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Here you can find the changelogs for all full releases of KR4.

  • Alpha changelogs can be found here.
  • Beta changelogs can be found here.

The "Alpha" and "Beta" designations serve to mark major releases and shifts in design standards, as opposed to milestones in any roadmap-based manner of development.



1.0.4 - 19th of February, 2024[]

Changes

Notable Additions

  • Updated the effects of many of Mongolia’s political national foci and national spirits, while keeping the focus tree structure, paths, lore and events unchanged.

New Events

  • Added an event for player-controlled countries in the Eastern European Defence Cooperation, where they can choose to defend their borders without assistance from Germany or non-EEDC allies, until the Commune of France is defeated. Russia will also receive extra infantry equipment.
  • Added an event for Germany as an introduction to Kurt von Schleicher, replacing the event about the death of Wilhelm Solf.
  • Added an event for Germany regarding the integration of Liechtenstein.
  • Added several new events for the S-W-R path for Germany, involving the legacy of Grand Admiral Tirpitz, an event upon completion of the “New German Conservatism” national focus, the 1939 DkP Chairman Elections, with new follow-up events depending on the chairman chosen, and an event about the death of Kuno von Westarp.
  • Added an event for the United States of America, regarding emergency stockpiles for the Federalists.

New Decisions

  • Added decisions for Germany to reduce resistance in puppet Britain and France, and remove the “Communard Partisans” state modifier.
  • Added a decision for Mongolia to declare the pan-Mongol state.

GFX

  • New portraits
    • Belgium: Joris Van Severen
    • Canada: Arthur Herbert Evans
    • Colombia: Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
    • Denmark: Martin Andersen Nexø
    • East Turkestan: Masud Sabri
    • Ecuador: Dolores Cacuango
    • Estonia: Johannes Orasmaa, Jaan Tõnisson
    • French Republic: Charles de Gaulle, Philippe Pétain (military)
    • Germany: Walter Model
    • Hausaland: Siddiq Abubakar III
    • Kumul Khanate: Hoja-Niyaz Haji
    • Kurdistan: Mahmud Barzanji
    • Malaysia: Abdul Hamid Halim Shah, Burhanuddin al Helmy
    • Mali: Mamadou Konaté
    • New England: Joseph William Martin Jr.
    • Paraguay: José Félix Estigarribia Insaurralde, Juan Manuel Frutos Escurra
    • Romania: Constantin Constantinescu-Claps
    • Shandong: Li Zaolin
    • Shanxi: Deng Xiaoping
    • Spain: Camilo Alonso Vega, Dámaso Berenguer Fusté, Mariano Gámir Ulíbarri, Manuel Goded Llopis, José Moscardó Ituarte, Ricardo Rada Peral, Vicente Rojo Lluch
    • Ubangi-Shari: Antoine Théophile Darlan, Jane Vialle
    • West Indies Federation: Ralph Leatham
    • Xinjiang: Burhan Shahidi
  • New advisor portraits
    • Germany: Gottfried Treviranus
    • Xinjiang: Yan Yushan
  • Added a new Russian generic General portrait.
  • Added a new event picture for Germany.
  • Added a new flag for Hejaz.
  • Updated a decision category picture for the Left Kuomintang.

Mapping

  • Updated the borders of Karelia.
  • Added a supply depot, a naval base and more railways to Finland.
  • Added a supply depot in Vyazma.
  • Fixed Åland being physically uninvadable.

Other Changes

  • North America
    • The Combined Syndicates of America will now only receive volunteers from socialist countries that have a large enough army.
    • Paricutín Volcano events can now only fire for Mexico.
    • Updated the effects of several national focus and national spirits for Totalist, Syndicalist, RadSoc and SocDem Mexico.
  • Central America & the Caribbean
    • Nicaragua’s “Arming the Militias” national focus now adds the Militia technology.
    • Updated the effects of many of Panama’s national foci, adding more factories and consumer goods reductions, altering military foci effects, and updating the national focus filters accordingly.
    • Added a timed mission to indicate Panama’s peace deal with the Entente.
    • Clarified the requirements of the final national foci in Panama’s conservative path.
  • South America
    • Added a second-in-command for puppet NatPop Argentina.
    • NatPop Argentina and Brazil will now send volunteers to Carlist Spain, during the Spanish Civil War.
    • Paraguay’s “Paz y Justicia” national focus now increases the state category rather than adding another build slot.
  • Western & Southern Europe
    • Added new responses to the “Belgian Declaration of Independence” news event.
    • Tweaked the content of the British and French puppet governments of Germany, to make the restoration of civilian government easier.
    • Clarified how long it can take for a Flanders-Wallonia game rule to have its effect.
    • Nerfed the Commune of France’s volunteers bonus from their “Vanguard of the Revolution” national spirit.
    • Updated the volunteers that are now sent to the Italian Civil War.
    • Renamed the Netherlands’ national focus “KAM Air Academie” to “KMA Luchtvaartacademie”.
    • Scotland and Wales now use a new puppet type when released as puppet by the RadSoc Union of Britain, which also uses the Union of Britain’s map colour.
    • CNT-FAI will now only receive volunteers from socialist countries that have a large enough army.
  • Central & Northern Europe
    • Changed the prefix of Denmark’s ships from “KDM” to “HDMS”.
    • Updated Denmark’s ship name lists.
    • Added a description to Denmark’s Martin Andersen Nexø.
    • Rebalanced Denmark’s initial Black Monday initial national foci before the “Kanslergaden Agreement” national focus.
    • Ported over the medals from vanilla for Denmark, Finland, Norway and the Nordic Federation.
    • Updated Finland’s starting infantry and mountaineers template.
    • Changed the effect of Germany’s “Establish the W-System” national focus, so that it now causes Fritz Thyssen to be available as an advisor rather than hiring him, and also decreased the focus duration.
    • Germany’s Mitteleuropa focus tooltips now tell you more relevant information and are more consistent.
    • Improved the tooltips in Germany’s postwar national foci.
    • Germany’s “Growing Preparedness” event will now mention the new French capital if it is no longer Paris, and have a different response if France has already been beaten.
    • AI-controlled Germany will now wait until 1937 to start its Mitteleuropa national foci.
    • Updated the text of multiple German political events.
    • Nerfed the political power gain for AutDem Germany in the “Bavaria’s Defeat” and “Split in the DVLP” events.
    • Germany’s generic army grip decisions are now removed after all national foci that increase/decrease grip have been taken.
    • Germany’s “Restore Civilian Administration” national focus now requires puppet France and Britain to have less than 10% resistance, rather than none.
    • Germany will now always restore the monarchy following a republican revolution, should a player-controlled Poland led by King Alexander un-capitulate Germany and win the war.
    • Updated the requirements for several S-W-R political national foci for Germany.
    • Buffed the Nordic Federationa’s SocDem political national foci.
    • Added the “NFS” (Nordic Federation Ship) prefix to ships produced by the Nordic Federation, and updated their naval name lists.
    • Updated the party names for the Nordic Federation and added English translations.
    • Buffed multiple decisions for the Nordic Federation.
    • Changed the prefix of Norway’s ships from “KNM” to “HNoMS”, and updated several of their name lists.
    • Added 5% starting war support to Norway.
    • Added unique text for the event where German-aligned Alexander-led Polish monarchy un-capitulates Germany while keeping Posen, should Germany have become a republic.
    • Reordered Poland’s “Military Cooperation” decision category.
    • Buffed Sweden’s “Folkhemmet” national spirit.
    • Changed the prefix of Sweden’s ships from “HMS” to “HSwMS”, and updated several of their name lists.
    • Added a tooltip to Sweden’s Black Monday decision panel, clarifying what level of unemployment is needed for Black Monday to be resolved.
    • Sweden now starts with 1936 infantry equipment, which has been renamed.
    • Added English language translations to Swedish political parties.
    • Added more text to Sweden’s “Failed Coup d'Etat” event.
    • Sweden’s Gustaf Adolf Bernadotte Jnr. is now a starting commander, and is promoted to field marshal upon the coronation of Gustaf VI Adolf.
    • Improved the infantry equipment that is being produced by Sweden at game start.
    • Sweden’s Helge Jung is now promoted to field marshal upon completion of the “Jung Junta” national focus.
    • Updated the descriptions for infantry equipment for Sweden and the Nordic Federation.
  • Eastern & Southeast Europe
    • Buffed the effect of Albania’s “Universal Health Care” national spirit.
    • Slightly buffed the effect of the Cantacuzino path for Romania.
    • Added Romanian endonyms for Mogilev, Odessa and Vinnitsa.
    • Updated the effect of Russia’s “Aristocratic Army” national spirit.
    • Increased the priority at which Russia will now complete its economic national foci compared to its political.
    • The Treaty of Moscow now removes any of Russia’s active guarantees of independence.
    • Serbia can no longer present their Ultimatum to Illyria during the Austrian “End the Dual Rule” events, should the former still be at war with Bulgaria or have capitulated.
    • The Belgrade Pact losing to Bulgaria will now cause Czechia and Bohemia to leave the faction, should they be in it, and for Serbia and Romania to make peace with Austria, if they are at war.
    • Serbia’s Ultimatum to Illyria will now always be denied if the former is still at war with Bulgaria.
    • Serbia can now annex Ghegaria.
    • Improved the tooltip for Ukraine’s "Introduce Worker Self Management" national focus.
    • Increased Ukraine’s AI priority on completing their postwar national foci.
    • Ukraine’s “New Sunrise” national focus can now be completed when in a faction with socialist Russia.
    • Hetmanist Ukraine’s Parliamentarisation national spirits will now be available if at war with countries other than Russia.
    • PatAut White Ruthenia now starts with the AutDems in coalition, later gaining the SocCons.
    • White Ruthenia’s national focus to decrease RadSoc popularity will now be bypassed if White Ruthenia is socialist.
    • Added 5% starting war support to White Ruthenia.
  • Africa
    • Increased how frequently the event for potentially crowning Napoleon IV in the French Republic will fire.
    • Added Antoine Théophile Darlan and Jane Vialle as Syndicalist/Totalist and RadSoc/SocDem leaders of Ubangi-Shari, respectively.
  • Caucasus & Middle-East
    • Added multiple Abkhaz, Chechen, Kumyk, Kurdish and Ossetian endonyms.
    • Egypt will now gain more volunteers in the War in the Desert.
    • Updated several Georgian character and place names to use the Georgian versions.
    • Georgia’s Intelligence Agency is now known as “Gansakutrebuli Razmi”.
    • Hejaz will now have a unique flag and new map colour, when in a personal union with Jabal Shammar.
    • Jabal Shammar’s “Relinquish Absolute Power” national focus now adds the “Growing Political Consciousness” timed national spirit, which shifts party popularity.
    • The Ottomans now gain a claim on Al-Hasa when annexing the state via event.
    • The Ottomans’ “Selim I Airport Opened” event now grants two levels of air bases to Baghdad.
    • The Ottomans will now send volunteers to the Princely Federation, if possible.
    • Updated the volunteers that are now sent to the War in the Desert.
  • East Asia
    • Updated the volunteers that are now sent to the Left Kuomintang during the League Collapse War.
    • Updated Hu Songshan’s trait in the Ma Clique to the new trait “Nationalist Imam”.
    • Updated Mongolia’s national spirits and their effects, for each political path, as well as those of several national foci.
    • Mongolia’s decision to build a railway to Tuva now also adds a supply hub.
    • Mongolia will now gain their Russian claims, if at war with Russia when the Treaty of Moscow occurs.
    • Added the “Cavalry Officer” trait to Qing’s Xing Shilian.
    • Improved Russia’s AI in handling war against Mongolia.
    • Added descriptions to Qing’s generals Xing Shilian, Yu Xuezhong, Zhang Yinwu and Liu Zhenhua.
    • Updated the traits and stats of Qing’s general Zhang Shaozeng.
    • Added Li Zaolin as a new general, Chief of Army and starting second-in-command for Shandong.
    • Zhang Zhongchang’s previous second-in-command, Chu Yupu, is now an advisor.
    • Added Deng Xiaoping as a general to Shanxi.
    • Updated the effect of “The Shanxi Kuomintang” event, which now adds more political power, RadSoc popularity, and adds Deng Xiaoping as a general.
    • Added multiple traits to Sichuan’s generals.
    • Increased Sichuan’s general Deng Xihou to skill level 2.
    • Expanded the description for Sichuan’s Guo Xunqi.
  • South Asia & Oceania
    • German East Asia now has its generals and admirals returned, upon its restoration by Germany.
    • Added Burhanuddin al Helmy as the Totalist leader of Malaya.
    • Added Onan Haji Siraj as the NatPop leader of Malaya, using a generic portrait.
    • Added a monarchy option for Malaya, led by Abdul Hamid Halim Shah.
  • Miscellaneous
    • Buffed the starting plane templates for majors, and updated their later template design goals.
    • Added a new generic Military Industrial Organisation for several countries.
    • Added some temporary hidden bonuses to AI-controlled France and Germany after they lose a lot of their starting territory.
    • The “Isolation” trade laws no longer prevent Limited Conscription.
    • Added a new fictionalised loading screen quote for the Union of Britain.
    • Added a new “Autonomous Territory” generic puppet type, which uses the same map colour as their overlord.
    • AI majors prioritise researching air technologies more.
    • Replaced a loading screen quote by Alexander Kerensky with one by Victor Chernov.
    • Reformatted the Leader Descriptions for East Turkestan, Kumul, Ma Clique, Oman, Qing, Shandong, Sichuan, Xinjiang and Yunnan to include date and place of birth.
    • Added path guides for the Bharatiya Commune, Cyrenaica, Haiti, Hawaii, Insulindia, Iraq, Katanga, Lebanon, Lombardy, Nicaragua, Panama, the Papal States, Portugal, the Princely Federation, Somalia, Syria, Uruguay, Venezuela and Venice.
    • Updated the path guides for Albania, Argentina, the Dutch East Indies, Liangguang, the Philippines and Sichuan.

