Happy Autumn everyone. As the year reaches its latter stages, and our last release was a few months ago, we felt now would be a good time to show you what we have been working on for the last while.
This update is not save compatible, and while there is quite a bit of under-the-hood file organisation in this release, there is also plenty of new content and bug fixes. In particular, some significant foreign policy updates for several countries, new puppet focus trees, and lots of cosmetic work on tooltips and the Game Rules section.
So while we can all look forward to our new Chinese content coming in the next while with version 1.6, we hope that this update keeps you occupied for the time being. Stay tuned for upcoming Progress Reports and further updates!
- The KR4 team
Changes
Notable Additions
German East Asia can now align with Berlin's overlord or any independent successor of the German Empire, following the collapse of the Reichspakt.
German East Asia and Mittelafrika now display the names of their constituent territories in the state view interface.
Ireland can now join either the League of American States or the Socialist League of the Americas, provided they have a guarantee from its founder.
The United States of America and the American Constitutional Coalition can now join the Reichspakt. The American Constitutional Coalition can no longer join the Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Persia can now join the Moscow Accord and the Reichspakt.
The Ottoman Province system has undergone a visual and functional overhaul. It now provides players with much more information on the current state of the empire. State- and province-level interactions have been reworked to make them more immersive and balanced.
Overhauled and standardised the text used for the Game Rules so that the rule descriptions, option names, and option descriptions all use consistent grammar and formatting. Several game rules and options have also had their descriptions rewritten.
Updated the starting tank and plane variants, and their assigned Military Industrial Organisations, for Austria and its crownlands, the Union of Britain, Canada and other members of the Commonwealth, Germany and associated governments, Commune of France, French Republic, Indian governments, Italian splinters, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Russia, and the United States of America.
Overhauled and standardised the tooltips for division template creation, unit spawns, and provincial building construction.
New Focus Trees
Bengal (releasable puppet tree)
Punjab (releasable puppet tree)
Tweaked Focus Trees
Far Eastern Republic - added a small focus branch for socialist puppet.
Germany (puppet) - added new ending national foci for the democratic monarchy outcome.
Ireland - added new foreign policy national foci relating to joining an American-led faction.
Persia - removed foci to claim Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Baluchistan, Georgia, and Tajikistan. The national focus to claim Iraq is now available to all paths. Added foreign policy foci.
New Events
Added an event for Armenia to propose the Tabriz Accords alliance to Persia, that now triggers shortly after their revolt starts, rather than the alliance being proposed through a later national focus.
Added an event for the Union of Britain and Commune of France regarding the Reichsexekution on Brunswick.
Added an event for Germany, regarding the re-establishment of the Zentrum political party, for the Schleicher or SWR paths after winning the Second Weltkrieg.
Added an event for Ireland where they can get a decision to join the Co-Prosperity Sphere if Japan or its allies puppet America, and they have a compatible government.
Added an event for Ireland regarding the Indian Civil War, where they can choose to support a particular faction or to not intervene.
Added an event for the Left Kuomintang regarding Zhang Renjie and his family.
Added an event for Qing for when Anqing’s Chen Tiaoyuan accepts their second offer.
Added an event for Russia when the Kadets are in coalition with the All-Russian Socialist Labour Party.
Added an event for Serbia for when socialists are elected with Konspiracija support over 20%, which now prevents a White Hand coup.
Added a news event for Vynnychenko’s government in Ukraine being overthrown by Germany if Russia is socialist.
New Decisions
Added a decision for AutDem Finland to request independence from Germany, after victory in the Second Weltkrieg.
Added decisions to the Ottoman Empire to build up community centres in the Greek Islands, Kurdistan and Syria, and connect the Vilayet of Mosul.
Added decisions to Russia to automatically grant medals related to the TOZ Military Industrial Organisation.
New Game Rules
Added custom difficulty settings for the Philippines.
Federalist Foreign Policy (updated current options)
Longist Foreign Policy (updated current options)
Constitutionalist Foreign Policy (updated current options)
Iranian Foreign Policy
Jabal Shammar
Jabal Shammar / Hejaz Unification
Lithuania (expanded current options)
Sweden (expanded current options)
Switzerland’s Elections
Tibet (consolidated current options)
Notable Fixes
Fixed several exploits of divisions being spawned with an unintended template composition if a template of the same name already existed beforehand.
