v0.1.9.6.8 [AA79] - Sølvrev

● Highlights

- The RT56 Türkiye focus tree expanded.
- Various adjustments made in hopes of increasing mods performance.
- Afghanistan and Cuba has now been fully released with all intended content.
- Added Voice Acting for tons of nations, including Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Vietnamese, and more.
- The initial strength of the Soviet Air Force has significantly increased from 1,078 aircraft to 8,473 aircraft.

● Additions

- Added four new achievements.
- Added a political branch for Scotland.
- Added Latakia as a victory point in Syria.
- Added a new fourth railway construction tech.
- Finished and unlocked German trade influence focus.
- Additional focuses and balancing for Andorra and Luxembourg.
- Two starting commanders and two new advisors for communist Germany.
- [BBA] Added vanilla arms trade prohibition resolution related to Ethiopian war.
- Added an oil basin in Kazakhstan, a related decision and relevant focuses for Kazakhstan.
- [AAT] Added more MIOs, traits for lots of them, unique upgrades for a couple of them.
- New decision category for RT56 Turkey, offering options to claim and core several Turkic territories outside of Anatolia itself.
- [NSB] Added in four new cannon modules for tank players to use. (Advanced Medium Cannon, Modern Medium Cannon, Modern High Velocity Cannon and Modern Heavy Cannon).

● Adjustments and Balance

- “Asymmetrical Warfare“ reworked.
- Winter/Desert Clothing techs nerfed.
- Alaska's chromium will be developed only once.
- The “Legal Status of Women“ has had a rebalance.
- [NSB] Unit Elitism - Special Forces Cap reduced by 50%.
- [DoD] Anti-Germany coup should trigger more consistently.
- [MtG] Deutschland-class has been updated to be historical.
- Prevented the continuous exploitation of the “Lutopan Pit“.
- General reduction and adjustments to stat bloat across techs.
- Polished, finished and cut the unfinished stuff of R56 Lithuania.
- Reduced Defence stat on Infantry Equipment from 1939 and forward.
- Germany now starts with Konstantin von Neurath as the hired advisor.
- Shocktroopers - Given 10% Urban Defence, a stat they should have had.
- [MtG] Panzerschiffe has been adjusted to allow for historical designs.
- Penalties for failing MEFO bills will now cost more and last for longer.
- Rebalanced a bunch of victory points in order to adhere to the new system.
- [AAT] Shocktrooper SF Doctrine - Reduced multiplier on Max HP and Organization.
- [NSB] Updated the army spirit: “Relief of Command“ to follow the base game upgrade.
- [non-AAT] Removed events about the instantaneous coring of occupied lands by Finland.
- Restructured the German foreign policy on the east so the monarchists can access it again.
- Reduced Initiative on Paratroopers from 30% down to 8% as to not give 3 tech levels of value.
- “Anti-Comintern Pact” no longer required for “Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact“ in the R56 Germany tree.
- Mech. Shock Troopers - Increased Training Time and Supply Consumption, Reduced breakthrough by 25%
- Move the Polish “Start the Fifteen Year Plan“ branch to a more logical spot. (bottom of the industry tree)
- [BBA] Restricted CAS Anti-Tank cannons to Main Armament and Small Airframes as it was causing balancing issues and game issues with Medium Frames.
- Several modifications to the RT56 Turkish tree, primarily but not exclusively related to the new decisions.
- [BFTB] Turkey's “The Fading Father“ decision category has been tweaked to play better with the Road to 56 Turkey focus tree.
- [NSB] Rebalanced Medium Three Man Tank Turret, Heavy Three Man Tank Turret, Modern Tank Turret, Cast Amor and Welded Armor.
- Altered the Nekrowombaticon Activation decision to activate even more of the easter egg chain, it doesn't require (secret condition) to trigger.
- [MtG] Germany has a new naval tree that allows for more accurate historical gameplay. It includes focuses to acquire the Bismarck and Tirpitz as well as focuses for the “Plan Z“ fleet.