Fixes

  • North America
    • Fixed the American Union State’s “Veteran Employment Act” national spirit to instantly invalidating for NatPop Huey Long.
  • Central America & the Caribbean
    • Fixed Haiti purchasing fighters from the Commune of France, if it had reached out to Germany.
    • Fixed Panama not being able to take the last focus of the conservative focus tree.
    • Fixed inappropriately Panama ending the war with the Entente early.
  • South America
    • Fixed Argentina remaining in the Entente or Reichspakt after electing RadSocs.
    • Fixed a Chilean game rule being present for paths that are no longer accessible outside of puppeting.
  • Western & Southern Europe
    • Fixed some inconsistent Italian ship naming.
    • Fixed missing text on multiple events for the United Kingdom.
  • Central & Northern Europe
    • Fixed Germany’s “Remilitarize Germaniawerft” national focus not taking the “Arms Against Tyranny” DLC into account.
    • Fixed Germany demanding the Suez Canal when it's actively being fought over still in the War in the Desert.
    • Fixed Germany demanding the Suez Canal from an owner who does not control it.
    • Fixed Germany’s Carlo Mierendorff not becoming Reichspräsident.
    • Fixed Germany’s “Enforce Ideological Loyalty” decision giving the wrong government to Belarus.
    • Fixed Germany losing its claim on Verviers, when not demanded by Belgium.
    • Fixed Karl Jarres not becoming leader in puppet Germany.
    • Fixed Germany getting the "Future of the Polish Government" event, when Poland’s elections have already been held.
    • Fixed Germany’s event regarding the Declaration of a Polish Republic mentioning Austria if it is no longer independent or no longer exists.
    • Fixed some mismatches in the cost of several German economic decisions, compared to what is needed to complete them.
    • Fixed Germany’s troop surge decision being only available once.
    • Fixed Germany’s “Offensive Chit” decision not removing the equipment it costs.
    • Fixed Germany's event about Luxembourg's strike not also applying the Ruhrkampf modifier on Verviers.
    • Fixed Germany’s decision to claim Crete being selectable more than once.
    • Fixed mismatched text and options in postwar Germany’s decisions to topple Estonian and Lithuanian governments.
    • Fixed Hungary’s integration of Mura integrating Vorarlberg.
    • Fixed the Nordic Federation and its other potential constituents not joining its research group.
    • Fixed Poland’s “Goodwill from Centrolew” event showing that it gives no political power, and increased the stability it gives by 2%.
  • Eastern & Southeast Europe
    • Fixed Estonia’s government being forcibly changed by victorious Germany, despite Estonia resisting the coup.
    • Fixed Russia’s game rule reversing the RadSoc and Syndicalist leaders.
    • Fixed a single version of the Russian “Verkhovny Ekonomicheskiy Sovet” national spirit giving ten times the intended recruitable population debuff.
    • Fixed socialist Russia not being told they are supporting Poland’s socialists.
    • Fixed socialist Russia not declaring war on Germany during the Weltkrieg, if at war with someone else.
    • Fixed "The Fall of Russia" news event firing when Russia is socialist.
    • Fixed a broken Russian naval bomber design.
    • Fixed Totalist puppet Ukraine being unable to progress down its national focus tree.
    • Fixed Ukrainian postwar content being potentially broken by Germany’s regime change.
    • Fixed Ukraine going Republican even if Germany guaranteed Skoropadskyi's victory.
    • Fixed Ukraine’s “Overtures to Vienna” national focus being available when Austria is no longer a faction leader or independent.
    • Fixed the Hetman side of Ukraine’s Anti-Hetman Revolt being unloseable.
    • Fixed Ukraine’s “The Odesa Port” and “Centralise the Military Railway Service” national foci not giving industrialisation score if they were taken prior to the land reform and industrialisation missions appearing.
    • Fixed Ukraine having a duplicate “The Labour Principle” national spirit.
    • Fixed puppet NatPop Ukraine having the wrong name and map colour.
    • Fixed NatPop Ukraine keeping the weaker version of nationalist agitation.
    • Fixed NatPop White Ruthenia never rounding up the remaining agitators.
    • Fixed White Ruthenia keeping inappropriate national spirits after changing government or being puppeted.
  • Africa
    • Fixed Ethiopia trying to join a faction while already in one.
    • Fixed parts of Mittelafrika’s tree sticking around for the German Government in Exile.
  • Caucasus & Middle-East
    • Fixed Anatolian Kurdistan changing its ideology inappropriately at the end of its focus tree.
    • Fixed Georgia being unable to use German Military Industrial Organisations if Germany puppets Russia.
    • Fixed the wrong party names being added in several effects for Jabal Shammar.
  • East Asia
    • Fixed puppet Japan having continuous elections.
    • Fixed the Left Kuomintang being unable to invest in countries in the developing world that exist.
    • Fixed Mongolia’s decision to build a railway to Chahar.
    • Fixed a Shandong-formed “League of East Chinese Provinces” reverting to Shandong's flag upon forming a national government.
    • Fixed Transamur peacing out with Russia in Treaty of Moscow.
  • South Asia & Oceania
    • Fixed German East Asia not giving a full guarantee of independence to the League of Eight Provinces in the “AOG Requests a Full Military Guarantee” event.
    • Fixed Hellmuth von Mücke not being properly made the leader upon the restoration of German East Asia.
    • Fixed a restored German East Asia incorrectly receiving the Kra Isthmus.
    • Fixed Insulindia trying to buy planes from puppet Japan.

1.0.3 - 15th of January, 2024[]

Changes

Notable Additions

  • Updated the leaders, seconds-in-command and advisors for NatPop Italian Republic, and added more interactions with other factions and Italian splinters.
  • Relocated multiple characters in Italy to match their likely allegiances more closely, rather than where they were born.
  • The outcome of multiple randomly-decided effects and events for Germany can now be changed upon reloading the game, rather than being decided at game start.

New Events

  • Added five new flavour events for Japan.
  • Added a news event for Japan’s peace with Germany.

New Decisions

  • Added a decision for Germany to annex Riga in the “Enforce Ideological Loyalty in the East” national focus, if it owns and claims the surrounding Latvian states.
  • Added a decision for NatPop Italian Republic to join the Entente, should Sardinia not exist, or also be a dictatorship.

New Custom Country Paths

  • Belgium (expanded current options)
  • Bhutan (expanded current options)
  • Italian Republic Foreign Policy (expanded current options)

GFX

  • New portraits
    • Albania: Avni Rustemi
    • Australasia: John Curtin, Herbert William Lloyd
    • Canada: Clarence Gillis
    • East Turkestan: Abdullah Bughra
    • Fengtian Government: Ma Zhanshan (uniform variant)
    • Finland: Fredrik Kaarle
    • French Republic: Henri Mordacq
    • Italian Republic: Ugo Cavallero, Alberto Da Zara, Emilio De Bono, Costanzo Ciano, Gian Galeazzo Ciano, Raffaele de Courten, Luigi Einaudi, Rodolfo Graziani, Alberto Pariani, Ferruccio Parri, Alessandro Sardi
    • Socialist Republic of Italy: Romeo Bernotti, Luigi Biancheri, Inigo Campioni, Giuseppe Fioravanzo, Ada Gobetti, Benito Mussolini, Riccardo Paladini, Luigi Rizzo
    • Lombardy: Giovanni Battista Migliori
    • Malaysia: Ibrahim Yaacob
    • Morocco: Abd el-Krim, Léon Sultan
    • Netherlands: Johannes Furstner, Adriaan Gerhard
    • New Zealand: Arthur Cook, Cyril Newall
    • Peru: Gustavo Adolfo Jímenez Saldías
    • Sardinia: Giovanni Galati, Angelo Iachino, Giovanni Messe, Pietro Pintor
    • Siam: Wan Chuthin
    • Somalia: Haaji Mahammad Husseen
    • Sweden: Axel Bredberg, Folke Hogberg, Axel Rappe, Nils Rosenblad, Per Sylvan, Erik Testrup
    • Ubangi-Shari: Barthélemy Boganda
    • Yunnan: Chen Yi
    • Zimbabwe: Masotha Ndlovu
  • Tweaked portraits
    • Italian Republic: Ettore Bastico, Annibale Bergonzoli, Fedele De Giorgis, Venanzio Gabriotti, Italo Gariboldi, Gabriele Nasci, Alessandro Sardi
    • Sardinia: Pietro Badoglio, Bruno Malaguti, Mario Roatta, Adalberto di Savoia-Genova, Giuseppe Valle
  • New advisor portraits
    • Denmark: Børge Houmann, Richard Jensen, Georg Laurentius Laursen
    • Italian Republic: Gian Galeazzo Ciano, Luigi Federzoni, Ezio Maria Gray
    • Russia: Aleksandr Kazakov
    • United States: Robert Hutchings Goddard
  • Tweaked advisor portraits
    • Ireland: Dan Bryan, Emmet Dalton, Martin Doyle, James Fitzmaurice, William McSweeney, CF Russell
  • Added a generic German General portrait.
  • Added the old stand-in portrait of Abdullah Bughra as a generic leader portrait for Central Asia.
  • Tweaked the MarLib ideology icon.
  • Added new flags for Flanders, socialist New Zealand and socialist Norway.
  • Added national spirit icons for Australia, Australasia, Flanders, New Zealand, Tibet and Wallonia.
  • Added a generic national focus icon for artillery.
  • Updated two user interface icons for Germany’s Black Monday Card Game.
  • Removed several low-quality national spirit icons from the Netherlands.
  • Updated a number of national spirit icons for Argentina, Australasia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Left Kuomintang, Liangguang, Qing and Wallonia.
  • Updated a national focus icon for Australasia.
  • Updated a German event picture.
  • Updated the icons used for several country-specific general traits.