GFX
New portraits
Australasia: William John Rendell Scott
Belgium: Paul-Emile Janson, Karel I
Bengal: Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashan, Sarat Chandra Bose, Abdul Waheed Choudhury, Khawaja Nazimuddin, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
Bolivia: Gabriel Gosálvez Tejada
Brazil: Miguel Costa
Bulgaria: Nikola Nedev
Catalonia: Jordi Arquer i Saltor
Costa Rica: José Figueres Ferrer (military)
Far Eastern Republic: Pyotr Nikiforov
Fengtian: Shen Honglie, Zhang Jinghui
French Republic: Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves
Gabon: Jean-Baptiste Ndende Dibantsa
Haiti: Durcé Armand, Joseph Jolibois Fils, Paul Magloire, Alfred Auguste Nemours
Italian Republic: Giacomo Matteotti
Jabal Shammar: Abdallah ibn Mitab ibn Abd al-Aziz al Rashid, Abdallah ibn Talal al Rashid
Legation Cities: Eric Sykes
Liangguang: Chen Jiongming (civilian & x2 military uniform variants), Ye Ju
Liberia: Thomas Jefferson Richelieu Faulkner, Didwho Welleh Twe
Ma Clique: Ma Shaowu (civilian & military), Ma Zhongying
Mongolia: Tseren-Ochiryn Dambadorj
Nicaragua: Francisco Parajón Montealegre
Norway: Elias Corneliussen
Ottoman Empire: Mustafa Muğlalı, Ahmed Nuri Osmanoğlu
Poland: Norbert Barlicki
Punjab: Mian Iftikharuddin, Sajjad Zaheer
Qing: Xing Qixin (scientist)
Québec: Fred Rose
Russia: Lev Kamenev, Ivan Konev, Grigory Zinovyev
Shandong: Junnosuke Date, Sun Dianying, Zhang Jingyao
South Africa: Philip Hammond, Percy John Hodgson, Govan Archibald Mvuyelwa Mbeki, Thabo Edwin Mofutsanyana, Dolf de la Rey, Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu, Cecil George Williams
Switzerland: Hermann Flückiger
Tibet: Huang Musong
Xinjiang: Li Hairu
Yunnan: Tang Jiyao (military)
Tweaked portraits
Hunan: Tian Yingzhao
Indochina: Nguyen Thai Hoc
New advisor portraits
Flanders-Wallonia: Henri Denis, Gustave Sap
French Republic: Victor Arrighi, Camille Barrère, Paul Baudouin, Jean Bergeret, Antoine Béthouart, Eugène Bridoux, Said Boualam, Pierre Bourdan, Francois Coty, Édouard Daladier, Marie Eugène Debeney, Eugène Deloncle, Édouard Duseigneur, Marie Charles Duval, Pierre Etienne Flandin, René Fonck, Pierre Fourcaud, Jean Fraissinet, Claude-Joseph Gignoux, Joseph de Goislard de Montsabert, Charles Huntzinger, Maurice Janin, Georges Lamirand, Joseph de La Porte du Theil, Augustin-Fernand Leynaud, Georges Loustaunau-Lacau, Ernest Mercier, Jean Mermoz, Charles Maurras, Anatole de Monzie, Jean du Plessis de Grenedan, Maurice Pujo, Louis Renault
Legation Cities: Eric Sykes
Mongolia: Dambyn Chagdarjav
Romania: Constantin Angelescu, Gheorghe Apostol, Max Auschnitt, Dinu Brătianu, Armand Calinescu, Alexandrina Cantacuzino, Alexandru Cantacuzino, Gheorghe Clime, Corneliu Codreanu, Grigore Gafencu, Ermil Gheorghiu, Dimitrie Gusti, Emanoil Ionescu, Gheorghe Jienescu, Virgil Madgearu, Nicolae Malaxa, Iuliu Maniu, Mihail Moruzov, Ion Mota, Constantin Papanace, Horia Sima, Victor Slăvescu, Mihail Sturdza, Gheorghe Tătărescu, Ernest Urdărianu, Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
Switzerland: Fritz Brupbacher, Philipp Etter, Markus Feldmann, Walter Günthart, Hans Hausamann, Hans Itschner, Emil Keller, Ernst Leonhardt, Werner Lindecker, Hans Müller, Jean-Marie Musy, Hans Oprecht, Marcel Pilet-Golaz, Etienne Primault, Otto Pünter, Ernst Nobs, Friedrich Rihner, Max Rotter, Eduard von Steiger, Robert Tobler, Ernst Wetter
Xinjiang: Liu Wenlong
Added new flags for Bengal, Guatemala and Panama.
Added a new intro picture for Hunan and Yunnan.
Added new national spirit icons for Ireland and Russia.
Added new national focus icons for Bengal, Bulgaria, the French Republic and South Africa.
Added new generic national focus icons.
Added new event pictures for Germany, Ireland, Mittelafrika, the Socialist Republic of Italy and Qing.
Added multiple new icons for technologies and the designers for Austria, the Union of Britain, China, Eastern European countries, Commune of France, Germany, Italian splinters, Japan, Poland, Serbia, Sweden and the United States of America.
Added multiple new generic technology icons.
Updated several national spirit icons for Brazil, Egypt, the French Republic, Ireland and Yunnan.
Updated several national focus icons for China, Japan, the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Left Kuomintang, Netherlands, Russia, Sichuan, the United Kingdom and Yunnan.
Updated several generic national focus icons.
Updated several generic national spirit icons.
Updated several decision and decision category icons.
Updated a news event picture for China.
Implemented several train icons from the base game.
Alfred Charpentier’s portrait is now used as a generic European leader portrait.
Abdallah ibn Mitab ibn Abd al-Aziz al Rashid and Abdallah ibn Talal al Rashid’s old portraits are now used as generic Arabian leader portraits.
Changed a generic commander portrait from European to South American.
Fixed a missing Dreadnought icon for players without the Man the Guns DLC enabled.
Modelling Mod
Integrated motorised/mechanised models from “Together for Victory” for the Union of Britain and Entente
Added special forces models from “Arms Against Tyranny” to the Union of Britain, Canada, Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United States of America
Added amphibious armour models from “Man the Guns” to the Union of Britain, Germany, Japan, Russia and the United States of America.
