Hearts of Iron IV

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Nordics Improved

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Currently working on: An overhaul for Iceland's fascist path.

If you want to contribute some art to this mod, whether it's portraits, focus icons and the like, please let me know, it would be cool if there would be portraits for everyone (AI art not accepted).

Were you slightly disappointed with how the Nordics turned out in AAT? Were there a few nitpicks you had? Well, then this is the mod for you! In this mod, I've made a few changes to the Nordics which I believe are better. There are a bunch of changes to each Nordic country, ranging from small changes to massive overhauls.

If you find any bugs, please let me know! If you have any suggestions, I'm more than happy to listen, as long as they have some ground in history.

Use console commands at your own risk, this mod might have a seizure if you try to do something funky, especially if you're playing as Iceland.

What's included?

Content for Iceland:
-Massive overhaul to the communist path!
-Choose between the Reykjavík doctrine or the Akureyri doctrine.
-Five communist subpaths, with 100+ communist focuses .
-Four possible communist leaders for Iceland.
-Three communist generals.
-Reworked the democratic path a little bit to better represent the politics of the time.
-Added some secrets to the monarchist path
-Added a few new focuses to the fascist path.
-Fixed localisation issues.
-Added a field marshal available to everyone except the communists.
-Added a dynamic naming system.

Content for Sweden:
-Completley reworked the monarchist and fascist expansionist paths.
-Added a new monarchist path that lets you form a union with Poland.
-Added a focus that lets you rebuild Visborg.
-Expanded their dynamic naming system.

Content for Norway:
-Added new focuses to the monarchist and fascist expansionist tree.
-Added a new focus that lets them produce heavy water for some bonuses.
-Norway will be called "Reichskommissariat Norwegen" when they are a reichskommissariat.
-Added a dynamic naming system.

Content for Denmark:
-Added a new focus that allows you to negotiate the return of some lost oversees colonies.
-Edited a few focuses.
-New events.
-Fixed and expanded Denmark's dynamic naming system.

Content for Finland:
-Let you spark a rebellion in Ingria using the "Kinship Wars" decisions.
-Slightly edited how the Winter War and the Continuation War plays out.
-Expanded Finland's dynamic naming system.

Minor additions
-Four new states.
-Some states have been renamed to better represent their native names.
-Two new VPs.
-Some VPs have been renamed to better represent their native names.
-Made Greenland releasable from the start of the game.
-Added five new releasable nations.
-Slightly modified the the Nordic formable nations.

Content for Faroe Islands:
-A new formable nation.
-Added a unique communist leader.
-Added a dynamic naming system.

Content for Greenland:
-Greenland can now unite the Inuits.
-Added a dynamic naming system.

Content for Bornholm:
-A new formable nation.
-Added a dynamic naming system.

Content for Gotland:
-A new formable nation.

Content for Germany:
-Added a new focus that lets you invade Iceland.

Content for Estonia:
-Added a new focus that lets you claim Greater Hungary.

Other minor content for:
-Sápmi.
-Karelia.
-Ingria.
-Åland.

Credits:
-Faroe Islands communist flag: Artist unknown (I found it originally a good while back on the internet, I think it was Reddit. I was gonna find it again and give proper credit to the artist, but couldn't find it. So until I can find the artist for it, I'll leave it as an artist unknown).
-Bornholm communist flag: AugCph on Reddit.
-Åland Islands communist flag: Starfield43 on Reddit.
-Åland Islands fascist flag: R56 team.
-Ingria communist and fascist flags: More Formable Nations mod team.
-All new Icelandic focus tree icons: LLZockt_DE from the Nordics Reworked mod team.
-Agnar Eldberg Kofoed-Hansen leader portrait: Kaiserreich mod team (or at least, I think it originates from there).
-Hannibal Valdimarsson portraits: Kaiserreich mod team (or at least, I think it originates from there).
-Jón Baldvinsson portraits: Kaiserreich mod team (or at least, I think it originates from there).
-Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson leader portrait: Kaiserreich mod team (or at least, I think it originates from there).
-Eiður Sigurðsson Kvaran portraits: Kaiserredux mod team.
-Henry Curtis portraits: Kaiserredux mod team.
-Lionel Frank Page portraits: Kaiserredux mod team.
-Niels Juel-Brockdorff portraits: Kaiserredux mod team.
-Asgeir Niels Valdemar portraits: Kaiserredux mod team.
-Claim Karelia focus icon: LLZockt_DE. Nordics reworked mod team.
-Fetch Iceland focus icon: Nordics reworked mod team.
-King in Power focus icon: Nordics reworked mod team.
-Look North focus icon: Nordics reworked mod team.
-Realize the Dream of Karl XII focus icon: Nordics reworked mod team.
-Swedish Empire Reborn focus icon: Nordics reworked mod team.
-Iceland Stalinist flag: Unknown artist from Reddit
-Iceland Arctic SSR flag: la_communarde from Reddit
-Iceland Socialist flag: aurum_32 on Reddit
-Iceland North Atlantic SFR flag: ttenev on Reddit
17 Comments
Myre36  [author] May 21 @ 5:12am 
@Wandervögel Yeah, I heard Norway and Denmark got pretty shafted when it comes to historical representation and power when compared to Sweden and Finland. My expertise is in Icelandic history, not Norwegian one, so if you could list some potential suggestions it'd be pretty cool. I'm currently working on reworking Iceland's focus tree, but I can always add small changes to Norway on the side.
Wandervögel May 16 @ 8:35am 
I saw that you added a nuclear focus for Norway, which is very nice and historically relevant. Though, out of all the focus trees in Arms Against Tyranny, the Norway one was/is by far the worst. I am not looking to make Norway overpowered here, but there are several problems with Norway.

