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Am basically a hoi2DD player but I want to complete a hearts of Iron1 I had it in my shelf since January 2004 never finished a game yet! I did play hoi1 a little bit during the winter when I was waiting for the new DD patch.

But my question is how I invent the mec. Infantry? The technology tree is somewhat difficult to understand.
 

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For the Vanilla, you need to research serveral techs in Land Doctrines for 'Mechanised HQ' (Look in level 4 : Early War Combat Testing)
You also need to satisfy the pre-requisites on Halftrack techs following the Armor path.

I found difficult to have all these techs for mechanised before 44, but it is easier with Germany because of the free techs after Munich crisis and Spain civil war.
You can find an interesting AAR form Kanitatlan here with first mechs in 1939 :
'A German mechanised strategy' (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=177982)

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For any tech you can click on it and it allows you to see the requirements (pre-requisites) for it as well as what further things it leads to.

As Germany if you get the Spanish Civil War and Czech Events as normal, you can be cranking your first Mech's out in September/October 39.

Make sure you research in the Armour chain for Improved Halftrack, as you want this complete so you can research Mech as soon as its available (September 1938).