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Update: Dec 7 @ 1:51pm
by Greatexperiment

December 2025 Update!

Highlights
  • Completely overhauled the Nationalism branch for RoC's Road to 56 tree.

Additions
  • The National Catastrophe has been tweaked to be more broadly applicable (no ideology locks) and now all Chinese Governments have access to it.
  • Added Petainist advisors for France, tweaked condition for a couple others.
  • Shanghai now has the Shanghai International Settlement state modifier from vanilla.
  • Added coal and coal decisions in relevant regions of Africa.
  • Added a few mining focuses in the Katanga focus tree.
  • Restored the toggleable building speed modifier overlay in the construction tab.
  • Added a dam in the town of Saguenay, Québec.

Adjustments
  • Allowed the USSR Shocktroops focus to unlock the extra special forces specialization.
  • Adjusted the populations of both South and North Tohoku to more accurate ones.
  • Japan's AI should now attempt to counter the Emperor's Conspiracy.
  • The PRC will no longer create the People's Front on historical.
  • The Military Planning Corps decisions now are available again when the first selected target no longer exists.
  • The RoC Tree has been reorganized.
  • The Big Rear Plan Branch and the old Nationalism Branch have been split between the National Defense Council and the new Nationalism Branches.
  • Romanian focuses Alliance with the Germans and Italians now have a bypass condition.
  • Adapted industry technologies to the new coal productions and energy bonuses (some have been put in the regular industry techs).
  • Added coal to a relevant Tuvan focus.
  • Moved a part of the rubber production of Sarawak to North Borneo.
  • Portugal's Road to 56 focus tree has received balance changes to incorporate the doctrine mastery system.
  • Ported vanilla's coal-related buildings and tech-based energy gain buffs.
  • Disabled vanilla's slight peacescore redistribution based on faction influence, as faction influence's value seems rather arbitrary.
  • Changed the names of the states in Québec.
  • [GoE] Made a few Iranian focuses adapt better to decolonization of Pakistan, Syria and the Mandate.
  • [NCNS] Added many sanity checks and two new bypass conditions to Filipino focuses.
  • [NCNS] Japan and the Warlords should now have correct OOBs.
  • [NCNS] Wang Jingwei's Branch on the RT56 tree has been updated to delay the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.

Bugfixes
  • Fixed German effects regarding the "Atlantic coast" (mostly the Atlantikwall) to take into account rt56 states.
  • Added coal consumption modifiers to economy laws.
  • The Sichuan Famine will now end (the last event will remove the national spirit).
  • Fixed multiple instances of missing GFX.
  • Updated the Nusantara formable to include the new Filipino states.
  • Added the new occupation laws that came with the No Compromise, No Surrender.
  • Fixed Mannerheim giving negative effects as a theorist.
  • Fixed Khotan Clique having its capital in Ruoqiang. Now it is back to being in Khotan.
  • Fixing the text of a late game news event.
  • Polish focus Expand Katowice Resources now gives steel as resource if the building cap is reached for steel mills.
  • [AAT] Fix the trieste Shipyard MIO for Austria.
  • [GoE] Fix Iran's "Memphis Initiative" having far stricter requirements for its coring decisions than in vanilla.
  • [NCNS] Ported most of the Strategic Locations from vanilla.
  • [NCNS] RT56 Tree specific decisions will no longer show up on DLC tree RoC.
  • [NCNS] The Marco Polo Bridge Incident will now happen at the right time.
  • [NCNS] China is now able to annex the Northeast Army after the Xian incident.
  • [NCNS] Fix state number conflict in faction goals.
  • [NCNS] Japan completing "Revoke the Peace Preservation Law" will now block the civil war from losing Chinese lands.
  • [NCNS] The Philippines no longer lose their monarchist path unique flags/names when doing Treaty of Manila while at war.
  • [Non-NCNS] Restored Japan's election event for completing focus "The Showa Constitution".

GFX
  • Made use of the new British Raj militia model as standard infantry for a number of tags of the subcontinent
  • Various Focus Icons for the RoC have been improved.

Localization
  • Portugal's Road to 56 focus "Address the New Spain" now has a tooltip explaining what the event does.

Contact Us!
  • Questions? Comments? Let us know on Discord[discord.gg] and feel free to check us out on X! We'd love to hear from you!

Our Wiki!
  • Do you want to know more about the mod? Do you need a path guide? Come and visit our Wiki[rt56.miraheze.org]!

Credits
  • Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project.

Discuss this update in the discussions section.
Update: Nov 22 @ 3:35pm
by Greatexperiment

NCNS Hotfix #2!

Adjustments
  • Swapped some order of battles in Asia to have better starting unit amounts.
  • Further improved events around the Sino-Japanese war.

Bugfixes
  • Fixed naval invasion techs giving stats that are deprecated.
  • [Non-NCNS] Fix focus overlap when going democratic as Japan.
  • [NCNS] Gave the Philippines access to American MIOs like in vanilla.
  • [NCNS] Fixed a CTD when the Philippine focus Align Japan was completed.

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Update: Nov 21 @ 3:09pm
by Greatexperiment

NCNS Hotfix #1!

Adjustments
  • Updated the Warlord Alignment GUI for the new warlords.
  • Temporarily disabled Mengukuo's border war since it was causing issues.
  • [BftB] Ported two new Greek events the base game added with NCNS.
  • [NCNS] Added combability for the faction system on many occasions.

Bugfixes
  • Fixed Anschluss event chain.
  • Fix Japan's name being outdated with their new starting ideology.
  • [Non-NCNS] Fixed PRC starting leader.
  • [NCNS] Fixed PRC getting land in Norway.