● Fixes

- Fixed Croatia sometimes not becoming a puppet of Germany in “Fate of Yugoslavia“.
- The annexation event for the Venezuelan focus “Unify Bolivarian Brothers“ will now core the Colombian state of Choco.
- The Venezuelan focus “Demand Guyana“ will now be bypassed if you own Guyana, or are allied to/at-war with their owner.
- The conditions for the Turkish focus “Expand Officer Schools“ now work as intended for those using “Mobile Warfare“ and “Superior Firepower“.
- Fixed the Peruvian-Ecuadorian war happening twice.
- Revised “Ask for British Colonies“ focus (now “Demand Arabian Colonies“) and its events in the Saudi focus tree, blocked it for historical AI.
- Fixed a tooltip in the decision unlocking camelry indicating the wrong amount of land XP.
- Fixed the Raj stealing back land you took as Afghanistan.
- Tooltips for two of the New Zealand advisors are now displayed correctly.
- Fixed an issue preventing Macedonia from accessing the "Macedonian Empire" formable focuses.
- Decisions to support one of the powers fighting in Palestine will not correctly disappear after picking a side.
- German tanks will now correctly benefit from armor improvements in their army branch.
- Fixed a broken Polish check regarding the status of Tadeusz Kasprzycki.
- Finnish decisions about integrating Karelia now correctly provides extra cores to Karelia.
- Canada should correctly get wargoals on the denier of Labrador and Newfoundland transfer.
- Fixed Soviet allies and puppets not peacing out with Poland upon Barbarossa, then calling the Soviets back into a war with the Allies.
- Fixed rare case in which the Soviets could be pulled into war with the Allies by allying with Kurdistan against Turkey
- Denmark will always capitulate early if declared war upon by Germany while doing historical and while a puppet will no longer be able to suddenly switch sides and become somebody else puppet.
- [MtG] Fixed Italy not being able to do its focus tree when Africa is decolonized by gamerule.
- [AAT] USA will seize Greenland more often again if Denmark falls/puppet is by bad Germany.
- [BftB] Fixed Bulgaria not boosting opinion with Germany to unlock focuses related to their alliance.
- [non-BftB] Fixed a misspelled tooltip for communist Bulgaria advisor availability.

● AI

- Asked the Metatron what the meaning of life was. It beeped seven times.
- A lot of small AI adjustments across a lot of different areas of the Mods.
- Blocked R56 tree Denmark from joining Allies and creating a faction on historical.
- Swedish and Soviet AI will be more keen to pressure foreign governments after promoting ideological rallies.
- Some AI weights that were being calculated all the time were removed in hopes of improving mod performance.
- [AAT] Finnish AI will do Lone Wolf slightly earlier, which should make it less likely that they join the Axis in the continuation war.
- Poland will never go on its focus to get mutual guarantees with Lithuania or Join Allies on historical unless no war happens until '41/'42. (they should join the Allies regardless if Germany invades)

● Localisation

- Removed unmaintained Spanish localization.
- Some Polish focuses will no longer have colored text.
- Fix Luxembourg tree referring to Monaco as its capital.
- New descriptions and names for several RT56 Turkey focuses.
- [NSB] “Limited Engagement“ has had it's tactic modifiers localized.
- [WtT] Greater Germany formable now actually tells you that it cores land.
- Fix a Lithuanian event mentioning three event options while it only has two.
- [non-BftB] clearer tooltip for "Integrating Bulgaria" decision for Byzantium.
- Corrected misspelled descriptions in Liechtenstein's and Manchukou's focuses.

● GFX/UI

- New icons for Sudan, Cuba, Andorra and Luxembourg.
- Increased zoom distance to which victory points are visible.
- Increased the range that vic

v0.1.9.6.7 [9024] - Sølvrev

● Highlights

- [MTG|NSB|BBA] AI is now able to design proper equipment.
- [AAT] Many new and tweaked MIOs. Lots of MIO effects in focus trees (still WIP, there could be duplicated traits as generics have not been removed)

● Additions

- Added a new achievement for Israel.
- Additional states for Iraq and Cuba.
- [AAT] added MIO to multiple countries (to be continued).
- Added some content for Japan mistakenly included in last month patch notes.
- Hotkey added for Naval Invasion, Naval Invasion with Floating Harbor and Paradrop.
- Added an event chain triggering the Mandate of Palestine collapse instead of it happening out of the blue.
- Host tool added. (Before the game starts, the host country must be specified in the Custom Game Rules section.)
- Fully redone RT56 Turkish economy tree; many smaller changes also made to the army & political areas of the focus tree

