Black Ice !!

[Krec]

I just have to give a SHOUT OUT to the boys that have made BI. This mod is AWESOME. I cant go back to Vanilla. There is just too much great stuff. Give it a try latest ver is 8.4 checksum should be XUVN.

[dhbaer]

8.5 should be coming out sometime in the next couple weeks as well.

[Walta Gaming]

It's great but it has some major flaws, in version 7.5 anyways. The AI does not handle to crazy defence modifiers properly which has an even larger effect with the massive casualty rates in the mod. It also places massive penalties on nations like France and China which really dranes the fun out of playing them as you get railroaded into defending key spots to exploit the bad AI with rediculis defence modifiers.

[Krec]

its up to 8.4 now

[Walta Gaming]

Originally posted by Krec:

its up to 8.4 now

Is it good? I am in the middle of an exciting campain as Italy now so I would rather not update it now but are the changes worthwhile?

[Krec]

PANZEROO
Author
PANZEROO Dec 10 2015 says:

8.4 changelog
################################################ UNITS
ss mot eng activation added
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mot eng activation added
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guards and ss div HQs toughness/ defensiveness increased
ss AT / AA frontage changed to same as normal AT / AA
fighter bomber air attack interceptor conversion tech tweaked
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motorcyle recon terrian movement penalty tweaked for rough terrian
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conscripts supply demand reduced
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Added flying dutchman
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mountain units removed from special forces CA
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l-armor bat AP and AV lowered
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changes to Sp art speed, armor engineer speed, marines cost
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Fix for USA 8th and 10th Army counters not having the right stack priority
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fixed some div HQs organistion and ss mot engies activation
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added available trigger to spec hq's
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Reorder Priority Units
################################################ OOB
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Fixed OOB for 1st Special Service Force. It still had an old mixed_support brigade in it, and didn't need it anymore, as it already has the airborne support brigade in it.
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Corrected some typos for SS units
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transport models set up
OOBs tweaked
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Added missing line unit to one of the US divisions

################################################ GFX
Updated map counters for land transport units
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Fixed model image for ast_eighth_id_0.tga
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Added unit crest to sissi_unit.tga
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Replacement NKVD Division HQ model image
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Updated transport vehicle model images for USA.
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Added model for USA M46 Patton and M48A5 Patton II to round out USA armor models - 2 model images and localisations were missing!
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transport model GFX added
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Smaal GUI changes and improvements
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Enlarged the traits-filter screen
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Styled the Support CA icon the same as the others
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No more scrolling in the covert-ops screen
################################################ EVENTS/DECISIONS
some penalties for germany not going ahead with the oylmpics
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french resistence uprisings added
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postponing anschluss returns a reduces the initial 5 dissent
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wallonian legion event chain
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some manpower loss reduced in some ss division events
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Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of Southern France in 1944 added.
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Typo fixed for Welle 2 creation of 15x Inf Div HQ's
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bug fix for CHANGKUFENG INCIDENT
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soviet AI gets sloped armor earlier then soviet player
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military acedemy requirements lowered
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Added "Partisan Resupply" covert ops mission. You must be at war, and you must control, but not own the targeted province
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new Player Backstory feature added
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Dora railway gun event fixed
################################################ TECHNOLOGIES
Changed body-armor = 0 for all engineers
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motor/ armored engines speed increase via tech
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Mountain infantry techs split between infantry and special forces
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strat bombing added back to other air units as it had removed the ability to do runway cratering/ log bombing etc
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♥♥♥ starting techs tweaked slightly
################################################ MAP
province manpower tweaks
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leadership province tweaks
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IC province changes
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snow added to some inland chinese regions
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some UK puppets have a VP
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various Harbors fixed
################################################ MISC
brazil tweaks from schlosser
bug
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mod-file corrected to use correct province replace-paths
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Corrected some spelling issues and typos
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leader ID conflict fixed
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some Italian tweaks for MP game and covert ops by DK|Thor
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the two rokos fixed
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more ITA leaders by Pavolini
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Removed commando_brigade from USA Airborne Division template, since you can't build them now. Also changed out artillery_brigade for medium_artillery_brigade for USA MOT-INF template.

[Walta Gaming]

Cool! Thanks for the log.

[Hypothermia]

I been trying to play it for ages but with no luck in getting it to work. I install it an di get the black ice loading screen but when it starts to load databases i get an error. Can any of you boys help. Ps i tried with 8.4 didnt work then updated to 8.5 same problem
help plez

[Salmon Sashimi 刺身]

latest is 8.5 actually you can find it in the paradox forums

[Krec]

Rourkey ill help you get it installed

[CCMatt]

I've actually never played Black Ice, what is the difference?

[PRO100 American_Hunter1]

whats the black ice MOD?

[Krec]

http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-ice

[PRO100 American_Hunter1]

DAM, iv been missing out, is there a step by step on how to do this MOD?

[PRO100 American_Hunter1]

nevermind, just read it, wayyy to complicated -_- lol

[Nike-Ajax]

AMEN to that !!!

I just Installed Black ICE, and its literally a new game ! I have played hundreds of hours of the Vanilla game, but this "mod" (which is really so much more than that), gives me literally hundreds of more hours of play. I have spent 10 fun hours just setting Germany up

As for the difficulty and problems, then its really not that hard:

The Mod is right here:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-ice/downloads/black-ice-version-84

Then just do EXACTLY what it says and in that order:

"Installing BlackICE may seem daunting at first, but provided you follow the directions here, you should have a relatively easy time with it.

Step 1: After you have downloaded BlackICE, copy the installer to the same directory that as the hoi3game.exe and hoi3_tfh.exe files in it. Generally speaking, this will be somewhere like: • d:\games\Hearts of Iron 3 • c:\games\steam\steamapps\common\Hearts of Iron 3

Step 2: Install Podcat's LAA (Large Address Aware) version of the HOI3 .exe file with BlackICE. This will solve a great many issues with the game crashing as it will take advantage of the larger amounts of memory that newer computers can use. Podcat's LAA .exe file can be found in the Tech Support thread on the PI forum •Overwrite the original hoi3_tfh.exe file with it.

Step 3: Run the installer. Do Not Change ANYTHING unless you know what you are doing, just hit next until you see finish. Click on finish."

And then Step 4:

EITHER manual save OR autosave, but NOT BOTH !

And delete the logs in the blackICE directory before you start EVERY game (as a game can take hours, thats not really a big problem):

C:\Users\Username\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron III\BlackICE\logs

Real easy AND worth the time !!!

You should seriously let your self enjoy this game: minimum effort and maximum enjoyment. Actually its much more stable than the original game. My only (small) worry is if will slow down in lategame/endgame ...