Music Mod

  • Added “Der rider en konge” (There Rides a King) for Denmark.
  • Added a temporary fix for a Paradox bug where only a quarter of the songs in the music mod play.

Mapping

  • Added multiple new Assyrian endonyms.
  • Added a Mura state in Hungary.
  • Split the Albania state into Toskeria and Ghegeria.
  • Split the Regina province in Canada in two.
  • Removed Lake Manicouagan in Canada.
  • Tweaked the province shapes and altered the railways in Oldenburg.
  • Removed the Zhennan state from Guangxi.
  • Fixed a mountain bottleneck near Genoa.
  • Updated the names for Tyrol.
  • Added Italian endonyms for Albania.
  • Insulindia’s endonyms now work for Malaysia and Sarawak.
  • Standardised Polish endonyms for Krakow, Cernauti and Suceava.
  • Sinai is now part of the Egypt air zone.
  • Fixed the position of Wilhelmshaven.
  • Fixed Romania’s port of Cetatea Alba not being connected to any rail line.
  • Fixed the locations of Taiyuan and Yangquan in Shanxi.

Other Changes

  • North America
  • North America
    • Added Robert Hutchings Goddard as a rocket theorist to the United States of America.
    • Updated the leaders and party names for the three socialist parties in Canada.
    • Updated the traits of Canada’s seconds-in-command.
    • Renamed Canada’s political path game rule.
  • Central America & the Caribbean
    • Cuban and Guatemalan generals are now promoted to field marshals if they are made the country leader.
    • Increased the stability in Guatemala’s United Fruit Company-backed coup.
    • Decreased the war support malus’ from Guatemala’s “Foreign Economic Control” dynamic modifier, and “Socialist Compensation” national spirit.
  • South America
    • Suriname now uses Dutch endonyms.
  • Western & Southern Europe
    • Belgium’s Van Severen can now lead a republic.
    • Added new effects to Belgiums’ Minerva and Brossel national foci.
    • Split the Pas-de-Calais annexation mission into separate Calais, Lille and Dunkirk missions.
    • Rebalanced the traits and stats of multiple Italian generals and admirals.
    • Italian fascists and anti-fascists now purge each other following reunification.
    • Giacomo Matteotti is now the starting second-in-command of the Italian Republic.
    • Replaced Italo Balbo as NatPop leader of the Italian Republic with Constanzo Ciano, who is succeeded by his son Gian Galeazzo Ciano upon his death in 1939.
    • Added Luigi Federzoni as the new starting second-in-command for NatPop Italian Republic, replacing Emilio De Bono.
    • NatPop Italian Republic is now known as the “Italian State”, rather than the “Italian National Republic”.
    • Added the option for NatPop Italian Republic to restore the monarchy.
    • NatPop Italian Republic can now peacefully annex PatAut-led Italian splinters, and can itself be peacefully annexed by other NatPop or PatAut Italian splinters.
    • Improved NatPop Italian Republic’s AI when fighting Venice.
    • The Italian Republic’s admiral Alberto Da Zara is now also a theorist, and Raffaele de Courten is now also a Chief of Navy.
    • Moved Ugo Cavallero to the Italian Republic from Sardinia and made him a general, removing other roles.
    • Removed general Enrico Riccardi from the Italian Republic.
    • Tweaked the stability effects in multiple events for the Italian Republic.
    • Mussolini is now given an alternative portrait when he establishes the dictatorship.
    • The Socialist Republic of Italy’s “Reform the Party” national focus now renames the party to the “Partito del Lavoro Fascista”, rather than the “Partito Nazionale Fascista”.
    • Added Ada Gobetti as a general for the Socialist Republic of Italy.
    • Moved the naval theorist Giuseppe Fioravanzo to the Socialist Republic of Italy from the Italian Republic, and he is now also an Admiral.
    • Moved the general Domenico Mondelli to the Socialist Republic of Italy from the Italian Republic.
    • Moved the general and second-in-command Achille Starace to the Socialist Republic of Italy from the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, and updated his second-in-command trait.
    • Added traits to the generals and admirals of the Socialist Republic of Italy, denoting Fascist and Socialist Officers.
    • Moved Italo Balbo to the Socialist Republic of Italy, where he can now also be a Chief of Air Force for Mussolini after the reunifying Italy and purging the anti-Fascists.
    • The Socialist Republic of Italy’s admiral Inigo Campioni is no longer a theorist.
    • Moved admiral Luigi Rizzo to the Socialist Republic of Italy from the Kingdom of Two Sicilies.
    • Added a national focus to the Socialist Republic of Italy to recruit Ettore Bastico, Fedele De Giorgis, Angelo Iachino, Gino Pavesi, and Salvatore Todaro, after reunifying Italy.
    • Lombardy will now be more likely to join the Reichspakt, if they have the “Prussian Drill” national spirit.
    • Lombardy can now join the Belgrade Pact if either the owner of Trentino is in a faction with Germany or Austria, or Russia is socialist.
    • Replaced Sebastiano Visconti Prasca with Giovanni Battista Migliori as SocCon leader of Lombardy.
    • The Papal States’ “Syndicalist Guerrilla Campaign” national spirit now uses resistance and compliance.
    • The Papal States’ national foci to ask for aid from the Kingdom of Two Sicilies will now also grant bonuses to the latter.
    • Moved admiral Giovanni Galati to Sardinia from the Italian Republic.
    • Moved general Giovanni Messe to Sardinia from the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, and made him a theorist.
    • Reduced the duration of several postwar national foci for the Kingdom of Two Sicilies.
    • Changed the Kingdom of Two Sicilies' admiral Giulio Ingianni to a general with the Naval Invader trait.
    • Added Achille Lauro as a second-in-command for NatPop Kingdom of Two Sicilies.
    • The Kingdom of Two Sicilies’ general Pietro Ago is now a field marshal and a theorist.
    • Tweaked the stability debuffs in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies’ event about dissolving parliament.
    • The Kingdom of Two Sicilies’ general Giuseppe Izzo now has a Military High Command role.
    • Venice’s “Military Confusion” national spirit is no longer temporary.
    • The state of Venetia is now demilitarised prior to its revolt.
  • Central & Northern Europe
    • An Austrian-led South German Federation can now be given Switzerland.
    • The Copenhagen Conference now fires very quickly if World Tension reaches 75% before 1939, and will always be accepted by the AI.
    • Denmark can now gain a fifth research slot.
    • Martin Andersen Nexø is now the totalist leader of Denmark, replacing Olga Eggers.
    • Added Børge Houmann, Richard Jensen and Georg Laurentius Laursen as advisors for socialist Denmark.
    • Renamed Denmark’s socialist parties.
    • Swapped the ideologies for Finland’s Monarchist and Mannerheim paths.
    • Finland’s elections are now every three years instead of every four.
    • NatPop Finland can now no longer attack its neighbours before the Second Weltkrieg.
    • Updated the text on Germany’s event on the Treaty of Moscow.
    • Improved the manpower situation of German military governments in conquered lands after the Second Weltkrieg.
    • AI-controlled Germany now ignores Debt when calculating the “Lacking Preparedness” modifier.
    • Germany is now more likely to complete military reform national foci when at war, or when war is nearing, and several other German AI changes in completing national foci.
    • Tweaked the German AI behaviour while at war with the Commune of France.
    • Added tooltips to national foci that decrease the “Lacking Preparedness” modifier, and a filter for the national foci dealing with them.
    • Made SocDem Germany more likely to take the “Expand Ties with Friedrich Krupp AG” national focus.
    • Improved SocDem Germany’s ability to manage the Coalition Loyalty national foci.
    • Added a tooltip for PatAut Germany's “Clash of Civilisations” national focus, stating that it will include the areas of the Mountain Republic in the Russo-German scripted peace deal.
    • AI-controlled Germany now places higher priority in completing the “Expand Colonial Budgets” national focus.
    • Overhauled Sweden’s military and naval rosters to include more relevant figures.
    • Implemented more Swedish tank variant names from the “Arms Against Tyranny” DLC.
  • Eastern & Southeast Europe
    • Forming Yugoslavia as PatAut Bulgaria now longer requires Dalmatia, Kotor, Rijeka or Syrmia.
    • Added descriptions to Russian leaders Maria Spiridonova and Yakov Sverdlov.
    • The Treaty of Moscow now makes Russia peace out with any non-Reichspakt combatants, besides Transamur.
    • Buffed the Russian constitutional monarchy national spirits.
    • Rebalanced the effects of multiple Russian military and economic national spirits.
    • Shortened the duration of several decisions in Ukraine’s anti-Hetmanist revolt.
    • Increased the air experience given by Ukraine’s “Aviation Workshops” national focus.
    • Added an airbase to the reward of Ukraine’s “Aviation Schools” national focus.
    • Added a small stability buff to Ukraine’s “Hierarchy, Duty, Discipline” national focus.
    • Added descriptions to Ukraine’s Military Industrial Organisations.
    • Buffed the party popularity for NatPop Ukraine and improved the AI’s ability to maintain it.
  • Africa
    • Nerfed the political power gain in the French Republic’s democratic path.
    • Mittelafrika may now only start its final NatPop national foci if Germany has more than 40% surrender progress.
    • Renamed a Mittelafrikan national focus, and rewrote two focus descriptions to better suit the new setup.
    • Binyamin I of Ubangi-Shari is now also a general.
  • Caucasus & Middle-East
    • New members of the League of Arab States now receive the relevant national spirits they would have received when Iraq or Syria complete the relevant national foci.
    • Fixed HIF not being counted towards parliamentary support for MarLib/SocCon Ottoman Empire.
  • East Asia
    • Reduced the amount of Totalist popularity gained from the “Maintain Extraordinary Powers” national focus for the Left Kuomintang.
    • Added an icon to the Left Kuomintang’s economic sphere.
    • The Left Kuomintang can now recruit Zhu De and Chen Yi after the integration of Yunnan.
    • Decreased the amount of build slots given by the Left Kuomintang’s “Bulwark of the National Revolution” national focus.
    • Decreased the political power gain debuff in the “Weak” version of the Left Kuomintang’s “Legitimacy of the Party” national spirit.
    • Fengtian Government’s Ma Zhanshan now changes uniform if he defects to the Left Kuomintang.
    • Moved some steel in Japan to Hyogo from Kansai.
    • Tweaked Shanxi’s Balance of Power to make Feng Yuxiang more likely to win half the time.
    • Shanxi’s “An Air Force for Shanxi” national spirit now gives the “Engines I” technology.
  • South Asia & Oceania
    • Gave Australasia’s general John Clarebrough the Artillery Officer trait, and removed the Infantry Officer and Commando traits.
    • Added Herbert William Lloyd as a general for Australasia, in addition to existing Military High Command Role.
    • The Bharatiya Commune’s faction will now always be called the Eastern Syndicalist Union.
    • Bhutan no longer starts the game at Limited Conscription.
    • Added more conscription to several Bhutanese national spirits.
    • German East Asia will now focus less on Indochina, when at war with Siam.
    • Added Ibrahim Yaacob as the RadSoc leader of Malaysia, also renaming him and removing his political advisor trait.
    • Replaced George Monckton with Cyril Newall as Governor-General options for New Zealand.
    • Replaced the Totalist, Syndicalist and RadSoc leaders for New Zealand with Fintan Patrick Walsh, Arthur Cook and John Alfred Alexander Lee, respectively.
  • Miscellaneous
    • Reformatted the Leader Descriptions for Afghanistan, the Second American Civil War participants, Argentina, Armenia, Brazil, the Union of Britain, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Flanders-Wallonia, the Commune of France, the French Republic, Georgia, Iceland, Ireland, the Italian splinters, Japan, Lebanon, Mongolia, Najd and Hasa, the Netherlands, Norway, the Ottoman Empire, Patagonia, Portugal, Scotland, Siam, South Africa, the Spanish Civil War participants, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Uruguay and Yemen to include date and place of birth.
    • Added path guides for Afghanistan, the American Civil War participants, Anqing, Armenia, Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, the Dutch East Indies, East Turkestan, Estonia, Egypt, Flanders, Gabon, Latvia, Patagonia, Shanxi and Wallonia.
    • Updated the path guides for Canada and Finland.
    • Added focus filters to Assyria.
    • Updated two national focus icons for the Socialist Republic of Italy.
    • Updated the User Interface to show longer advisor names properly.
    • Slightly reduced AI weights for surplus anti-air production.