● Adjustments and Balance

- The game is faster than before and focus times have decreased slightly.
- When compatibility reaches 100% in a captured state, it will be considered a core.
- Super Heavy Battleships were able to utilize Super Heavy Battleship Armor. (Banzai!)
- RT56 Turkey now has access to most vanilla advisors if 'Battle for the Bosphorus' is used.
- [BBA] Nerfed Aircraft Cannons across the board as an indirect buff to Heavy Aircraft Cannons
- German commander Johannes Blaskowitz loses his controversial trait in the democratic German civil war.
- Japan was able to acquire both the Zero Carrier Fighter and Yamato Class Super Heavy Battleship at the same time.
- [BBA] Buffed Heavy Aircraft Cannons to further incentivize using them over normal Aircraft Cannons when applicable.
- Changes to the Hunt the Bear branch of the Soviets, and restored the "Great Commander" focus with some alterations.
- Super-Heavy Tank can function either as a field battalion with 30 tanks each or as a supporting brigade with 20 tanks.
- Yalta now absorbs all Germany puppets to form the WGR and DDR, and stretches the DDR and Soviet zones of occupation if Poland is not in the war.
- [BBA] Applied Vanilla tweaks to Aircraft frames across the board. Range reduced on all airframes but cost have almost always been reduced as well, just as in Vanilla.
- Factory Trade Tool has arrived. You will now be able to send not only civilian but also military factories and dockyards, but this will have a period of time, it is no longer permanent.

● AI

- Tried using bootleg AI made in lab, but it gained sentience and started plotting our downfall. Content was good though.
- Swedish AI should now be more reactive and dynamic when it comes to Alt-history scenarios. It should also avoid starting suicidal wars.
- Swedish AI Strategies have been reduced in number, from seven options in the Custom Game Options down to five to allow the AI to be more dynamic.
- Peace AI improvements: Restored pre-overhaul code to block the release of tiny/silly/warlord countries and added new German kingdoms to that list.

● Localisation

- Several additions and improvements for the RT56 Turkish tree, as well as its associated National Spirits.

● GFX/UI

- New advisor portraits for Japan.
- Commander Selection tab has been expanded.
- [NSB] Changed the default 2d icon for some tanks.
- Added national spirit icons for the 3 German Kaisers.
- Added some missing 3d graphics, especially for Finland.
- Replaced some focus icons with more relevant ones in the Finnish focus tree.

- Hotfix

- Steam Workshop page logo changed.

v0.1.9.6.6 [C053] - Sølvrev - AAT

★ Call of War and AAT are now "going steady".

● Highlights

- Updated to latest version.
- Adopted new combat widths of 1.13.
- Monarchist path rework for Germany.
- Reworked air designer and tech tree.
- Main menu music has been changed.(Norwegian Resistance)
- Balance of power and additional focuses for monarchist Germany.
- Complete revamp of the Israeli tree, with a revamped independence war and 10 different possible leaders.
- Fully redone army, navy, and air force paths for RT56 Turkey, with new decisions and national spirits to go with.

● Additions

- Some new achievements
- Added the port of Viipuri.
- Added some MIOs for Israel.
- New achievement for Germany.
- Two new achievements for Denmark.
- Added a new achievement for Israel.
- More unique focuses for Tannu Tuva.
- New Slovak commander Stefan Jurech.
- [NSB] Expanded light tank technology.
- Added the Sultanate of Darfur to the map.
- Branch hiding partially implemented for UK.
- Some unique focuses and characters for the Sámis.
- Two new MIOs for Germany - Erma Werke and Hanomag.
- Additional industrial companies for Liechtenstein.
- Reshuffle and expansion of the democratic Denmark tree.
- Additional focuses and political advisors for Liechtenstein.
- Added small focus tree for Arab nations during the Arab-Israeli war.
- German Kingdoms now have permeant cores, with a shared military tree.
- German voice lines for the German Kingdoms, alongside East and West Germany.
- East and West Germany now have generic advisors. West Germany has it's own MIOs.
- Added the mayor of Cayenne and head of the pro Free France committee as a historical democratic leader for Guyana.
- Converted the decision system of the Polish Sanation rivalry into a BoP, alongside some other bugfixes and tweaks to Poland.

