Version 1.04.1 Release

Notable Changes
- Implemented several of the balancing changes of the 1.11.5 Patch
- The CTD that happened during 'Implementing Direct Rule' appears to have been fixed with the 1.11.5 Patch
- Added dozens of new portraits for country leaders across various countries, see GFX portion for more info
- Revisted the political parties of several countries
- Some new flags have been added
- Several new Japanese focuses have been added that couldn't make it at release
- New general portraits for Austria-Hungary

Updated Focus Trees
- Commune of France
- Empire of Japan

Updated Events
- Commune of France

GFX
Added portraits for:

• Albania: Prince Vilhelm I, Enver Hoxha, Fan S Noli & Fan S Noli
  
• Armenia: Garegin Nzhdeh, Andranik Ozanian, Drastamat Kanayan & Stepan Shaumy
  
• Australia: William Birdwood
  
• Austria-Hungary: Alfred Klahr, Kurt Schuschnigg & Ernst Rudiger Starhemberg
  
• Azerbaijan: Qara Qarabeyov
  
• Belgium: Fedor von Bock
  
• Burma: Baw Ma
  
• White Ruthenia: Vaclau Lastouski
  
• Brazil: Gustavo Dodt Barroso
  
• Canada: Adrien Arcand, Mackenzie King
  
• Chile: Francisco Javier Dias Valderrama
  
• Croatia/Illyria: Ante Pavlic, Ivan Gosnjak, Ivan Subasic & Vladimir Laxa
  
• Czechia/Bohemia: Jan Rys Rozsevac & Randola Gajda
  
• Denmark: Christian X
  
• Finland: Aimo Aaltonen, Philip I of Hesse & Vilho Annala
  
• France: Francois Coty, Francois de la Rocque, Jaques Duclos, Benoit Franchon, Marcel Cachin, Marcel Deat & Rene Gueon
  
• Germany: Alfred Rosenberg, Ernst Thalmann, Karl Otto Paetel & Franz Jacob
  
• The Netherlands: David Wijnkoop & Cornelis van Geelkerken
  
• Hungary: Ferenc Szalasi
  
• India: Maharaja Ganga Sigh, B.G. Kher & Chandra Bose
  
• Ireland: Eoin O'Duffy
  
• Italy: Michele Bianchi & Italo Balbo
  
• Korea: Kim Koo, Lee Beom Seok, Kim Il Sung, Yi Kang, Yi Un, Sin Chaeho & Syngman Rhee
  
• Luxemburg: Charles Marx and Duchess Charlotte
  
• Mongolia: 7th Changa Khutukhtu, Darijaya, Decmchugdongrub, Jamsrangiin Tseveen & Ulanhu
  
• Norway: Haakon VII
  
• New Zealand: Bernard Freyberg
  
• Pakistan: Mohammad Khan V
  
• Portugal: Prince Duarte Nuno
  
• Romania: Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Armand Calinescu & Vasile Marin
  
• Russia: Viktor Baydalakov, Anastasiy Vonsyatsky & Aleksandr Kazembek
  
• South Africa: Guy Hallifax
  
• Siam: Rama VII
  
• Sweden: Gustav V
  
• Transcaucasia: Mikhail Suslov & Nikolay Ustryalov Smenovekhovtsy
  
• Ukraine: Nikita Kruschev, Pavlo Skoropadsky and Stepan Bandera
  
• United Kingdom: Oswald Mosely
  
• Uruguay: Hugo Artucio
  
• United States: Charles A. Lindberg, Charles Coughlin, Henry Ford, Lathorp Stoddard, Elizabeth Flynn, Norman Thomas & Orson Wells

Updated portraits for

• Albania: Zog I
  
• Argentina: Agustín Pedro Justo
  
• Australia: John Curtain, Eric Campbell & Earle Page
  
• Austria-Hungary: Generals, Field Marshals and Admirals
  
• Bhutan: Jigme Wangchuck
  
• Brazil: Getúlio Vargas, Plínio Salgado, Virgulino Lampiao & Luís Carlos Prestes
  
• Canada: Andrew McNaughton
  
• Columbia: Alfonso Lopez
  
• Costa Rica: Rica Ricardo Jiminez Oreamun
  
• Cuba: Jose Agripino Barnet
  
• Dominican Republic: Rafael Trujillo
  
• Ecuador: Fedrico Paez
  
• El Salvador: Maximilano Hernandez
  
• Finland: Kyosti Kallio, Gustav Mannerheim
  
• France: Leon Blum, Pierre Laval, Maurice Gamelin, Napoléon VI & Edouard Daladier
  