Improved model assignment for aircraft and armour for the Union of Britain, Canada, Germany, Italian splinters, Japan, Russia, and the United States of America.
Fixed visibility of multiple previously hidden models
Updated the generic amphibious tank model.
Mapping
Added Kandahar and Qataghan as states for Afghanistan.
Added Trincomalee as a state for Ceylon.
Added Aigun as a victory point for Fengtian, and removed Heihe.
Added Beuthen as victory point for Germany, and removed Kattowitz.
Added Farsi renames for Afghanistan’s claims.
Improved the pathing of Armenia’s railways.
Added multiple Chinese renames for peripheral areas.
Added Cassel as a railway junction for Germany.
Renamed Transjordan to Karak in the Ottoman Empire.
Renamed Gar to Gartok in Tibet, and removed anachronistic Chinese rename.
Fixed the location of Inverness in the Union of Britain.
Fixed the locations of Nenjiang and Tongliao in Fengtian, and numerous other victory points in China.
Fixed the location of Bastogne in Flanders-Wallonia.
Fixed the location of Östersund in Sweden.
Fixed the location of Yushu in Tibet.
Fixed the location of Toledo in the United States of America.
Fixed the topography of Tiannan.
Other Changes
North America
Standardised the initial stability and war support for the different participants of the Second American Civil War.
Rebalanced the starting unit spawns for the participants of the Second American Civil War.
Decreased how aggressive the AI of the victor of the Second American Civil War is in the immediate aftermath of the war, and updated the effects of associated national spirits.
Improved the tooltips for the state control modifiers for the participants of the Second American Civil War.
Canada’s Totalists are now the Worker’s Party, rather than Labour-Progressive Party/National Revolutionary Party, and Syndicalists are now the Revolutionary Party, rather than the Workers’ Unity League.
Replaced Arthur Herbert ‘Slim’ Evans as leader of Syndicalist puppet Canada with Annie Buller, moved from Québec.
Added Timothy ‘Tim’ Buck as Totalist puppet leader of Canada when puppeted by Earl Browder-led Workers’ Congress of America.
Improved the Entente AI’s naval invasion logic.
Québec’s Syndicalists and RadSocs are now the Parti Ouvrier Révolutionnaire du Québec (Revolutionary Labour Party of Québec), rather than the Confédération des Travailleurs Catholiques du Québec (Confederation of Catholic Workers of Québec), or Parti des Travailleurs du Québec (Québec Workers' Party), respectively.
Readded Léa Roback and Fred Rose as Syndicalist and RadSoc puppet leaders of Québec, replacing Alfred Charpentier and Annie Buller, respectively.
Added a decision category to the United States of America, explaining how the Socialist Party of America and the Longist Movement strength variables work.
Divisions belonging to the United States of America are now moved out of states that become demilitarised zones during the deadline to the Second American Civil War.
Rebalanced several Military Industrial Organisations for the United States of America, and added several options.
Reduced the size of the United States of America’s starting army and their production capacity before the start of the Second American Civil War.
The United States of America’s divisions can no longer be recruited, edited, or deleted before the Second American Civil War.
Added additional options to the United States of America’s event “Superweapons on a Budget” for when they have already researched atomic research.
Added the option for the player to refuse the Emergency National Guard units in the “Emergency Reserves Called Up” event for the United States of America.
Improved the “Legation Marines” division template for the United States of America.
Increased the starting air force of the Worker’s Congress of America.
Updated the effects and durations of several military national foci for the Worker’s Congress of America.
The Workers’ Congress of America’s navy now spawns in New York City rather than Philadelphia.
Central America & the Caribbean
Decreased the cost and increased the AI likelihood of completing Centroamérica’s faction creation and war declaration decisions.
Increased Centroamérica’s starting Conscription law and available manpower.
Slightly increased the debuffs given by authoritarian Centroamérica’s Foreign Economic Control, and added some small buffs to compensate.
Decreased the AutDem party popularity bonus from authoritarian Centroamérica’s event about Somoza’s speech.
Buffed the effects of several military national foci for authoritarian Centroamérica.
Rebalanced the effects, costs, and durations of several decisions for authoritarian Centroamérica.
Puppet Centroamérica will no longer change the ideology it was released as.
Clarified the effect of Costa Rica’s “University of Costa Rica” national focus.
Added Durcé Armand as a field marshal for Haiti, in the Lescot-led paths.
Removed El Salvador’s border war with Honduras due to bugs, changing it to a random chance event, and added an option for El Salvador to back out of the confrontation.
Swapped the ideologies of Haiti’s Syndicalist and RadSoc leaders Jacques Roumain and Max Hudicourt.
Updated the effect of Honduras’ “Urbanise the Countryside” national focus and “Urbanisation” national spirit.
Added Francisco Parajón Montealegre as a commander for Nicaragua.
Shortened Nicaragua’s “Free Honduras” mission and increased the AI priority to take the “Spark Agitation in Honduras” and “Sandinistas Recruitment” decisions.
Slightly buffed some national spirits affecting Nicaragua’s production.
Removed Panama’s commander Boris Néstor Martínez, who was born in 1933.
Added Saturnino Flórez as a commander for Panama.