● Adjustments and Balance

- Made reductions in focus times in all focus trees.
- [BBA] Italy starts with the Heavy Machine Gun technology.
- Germany started with more airfields in historical locations.
- The Italian divisions are overall better equipped at the start.
- Disabled silly "overlord adjective" "country name" puppet names.
- Made it slightly easier for Hatzohar to form a coalition in the Israeli elections.
- The German Air Force is strengthened with ~2000 planes, compared to the vanilla 916.
- The Italian Air Force is strengthened with ~1400 planes, compared to the vanilla 700.
- The steel cost of Infantry Equipment '45 reduced to 5 to align it more closely with other levels.
- Saudi coring decisions now core the new Jordan states but they all demand a minimal level of compliance.
- German civil war democratic side made to have slightly more divisions, this should make them win more often.
- R56 Germany now has a focus to improve enigma again and a focus to increase synthetic rubber output, aside from some restructuring.
- Some of the German commanders adjusted, with Brauchitsch and Fritsch taking actual command. Model and Kluge were demoted to the rank of General.

● AI

- Italy will be more aggressive in the Ethiopian theater.
- Germany would deploy more troops to the Russian frontline.
- The minimum required number of supply trucks for AI has been slightly increased.
- Soviet Union concentrating too many troops in the Far East during a European war has been resolved.
- AI would stop wasting command points on "Reserve Transfer" and "Extra Fuel Reserves" during peacetime battle plan.
- Historical Italy AI is fine-tuned™, focus order is revisited and able to putting up a fierce fight in North and East Africa.
- Poland no longer signs a mutual defence pact with Lithuania in 1938, as a result of the historical AI working properly since the previous update.

● Localisation

- Rewrite localization for Convoy Supply technologies.
- Some descriptions for Liechtenstein focuses and decisions.
- Added party names and changed names for East and West Germany.
- Fixed some typos in the German 'Establish Reichskommissariats' decision category.

● GFX/UI

- Theater alerts are now in color.
- New icons for CAS 0 and CV CAS 0.
- [LaR] Added Kaiserreich operatives.
- The menu has been completely changed.
- Incorporated new vanilla Finnish 3D unit models.
- Additional fixes and improvements for generic portraits.
- Several new portraits for monarchist figures within Germany.
- Planes for the Samis, Québec, Iceland. New Biplane for China.
- The button that shows pausing and continuing the game has been changed.
- The color of technologies discovered in the technology tree became purple.
- [Non-BBA] The Italian Naval Bomber I "SM.79 Sparviero", was replaced by the "Caproni Ca.335".
- New Chilean portraits have been added for Anton Pulanich, Olegario Reyes del Río and Emilio Daroch Soto.
- New Slovak portraits have been added for Ariosto Herrera, Franz Karmasin, Jan Ursiny, Janko Jesensky, Gustav Husak, Jan Golian, Jozef Nemsila and Rudolf Viest.

v0.1.9.6.5 [ca8c] - Sun and Origin

● Added new combat tactics.
● Reworked the Uruguayan focus tree.
● Focus tree for Québec, which for now is only accessible when releasing it.
● Added CAS '30 , CV CAS '30 , Naval Bomber '30 and CV Naval Bomber '30 for non-BBA interwar counterparts.

- Local names for Hazaristan.
- Improved aircraft templates.
- Expansion to the Liechtenstein focus tree.
- Netherlands-specific Benelux coring decisions.
- Portrait for Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, leader of Hazaristan.
- Added a new general and army chief to Carpathian Ukraine.
- Added a decision for warlords to join the United Front against Japan.
- Venezuelan 'Constitute women's rights' now changes the legal status of women to full equality.
- Added Carlist and Anarchist operation names. The Carlist names are inspired by Spanish galleons from its golden century while the anarchist names are mostly written in Esperanto.
- Historical air orders of battle have been implemented in Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, United Kingdom and France for both BBA and non-BBA players.

v0.1.9.6.4 [8af6] - Sun and Origin

● Focus tree for Japan and Costa Rica
● Additional focuses for Egypt and Liechtenstein.
● Completely redesigned post-independence Palestine tree to address gameplay complaints and make it more unique to play (same for Israel is coming soon!).

