Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

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Mussolini Assasination Fix
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Mussolini Assasination Fix

Description
Updated for 1.12 patch! Allows player to evade Assassins as Italy.

ABOUT THE MOD:

This mod FINALLY fixes Mussolini's Assassination, which (on HOI4's Waking the Tiger DLC) can be performed by Germany without Italy's opinion even being taken in consideration, with the following details:

- Once Germany completes 'Prepare Italian Coup' focus, Italy will be given the normal 2 choices, of agreeing or disagreeing with a potential Coup on Italian soil.
- Depending on Italy's choice, Mussolini will get killed or not once Germany completes 'Assassinate Mussolini' focus.
- The Italian AI always accepts Germany's assistance in killing Mussolini (remains unchanged compared to base game)
- Pietro Badoglio (might be changed in the future) becomes leader of the Fascist Party in case the assassination is sucessful, in order to avoid having a dead Mussolini becoming leader of Italy again in case Italy suffers a coup made via espionage.
- The German focus tree remains unchanged so it might retain some compatibility with other mods.
- As a bonus, I added a generic Italian general portrait to Portrait_Italy_Generic_land_4, because the lack of file on the base game causes a blank/black image to be loaded for some random italian generals.

Please rate positively to give this mod a little more visibility so that others can find it!



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BACKGROUND OF THE MOD:

After Waking the Tiger's release, Paradox implemented a new focus tree for Germany, which allows you to bring the Kaiser back, and get some of the Central Powers into Germany's alliance. All should be well except this can destroy a game for any Italian player. Since the Italian coup happens somewhere around 1940 or after, the player has most likely established his own alliance, etc, but once Germany completes the 'Assassinate Mussolini' focus, you will be forced to join Germany's Central Powers alliance, losing all your previous allies in the process and probably screwing your game in many possible ways, without even being given an option!

Why does Germany have more powers over Italian politics than the Italians themselves??? Ridiculous.

Countless players, with myself included, waited patiently for a fix on the matter, but Paradox has refused to fix the situation or to add a new option for players, releasing countless DLCs in the process instead. The Fix will probably come with a reworked Italian focus tree made by Paradox itself, but since such a tree could be light years away, I decided to take the initiative and create a fix myself.

UPDATE: Paradox by september 2022 finally fixed most of the issues (after 4 years of waiting) and you are now able to avoid Mussolini's Assassination but you need to buy the By Blood Alone DLC and complete the required focus to do so. This Mod still works today, but I highly advise using it merely if you lack By Blood Alone DLC.

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COMPATIBILITY:



The mod unfortunately isn't ironman compatible since it does change checksum. But it should be compatible with most other mods, unless they change Waking the Tiger's base events. The mod requires Waking the Tiger DLC because Mussolini's Assassination was implemented on it. Should work with campaigns in progress.

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INFORMATION TO OTHER MODDERS:

I am somewhat reluctant to permit people to include this mod into a big compilation of mods or any sort of work, but depending on the work itself I might open exceptions, and I am usually very open minded so feel free to contact me in private (or here, but I might not check the mod that often so leave me a message on the comments' area of my profile) if you wish to do so.

You can however add a link to this or any workshop item of mine anywhere you want, without even asking. Same goes for steam collections.

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CREDITS, DONATIONS AND MORE:

The mod was entirely my work, but I only had to do a small amount of coding to make it work like I wanted while keeping some compatibility.

I do my work for free but if you really iked the work, got extra money to spare and feel like donating, feel free to do so at: LINK TO DONATIONS[paypal.me]

Please like and favorite if you like the mod. It will be more than enough to help for the time dedicated into making this.

Be sure to check my other projects if you are interested by the way!
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Or my collection, easier to add them all for instance!

11 Comments
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Ackbaraddin Aug 15, 2021 @ 4:05am 
How you adding gifs for thumbnails
Pianka Aug 14, 2021 @ 6:15pm 
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Maoist Muscle Man Aug 10, 2021 @ 9:41pm 
You would think that Paradox would've already had this in vanilla
Marco Aug 9, 2021 @ 3:29am 
You Should add the decision to put as leader mussolini daughter edda or Galeazzo Ciano great mod :steamthumbsup:
josh1245 Aug 8, 2021 @ 7:17pm 
great mod, you should put Nicola bombacci as a leader, was a socialist friend of Mussolini who later became a fascist
The_Spartan  [author] Aug 8, 2021 @ 3:23am 
You are, curiously, correct. I will rectify it asap. :lunar2019coolpig:
Undead Unicorn Aug 7, 2021 @ 10:16am 
light years is a unit of length not time
CarMan69 Aug 6, 2021 @ 3:45am 
Im first :) for the first time. Imma try this mod out later and review it later :D