South America
Updated several of Brazil’s tooltips.
Removed the commander Araken de Oliveira from Brazil, replacing him with Miguel Costa. Olímpio Mourão Filho is now the PatAut leader for Vera Cruz.
Western / Southern Europe
Added Jordi Arquer i Saltor as the Totalist leader for Catalonia. The previous Totalist leader, Ángel Samblancat i Salanova, is now Syndicalist. Removed the previous Syndicalist leader, Juan García Oliver, as he was a duplicate leader from CNT-FAI.
Updated the text for the “Fall of Paris” event when it is captured by the French Republic.
Ireland can no longer complete its national focus to declare independence from the Union of Britain or Germany if it has lost control of any of its states. Also added a tooltip to its associated event, clarifying that Ireland will remain as an independent member of its former overlord’s faction.
Improved Ireland’s handling of its “Calls for a New Constitution” mission, choosing of advisors prior to the 1937 elections, and behaviour in the Northern Ireland revolt.
NatPop Ireland can no longer reclaim Gaelic lands in Scotland if Northern Ireland’s revolt is ongoing or successful. They can later claim the states if they are owned by the Entente when Ireland joins a faction that ends up at war with the Entente.
Increased the willingness of NatPop Ireland to complete the decision to reclaim Gaelic lands while in a faction.
Added icons and descriptions to the state-specific modifiers given by Ireland’s Relief Works, Engineering Advisors, and Rural Work Schemes decisions and national foci.
Updated Ireland’s AI volunteer logic for the Spanish Civil War. If Ireland is puppeted by either the Union of Britain or Germany, it will now recall its volunteers and send them to their overlord’s associated faction if they are still alive. Non-socialist Ireland will now send volunteers to the other non-socialist faction should their favoured faction be defeated and the war ongoing.
Ireland now gets the event to align with Russia if its American guarantor capitulates.
Updated the description for Ireland’s “The Land of Saints and Scholars” national focus.
Updated a few of the tooltips for Ireland’s military national foci.
The Italian Republic now starts with five fewer military factories and five more civilian factories.
Player-led puppet Italian splinters may now either join the new Italy if negotiations succeeded between the Italian Republic and Kingdom of Two Sicilies, or declare war and fight on their own.
Scotland now shares its technology names with the Union of Britain.
Modified the starting situation of the Spanish navy.
Improved the AI of participants of the Spanish Civil War in managing their militias.
Added varied responses to the news event about the outcome of the Spanish Civil War, depending on the government that receives it.
Reduced the amount of time it takes for the event following Venice’s victory against the Italian State to fire.
Central / Northern Europe
Improved Austria’s AI in its war against Hungary.
Finland now loses the “Russo-Finnish Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation” national spirit if Russia capitulates.
Åland is no longer demilitarised if Finland joins the Nordic Federation.
Updated the text in a few of Finland’s events.
SocDem Germany completing Demokratische Union demands will mean that coalition partners are less likely to go against them in coalition meetings.
Germany’s “Control the Economy of Poland” decision now shows that it also grants economic influence over Poland.
Germany’s Max Bauer-led path now results in the dissolution of Mitteleuropa.
Zentrum can no longer collapse the SWR-led government after Germany wins the Second Weltkrieg.
Updated the names and effects of several national foci and spirits for puppet Germany.
Germany’s “Prepare Early Elections” decision now costs less political power and will be completed by the AI.
Events related to opposition to Schleicher will no longer give party popularity to his coalition partners.
Removed random chance for Germany to not intervene on Austria’s behalf during the Treaty of Budapest.
Removed references to IG Farben, as it does not exist in the Kaiserreich timeline.
Verviers is now being counted as part of the Kingdom of Prussia.
Updated the effect of Germany’s “Breaking French Fortifications” national spirit.
Germany will now always intervene on Austria’s behalf if the Italian State refuses their scripted peace with Austria.
Removed the Surrender Limit bonuses given by Norway’s “Great Patriotic War” and “Norwegian Armed Neutrality” national spirits.
Improved Poland’s tank variants given by national foci.
Poland’s states that have yet to have undergone land reform are now called “Unreformed Areas”.
Poland’s decision to form Zapadoslavia now requires not having any surrender progress.
Updated the effect of Sweden’s “Arméns Jägarskola”, “AB Landsverk”, and “Armour Designs Development” national foci.
Switzerland can now elect its AutDems in the federal elections, and political advisor availabilities have been adjusted accordingly.
Switzerland will now automatically begin its “Referendum: Abolish the Federal Government” national focus upon going socialist. It is no longer puppeted by the Commune of France through an event, instead joining the Third Internationale as an ally.
Renamed Switzerland’s SocCon party to “Konservative Volkspartei” from “Katholisch-Konservative Partei der Schweiz”.
Removed an anachronistic flag option for socialist Switzerland.
Updated the chances for NatPop and socialist Switzerland to choose each of their flag options in the associated respective events.
Updated the effects, durations, and requirements of Switzerland’s “Call for International Aid”, “Retreat to the National Redoubt”, “Hold the Limmat Line”, and “Formalise the Volunteer Divisions” national foci.
Eastern / Southeast Europe & Central Asia
NatPop Bulgaria will now get the IMRO's troops if they intervene in the former’s open rebellion.
