Since you’ve finished the tutorial you already know how to move and produce units and how factories work, but the game has a lot more mechanics than that, I will not even scratch the surface here, I will only teach you what you need to know for an easy singleplayer victory. Although it can be successfully played by massing infantry, at least in singleplayer, a few tricks will make your singleplayer experience easier and also teach you some basics of the game. Unlike other Paradox games where the larger army usually means victory, Hearts of Iron IV is much more complex. The patch is out now, so give it a try… and trust that this will just be the first of many.This guide assumes you have finished the in-game tutorial with Italy. It’s good stuff, and it makes Hearts of Iron 4 even more exciting. It’s totally worth checking out the full list of changes, just to see how much improved the AI and interface is with the new patch. There are a huge, huge number of changes, many of them under the hood. New features like the revamped peace conferences and the custom difficulty settings are really exciting, but that’s just the beginning of the Sunflower Patch. Submarines better at finding surface ships, worse at finding other subs.A number of crashes caused by modding have been fixed.Changes to national territorial cores (Portugal loses, Sinkiang gains).Naval combat has been balanced to prevent light cruiser spam.AI less likely to risk encirclement, opt for a Communist France or throw everything at North Africa.AI more likely to update templates, build nuclear reactors and cancel unnecessary production.Re-sync button added to address connection issues without rehosting the game.More nations can now be released as independent countries.Custom difficulty settings let you adjust the relative power of Germany, Italy, France and the Soviet Union.Hotjoin now available for multiplayer games, so you can connect to a match already in progress.Changes to how peace conferences are handled, based on a design by Steam user Neutrino.Here’s Paradox’s abbreviated list of the biggest changes: Others are simple changes to territory or AI strategy. As is often the case for Paradox, “balance changes” are an expansive set of options, and sometimes result in wholesale changes and reinventions of game systems. The Sunflower patch for Hearts of Iron 4 is primarily focused on balance changes, bug fixes, and improvements to the AI and user interface. Hearts of Iron IV Photo: Paradox Interactive