• Deutsch-Mittelafrika: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
  
• Greece: George II & Ioannis Metaxas
  
• Guatemala: Jorge Ubico
  
• Haiti: Stenio Vencent
  
• The Netherlands: Hendrikus Colijn, Henri Winkelman, Wilhelmina, Prins Bernard & Anton Mussert
  
• Italy: Palmiro Togliatti
  
• Liberia: Edwin Barclay
  
• Mexico: Lazaro Cardenas
  
• Nepal: Juddha Shumsher
  
• Nicaragua: Anastasio Somoza Garcia
  
• New Zealand: Elsie Farrelly, Micheal Savage & Sidney Holland
  
• Oman: Said Ibn Taimur
  
• Panama: Harmodio Arias Madrid
  
• Persia: Reza Shah Pahlavi
  
• Philippines: Manuel Luis Quezon
  
• Portugal: Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Bento Goncalves & Francisco de Barcelos Oliveira Preto
  
• Romania: Octavian Goga
  
• South Africa: D.F. Malan, James Hertzog & Moses Kotane
  
• Saudi Arabia: Abdulazis Ibn Saud
  
• Serbia: Stjepan Sarkotić
  
• Spain: Jose Diaz, Alfonso XIII, Emilio Mola, Francisco Franco, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Manuel
  Azaña & Niceto Alcala Zomora
  
• Tibet: Reting Ripoche
  
• Transcaucasia: Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Mikhail Tukhachevsky & Georgy Zhukov
  
• United Kingdom: Edward VIII, Harry Pollitt & Winston Churchill
  
• United States: Harry S. Truman, William Dudley Pelley & Earl Browder
  
• Venezuela: Elezar Lopez Contreras
  
• Yemen: Imam Yaha
  
• Yunnnan: Long Yun

Miscellaneous Changes
- Rebalanced some Officer Corps spirits
- Decreased the construction cost of infrastructure from 6000 to 3000 since we still use a maximum level of 10 instead of 5
- Reduced the manpower Austria-Hungary would gain when going down the Crownland Solution path
- Deutsch-Mittelafrika now becomes a German subject after the government has won the Local Tribe Uprising
- Adjusted Italy's OOB to prevent them for starting with supply issues along the Alpes
- Gave Luxemburg back it's core on Luxembourg
- Gave Roosevelt a new trait

Notable Fixes
- Fixed the uprising side of Deutsch-Mittelafrika being a German subject and the government side being independent during the Local Tribe Uprising
- Germany no longer gaines reduced doctrines cost from the Victors of the Weltkrieg national spirit
- Fixed Shandong not having a decision to attack Xinjiang Clique despite the Chinese Manifest Destiny focus telling so

Other Fixes
- Fixed Japan from starting with bicycle infantry, despite them having a focus to unlock it
- Japan can no longer Only Occupy Vladivostok twice in an event
- Japan no longer loses all it's assigned advisors when purging the opposition
- Fixed Brazil from having no-NSB tanks when having NSB
- Fixed the government side of the Local Tribe Uprising in Deutsch-Mittelafrika from not having any advisors
- Fixed the Council of Rambouillet giving social democratic support instead autocracy
- Fixed an issue where Serbia was unable gain core on Yugoslav states despite forming Yugoslavia under certain circumstances
- Fixed two Japanese focuses from having no effects
- Fixed some character issues

Version 1.04 Release

Notable Changes
- Added twelve unique ideologies
- The mod is now compatible with the new 1.11 Barbarossa Patch and No Step Back Expansion
- Reworked AI during peace conferences by adding ambition areas for most countries and rules for the AI to follow during a peace conference
- Removed alternative history paths for the USA and communist path for the UK and rebalanced their focus trees
- Italy has been rebalanced to work with the new ideologies of the update
- Italy’s Foreign Policy branch has been reworked
- The naval tech tree has been revamped; several technologies have been merged together or added to a ship hull and several balancing changes have been made accordingly
- More countries will now be affected by the Vienna Stock Market Crash. The new Generic focus tree will include focuses to reduce/remove the effects
- Removed the possibilities where the Second Russian Civil War could start earlier. The civil war can now only be triggered in one way, and only by Transcaucasia.
- Small Serbian Rework: Serbia will no longer start with Alexander II as the country leader and will now gain independence a few days after the Vienna Stock Market Crash. Afterwards they will choose their respective King.
- Added “Recall Volunteers” button