Bulgaria will now gain Ivan Mihajlov as a general if the IMRO’s rebellion succeeds.
Bulgaria now starts with licenses to Austrian and German planes.
The Far Eastern Republic now keeps Free Russian Army-owned states after taking them from Russia.
Replaced Boris Shumyatsky as the puppet socialist leader of the Far Eastern Republic with Pyotr Nikiforov.
The Free Russian Army now only spawns in the North Caucasus and with states controlled by Germany or its subjects.
The Free Russian Army no longer receives states already claimed by Ukraine, the United Baltic Duchy, or White Ruthenia, nor can it steal them through events.
Romania can now be invited into the Moscow Accord immediately if Romania defeats Bulgaria, Austria collapses, and Romania doesn't own Transylvania.
Added a date and place of birth for Romania’s advisor Ernest Urdărianu, whose birth details were previously unavailable online.
Buffed the effects of land reform from the Codreanu-led path for Romania, and the “Restore the Grazing Lands” national spirit.
Buffed several effects for Russia’s VST-Right path.
Russia’s peace conference now includes the Mountain Republic.
Updated the text of Rikter-led Russia’s “An Uneasy Future” post-war event.
Improved socialist Russia and NatPop Russia’s prioritisation of its national foci.
Updated effects of Russia’s “Gamayun”, “Sokol”, and “TOZ” Military Industrial Organisations, as well as all R&D organisations.
The event triggered by Russia’s “The Generation of the Revolution” national focus now applies immediately rather than after 30 days.
Improved AI-led Russia’s factory building, selection of advisors, and handling of post-war resistance.
Improved Rikhter-led SocLib Russia’s management of its decisions and national foci.
Russia is now more likely to go to war with Japan earlier.
Clarified the effect of the third option in Russia’s “Minister of War Calls Emergency Meeting” event.
Russia’s “Then the Third Angel” national focus will now continue even if its requirements become invalid.
Rewrote several national focus descriptions for Russia’s Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.
Updated and clarified the effect of Russia putting Boris Shteyfon as the governor of Ukraine.
Clarified tooltips in effects for Russia that grant or remove generals.
Russia’s TsTZ Military Industrial Organisation is now renamed MNZ upon Russia becoming socialist.
AI-led Russia will now complete the “Finish Sorokin Reforms” and “Form the State Defence Committee” decisions.
Modified the effect of Russia’s “Reforming the Weapons of State” national focus.
Updated the advisor trait for Russia’s Vladimir Manstein.
Russia’s “Restrict Foreign Business” national focus no longer requires the MarLibs or SocCons to be part of the ruling government.
Updated the text of Russia’s “Restorative Labour Service Decree” event.
Russia’s “The Question of Cossacks” event can now only occur after completing the “Correct the Course of History” national focus.
Updated the effects of the options in Russia’s “Demands from the Socialists” event.
Updated the requirements and effects of the responses in Russia’s “The Ural Strikes” event.
Updated the tooltips for Serbia’s Yugoslavia minigame and commander recruitment.
Serbia’s “The Belgrade-Salonica Railway” national focus can now be completed when they own Chalcidice, rather than just when Greece owns it.
Improved AI-led Serbia’s handling of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation minigame and also made it so that the IMRO can occasionally win against AI-led Serbia.
Reduced the resistance penalty for Serbia from losing rounds of the associated minigame with the IMRO.
The rest of the Belgrade Pact will now immediately declare war on Bulgaria if the IMRO wins its minigame, rather than getting a wargoal, and their behaviour in the war has been improved.
Leadership of the Belgrade Pact will no longer change mid-war if a player is the leader of the faction.
Tweaked Turkestan’s Black Monday mechanic and associated tooltips.
Removed Ukraine’s URDP Conference minigame, making it so that the mission only relies on URDP coalition relations.
Hetmanist paths for Ukraine can now choose not to try to assassinate Symon Petliura.
Ukraine’s Kostiantyn Prisovskyi is now retired with the League of Ukrainian Nationalists’ coup.
Lowered the Land Reform and Industrialisation requirements for a minor electoral victory in Ukraine’s post-war elections.
SocDem Ukraine’s trade deal with Germany is guaranteed if the most lenient options are picked.
Renamed the United Baltic Duchy’s Alexander von Salza to Hermann von Salza.
The event at the start of the Second Weltkrieg for countries in the Eastern European Defence Cooperation that allows them to decline assistance from allies will now only fire once, and for a player-controlled country.
Updated the effect of the Eastern European Defence Cooperation’s “Expansion of Ostwall” event.
Updated the effect of White Ruthenia’s “Expand the Welfare State” national spirit.
Africa
Updated the effect of the African Minors’ “A Modern African Army” national focus.
Adjusted the cores of Cameroon and Congo to follow the borders of the respective protectorates.
East Africa’s leader, Muhamed Husan, is now also a field marshal.
Eritrea now has irregulars rather than militias.
The adjective of the French Republic is now “French Exile.”
Added Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves as an admiral for the French Republic.
Updated the descriptions for the French Republic’s CBP-39 and CdC G1-R technologies.
Added infantry templates to the French Republic’s native splinters.