Fixes

  • North America
    • Fixed the designer of American capital ships being listed as “The Great Depression”.
    • Fixed the event for Nevada flipping to the Pacific States of America not firing.
  • Central America & the Caribbean
    • Fixed Costa Rica trying to purchase German ships without owning a naval base.
    • Fixed Guatemala’s United Fruit Company Dynamic Modifier not being re-added, after the United Fruit Company-backed coup.
  • Western & Southern Europe
    • Fixed Verviers/Luxembourg Belgian exclaves being formed in the annexation events.
    • Fixed Belgium potentially getting access to two army trees.
    • Fixed Belgium keeping the “King Albert I in exile” national spirit, after his return.
    • Fixed Ireland’s Michael Collins not standing down in favour of Richard Mulcahy, after losing the elections.
    • Fixed South Tyrol not being given to NatPop Italian Republic in the Treaty of Budapest, if Germany doesn't intervene.
    • Fixed puppet Italian Republic reuniting Italy.
    • Fixed the “Fate of Piedmont” annexation mission re-firing if the occupation option is chosen.
    • Fixed the Socialist Republic of Italy’s “Massive Protests” national spirit not being removed if Mussolini is couped.
    • Fixed Lombardy and Venice attacking each other while another Italian splinter could potentially peacefully annex them.
    • Fixed Sardinia and the Kingdom of Two Sicilies being unable to declare war on Lombardy or Venice.
    • Fixed Venice’s revolt national foci not being removed if the Socialist Republic of Italy annexes the Italian Republic.
  • Central & Northern Europe
    • Fixed NatPop Finland oppressing the Germans while being in the Reichspakt.
    • Fixed a wrong tooltip in the initial Black Monday event for Germany.
    • Fixed Wilhelm III leading the German Republic.
    • Fixed Germany’s “Fortify the Cities” national focus giving anti-air to the same state twice.
    • Fixed Lothar Erdmann being unrecruitable by Germany’s PatAut coalition.
    • Fixed Germany’s decision to invite the Princely Federation into the Reichspakt.
    • Fixed the effect of Germany’s “Wartime Mobilisation” national focus.
    • Fixed two “The Stance of Zentrum” events firing simultaneously for Germany.
    • Fixed additional claims not being removed for PatAut Germany when their coalition collapses.
    • Fixed the German AI turning SocDem more frequently than intended.
    • Fixed the effects of Germany’s “Bailout Vulkan Werft and Schichau Werke” national focus, when the “Arms Against Tyranny” DLC is active.
    • Fixed two puppet Germanys with the same name, being released at the same time.
    • Fixed Germany attacking a non-aligned Spain before the Weltkrieg.
    • Fixed not being able to give Pressburg to Hungary correctly.
    • Fixed the decisions to buy and sell influence in Poland inappropriately cancelling.
    • Fixed missing Arms Against Tyranny version of Poland’s “Stalowa Wola” effect.
  • Eastern & Southeast Europe
    • Fixed Estonia being unable to join the Reichspakt.
    • Fixed Lithuania’s Federalisation decisions being visible for all paths.
    • Fixed Russia not having the Militia technology, despite having divisions that use them.
    • Fixed Russia’s restarted war against Germany not also targeting other Reichspakt members.
    • Fixed Serbia’s “Pact of Organisation” instantly cancelling.
    • Fixed Ukraine’s Oleksandr Udovychenko lacking the Military High Command role in the URDP-led Hetmanate.
    • Fixed Ukraine’s Borotbysts being able to join the Moscow Accord.
    • Fixed Ukraine being unable to complete postwar national foci after Russia has been beaten.
    • Fixed socialist Ukraine never joining the Eastern Front of the Third Internationale.
    • Fixed being able to take single-use decisions more than once when switching the leader of the Eastern European Defence Cooperation.
  • Africa
    • Fixed decisions to form West African puppets not appearing.
    • Fixed puppet South Africa having African nationalists as leaders when puppeted by Germany.
  • Caucasus & Middle-East
    • Fixed Egyptian cores not being reset on annexation.
    • Fixed an Iran released as part of the Russo-Ottoman Convention not having a neutral foreign policy.
  • East Asia
    • Fixed the possibility of the Left Kuomintang being locked out of completing their final national focus, if AutDem Turkey is in their faction.
    • Fixed the Left Kuomintang’s “Repossess National Arsenals” national spirit not unlocking military industrial organisations as intended.
    • Fixed Socialist Russia having the option to annex Port Arthur.
  • South Asia & Oceania
    • Fixed Bhutan starting the game with a demobilisation mission.
    • Fixed Tenasserim mission repeating if the annexation option was chosen.
    • Fixed Siam’s conditional peace deal not firing.
  • Miscellaneous
    • Fixed the effect of Decryption Power in several character traits and national spirits.
    • Fixed the AI not declaring war on the autonomous puppets of players.

1.0.2 - 11th of December, 2023[]

Changes

GFX

  • New portraits
    • Brazil: Cristiano Cordeiro, Luís Carlos Prestes
    • Norway: Elias Corneliussen
    • Malaysia: Tunku Abdul Rahman
    • Kingdom of Spain: José Sanjurjo Sacanell
  • New advisor portraits
    • South Africa: François Christian Erasmus, Henry Landau, James Shields
  • Tweaked advisor portraits
    • Socialist Republic of Italy: Roberto Farinacci, Filippo Marinetti, Ettore Muti

Mapping

  • Added Chongjin, Daejon, Gwangju, Hamhung and Wonsan as victory points in Korea.

Other Changes

  • North America
    • Giving Hawaii to America now adds claims on the territories.
    • Updated the requirements for the American “War Plan” decisions.
    • The American AI is now more cautious in starting “War Plan” decisions.
  • Western & Southern Europe
    • Lilleland can no longer be formed if the area was already given to the Belgians.
  • Central & Northern Europe
    • Germany will now refuse the Treaty of London if the Halifax Conference was successful.
    • Added German endonyms for Rijeka, and other potential German claims.
    • Added Elias Corneliussen as an admiral for Norway.
  • Eastern & Southeast Europe
    • AI Romania will now only join the Entente if they share a land border, or if Constantinople is controlled by a member of the Entente.
    • Serbia’s Ultimatum to Illyria will now cancel if Serbia is no longer in the Belgrade Pact.
  • Africa
    • Removed Isaac Pierre de Villiers as South African spymaster.
    • Added François Christian Erasmus, Henry Landau, James Shields as Boer-, British* and Socialist-aligned spymasters for South Africa, respectively.
  • East Asia
    • Added countdowns to Fengtian’s decisions to denounce Germany and the Qing.
    • Rebalanced the effects of several of Sichuan’s national foci, national spirits and events.
    • Reduced the command power penalty to Sichuan’s army reform.
    • Sichuan’s Zhili Remnant divisions now spawn via national focus.
    • Tweaked the traits of several of Sichuan’s advisors.
  • South Asia & Oceania
    • Added Tunku Abdul Rahman as an advisor and SocCon leader of Malaysia.
  • Miscellaneous
    • Reformatted the Leader Descriptions for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, the United Baltic Duchy and White Ruthenia to include date and place of birth.
    • Renamed the “Illusive Gentleman” trait to “Spymaster”.
    • The “Bayonet Strength” army spirit now affects all infantry types.

Fixes

Notable Fixes

  • Fixed problems with Germany’s Black Monday Card Game, including drawing the incorrect number of cards.

Other Fixes

  • North America
    • Fixed the American “War Plan” decisions being available, despite non-aggression pacts.
    • Fixed the United States being unable to integrate Guam.
  • Western & Southern Europe
    • Fixed Belgium being given Calais by Germany when Lilleland exists.
    • Fixed the Kingdom of Two Sicilies’ national spirit regarding the Papal States auto-cancelling.
    • Fixed the United Kingdom’s Westminster Declaration not targeting puppet dominions.
  • Central & Northern Europe
    • Fixed Germany’s “Pax Germanica” assessing the leader of the Internationale, rather than France.
    • Fixed a misleading tooltip when ending a turn in Germany’s Black Monday Card Game.
    • Fixed Poland’s King Aleksander becoming Kaiser, again.
  • Eastern & Southeast Europe
    • Fixed the Ukraine SocDem party not changing its name as a result of RadSoc Ukraine’s failure of its minigame.
  • East Asia
    • Fixed the China generic aircraft Military Industrial Organisation icon not appearing.
    • Fixed Qing’s decisions from Fengtian’s “War in the North” event being visible to other Chinese splinters.
  • South Asia & Oceania
    • Fixed being unable to appropriately transfer land in several Indochinese annexation events.

1.0.1 - 9th of December, 2023[]

Changes

Notable Additions

  • Rebalanced the duration of Germany’s Black Monday Card Game. Length of turns now increases as economic health improves, leading to longer recovery.

Tweaked Focus Trees

  • Socialist Republic of Italy - added a national focus to recruit some generals from the Italian Republic.
  • Venice - added new national foci which are available during their revolt against NatPop Italian Republic.

New Events

  • Added four more flavour events to PatAut and one more to AutDem Ukraine.
  • Added two news events for Russia’s peace deal with Germany, and for them restarting the war.
  • Added an event for the Socialist Republic of Italy regarding Leonilde Iotti, unlocking her as a General.

New Decisions

  • Added a decision for socialist Colombia to join the Internationale.
  • Added a decision for a defeated independent Russia to restart the war with Germany, should Germany be at more than 70% surrender progress.