As far As I know from playthroughs of the Nordic Nations - Sweden can eventually get five research slots, and so can Denmark and Finland, and Norway is stuck to four, which sucks. Also Paradox was just lasy with the Norway, like the iconic Krag-Jørgensen rifle isn't even named in the production line, just called 'infantry weapons one'. That's a minor issue, but Paradox was really lazy with norway. I'll probably post more historically relevant ideas here later, such as relevant Nordic scientists not included in the Gotterdammerung mod, but keep up the good work.
Myre36  [author] Mar 17 @ 11:56am 
@Wandervögel Yeah, that's a pretty good idea, maybe not a Nuclear research facility at game start lol, but maybe a starting spirit and a focus to get a nuclear research facility. Currently working on an overhaul for the Icelandic communist branch, I'll probably a small update like that for Norway and have a small update for Sweden as well
Wandervögel Mar 15 @ 12:22am 
Thanks for this mod, but as a Norwegian I have one historically accurate idea that might be good to add. Norway was the only country in the world commercially producing Heavy Water during WW2 and at the start of it, in Telemark, east of Oslo. One way to add this to the game would be that Norway starts with a nuclear facility, and of course, protecting it is of utmost importance.
Myre36  [author] Mar 7 @ 4:05pm 
@Bjerke Currently Sweden and Norway have the most content, Iceland has some flavour and some new focuses and secrets, Denmark has a single new focus and Finland has some new decisions. Then I added some new formables for the new releasables. I am currently working on a massive overhaul of the Icelandic focus tree, and at some point I plan on giving Denmark a proper communist path.

The screenshot of the Norwegian focus tree I have there is old, it's from before Paradox removed that focus from vanilla. For a while I didn't remove it because I liked the way Norway was before they removed it, but at some point keeping it updated just became a hassle so I caved and removed it, just haven't changed the screenshot.

Yeah, I could maybe make Gotland a generic releasable and maybe give Sweden a focus to build some forts on it, definitely a good idea.
Bjerke Mar 7 @ 2:57am 
Only tested Norwegian and Swedish trees so far. Sweden works fine, enjoyed it alot :steamthumbsup: In the Norway tree the focus "The fascist invasion of Norway" from your picture is missing for me.

The dlcs are on sale so i might pick them up today and see if it changes anything. Btw Gotland is a pretty famous Republic in Sweden, has a long history of independence. Might be something to consider adding. Visby castle is pretty famous and deterred invaders for a while, would be cool to give Gotland a bonus to fortification or something.
Myre36  [author] Mar 6 @ 11:29pm 
@Bjerke I haven't actually tested if it works without the dlcs. You should be fine as long as you have Arms Against Tyranny. There might be some issues if you don't have South American dlc because I did some changes to Chile as well, but I don't think that should matter all too much. I still haven't tested it so idk
Bjerke Mar 6 @ 2:33pm 
Wil it work without some of the dlc's? Missing "By blood alone" and the south american one. Aswell as the newset one. Any of these necessary?
Emperor Spyro Mar 3 @ 7:45am 
Thanks for the reply m8. No worries. I understand.
Myre36  [author] Mar 3 @ 6:09am 
@Emperor Spyro I'll be real with you, I'm deathly afraid of touching map modding. Most I'm able to do is create new states using existing provinces, anything beyond that is something I don't wanna touch. I'd love to add impassable mountains to Norway and Iceland, but as it currently stands there's not much I can do lol