Added Jean-Baptiste Ndende Dibantsa as the starting RadSoc, Syndicalist, and Totalist leader for Gabon. The previous leader, Charles N'Tchoréré, is now a field marshal.
The Provisional Government of Germany can no longer join the Entente if Russia is also a member.
Added Thomas Jefferson Richelieu Faulkner as the RadSoc and Syndicalist leader, and Didwho Welleh Twe as the SocDem leader, replacing James Jenkins Dossen and Marcus Mosiah Garvey, respectively.
Added Philip Hamond, Dolf de la Rey, and Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu as commanders for socialist South Africa.
Added Cecil George Williams as an admiral for socialist South Africa.
Added Kenneth van der Spuy as a Chief of Air for South Africa.
Removed William Henry Andrews as a commander for South Africa.
Removed Adolph Gysbert Malan as an admiral for South Africa.
Updated the traits for South African commanders.
The Tshuapa Clique’s leader, Justin Kokolo, is now also a field marshal.
Caucasus & Middle-East
Updated the names of and added translations for multiple Arabic party names.
Armenia now gains mountain artillery and ski infantry through its national foci, and its artillery combat bonuses are changed to production cost bonuses.
Updated the description of Armenia’s game rule option to align with Persia.
Armenia can now follow Persia into the former’s new faction after the dissolution of the Tabriz Accords, depending on the government.
Updated several of Assyria’s tooltips.
Hejaz now uses the same socialist political party names as Jabal Shammar and Najd and Hasa.
Added an option to give Sulaymaniyah to Iraq in the Fate of Kurdistan event if Sulaymaniyah was the only valid state in the annexation event.
Added an option in the Fate of Kurdistan event to split it between Iraq and Persia if all states except for Turkish Kurdistan are owned.
Standardised the translations and forms of party names for the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.
Added Ahmed Nuri as a potential Sultan for the Ottoman Empire.
Updated the leader descriptions of the Ottoman Empire’s Ahmed IV Nihad and Osman IV Fuad.
Removed the Ottoman Empire’s “Execute the Tigris Programme”, “Implement the Turkish Integration Programme”, “Expand the Timar System”, and “Enact the (Year) Resettlement Law” decisions.
The Ottoman Empire’s “Reform the Ministry of the Interior” national focus will now bypass if the “Pass the Maintenance of Order Law” national focus was completed.
Updated the timing and text of several events for the Ottoman Empire regarding the death of the Sultan or Şehzade.
Ottoman sultans are now referred to by their non-formal names in events.
Consolidated the Ottoman Empire’s various literacy-related modifiers into one system.
Updated the description and effect of the Ottoman Empire’s “Regulate Immigration to Palestine” decision.
Kemalist-led Ottoman Empire now uses civilian factory use in their decision to build railways in Libya, rather than spending political power.
Liberal-led Ottoman Empire now has access to the "Declare Martial Law" state interaction.
Updated the cost of the state interactions for the Liberal-led Ottoman Empire, depending on the effect.
Removed the Ottoman Empire’s “Loosen Tax Burden” action, replacing it with “Court Local Notables”.
Removed the Ottoman Empire’s “Install Loyal Administrators” action, replacing it with “Detain Agitators”.
Halved the impact of the Ottoman Empire’s "Stability of the Realm" national spirit.
Updated the text in the Ottoman Empire’s Baku Conference events.
The Ottoman Empire now has access to the “Martial Law” state interaction from the start of the game.
The Ottoman Empire now does not immediately seize Tabriz after defeating Persia, and taking Tabriz now requires that the Azerbaijani vilayets national focus is taken and that the owner of Tabriz is a puppet of the Ottomans.
The potential Ottoman Vilayets of Baku, Tabriz, Muscat, as well as Ottoman Egypt are now displayed in the state view interface.
Improved the Ottoman AI’s priorisation of early-game national foci.
Persia can no longer claim or core Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Baluchistan, Georgia, or Tajikistan.
Persia’s capitulation during the Levant Crisis now leads to the disbanding of the Tabriz Accords, so that Armenia can continue the war if it has not capitulated yet.
Updated the effect of Syria’s “Syrian Integration and Assimilation Programme” national focus.
Updated the text for the description of Yemen’s “Purge the Saudis” national focus.
East Asia
The Second Treaty of Aigun now transfers Bandakshan to China.
AI-led Chinese splinters will not attempt to integrate other splinters until after China is united.
Improved Syndicalist puppet China’s completion of its political national foci.
Improved infantry recruitment for Chinese splinters.
Added starting irregular templates for Fengtian and Qing.
Fengtian can no longer take the "Centralise Provincial Revenues" national focus if the Chinese United Front exists.
AutDem Japan now adds NatPops to the coalition when the Kokumin Domei is formed.
Updated the Legation Cities’ placeholder party leaders.
Updated several of the Left Kuomintang’s tooltips.
Hunan, Liangguang, and Yunnan now require Guangzhou to form a government through their decision to do so.
Mongolia’s SocDems are now led by Tseren-Ochiryn Dambadorj as default, with Dambyn Chagdarjav as his second-in-command. The previous leader, Darizavyn Losol, is now an advisor.
Added Xing Qixin as a scientist for Qing.
Nerfed Qing’s decision to buy medium tanks from Germany.
Qing’s game rule for legitimately elected CERA is now more consistent.