New Custom Country Paths

  • Moroccan Foreign Policy (expanded current options)

GFX

  • New portraits
    • Commune of France: Conseil de Défense Fédéral (flag variants)
    • French Republic: Henri Giraud
    • Germany: Hermann Balck, Erich Raeder
    • Greece: George II
    • Italian Republic: Annibale Bergonzoli (uniform variants x2), Venanzio Gabriotti (uniform variants x2), Gabriele Nasci (uniform variants x2)
    • Socialist Republic of Italy: Alceste De Ambris, Carlo Avegno, Arnaldo Azzi, Ines Donati, Giovanni Duca, Piera Gatteschi Fondelli, Leonilde Iotti, Edmondo Rossoni
    • Left Kuomintang: Bai Wenwai
    • Malaysia: Haji Embok Suloh
    • Romania: Corneliu Dragalina, Florea Țenescu
  • New advisor portraits
    • Socialist Republic of Italy: Roberto Farinacci, Filippo Marinetti, Ettore Muti
    • Kingdom of Two Sicilies: Cipriano Facchinetti, Giovanni Leone
    • Ukraine: Mykola Maksymiv
  • Tweaked advisor portraits
    • Italian Republic: Mario Abbiate, Nicolo Carandini, Marziale Cerutti, Federico Comandini, Giovanni Conti, Augusto de Marsanich, Giuseppe Fioravanzo, Cesare Forni, Duccio Galimberti, Luigi Gasparotto, Giacomo Matteotti, Antonio Mosconi, Alessandro Pavolini, Pietro Piacentini, Ferruccio Ranza, Meuccio Ruini, Carlo Schanzer, Marcello Soleri, Arrigo Solmi, Mario Stoppani, Giuseppe Tellera, Roberto Tremelloni, Giovanni Uberti, Ezio Vanoni
    • Kingdom of Two Sicilies: Salvatore Aldisio Giovanni Amendola, Vincenzo Azzolini, Federico Baistrocchi, Battista Bardanzellu, Mario Caracciolo, Giovanni Ciraolo, Alfredo Corrias, Enrico De Nicola, Francesco De Pinedo, Fulco Ruffo Di Calabria, Silvio Gai, Guido Jung, Ugo La Malfa, Arturo Labriola, Aurelio Liotta, Gaetano Martino, Enrico Mole, Federico Morozzo Della Rocca, Alessandro Nanni, Virgilio Nasi, Francesco Saverio Nitti, Giovanni Niutta, Angelo Parona, Francesco Pricolo, Alessandro Scotti, Antonio Segni, Luigi Sturzo, Bruno Villabruna, Adone Zoli
    • Sardinia: Edoardo Agnelli, Vittorio Ambrosio, Giorgio Bardanzellu, Camillo Bellieni, Paolo Berardi, Ugo Cavallero, Rino Fougier Corso, Luigi Crespellani, Roberto Lucifero d'Aprigliano, Luigi Efisio Marras, Enrico Martini, Giovanni Battista Melis, Giuseppe Musinu, Luigi Oggiano, Giovanni Persico, Pietro Pinna Parpaglia, Petru Rocca, Renato Sandalli, Raffaele Sanna Randaccio, Raimondo Scintu, Giovanni Sechi, Francesco Serra, Stefano Siglienti, Paolo Thaon Di Revel, Ernesto Maria Piovella
  • Added two new British generic General portraits.
  • Added new national foci icons for Germany.
  • Tweaked interface on Germany’s Black Monday Card Game, for greater colourblindness compatibility.

Mapping

  • Added Zara as a victory point in Illyria, and associated rail connection.

Other Changes

  • North America
    • Replaced the fictional junior Democratic Senator Thomas Hawking with Alben Barkley, Democrat and junior Senator for Kentucky, and renamed “The Hawking Plan” national focus accordingly.
  • South America
    • Brazil can no longer have a peace deal with the West Indies Federation if the former is in a faction it doesn’t lead.
  • Western & Southern Europe
    • Moved Aimé Doumenc to the Commune of France, from the French Republic.
    • The Commune of France’s Jacobins, when taking the radical reform route, will now rename the country to the “French Social Republic”, in addition to changing the flag.
    • The Commune of France’s Conseil de Défense Fédéral will now update the flag used in the portrait, depending on the flag currently in use.
    • Added Italian endonyms for Albania, the Ionian Islands, Crete, Cyprus, East Africa and Tunisia.
    • The Socialist Republic of Italy now starts with the Totalists in coalition.
    • Added Roberto Farinacci, Filippo Marinetti and Ettore Muti as advisors for the Socialist Republic of Italy, with a special effect occurring should all three be hired simultaneously.
    • Updated the availability of the Socialist Republic of Italy’s advisors Alceste De Ambris and Michele Biance.
    • Renamed the Socialist Republic of Italy’s “Motoscafi Armati Siluranti” national focus to “Flottiglie MAS”.
    • Venice’s decision to claim Albania will now also claim Kosovo.
    • Replaced Venice’s “Università di Verona” with “Università di Padova”.
  • Central & Northern Europe
    • Updated the names of several political parties in Denmark.
    • Added Hermann Balck as a General for Germany.
    • Added General descriptions for Germany’s Walther von Reichenau and Erwin von Witzleben.
    • Changed the effect of Germany’s “Industrial Boom” national spirit.
    • Updated the national foci icons for Germany’s “Form the National People's Union” and “Woe to the Vanquished” national spirits.
    • Germany’s button for the Mitteleuropa interface is now visible from game start, but greyed-out until 1937.
    • Germany's decision to seize the Mittelafrikan navy now only appears if they actually have one.
    • Improved Germany’s AI in how it manages the S-W-R mechanics.
    • German military governorates can no longer build divisions or ships.
    • German splinters can now integrate Pressburg.
    • Added a clarifying tooltip for Germany’s “Demand for Action” mission.
    • Finishing SocDem Germany’s middle tree now removes the “Demand for Action” mission automatically, if it has not already been.
    • Germany refusing to send forces against Poland’s peasant revolt no longer costs political power.
    • Reduced the AI weight for the Industrial Projects agenda for Mitteleuropa.
    • Nerfed the effect of Germany’s “Centralise Headquarters in Berlin” national focus.
    • Removed the compliance gain debuff for Germany’s occupation of Britain and France.
    • Decreased the chances of a failstate occurring in Germany’s Bavaria Nullification minigame.
    • The random outcomes in Germany’s Bavaria Nullification minigame are now altered when selecting a decision at a different point in time, allowing for reloading a chance if an hour has passed since the save.
  • Eastern & Southeast Europe
    • Tweaked the conditions for Russia’s peace deal with Germany, so that Germany’s eastern allies no longer have to have less than 10% surrender progress.
    • The Treaty of Moscow is now permanent.
    • The Treaty of Moscow now also no longer transfers civilian factories from Russia to Germany.
    • Renamed Ukraine’s “Revolutionary Bloc” to the “Worker’s Democratic Union”.
    • Nerfed the traits of SocLib/SocDem Ukraine’s Opanas Fedenko and Isaak Mazepa.
    • Nerfed the effects of multiple national spirits and foci for SocDem Ukraine.
    • Clarified the requirements for Ukraine’s “The Long Road to Recovery” national focus.
    • Renamed Ukraine’s advisor Mykola Maksymov to Mykola Maksymiv.
    • Tweaked the text of the new constitution for Soclib United Baltic Duchy, to be more in keeping with Germany’s new starting situation.
  • Africa
    • Mittelafrika can no longer choose to "Let us keep the British protectorates British" in the “Kenyan Highlands Settlement Policy” event, if they have completed the “Annex the British Colonies” national focus.
  • Caucasus & Middle-East
    • Egypt will now be willing to trade with the Internationale until the end of the War in the Desert.
  • East Asia
    • AI-controlled Japan will now wait until the start of the Weltkrieg to attack Australasia, unless the latter has imposed tariffs.
    • Added Bai Wenwai as a General for the Left Kuomintang.
    • Yunnan can no longer accept alliances or ultimatums if in a civil war.
  • South Asia & Oceania
    • Added Haji Embok Suloh as MarLib leader for Malaysia.

Fixes

Notable Fixes

  • Fixed the American Union State being unable to fully recover from the Second American Civil War.
  • Fixed the Socialist Republic of Italy not holding elections immediately after reunification.
  • Fixed production cost reductions being applied twice for close air support, naval bombers and heavy fighters.

Other Fixes

  • North America
    • Fixed Canada losing its Dominion status after the restoration of the United Kingdom.
  • Central America & the Caribbean
    • Fixed a Nicaraguan division template being locked upon forming Centroamerica.
  • South America
    • Fixed Brazil's peace deal with the West Indies Federation taking the Entente out of the Second Weltkrieg.
  • Western & Southern Europe
    • Fixed Ireland’s annexation event.
    • Fixed a party political modifier in Ireland’s “The Dáil Considers the Economy” event.
    • Fixed the decision for Italian splinters joining the Reichspakt acting as if they tried to join the Donau-Adriabund.
    • Fixed Mussolini not having a leader description when installed as a RadSoc or Syndicalist.
    • Fixed the Papal States being unable to negotiate with the Italian Republic.
    • Fixed missing Ship Designer logos for the Kingdom of Two Sicilies.
    • Fixed puppet Kingdom of Two Sicilies being unable to reunite Italy.
    • Fixed syndicalist Wallonia keeping the “Increased German Exports” national spirit.
    • Fixed democratic non-MarLib Wallonia being locked out of the “Le Chant des Wallons” national focus.
  • Central & Northern Europe
    • Fixed AI Austria’s Status Quo route leading to Pluralism if Illyria refuses to pay Hungary.
    • Fixed the Treaty of Budapest not peacing out Austria with Greece.
    • Fixed Finland not getting Karelia back from Russia if they win a totally-not-continuation-war.
    • Fixed the political power cost of appointing Erich Raeder and Wolfgang Wegener as Germany’s Chief of Navy.
    • Fixed monarchist puppet Germany turning into a Republic.
    • Fixed integrated Mitteleuropa members not displaying their autonomy icon.
    • Fixed Herbert von Dirksen’s place of birth, due to Wikipedia incorrectly giving his place of birth as Gröditzberg.
    • Fixed Schleicher getting ousted by the SWR and Democratic Union at the same time.
    • Fixed Germany seeking military cooperation with a puppet Austria.
    • Fixed Germany’s “Banned Production of Military Tanks and Planes” national spirit not having its intended effect.
    • Fixed SocDem Germany keeping the “Rebellion in the SPD” national spirit after the later elections or proclaiming a republic.
    • Fixed Germany’s DkP gaining two seats instead of the intended three in the “DkP-DVLP Mutual Run-off Support Pact” decision.
    • Fixed Germany trying to invite countries into the Reichspakt that no longer exist.
    • Fixed Germany getting duplicate resource rights to Azerbaijani oil.
    • Fixed Germany not being able to integrate Burgenland or Karavanks.
    • Fixed a Franz von Papen event firing for SocDem Germany, despite Zentrum not being in coalition… … with Zentrum.
    • Fixed Germany’s “Pax Germanica” event not firing after the Weltkrieg, blocking the relevant national focus.
    • Fixed Oststaaten puppet status not being broken if they refuse government changes.
    • Fixed the effect of drawing cards breaking due to not enough available cards, in Germany’s Black Monday Card Game.
    • Fixed Poland not being released as a puppet.
    • Fixed Poland’s Aleksander II taking over as Kaiser of Germany.
  • Eastern & Southeast Europe
    • Fixed Lithuania’s decision categories disappearing.
    • Fixed the Treaty of Suceava firing for Romania during their war with Austria.
    • Fixed socialist Russia having two responses to NatPop White Ruthenia’s news event.
    • Fixed a Russian national focus giving General traits to Admirals.
    • Fixed socialist Russia still guaranteeing Mongolia.
    • Fixed RadSoc Ukraine not losing its national spirits following successful German intervention.
  • Africa
    • Fixed the French Republic’s “Minor Native Revolt” national spirit not being removed.
    • Fixed some Boer-related events not firing if Natal is a player.
    • Fixed Guy Hallifax staying around in South Africa after the revolution.
    • Fixed socialist South Africa keeping Isaac Pierre de Villiers.
    • Fixed Südwestafrika getting locked out of its content if Ovamboland failed to spawn.
  • Caucasus & Middle-East
    • Fixed Egypt not getting a claim on Aleppo if they annex Syria in the Treaty of Antalya, and Iraq doesn’t exist.
    • Fixed Iraq’s “Dysfunctional Union” national spirit not granting a compliance bonus on the Trucial States.
    • Fixed Iraq’s “Pass Modern Family Laws” national focus stating that it affects the “Sectarian Divide” national spirit, when that spirit is not present.
    • Fixed Iraq and Syria’s national foci involving cooperating with Oman being available when Oman does not exist.
    • Fixed and Iraqi-led Arab Federation being unable to core Beirut or Diyarbakir.
    • Fixed Asir and Najran becoming colony states.
  • East Asia
    • Fixed the icon for Japan’s Co-Prosperity Sphere not showing up.
    • Fixed the League of Eight Provinces’ Sun Liren going to Manchu-led Qing.
    • Fixed the Ma Clique’s Tien Chung Chin to Tian Jiongjin.
    • Fixed KMT-led Yunnan being unable to attack Sichuan.
  • South Asia & Oceania
    • Fixed Prince George’s death event firing for countries outside of the British Empire.
    • Fixed the Dominion of India sending events to the leader of the Entente, when it is not led by Canada or the United Kingdom.
    • Fixed Hellmuth von Mücke being restored as leader in countries other than German East Asia.