No Step Back and Barbarossa Changes
- Added new supply system, officer corps, floating harbors, trains, and railway guns
- Adjusted all railroad/railway focuses to add Railways instead of infrastructure
- Updated the Vanilla Railway Network
- Added unique tank variants for NSB-owners
- Rebalanced experience gained from focuses
- Added army, naval, and air spirits
- Implemented the New Character System
- Updated the advisors for countries that got new ones added through DLC (Note: the particular DLC is not required to have these advisors, with the Illussive Gentlemen being an exception)
- Changes to the weather effects
- AI Adjustments for the new mechanics
- Renamed Motorised to Trucks
- Added Scorched Earth Gameplay Rule
- Added generic Economy Policy Decisions

General Focus Tree changes
- Updated each focus tree to work with the new ideologies and patch
- New Focus Filters have been added

Reworked/Expanded Focus Trees
- Japan
- Generic

Updated Focus Trees
- German Empire
- Kingdom of Italy
- Austria-Hungary
- United States of America
- Russian Republic
- United Kingdom
- Romania
- Serbia

New Focus Trees
- Qing Government
- Shandong Government

New Events
- Japan
- Qing Government
- Nanjing National Government
- Shandong Government
- Anqing Clique

Updated Events
- German Empire
- Kingdom of Italy
- Austria-Hungary
- Bulgaria
- Serbia
- Greece
- Vienna Stock Market Crash
- Commune of France
- United States of America
- United Kingdom
- Transcaucasia

New Decisions
- Japan
- Qing Government
- Shandong Government
- The Netherlands

Mapping
- New states and victory points in China
- Reworked the strategic regions in China
- Modified provinces in China, Austria Proper, Bohemia, the Netherlands, South Africa, Middle East, Germany, the Ryukyu Islands, Iwo Jima and the Solomon Islands.
- New provinces in South Africa, Netherlands, Middle East, China, Austria Proper and the Ryukyu Islands
- Multiple impassable desert states have been changed to one province state.
- Minor map changes in France
- Düsseldorf is now urban terrain
- Overhauled Germany’s building slot distribution
- Merged Schleswig and Holstein into one state
- Hamburg is now part of Holstein
- Added a new state for Germany - Prussian Saxony
- Removed several unused country tags
- German East Asia has been added as an Colonial Government of Germany, and has gained all the German colonial territories in Asia and Chinese possessions
- Added cores for the different German kingdoms and duchies tags, to allow the player to disunite Germany in peace conferences
- Changed the tag for Austria East Asia from MAL to AEA

Game Rule Additions
- Added an option to enable the faction buttons
- Improved the tooltips for the release countries options
- Added nation buffs for all Chinese Nations
- Added country path options for:
- United Kingdom (Edward VIII’s Abdication Crisis)
- Japan
- Qing Government
- Shandong Government
- Serbia (Choosing the King)

GFX
- Added dozens of new flags for plenty of countries
- Added icons for the new ideologies
- Added new focus and idea icons
- Added new event pictures
- New portrait for Wilhelm II
- Some new icons for new naval tech
- Added new leader and general portraits for China
- Added new portraits for new Bulgarian generals
- Added icons and archetypes for trains, railway guns, tank modules & chassises, and floating harbors
- Added several DLC-exclusive ideas and portraits to allow players without the DLC to not have generic icons/portraits

Miscellaneous Changes
- Unified generic advisors and ministers for each country that do not have any unique ones
- Cleaned up vanilla clutter in several folders
- Removed the ability to start a coup or boost an ideology entirely (can not be changed in game rules)
- Changed the Agency Upgrades that would affect the ability to boost an ideology or start a coup to something else
- New opinion modifiers for the different types of governments have been added and already existing ones have been revamped
- Some countries have received new names when following specific ideologies
- When the Arabian League manages to defeat the Ottoman Empire, the Ottomans will now change their name to Turkey
- Added descriptions to leaders such as Wilhelm II and III, Otto von Habsburg, Ferdinand I and Boris III
- German Voices have been added for Austrian units, Russian for Transcaucasia and Russia, and Chinese for all Chinese nations
- Italy will no longer always take the same path after their independence when their country path has been set to default
- Some news events have seen some localisation improvements and new pictures
- German East Asia has been given the part of the German Navy that was stationed in Asia.
- Italy now starts with claims on Veneto, Lombardy and Friuli
- Rebalanced the starting national spirits for France, Italy, USA and UK
- Reduced overall Austro-Hungarian stability
- Several new major news events have been added
- Russia now starts with Mountaineers, Light Tanks and Motorised tech. Also added templates for these divisions at game start
- Updated Russia’s OOB
- Reduced the armour research bonuses Russia would gain from the Improve our Armour Focus.
- Russian Youth now only awards 1% Recruitable Population.
- Rebalanced Completion Times for Russian Focuses
- The Philippines no longer start of as a puppet of the USA
- Repositioned the Political Focuses for Romania
- The Netherlands will now get a decision to join the Berlinpakt, instead being added as soon as France declares war on them
- Updated Bulgarian generals and field marshalls
- Montenegro has gained extra factories, and is now considered a puppet of Austria-Hungary instead of an integrated puppet