- Added Delaware to the map.
- Revamped ideologies icons.
- [BBA] Revamped airframe icons.
- Added some more flavour to Israel.
- The AI would invest less in air equipment.
- New portrait for Abbas II of Egypt and Albania.
- Buffed Belgium starting air strength significantly.
- Added Better Mechanics: Camera (cr: Arcane Master)
- Added the Strait of Tiran between Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
- Nerfed Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's 'Conservative Nationalist' trait
- [NSB] Updated "Field Test New Tanks" for Czechoslovakia with NSB rewards.
- Template improved from 9/3 to 9/2, reducing strains on artillery production.
- In the focus of Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri, manpower has been increased from 125000 to 500000.
- Changed the effects of Concentrated and Dispersed industries in the industry section of the tech tree.
- Made the Iranian "Restore Constitutionalism" localisation dynamic, since it's recycled in the Saudi tree.
- [MtG] The German historical AI will not focus on capital ships anymore due to a condition misplacement.
- Changed the color of Chile, Ecuador, Norway, Iceland, Turkiye, Panama, Venezuela, Netherlands and Indonesia.
- The new equipment icons from Lamp's Eqpt Icons for British armour have been integrated with the previously-overlooked tank icons.
- Structural and balance changes to Road to 56 Germany, to make paratroopers/marine focuses more attainable and impactful among other things.

➤ EGYPT

- Added AI strategy plans for Egypt.
- Alternate history AI game rules for Egypt.

➤ LIECHTENSTEIN

- Localization fixes for Liechtenstein.
- A few new political advisor portraits for Liechtenstein.

v0.1.9.6.3.1 [611a] - Sun and Origin

- Hotfix
- The correspondence has been corrected and brought back.

➤ IRAQ

- Decreased the duration of 5 focus.

v0.1.9.6.3 [3262] - Sun and Origin

● New Democratic Japan Path.
● Manchurian Investment Tree Overhauled.
● Revamped Israeli war tree and tweaked effects for some focuses.
● New focus for Czechoslovakia and Poland for Liechtenstein-owned properties.
● Additional focuses and decisions for Liechtenstein, including their own gold trade!
● For historical flavor, the Soviets will now attack Poland as in real life, with associated content for Poland, their faction leader and Germany.
● National ideas (GP NI GUI) have been completely changed. It's now parting ways, its traits have been changed and its PP has been adjusted.

- China's color turned blue.
- Added Kazakh characters.
- Replaced some focus icons.
- Added a new way to kill Hitler.
- Replaced some Ukrainian portraits.
- [BBA] Turkey will have Jet 2d icons.
- The loading screens have changed.
- [LaR] Added anarchist commanders.
- Added more unique capitulation pictures.
- Revamed Levantine Union democratic tree.
- AI Majors should not be obesssed with planes.
- Added Gyorgy Lukacs for communist Hungary.
- Country GDP screen has been added. (cr: Saha)
- Added small versions of Central Asian portraits.
- Light Tank Recon can no longer get 300 soft attack.
- [MtG] Added a news event if Trotsky takes control of Mexico.
- The icon of Germany's National Socialism ideology has changed.
- Changed Poland's monarchy from despotism to absolute monarchy.
- [LaR] Reshuffled Portugal democratic path to make it more appealing.
- New decisions and state modifier for partisans in occupied German land.
- Made it so Hungary's 'Liechtenstein Treaty' actually include Liechtenstein.
- [DoD] Romania getting German licenses will also come with a free military factory.
- New Union Stabilization mechanic to improve Levantine Union gameplay. other details.
- Added communist focuses and some other improvements for the Norwegian focus tree.
- Told the AI to use the added R56 technologies they were ignoring since the release of NSB.
- Enver Hoxha for communist Albania now has a trait, making him more viable in the leader choice event.
- [Not NSB] Anna Anderson - Anastasia Romanov will not appear as a man in multiplayer for those without NSB.
- Improved communist canada slightly and changed incorrect traits of some of their chiefs of the Navy and other details.
- The technologies increasing the range and building speed of supply hubs can now be identified under the name: "Supply Node Technologies" in some focus trees.

v0.1.9.6.2 [0acf] - Viva I'Italia!

