Spawning equipment in Hearts of Iron IV is actually quite straight-forward. The command you must use is the add equipment command, which can be abbreviated at 'ae'.
Before diving into using the add_equipment command, it's important to note that you need to research equipment before you can use it. You can do this in two ways:
- Using the research all command - executing this command will instantly research all equipment for your current country.
- Using the research_on_icon_click command - after executing this command, equipment will be resarched instantly when you click its icon in the technology tree.
The syntax for the 'ae' command is as follows:
Here's what the two arguments mean:
| Amount | The amount of equipment you wish to add. |
| Equipment Name | The name of the equipment you wish to add. |
All you need to do is replace the arguments with the equipment and amount you'd like to add. So, for example:
The above command would add 1000 Motorized Rocket Artillery to your stockpile. You could make that just 200 Motorized Rocket Artillery with the below command
And to make the above command 200 Towed Artillery (artillery_equipment_1), all you'd have to do is change 'motorized_rocket_equipment_1' to 'artillery_equipment_1':
If you're looking for a list of equipment names/codes like the ones used in the examples above, check out our equipment names list, on which you can find a searchable list of conversions for equipment codes in Hearts of Iron IV that can be used with the ae command.