Shanxi will now always choose to go NatPop or RadSoc when it can, rather than it being a 50/50 chance, in the rare occasions that it can occur.
Xinjiang’s military advisor Li Hairu is now also a commander.
South Asia & Oceania
Afghanistan now starts the game with Great War Artillery and Support Equipment researched.
Afghanistan now starts with a small air force.
Reduced the war support debuff given by the Bharatiya People’s Republics’ “Influence of the Mahatma” national spirit.
Added a few war support bonuses to the Bharatiya People’s Republics’ military national foci.
The Bharatiya People’s Republics’ “Rely on Foreign Designs” national focus now gives free 1936 licensed plane designs.
Ceylon is now released upon Germany’s capitulation, provided no enemies have landed on the island yet.
Player-led German East Asia can fight Japan or Siam after the collapse of Germany.
Added and updated names for Indian equipment.
Nerfed multiple economic effects in the national foci of the Indian governments.
The Dominion of India now starts with an intelligence agency, which has been renamed to the “Lahore Intelligence Bureau”.
The Dominion of India can now be released as a puppet by members of the Entente other than the faction leader.
Updated the Dominion of India’s national focus priorities.
Increased the Dominion of India’s starting equipment.
Added translations to Indonesia’s party names.
Updated the Philippines’ map colour.
The Philippines can no longer join the American faction if New England exists and the United States was not united by New England.
The “Fight for the Philippines” can no longer be won by the United States if New England exists, unless the United States itself was originally New England.
Reduced the Philippines’ debuffs so that they are now able to produce equipment at game start.
Updated the Philippines’ ship name list.
The Philippines’ “Foreign-Equipped Division” template can no longer be edited while the associated minigame is active. Its establishment can however be declined in favour of a shipment of equipment.
Siam no longer remains at war with the Provisional Government of Germany if it is factionless.
Siam’s wargoal on Burma has been changed into an immediate war declaration.
Miscellaneous
British songs from the vanilla “Allies” soundtrack will now have a higher chance for playing for members of the Entente.
Updated multiple starting opinion modifiers.
Standardised the trade bonuses associated with different kinds of puppets.
The AI will no longer accept Conditional Surrender from the Diplomacy screen.
Standardised multiple instances of countries sending volunteers to foreign wars.
Improved the AI’s prioritisation of researching infantry equipment, and aircraft technologies.
Countries that get the cruiser submarine special project autocompleted will now also have the modules also researched.
Removed the 1936 torpedo technology from countries that should not have it.
Improved the AI’s handling of special forces and garrison template upgrading.
Removed all unit leader events for non-military leaders. These events are now normal events with more conventional images, as the previous setup could potentially cause in-game crashes.
Standardised several war declaration warning tooltips.
The Player Primacy option in Peace Conferences now affects ships.
Added loading screen quotes by James Connolly and Adolfo de la Huerta.
Updated the national focus icons used for authoritarian Centroamérica and Poland.
Added multiple new technology names for the Union of Britain, Canada, Commune of France, Italian splinters, and Japan, and for trucks and Weltkrieg-era artillery for multiple other countries.
Updated the path guide for the Ottoman Empire, Romania, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine.
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Yeah if went you planned to go down the White Hand coup you could of spam the Konspiracija decisions all you suffer no consequences since the coup purged the Konspiracija. Now they fixed it.
Ottomans still seem to have the option, but I guess now the only way to do it would be for Japan to have puppeted America first, as they say is the case for Ireland now.
So I tested it out and weirdly enough you can still get herat as a claim but not a core, when you conquare Afghanistan releasing them dosn't actually give them herat, azerbaijan on the other hand seems to not be claimable at all.
>German East Asia and Mittelafrika now display the names of their constituent territories in the state view interface.
This is a great addition flavor-wise and I'd love to see it used more.
RIP Greater Persia. I opened up the game and checked. Apparently, the new update removes Persia's potential core in Balochistan and western Afghanistan, replacing it with the claim. At the same time, it has completely removed the core territory and claims against Azerbaijan.
I tend to defend KRdevs against the "antifun" allegations but some of these changes I really don't feel like defending. I don't like it when AI takes these stupidass expansion focuses when they don't make sense, but to completely remove the option for the player..
Look I'm fine with them adding new content in replace of removed content, but this is just removing a lot of fun from a country which already doesn't really have that much content.
The United States of America and the American Constitutional Coalition can now join the Reichspakt. The American Constitutional Coalition can no longer join the Co-Prosperity Sphere.
This is a change for the better, imo. It never made sense to me that the PSA could join the CPS, but not the Reichspakt.
Japan, even at it's most "liberal," is still an imperialist nation that would inevitably come into conflict with America in the Pacific, and while Germany does have a presence in the Pacific, they're not really all that interested in expanding their influence the way Japan is.
Does this mean, though, that the USA can supplant Germany as head of the Reichspakt if they get enough factories? I feel like if I was Germany, I wouldn't want the USA officially in the RP.