● Army tree for Burma.
● Political tree for Nigeria.
● UI, GFX and sound update.
● United Kingdom focus tree renewed.
● Minor content improvements and focus reshuffles for Israel.
● Additional focuses and reshuffling for Liechtenstein, along with new flavour events.
● Slightly adjusted pre-independence tree and added peaceful dissolution path for Mandate of Palestine.
● [NSB] Added small post unification trees for Idel-Ural, Transcaucasia and the Mountain Republic

- Focus icon rework for Iran.
- Main menu music changed.
- Several new portraits for Burma.
- The loading screens have changed.
- Some ideology icons have changed.
- Main menu UI and background changed.
- AI will be more willing to pick national characters.
- The picture of the 36' scenario has been changed.
- [LaR] Some minor improvements to Anarchist Spain.
- [BBA] Improved the 2D/3D use of the plane designer.
- Ideology, election and building texts are now colored.
- Memel/Klaipeda is now demanded with better historical timings.
- New portrait for Josef Hoop, democratic leader of Liechtenstein.
- The Philippines now starts as a protectorate rather than a puppet.
- Mapmode buttons and topbar army/air/navy icons has been changed.
- Changed some overused national spirit icons in Australia and New Zealand.
- Made the mod compatible with the Eastern Front Plane pack cosmetic DLC.
- [NSB] Fixed the order of the recommended tank icons in the tank designers.
- Added AI preferences game rules for Mandate of Palestine and it's splinters.
- [BBA] Made some effects better suited to the new structure of the air research tree.
- Added several unique advisors for Burma and Liechtenstein so they are no longer generics.
- Slightly changed Anschluss requirements to match both (Road to 56 and Vanilla) focus trees.
- [LaR] Replaced generic end of mission warning with unique one for (almost) each spy mission.
- Finnish AI will be less likely to accept demands for Karelia if USSR has little army (on the border to them).
- Researches/doctrines that cannot be retrieved in the technology and doctrine tree are now more specific.
- Made some underresearched techs more likely to be picked by the AI with actual tips on when to choose them.
- The portraits of Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, Ferdinand Schorner, Reza Shah Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi has been changed.
- All menu sounds and war sounds (airplane bomb, artillery, armored car fires, infantry, mechanized units) have been changed.
- Italo Balbo's friendly fire death now only happens if Libya has recently been target of strategic bombing instead of in any war with a major.
- The AI should dig for resources more if it has lots of military factories, this should help the US which tends to suffer from large resource deficits in the late game.

- Democratic Cayenne flag changed.
- Non-Aligned/Neutrality Czechoslovakia, Kingdom of France and France Third Empire flag changed.
- Left/Communist Angola, Cayenne and Czechoslovakia, Peru and Poland flag changed.
- Nationalist/Fascist Angola, Peru, Botswana, Bavaria, Belarus, Cayenne, Dalmatia, Indonesia and Turkey flag changed.

➤ GERMANY

- 69 focus icons changed in Germany focus tree.
- German AI will be more inclined to ignore their Eupen-Malmedy claim.
- Severely decreased chance to obtain Sudetenland by peace as Germany.
- New national spirit for Germany featuring the struggle against Soviet state on the Eastern Front.

➤ UNITED KINGDOM

- The royalist path has been divided into 2 and new focuses have been added.

➤ ITALY

- Expand Libyan Manufactures focus icon changed.
- Added some historical leaders to Italian releasable states.

➤ USA

- 15 focus icons changed in USA focus tree.

➤ JAPAN

- Custom picture of Japan allies Britain.
- 6 focus icons changed in Japan focus tree.

➤ FRANCE

- Reduced the duration of Tools Modernisation focus.

➤ TURKEY

- 93 focus icons changed in Turkey focus tree.
- The portraits of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Adnan Menderes were changed.

➤ ARGENTINA

- Reduced the duration of Infrasturecture Development, Military Youth and Claim Uruguay focus.

➤ CANADA
- Changed the trait of some Canadian characters to make them more interesting choices.
- Improved some rt56 Canadian focuses by shortening them or adapting the effect to recent DLCs. (NSB and BBA)