1.0 - 'The Empire Strikes Back' - 1st of December, 2023[]

Changes

Notable Additions

  • Replaced the parties and party leaders of the Union of Britain, Commune of France, Ireland and Russia to be in closer alignment with their upcoming respective reworks, while retaining their current content.
  • The American Union State’s Huey Long now starts as NatPop, which can change to AutDem after the Second American Civil War. An additional AutDem path led by Martin Dies Jr has also been added.
  • Updated the starting flag for the Commune of France, which can be modified via event.
  • Finland now starts as a German puppet.
  • Fully revamped the Socialist Republic of Italy, with new political, economic and military content.
  • Replaced Hermann von Göring as leader of Mittelafrika, with Karl Ritter, and altered much of its political content.
  • Russia can now turn socialist in the opening event chain, instead of through a civil war.
  • Implemented a conditional surrender that can occur when Russia is losing to Germany.
  • Updated and revised the ideology descriptions to standardise their length and applicability.

Reworked Focus Trees

  • German Empire

New Focus Trees

  • Puppet Germany

Revamped Focus Trees

  • Socialist Republic of Italy

Tweaked Focus Trees

  • American Union State (Updated the old AutDem political focus branch, and added an additional one)
  • Finland (economic and military focus branches, updated effects in political focus branches)
  • Commune of France (minor adjustments to account for the German rework and party changes)
  • Russia (added new air and army branches, and other adjustments to account for new starting situation)
  • Kingdom of Two Sicilies (updated reunification focus branch)

New Events

  • Added multiple new flavour events regarding the new American Union State content.
  • Added an event for the Commune of France regarding their national flag.
  • Added several political events for Mittelafrika.
  • Added new specific events for Poland, Russia and Ukraine regarding the Germany rework.

New Decisions

  • Added decisions for Lombardy, the Papal States and Venice to unite Italy.
  • Added a decision for Lombardy to join the Moscow Accord.
  • Added decisions for the Papal States to join the Entente, Reichspakt and Donau-Adriabund.
  • Added decisions for socialist Russia to attack unaligned Estonia, Finland and Latvia before the Weltkrieg.
  • Added decisions for Venice to claim the old Venetian-controlled lands of Albania, Crete, Cyprus, and the Ionian islands.

New Custom Country Paths

  • Albanian Foreign Policy (expanded current options)
  • American Union State (expanded current options)
  • Burmese Foreign Policy (expanded current options)
  • Union of Britain (expanded current options)
  • Cuban Foreign Policy (expanded current options)
  • Finnish Foreign Policy (expanded current options)
  • Commune of France (expanded current options)
  • Commune of France’s Flag
  • Germany
  • Germany’s Black Monday minigame
  • Socialist Republic of Italy (expanded current options)
  • Lombardy (expanded current options)
  • Lombardian Foreign Policy (expanded current options)
  • The Unification of Libya
  • Kingdom of Two Sicilies unification

GFX

  • New portraits
    • American Union State: Martin Dies Jr., Robert Elkington Wood
    • Bulgaria: Nikola Nakov
    • Congo: Jean Bolikango, Jean Félix-Tchicaya, Paul Panda Farnana M'Fumu, Daniel Kanza Kinsona, André Grenard Matswa
    • Croatia: Vladimir Ćopić
    • East Prussia: Erich Wollenberg
    • Commune of France: Adrien Marquet
    • Germany: Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, Max Bauer, Rupprecht von Bayern (civilian), Werner von Blomberg, Fedor von Bock, Heinz Guderian, Franz Halder, Theodor Heuss, Erich Hoepner, Karl Jarres, Joseph Joos, Ewald von Kleist, Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, Erich Koch-Weser, Roland Köster, Wilhelm von Leeb, Karl Liebknecht, Wilhelm List, Günther Lütjens, Erich von Manstein, Hasso von Manteuffel, Carlo Mierendorff, Hermann Müller, Wilhelm III (civilian & military), Wilhelm IV (civilian), Walter von Reichenau, Siegfried von Roedern, Bernhard Rogge, Gerd von Rundstedt, Kurt von Schleicher, Eugen von Schobert, Kurt Student, Ernst Volckheim, Erwin von Witzleben, Maximilian von Weichs
    • Ireland: William O’Brien
    • Socialist Republic of Italy: Enrico Caviglia, Giuseppe Giulietti, Emilio Lussu, Alberto Meschi, Pietro Nenni
    • Kenya: Ewart Scott Grogan, Jomo Kenyatta, Harry Thuku
    • Latvia: Jānis Kurelis, Jēkabs Peterss
    • Mittelafrika: Adolf von Duisburg, Adolf Heusinger, Fritz Kolbe, Ernst-Felix Krüder, Hermann Meyer-Rabingen, Karl Ritter, Hans Surén
    • New England: Frances Perkins
    • New Zealand: Robert Campbell Begg
    • Panama: Manuel Pino
    • Peru: Gustavo Adolfo Jiménez Saldías
    • Qing: Tang Xiangming
    • Romania: Leonard Mociulschi
    • Russia: Iosib Dzhugashvili, Leonid Govorov, Filipp Ivanov, Mikhail Khanzin, Aleksandra Kollontai, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Gordey Levchenko, Mikhail Levitov, Vladimir Manstein, Sergey Markov, Kirill Meretskov, Aleksandr Nemits, Maria Spiridonova, Yakov Sverdlov, Vladimir Vitkovsky, Grigory Zinoviev
    • Slovenia: Lovro Klemenčič
    • Tshuapa Clique: Justin Kokolo
  • New advisor portraits
    • American Union State: Lawrence Dennis, Hamilton Stuyvesant Fish, Earl Long, Robert Rice Reynolds, Frank Byron Rowlett, Jacob Thorkelson, Burton Kendall Wheeler
    • Bharatiya Commune: Sarojini Naidu
    • Canada: Harry Farnham Germain Letson
    • Combined Syndicates of America: John Benjamin Anderson, Reverend Major Jealous Divine, James Edmond Fechet, Alexander Goldberger, Terry de la Mesa Allen Sr, William Francis Murphy, Marc Andrew Mitscher, Norman Scott, Harold Maskell Ware, Donald Wilson
    • Commune of France: Vincent Auriol, Henri Barbé, Marcel Déat, Georges Guynemer, Adrien Marquet, Pierre Monatte
    • Germany: Konrad Adenauer, Adolf von Batocki-Friebe, Johannes Bell, Erich von Bonin, Otto Braun, Ferdinand von Bredow, Wilhelm Canaris, Herbert von Dirksen, Albert von Einstein, Lothar Erdmann, Anton Fehr, Günther Gereke, Otto Grotewohl, Ulrich von Hassell, Oskar Hergt, Rudolf Hilferding, Otto Hugo, Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, Günther von Kluge, Theodor Leipart, Hermann von Lüninck, Rudolf Wissell & Wichard von Moellendorff, Hermann Müller, the Hofgeismar Circle, Waldemar Pabst, the Reichskanzler In Prussia, Hans-Joachim von Rohr, Fritz Schäffer, Hans Schlange-Schöningen, Carl Schmitt, * Rudolf Schwander, Carl Severing, Martin Spahn, Eduard Stadtler, Adam Stegerwald, Joachim von Stülpnagel, Siegfried von Roedern, Fritz Tarnow, Adolf von Trotha, Carl Ulitzka, Kuno von Westarp, Georg Wetzell, Tilo von Wilmowsky, August Winnig, Hans Zehrer
    • Socialist Republic of Italy: Alceste de Ambris, Ilio Baroni, Michele Bianchi, Nicola Bombacci, Amadeo Bordiga, Armando Borghi, Bruno Buozzi, Tullio Cianetti, Gaetano Crocco, Enrico Fermi, Ada Gobetti, Antonio Gramsci, Achille Grandi, Luigi Longo, Emilio Lussu, Ugo Macchieraldo, Sabato Martelli Castaldi, Amedeo Mecozzi, Benito Mussolini, Pietro Nenni, Umberto Nobile, Italo Piccagli, Vladimiro Pini, Alfredo Pizzoni, Bruno Pontecorvo, Luigi Razza, Giuseppe Romita, Carlo Rosselli, Giuseppe Saragat, Attilio Sassi, Oscar Sinigaglia, Altiero Spinelli, Angelo Tasca, Palmiro Togliatti, Olindo Vernocchi
    • Mittelafrika: Hellmuth Felmy
    • New England: Harold Buckley Willis, Vannevar Bush
    • Pacific States of America: William Henry Rupertus, Holland McTyeire Smith, George Orson Wells, Herbert Osborn Yardley
    • Russia: Boris Bakhmetev, Nikolay Bukharin, Ilya Fondaminsky, Klavdiy Foss, Vasily Glazunov, Sergey Goriunov, Lev Kafenhaus, Lev Kamenev, Aleksandr Kazakov, Aleksandr Kerensky, Vasily Kharlamov, Aleksandra Kollontai, Nikolay Kondratyev, Igor Kurchatov, Timofei Kutsevalov, Aleksandr Liverovsky, Vsevolod Marchenko, Nikolay Markov, Aleksandr Novikov, Sergey Obolensky, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Karl Radek, Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Aleksey Rykov, Martemyan Ryutin, Aleksandr Samoylo, Patriarch Sergius, Aleksandr Shlyapnikov, Ivar Smilga, Ivan Smirnov, Maria Spiridonova, Grigory Sokolnikov, Pyotr Sokolov, Yakov Sverdlov, Vyacheslav Tkachov, Mikhail Tomsky, Konstantin Vershinin, Gerasim Vdovenko, Aleksandr Voznesensky, Boris Vysheslavtsev, Mikhail Yangel, Nikolai Yezhov, Grigory Zinoviev
    • Sardinia: Giovanni Battista Melis
    • United States of America: Sam Rayburn, John Rockefeller Jr, Charles Andrew Willoughby
  • Tweaked advisor portraits
    • American Union State: Frank Maxwell Andrews, Hugo Lafayette Black, Charles Edward Coughlin, Elizabeth Eloise Kirkpatrick Dilling, Henry Ford, James Guthrie Harbord, Fred Chase Koch, Curtis Emerson Lemay, Charles Lindbergh, Dewitt Clinton Ramsey, Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Gerald Lyman Kenneth Smith, Francis Everett Townsend, Otto Paul Weyland, Robert Elkington Wood
    • Union of Britain: Oswald Mosley
    • Combined Syndicates of America: Ralph Johnson Bunche, Bessie Coleman, James Renshaw Cox, James William Ford, Ernest Miller Hemingway, Meyer London, John Henry Manley, Harry Dexter White
    • Commune of France: Maryse Bastié, Jacques Duclos, Suzanne Girault, Alfred Heurtaux, Jacques Francois Jannekeyn, Jacques Sadoul, Joseph Vuillemin
    • Ireland: Seán T. O’Kelly
    • New England: Dean Acheson, Clarence Lionel Adcock, Ray Atherton, Roger Babson, Francis Biddle, Charles Bohlen, WEB du Bois, Allen Dulles, John Foster Dulles, Learned Hand, Harold Huston George, Harold Lee George, Charles Evans Hughes Sr, Joseph Kennedy Sr, George Mead, Jay Pierrepont Moffat, Henry Morgenthau Jr, George Murray, Earle Partridge, Laurence Steinhardt, Richmond Turner, Sinclair Weeks, Charles Yost
    • Pacific States of America: Leland Merritt Ford, William Frederick Friedman, Harold Leclair Ickes, Hugh Samuel Johnson, Ng Poon Chew, Harvey Arthur Van Norman, John Whiteside Parsons, Earl Warren
    • United States of America: Cordell Hull, Hjalmar Petersen, Robert Ferdinand Wagner, Walter Francis White
  • Replaced a generic European leader portrait.
  • Added new flags for East Africa, the Commune of France, the Socialist Republic of Italy, Germany, Kivu, Lombardy and Mittelafrika.
  • Added new national focus icons for Germany and Lombardy, and updated previous national focus icons to account for Germany's change of flag.
  • Added new national spirit icons for Germany, Libya, Lombardy, Syria and updated previous national focus icons to account for Germany's change of flag.
  • Added new news event pictures for the Commune of France and Ireland.
  • Added new event pictures of Germany and the Socialist Republic of Italy.
  • Added a unique icon for Assault battalions.
  • Updated multiple national focus icons involving flags.
  • Added a new Austria-Hungary themed loading screen from Kaiser Cat Cinema.
  • Updated the quality of a Japan-themed loading screen.
  • Removed two deprecated loading screens.