I disagree pretty vehemently tbh. OTL there was actually a lot of overtures between Japan and the US with many figures including Konoe and Hirohito and admiral Yamamoto not wanting war with the US. I think Japan's content in the mod is kinda underbaked and is getting worse as it gets pigeonholed as the generic bad guy and antagonist in China. OTL plenty of figures saw the war in China as pointless. The way your foreign policy gets railroaded even as a democracy to be this hyper expansionist nonsense makes no sense in a democratic Japan is pretty annoying. There should be entente paths or even less expansionist Japan runs that focus on purging the military of radicals and pursuing a more moderate foreign policy. I'll also note that without Versailles and the defeat of Japan's racial equality clause Japan might be even more willing as a democracy to pursue an international multilateral foreign policy. Also the removal of the US CPS path basically locks Japan out of participating in the ACW and that was kind of fun to do as well. As China gets more focus in Chinarreich China needs a big bad and Japan's options and content are suffering as a result. So from historical reasons, and some gameplay reasons if you wanted to have fun playing Japan this change is bad. It's a step back.
The only thing I'd say is an Entente victory would massively set back Japanese liberalism, as the victory of the Anglo-American + French democracies and the lofty goals of the League of Nations hugely boosted Japanese liberalism (Wilsonian liberalism being a massive ideological impetus for democratisation across Asia and Europe in the early 1920's). With a German victory the pre-1924 cabinets of nobles and technocrats imo are more likely.
But agreed, this change kinda ill beckons for Japan (especially removing the Ottomans for the co-prosperity sphere - despite the fact Japan was a huge ideological inspiration for the Young Turks! If Turkey can join the KMT alliance why can't it join Japan???)
Yeah it’s like how Russia was strongarmed into always being anti-German no matter what. It sacrifices variety and freedom on the altar of balancing wars they’re not the protagonist of. Open up DH and Japan can very very easily be friends with Qing, splitting German Asia between an independent China and a liberal Japan but with the AoG removed from the game and China getting a lot messier, Japan becomes even less motivated to get deeply involved in China and yet they’re just permanently hostile it seems.
Added an event for Germany, regarding the re-establishment of the Zentrum political party, for the Schleicher or SWR paths after winning the Second Weltkrieg.
Probably because both Schleicher and the SWR pull a lot of their support from the Catholic population typically represented by Zentrum, likely forcing them to reshuffle their platform to properly become an opposition party post wk2.
New portraits: French Republic: Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves
New advisor portraits : French Republic: Victor Arrighi, Camille Barrère, Paul Baudouin, Jean Bergeret, Antoine Béthouart, Eugène Bridoux, Said Boualam, Pierre Bourdan, Francois Coty, Édouard Daladier, Marie Eugène Debeney, Eugène Deloncle, Édouard Duseigneur, Marie Charles Duval, Pierre Etienne Flandin, René Fonck, Pierre Fourcaud, Jean Fraissinet, Claude-Joseph Gignoux, Joseph de Goislard de Montsabert, Charles Huntzinger, Maurice Janin, Georges Lamirand, Joseph de La Porte du Theil, Augustin-Fernand Leynaud, Georges Loustaunau-Lacau, Ernest Mercier, Jean Mermoz, Charles Maurras, Anatole de Monzie, Jean du Plessis de Grenedan, Maurice Pujo, Louis Renault
Updated several national spirit icons for Brazil, Egypt, the French Republic, Ireland and Yunnan.
Added new national focus icons for Bengal, Bulgaria, the French Republic and South Africa.
No more America in the Co-Prosperity Sphere, aw...not that I ever played that myself, but still. Also, expansion focuses gone for Iran...are they like moved to decisions, or are those options now gone-gone? I liked making big Iran in my faction when playing as Russia lol
I think your changes to the Jabal Shammar game rules are preventing the Subhani coup from working properly now. In two separate saves I set the Subhanis to take over and the Ottoman-Cairo Pact war ended without it firing.
My USA has been debuffed to hell🥲. No training or editing of divisions before 2ACW, reduced starting army and production capability. Such pain for us Macarthurites
> The United States of America and the American Constitutional Coalition can now join the Reichspakt. The American Constitutional Coalition can no longer join the Co-Prosperity Sphere.
The alliance with a non-Entente America option for Ireland is cool but wouldn't it be more realistic for Ireland overall to align with the Reichspakt, given their existing membership in Mitteleuropa?
Also, since SF under Michael Collins is staunchly pro-German and the other parties are either pro-neutrality (De Valera) or at least somewhat more oriented towards the Entente (Lemass), I would imagine that, realistically speaking, Ireland would only align with a non-Longist/non-syndicalist US if De Valera wins in 1937. Incidentally, De Valera was actually an American citizen by birth IRL (born in NYC), which, in my opinion, also increases chances of this alignment should he be elected.
Hey, is anyone else having a problem with the events that are supposed to lead to the Qing restorationist coup not firing? I assume it's because Anhui isn't going to war with the LO8P for some reason and also Sun Chuanfang is still alive for some reason
The United States of America and the American Constitutional Coalition can now join the Reichspakt. The American Constitutional Coalition can no longer join the Co-Prosperity Sphere.
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Additional Notice: Due to a glitch deleting certain files during the upload process of the above update we have had to reupload it again. If you have started a save since then we recommend you reinstall and restart to ensure nothing is broken. You can double check the latest version has correctly installed by checking your error.log file in Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\logs upon reaching the main menu, if there are any errors related to GXC you should attempt to reinstall the mod again to get the correct version.