Notable Fixes
- The Russian decisions to find a new emperor and to rename Saint Petersburg should now be visible again
- Upon completing the Found the USSR focus as Transcaucasia, Tsaritsyn will be renamed to Volgograd
- Fixed missing localisation in the game rule option for Romania
- Fixed Austria-Hungary not being able to regain Core on states where control was lost previously
- Fixed that the Arabian League could attack the Ottoman Empire multiple times.
- Fixed several issues with Ottoman-Arabian League peace event, after the Ottomans have defeated the Arabian League
- All members of the Arabian League are now considered majors and therefore must be capitulated, like intended. The same does NOT imply for the even

Verison 1.03.3 Release

Notable Additions
- An offical music submod is now available on the Steam Workshop Link

Notable Changes
- The duration and modifiers of the debuffs and buffs of the Second Russian Civil War will now vary based on AI vs Player
- The Russian Restore the Romanov Event Chain has been changed to where the events will now trigger in set amount of days instead of being randomized, to prevent certain events from triggering
- Added Italy to the Treaty of Budapest
- Added a decision for Britain to Join the Second Weltkrieg

Miscellaneous
- Changed the modifiers of the Dualism Restored and Pride of the Habsburg National Spirits
- Bulgaria's Assert the Power of Tsar Focus' description will now be different when the Balkan War has been won or lost
- When the Ausgleich Negotiations have been closed and the focus has not yet been completed, the focus will now be completed once Negotiations have closed
- Italy can no longer join the Berlinpakt when at war
- China can no longer do the Unify China Focus when at war with the Empire of Japan
- AI for Austria-Hungary have been made less aggressive towards the Balkans
- Russian AI will now go after the Donau-Adriapakt much sooner
- Serbia will no longer abandon the Balkan League in favour the Moscow Alliance

Notable Fixes
- German subjects will now actually be effected by the Vienna Stock Market Crash
- Fixed Ottoman-Arabian League peace event from triggering when capitulating Egypt
- Ottoman Balkan Interventions Decisions should now work as intended
- Greek, Ottoman and Bulgarian technology icons from the BtfB DLC are now visible for everyone

Other Fixes
- Fixed several missing names for event options
- Fixed missing portrait for a Russian Admiral
- Fixed missing event picture for the Prepare For War Event
- Fixed several other typos

Version 1.03.2 Release

Mapping
- Changed BEL OOB to remove the unit spawing in Eswatini
- Fixed the incorrect unitstack in one province in Kardzhali, Bulgaria
- Reworked the height-, terrain-, and treesmap

Miscellaneous
- Improved coding of the African War trigger Event to reduce lag, by preventing countries from declaring war on countries they are already at war with
- Slighty increased the cooldown time in between IMRO Events for Serbia
- When the Attack the Austro-Hungarian Empire decision runs out for Russia, they will now declare war on both Austria-Hungary and Ukraine, if Ukraine is a subject of Austria-Hungary
- Austria-Hungary's Foreign Policy will no longer be available after the Treaty of Budapest/Vienna, as intended
- When one of Austria-Hungary's Foreign Policy decisions does get canceled, they will now award their PP cost back when canceled
- Cleaned up the tooltip for Serbia in the 'Effects of the Vienna Stock Market Crash reaches Serbia' event
- Changed the flag for the Austrian East Indies to reduces errors in the error log

Notable Fixes
- The Restore the Romanov event chain should now work again
- Russia will now actually white peace with Austria-Hungary in the Treaty of Budapest/Vienna
- Changed the missing RUS tag in all the Japanese Focuses that still used to old SOV tag

Other Fixes
- Fixed several errors in the error log
- Fixed incorrect province ID in one of Bulgaria's fortification decisions
- Fixed AUS Czech Riots event option showing the wrong localisation
- Fixed several other issues with the Treaty of Budapest/Vienna
- Fixed news event option telling about Mussolini's ambitions, despite Emmanuel being the country leader