Music Mod

  • Improved several track titles and translations for Japan
  • Added and improved several track titles transliterations for Russia.
  • Added “Wenn die Sonja Russisch Tanzt” (When Sonya Dances Russian Style) and “Wo die Lotusblüten Blüh'n” (Where the Lotus Blossoms Bloom) for Germany.
  • Removed “Hohenzollernlied” (Song of Hohenzollern) for Germany.
  • Removed “Marsh Budyonnogo” (Red Cavalry) for Russia.
  • “Taisei Yokusan no Uta” (Song of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association) will now only play for NatPop Japan.
  • “Ikhav Kozak za Dunaj” (The Cossack Rode beyond the Danube) will now only play for Ukraine.

Mapping

  • Added Garoua as a victory point in Adamawa.
  • Redrew the “Ardennes” state, and renamed it to “Verviers”, updating its population and that of neighbouring states.
  • Updated Cyrenaica’s borders, taking into account changes that occurred in the 1920s in our timeline that would not have taken place in the Kaiserreich timeline.
  • Updated Mittelafrika’s rail network.
  • Redrew the state of “Tuva” in Mongolia to be more accurate to the Tannu Uriankhai’s borders.
  • Fixed the position of Czestochowa.

Other Changes

  • North America
    • Expanded the length of several flavour events of participants in the American Civil War.
    • Added Robert Elkington Wood as a general for the American Union State.
    • Updated the political advisor roster for the American Union State
    • Reworded the description of Canada’s “Bastion of the Old Order” national spirit.
    • Added the theorist HFG Letson to Canada, who replaces the role formerly played by JFC Fuller.
    • The Combined Syndicates’ “Good Syndicalist Soldier” will now recreate the Third Internationale faction, if it has been disbanded.
    • Renamed the Pacific States of America’s “Medicare” national focus to the less anachronistic “Healthcare Expansion”.
    • Renamed several of the United States’ “War Plans”.
    • The United States’ “General Electric” designer now gives a direct naval speed boost.
    • The “Business of Neutrality” national spirit now allows more volunteers to be sent.
  • Central America & the Caribbean
    • Cuba can now choose New England as an American alliance option.
  • South America
    • Chile will declare war if it refuses to return Patagonian lands, instead of getting a wargoal.
    • Buffed Ecuador’s “Technocratic Rule” national spirit.
    • Added Gustavo Adolfo Jiménez Saldías as a General for Peru.
    • The election of syndicalists in Venezuela can now result in a coup by New England, should the latter be pursuing the Monroe Doctrine.
  • Western & Southern Europe
    • Added regnal numbers to the monarchs of Belgium and its splinters.
    • Removed the political power gain for other countries getting Belgium’s event about Tintin.
    • Removed the political power loss that Belgium’s petitions give to Germany.
    • SocCon Flanders will now stay in the Reichspakt if the Netherlands turn socialist.
    • Increased the priority the Union of Britain’s AI gives to building naval bombers.
    • The Commune of France’s “Creation of the International Avant-Garde” news event will now only fire for socialist countries.
    • The Italian Republic and the Kingdom of Two Sicilies will now receive more volunteers from AI-controlled Reichspakt countries.
    • Updated multiple Italian Military Industrial Organisations and companies.
    • Improved the effect of multiple national foci for Lombardy, the Papal States and Venice.
    • Sardinia can no longer unite Italy before they finish their political focus branch.
    • Carlist Spain and socialist Spain now join factions via national focus effect, rather than by a redundant decision.
    • Increased the frequency in which the Kingdom of Two Sicilies forms the Italian Confederation.
    • The Kingdom of Two Sicilies’ Confederation can now claim states on behalf of its puppets.
    • The Kingdom of Two Sicilies can now target Lombardy and Venice in their decision to call for aid against the Socialist Republic of Italy.
    • Replaced the Kingdom of Two Sicilies’ “Agusta” with “IMAM”, as an aircraft designer.
  • Central & Northern Europe
    • Added a regnal number to Austria-Hungary’s Emperor Otto.
    • Made Denmark’s economic deal with Germany more likely to proceed favourably.
    • Tweaked the AI to only refuse the Copenhagen Conference after May 1939.
    • Finland is now much less likely to cede Karelia.
    • Austria no longer needs to pay political power to unite with Germany.
    • A successful Copenhagen Conference now interrupts the Commune of France and Russia’s national foci to start the Weltkrieg.
    • Heinz Guderian will now return to Germany when the Weltkrieg starts, if Poland is controlled by the AI.
    • Decreased how likely the Commune of France and Russia are to partition Germany, when they have the option of not doing so.
    • Standardised the political power gain associated with Norway’s trade deals.
    • Decreased how frequently the Nordic Federation will form, by increasing how frequently democratic Norway adopts Armed Neutrality, joins the Entente, or refutes the Treaty of Stockholm, unless the host of the Treaty is a human player.
    • Added Lovro Klemenčič as Totalist leader for Slovenia, and gave him a description.
    • Added party names for Slovenia.
    • Switzerland now cancels all embargoes upon embracing neutrality.
  • Eastern & Southeast Europe
    • Greece now peaces out with any non-neighbour enemies upon having a civil war.
    • Romania’s “Old Entente Ties” national focus now removes Romania from the Moscow Accord or Reichspakt, if they are in it.
    • Romania is now much less likely to cede Bessarabia.
    • Added Nikolai Kuznetsov and Aleksandr Nemits as admirals for Russia.
    • Added Grigory Zinoviev as a Totalist leader for Russia.
    • Disabled the “Prepare a Collaboration Government” mission on Russia.
    • Serbia now gains access to all of Illyria’s former advisors upon forming Yugoslavia.
    • Nerfed the effects of Ukraine’s “Expanded Trade”, “Factionalism”, “Industrialisation” and “Reinvigorated Workforce” national spirits.
    • Nerfed the effects of Ukraine’s “An Organic Workforce”, “Bring the Army in Line” and “Immortal Will of the Ukrainian Nation” national foci.
    • Nerfed the political power and stability effects in several Ukrainian events.
    • Rebalanced several Ukrainian military national spirits.
    • Decreased the amount of political power gained from Ukraine’s BASF event for Germany.
    • Nerfed the trait of Ukraine’s potential Military High Command member Ivan Cherniakhovsky.
    • AutDem, PatAut or NatPop Ukraine can no longer get all of Galicia in the “Issue of Lemberg” event.
    • Ukraine’s liberal hetmanate can no longer form the Small Pact.
    • Made the United Baltic Dutchy’s Forest Brothers minigame more difficult for the player.
    • Oststaaten will now not have nationalist or socialist revolts if they have joined the Small Pact.
    • Decreased the amount of political power given from White Ruthenia’s “White Ruthenia Contracts German Company” event for Germany.
  • Africa
    • Added Joseph Bile as Totalist/Syndicalist/RadSoc leader for Cameroon.
    • The Senussi events will now only fire for the French Republic, and not any other controller of the relevant states.
    • Adjusted the cost of coring French Africa, where more populous/resource rich states now cost more, while more isolated states cost less.
    • Added André Grenard Matswa, Jean Félix-Tchicaya, Paul Panda Farnana M'Fumu, Jean Bolikango and Daniel Kanza Kinsona as Totalist/Syndicalist/RadSoc, SocDem, SocLib/MarLib, SocCon and AutDem leaders for Congo, respectively.
    • Added Jomo Kenyatta, Harry Thuku and Ewart Scott Grogan as SocDem, SocLib and SocCon leaders for Kenya, respectively.
    • Renamed the Kivu Clique to Kivu, or Kivu Regime, depending on circumstances, and updated its map colour.
    • Updated the effect of Kivu and Tshuapa becoming independent of Mittelafrika.
    • Added Hellmuth Felmy as a Chief of Air and member of the Military High Command for Mittelafrika.
    • Added Ernst-Felix Krüder as an Admiral, Chief of Navy and member of the Military High Command for Mittelafrika.
    • Added Adolf von Duisburg, Adolf Heusinger, Hermann Meyer-Rabingen and Hans Surén as Generals for Mittelafrika.
    • Removed Hermann Detzner and Richard Wenig as Generals for Mittelafrika.
    • Removed Franz Ritter von Epp, both von Görings and Theodor von Hassel as leaders in Mittelafrika.
    • Removed Oskar von Preußen from Mittelafrika.
    • Updated Ludwig Bockholt and Ernst Udet’s advisor traits for Mittelafrika.
    • Added Fritz Kolbe as a potential leader for Mittelafrika.
    • Tweaked the reward of Mittelafrika’s “A War Economy” national focus.
    • Renamed a few Mittelafrikan national focus titles and altered some of their descriptions.
    • Altered the effects of multiple Mittelafrikan political events.
    • Decreased Mittelafrika’s starting stability and increased its starting war support.
    • Removed the party popularity change given by Mittelafrika’s “The Skull of Chief Mkwawa” event firing for Germany.
    • Removed several opium-related events and national spirits for Mittelafrika, Germany and Japan.
    • Mittelafrika’s Heinrich Kirchheim is now a General rather than Field Marshal.
    • Decreased the amount of political power given by Südwestafrika’s events for Germany.
    • Mittelafrikan food exports now give political power to Germany, rather than support equipment.
  • Caucasus & Middle-East
    • Assyria can now be played by starting the game as Canada.
    • Armenia now starts the game embargoing Azerbaijan.
    • Armenia can now be played by starting the game as Persia.
    • Azerbaijan can now immediately join the Reichspakt if Russia is socialist.
    • Egypt can no longer declare war on the French Republic if neither side controls Libya, and shifted the position of the relevant national focus on Egypt’s focus tree.
    • Georgia will never renounce the Treaty of Poti if Russia is socialist.
    • Updated Georgian plane names.
    • Reduced the initial conscription laws for Jabal Shammar and Saudi Arabia, and added national spirits to compensate for it.
    • Upgraded the Transjordan state from being a Wasteland.
    • Updated the party names and starting party popularities for Yemen.
  • East Asia
    • All Chinese splinters now use a common "Chinese Domestic Arms Industry" for their Military Industrial Organisation, with decisions to integrate key arsenals as they pursue unification.
    • Chinese splinters that start offensive wars against majors can now form the Chinese United Front if they are badly losing.
    • Fengtian’s “From Beijing to the Begonia Leaf” national focus can now be completed if Beijing is held for 90 days.
    • Updated the text for Japan’s news event regarding the Fate of the Imperial Family, should Hirohito have abdicated.
    • Removed the “Izumo Class” coastal defence ship from Japan.
    • Tweaked the starting divisions of the League of Eight Provinces, with changing some division templates used, increasing starting division experience, and decreasing division equipment.
    • The Legation Cities now lose their British commanders upon going to war with the Entente.
    • Rebalanced multiple Left Kuomintang military national spirits.
    • Nerfed the number of special technologies that the Left Kuomintang can get access to in a given game.
    • Nerfed the Left Kuomintang’s “Raise Nationalist Militia” decision so that it creates irregular infantry rather than standard infantry.
    • The Left Kuomintang’s Dai Anlan and Chiang Wei-Kuo will now gain the effect of the focus they are recruited in.
    • Hu Zongnan's Coup in the Left Kuomintang is now more appropriately named the Third National Revolution, rather than the Second.
    • Renamed the Left Kuomintang’s “Scavenge the Beiyang Fleet” national focus to “Salvage the Beiyang Fleet”.
    • Completion of the Left Kuomintang’s “The Third Repatriated Congress” national focus will now trigger "Qí Zhèng Piāopiāo” (Fluttering Flag) to play.
    • Mongolia can no longer use decisions to declare war on Chinese splinters, if it has joined the Moscow Accord.
    • Added Tang Xiangming as a commander for Qing.
    • Added support artillery to Qing’s “Manchu Imperial Guard” division template.
    • Qing now starts with three “German Trained” divisions, using a new division template.
    • Removed the event in the League Collapse War where Qing can declare an early war against Shandong.
    • Buffed Shanxi’s Northwestern Industrial Company and Taiyuan Electric Light Company.
    • Added the Yanchang Petroleum Corporation as an industrial concern for Shanxi.
  • South Asia & Oceania
    • Bhutan's Reformists now have access to a Chief of Army.
    • Added Tawang to Bhutan’s requirements to form the Druk Empire.
    • Added a timed negative national spirit to Bhutan, which is given after they form the Druk Empire.
    • Tweaked the effects of several of Bhutan’s national foci and spirits.
    • Added more endonyms for Insulindia.
  • Miscellaneous
    • Slightly brightened the RadSoc ideology colour to make it easier to differentiate from other ideologies.
    • Tweaked multiple World Tension change effects.
    • Added Clement Attlee, Carl Schmitt and Kurt Tucholsky loading screen quotes.
    • Removed Aleksandr Kerensky and Hermann von Göring loading screen quotes.
    • Updated several national focus icons for Albania, Austria, Colombia, Denmark, Greece, Iceland, Mittelafrika, Morocco, Norway, Persia, Portugal, Russia and Sweden.
    • Added a path guide for Mittelafrika.
    • All collaboration government missions now only give 30-35% compliance.
    • Shifted the AI priorities to make more Tactical Bombers.
    • Improved the AI logic in building radars.
    • Renamed the “Guerilla Officer” trait to “Light Infantry Officer”, to avoid confusion with the “Guerilla Fighter” trait.
    • Adjusted the AI logic in its hiring of political advisors, Chiefs of Army/Navy/Air Force and Theorists, depending on their traits and the situation of the country in general.
    • Embargoes are now cleared where appropriate upon annexation or joining factions.

