Strategic redeployment is a fast and cheap way to move people away from front lines. There are two main ways to move land units in Hearts of Iron III. Strategic Redeployment or Normal Movement It seems they were more comfortable further from the front. An exception was telling the HQ itself to move to Marseilles itself. For instance, most of the commands we issue in setting up Marseilles’ defense stay the same when we turned on the HQ’s AI and set the stance to defense. If you turn on the AI of a unit or a unit above it in the chain of command, it won’t necessarily stop performing the last order you gave it. If the unit doesn’t have a green flag, but has a stance or objectives, click on the next unit name above its own name in the unit panel until you find the culprit. With the unit selected, you can use the info in the unit panel to find who has the AI turned on. The first thing to note is that if a unit already has its AI turned on, or the AI of a unit higher than it in its chain of command has its turned on, the unit will ignore your commands.
In this article, we will continue our example as France during the Blitzkrieg Campaign and set up the defense of southern France using a combination of AI directives and direct command. Our previous article showed us how to find and learn more about units using the Outliner, and how to set up stances and objectives for armies and set them to AI control.
