’ll let the Diplomacy and Convoy AI’s do their thing. The window panes at the bottom right (in a delightful pink, yup I’m running out of colours) have information about your trade routes and, below this, your convoys. In the top right of the frame (purple rectangle), just under where you can turn the AI on and off, are the oh so very important sliders discussed in detail below. The Nukes will stay at zero until you are pretty far along Hearts of Iron III’s massive tech tree. Starting at the top of the right half and working down, the column on the left (in the blue rectangle) shows our resources, supplies, money, fuel and their daily rates of change. For now, lets look at the right half of the window. The yellow square is the main building queue, and below that, in the green square, are requests coming in from theatre commanders. The seven buttons below access the building of non-traditional weapons, industry, convoys, and so on. These allow you to command air and sea forces, which can only be operated within a certain range from their base.

The three buttons beneath them, respectively: open menus to buy individual brigades, or air and navy bases. In the orange square (see screenshot) we have buttons to open menus to build land, air, and sea divisions.

There is a lot to sink our teeth into here, so let’s start at the top left frame and work down.

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