Hotfix improving the AI, as well as fixing some remaining bugs

Version 1.03.1 Release

Updated Focus Trees
- Russian Republic
- Kingdom of Italy
- Bulgaria

Fixes
- Fixed the issue where several of the Restore our Past Glories decisions were not visible
- Fixed an issue where the Restore our Past Glories decision category was visible, despite having no decisions available
- Fixed missing titles for several events

Version 1.03 Quality of Life Update Release

Notable Additions
- Three new songs have been added
- New Custom Game Rules have been added
- Joined faction pop up added with Scripted GUI
- Unique Division Name Lists have been added for multiple countries
- Autonomy Levels have been overhauled
- Events, which allows the AI to send volunteers, have been added
- Updated the loading screen tips

Naval Update
- Two new ship types: Dreadnoughts and Armoured Cruisers
- Light Cruisers and Heavy Cruisers are now unlocked under one technology for Non-MtG users
- Cruiser Submarines can be researched by all nations, after having researched 1936 Submarines.
- New hull and technology icons
- Unique lists of names for ships for several countries have been added.
- Unified naval variants for non-MtG and MtG users
- Unified navies for non-MtG and MtG users

Second Russian Civil War Changes
- Removed Build Up Communist Support Mechanic
- Civil War now triggers through an event chain, instead of a Focus;
- Rebalanced the surrender events
- Rebalanced the OOB of Russia
- Reduced several Focus Completion Times for both Russia and Transcaucasia
- Rebalanced the modifiers of the Failed Revolution en Ineffective Government National Spirits
- Increased the starting industry for Russia
- Rebalanced the Five Year Plan Decisions

Reworked/Expanded Focus Trees
- Austria-Hungary
- Serbia
- Bulgaria
- Ottoman Empire
- Romania
- Greece

Updated Focus Trees
- Commune of France
- Transcaucasia
- Russian Republic
- German Empire

New Events
- Austria-Hungary
- Serbia
- Balkan League
- Arabian League
- Ottoman Empire
- Bulgaria
- Romania
- Transcaucasia
- Greece
- Russian Republic

Updated Events
- Commune of France
- German Empire

New Decisions
- Austria-Hungary
- Serbia
- Ottoman Empire
- Romania
- Russian Republic
- Greece
- Bulgaria
- German Empire

Mapping
- Added new and reworked already existing states in the Balkans, the Middle East and France
- Removed several unnecessary states in Germany, Poland and France
- Tweaked several provinces in Northern France and the Middle East
- Re-added the Dutch East Indies as a Dutch puppet
- Libya is now a puppet of the Ottoman Empire
- Gibraltar is now a part of Spain
- Eritrea is now part of Abbysinia
- Released Somalia
- Plenty releasable countries from LaR and BftB, such as Corsica, Kurdistan, Kosovo, Micronesia, Solomon Islands, Palau, Fuji, and more, have been added to allow the controller to build up Compliance within those states
- Rebalanced the factories and resources within dozens of states

GFX
- Added several new focus icons and event pictures
- Added a new portrait for Otto and Karl von Habsburg
- Added non-nazi portraits for German admirals, generals and field marshalls
- Added portraits for new generals for Austria-Hungary, Serbia, Russia, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire and Greece
- Added icons for the unique companies for Austria-Hungary, Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire and Romania
- Added portraits for the new leaders for Galicia, Bohemia, Hungary, Transylvania, Slovakia and Illyria
- Added new technology and equipment icons for several countries
- Added unique intelligence agency icons for several countries
- Added icons for the new autonomy levels
- Added new naval gfx; see Naval Rework part

Miscellaneous
- Diplomatic Actions such as Leave Faction, Release Countries and Kick from Faction have been disabled by default. These can be changed in the custom game rules
- Added technology sharing groups for Austria-Hungary and Germany with their faction members
- Changed the faction names for Germany and Austria-Hungary
- The tag of the Russian Republic is now RUS instead of SOV
- Changed several opinion modifiers and added embargo opinion modifiers to countries that are not logical to be trading
- Rebalanced Starting Compliance and Resistance Values
- Changed the rules and modifiers for all the ideologies
- The Welcome GUI has been updated. It has special pages for Lore and Credits
- Removed the Coring State and Foreign Policy Decisions.

Hotfix making the mod fully compatible with the new 1.10.2 "Collie" patch.

Version 1.02.3 Release

General

- The mod is now compatible with the new 1.10.1 "Collie" Patch
- The mod is now compatible with the new "Battle for the Bosporus" Content Pack