Fixes

  • North America
    • Fixed the mobilisation decision for American Civil War participants being visible without an available law level.
    • Fixed American statehood events firing more than once.
    • Fixed Canada trying to attack the Combined Syndicates when too weak.
    • Fixed the United States’ giving socialists access to non-socialist Military Industrial Organisations.
    • Fixed the United States’ navy being described as designed by “The Great Depression”.
  • Central America & the Caribbean
    • Fixed several broken Centralamerican plane designs.
    • Fixed non-socialist Haiti being in the Internationale.
    • Fixed Puerto Rico being guaranteed by puppet Canada.
  • South America
    • Fixed Bolivia’s characters not being readded upon puppeting.
    • Fixed Peru’s text referring to NatPop Gabriele D’Annunzio.
  • Western & Southern Europe
    • Fixed Belgium declaring war on Reichspakt-aligned Netherlands.
    • Fixed the French Empire’s Napoleon losing his leader trait upon a different party being elected.
    • Fixed Italian splinters claiming allied lands mid-war.
    • Fixed the Italian Republic attacking the Kingdom of Two Sicilies and Papal States instead of peacefully reuniting, when they have compatible leadership.
    • Fixed the Reijnders coup in the Netherlands firing two events for the Netherlands to join the Reichspakt.
    • Fixed Duarte being King of puppet Portugal if he is killed by the CNT.
    • Fixed Portugal’s intro text describing them as having an “economic economy”.
    • Fixed Sardinia completing the “The Constituent Assembly” national focus twice.
    • Fixed authoritarians releasing SocDem Wales as a puppet.
  • Central & Northern Europe
    • Fixed Czechia and Galicia having decisions to leave or join the Belgrade Pact when it does not exist.
    • Fixed AutDem Finland not getting access to the Nordic Council national spirits.
    • Fixed Galicia & Lodomeria getting the decision to join Poland too early in Austria’s Military Occupation path.
    • Fixed Germany getting Poland’s event response in the event about the death of King August.
    • Fixed the effects of Hungary’s “Apollo Refinery” and “Orion Electronics”.
    • Fixed Norway joining the Nordic Council when set to join the Entente in the game rules.
    • Fixed NatPop Poland getting decisions to ally with countries that are puppets.
    • Fixed von Kries being the leader of non-German puppet Poland.
    • Fixed the effect of Poland’s “The First of the Slavs” not working with PatAut Poland.
    • Fixed Poland’s King August not abdicating in favour of his son Alexander.
    • Fixed Republican Poland being referred to as a monarchy when being un-puppeted by Germany after the Second Weltkrieg.
    • Fixed Poland not being released with Galicia.
    • Fixed Poland building railways in states not controlled by their owners.
    • Fixed the effect of Sweden’s “HMS Karl XII” national focus.
  • Eastern & Southeast Europe
    • Fixed the “Fate of Belarus” annexation mission preventing further annexation missions from firing.
    • Fixed Bulgaria dragging Austria into a war with the Ottoman Empire.
    • Fixed being able to offer Macedonia to a Bulgaria at war.
    • Fixed Serbia adding Bulgaria to the Moscow Accord without asking Russia.
    • Fixed NatPop Ukraine reaching out to the Austrians, despite them no longer existing.
    • Fixed Ukraine starting without a Close Air Support air wing, if the “By Blood Alone” DLC is not active.
    • Fixed the generals sent by the United Baltic Duchy’s military missions staying abroad if that country revolts.
  • Africa
    • Fixed the French Republic giving all of its colonies to the United Kingdom if the former restores the latter.
    • Fixed the French Republic’s 4-yearly legislative events not accounting for a Napoleonic restoration.
    • Fixed Liberia keeping the “German Bailout” national spirit after becoming the puppet of another country.
    • Fixed the effect of Natal’s “Form the Natal Bomber Division” national focus.
  • Caucasus & Middle-East
    • Fixed socialist countries keeping the Suez Canal.
    • Fixed the regnal number of King Giorgi of Georgia.
    • Fixed the annexation events for Batumi and Karabakh for Russia.
    • Fixed the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem not being annexed if Egypt chose to invade immediately.
    • Fixed the Ottomans’ Abdülmecid II being referred to as the oldest son in his description.
    • Fixed the Ottomans not releasing Egypt as the Khedivate.
    • Fixed the Ottomans not joining the Edirne Accords.
  • East Asia
    • Fixed Chinese governments that are formed through fallback decisions being unable to form alliances, locking them out of wargoals.
    • Fixed Japan’s Maizuru dockyard being built in the wrong state.
    • Fixed Japan not seizing Hawaii even if America accepts their ultimatum.
    • Fixed puppet Japan keeping the SocDem party name “Taisei Yokusankai”.
    • Fixed puppet democratic Japan not getting elections.
    • Fixed the name lists for the Left Kuomintang’s Brigades and “Committees Own” being swapped.
    • Fixed the Left Kuomintang spawning trains despite not having the relevant technology.
    • Fixed MarLib Liangguang missing a second-in-command.
    • Fixed Manchuria’s national focus tree not being resent upon re-annexation.
    • Fixed Shandong not being annexed by Manchu-led Qing upon completion of the “Return to the Source” national focus.
    • Fixed Shanxi’s game rule to align with Qing.
    • Fixed Shanxi’s “Expel German Investors” decision being available when Qing has been defeated.
    • Fixed being able to give Transamur to Russia, despite also Siberia existing.
  • South Asia & Oceania
    • Fixed the Dominion of India being overly cautious in declaring war on the Bharatiya Commune.
    • Fixed RadSoc Siam not following the Bharatiya Commune into the Internationale.
    • Fixed RadSoc Siam having a generic leader.
  • Miscellaneous
    • Fixed several effects of attempting to obtain airframes from countries without a valid design.
    • Fixed multiple countries trying to join or rejoin factions after already capitulating.
    • Fixed ideology opinion modifiers sometimes not applying correctly.
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