Localization
  • Fixed NCNS focus filter names.

Credits
  • Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project, as well as for opportunities to learn about the related history.

Contact Us!

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Update: Nov 20 @ 12:00pm
by Greatexperiment

NCNS November 2025 Update!

Our big "No Compromise, No Surrender" update has arrived! Please be aware of the following:
  1. Expect bugs! Expect oddities! Expect the unexpected!
  2. Please report all issues over on our Discord[discord.gg].
  3. We'll be patching as needed for a while as we work out the kinks.
  4. Our regular update schedule of a Beta on the 1st and a full releases on the 7th will resume in December!
  5. We have a Retro Release for 1.16 if you want to try finishing your old saves. Note that it may not work and we can't provide support. Use at your own risk.


Highlights
  • Compatibility for the DLC "No Compromise, No Surrender" and its accompanying vanilla patch. Expect more bugs than usual, and we'd appreciate if you'd report any that you find!

Additions
  • Added voicelines for Silesia.
  • Sichuan Clique has been added as a starting nation, with full support for the Road to 56 warlord focus tree.
  • Added the base game Warsaw Pact focus for the USSR.
  • [NCNS] When "No Compromise, No Surrender" is enabled, the DLC-expansion to vanilla's warlord focus tree will work with the Road to 56 warlord focus tree.
  • [NCNS] When "No Compromise, No Surrender" is enabled, the DLC-branches unique to Sinkiang, Ma-Clique and Khotan-Clique will be supported on the Road to 56 warlord focus tree.
  • Added a Decision to Annex Capitulated Warlords in the Chinese United front as the Recognized Government of China.

Adjustments
  • The Xian Incident will not occur through the Northeast Army's Tree for DLC owners, rather than through the RoC's
  • Sinkiang may now complete the branches "Coalition with the KMT" and "A Religion of Peace" regardless of ideology if Sheng Shicai is the country's leader.
  • Adjusted the borders of the Khotan clique to be more accurate, this has the added bonus of nerfing them, which should lead to a historical outcome more often.
  • Poland Fragmentation Status game rule has been improved.
  • Canadian content is more compatible with new base game features.
  • The German Historical AI is now able to complete "Autarky Achieved" focus under normal circumstances.
  • The Indonesian colonialists will have the Indonesian focus tree if the Revolution is done.
  • Restructured some Polish branches to fix there being two pairs of nearly identical focuses.
  • Tuvan Naval Preparatory Committee advisor now checks for completion of the Naval Dockyard Effort focus instead of owning a coastal state
  • Polished Poland's border war events to annex Danzig, and restructured the historical path to remove two pairs of very similar focuses.
  • [BBA] Supersonic small airframe is now available, its project previously gave jet engine III which has been split off into a new special project.
  • [Non-GoE] Added the condition to remove Religious Schism in order to get the two Shiite clerics as advisors.

Bugfixes
  • Greenlandic event "The Hull-Kauffmann agreement" now triggers properly.
  • Trotsky-puppeted Armenia will no longer be able to purge Trotskyists.
  • Fixed Rome formable requiring states in Bosnia that were not displayed in the preview and tooltip as requirements.
  • Kyösti Kallio now has the "Backed by Political Coalition" country leader trait.
  • Added a bypass for the "Revive the Basmachi Movement" focus in the RT56 Afghan tree.
  • When completing the Indonesin focus "Replace the Party's Leadership" focus, you will get Sukarno with the Revolution.
  • The Indonesian colonialists in the Revolution are now non-aligned.
  • Fix Hitler suicide event popping up multiple times.
  • Undid the fix for lootboxes not being random in multiplayer, as it broke the RNG in different ways.
  • Polish BoP unrest no longer gives drift in the opposite way, as it made it too likely for a civil war to happen.
  • Polish border war for Danzig now works correctly.
  • Added a missing victory point for Salekhard.
  • [BftB] The decision "Honor the Legacy of the Argeads" now needs Northern Epirus instead of Bucovina to be completed.
  • [NSB] Polish decision "Armor Training Focus" now checks for improved light tank chassis.
  • [Non-GoE] Adjusted numerous Iraqi characters to match pre-GoE.
  • [GoE] Fixed a CTD when going fascist in the R56 Iraq tree.
  • [GoE] British Raj now has a much better random and specific path selection.

GFX
  • Improved art for jet engine special projects.
  • Added many new icons to China, Manchukuo and the various warlords.
  • [GoE] Communist Kurdistan leader Qazi Muhammad will now use his DLC portrait when available.

Localization
  • Renamed "Germany Decentralized" and "Germany Fragmented" which only affect Bavaria.
  • Fixed many cases of focus descriptions not having descriptions.
  • When the Road to 56 Portugal tree is enabled, many focuses that unlock decisions now have a tooltip explaining what they do.
  • [AAT] Liberal Politican trait no longer has a dev note in the tooltip.

Contact Us!
  • Questions? Comments? Let us know on Discord[discord.gg] and feel free to check us out on X! We'd love to hear from you!

Our Wiki!
  • Do you want to know more about the mod? Do you need a path guide? Come and visit our Wiki[rt56.miraheze.org]!

Credits
  • Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project.

Discuss this update in the discussions section.
Update: Oct 7 @ 1:09pm
by Greatexperiment

October 2025 Update!

Highlights
  • Optimized hourly ticks, which are now around 6% faster.
  • Added a partial focus tree for Cyprus.

Additions
  • Ernest James Renaud will transfer to Quebec after its independence.
  • Added more historical characters in the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Ethiopian releasables).
  • Added communist Filipino politicians.
  • Added decisions for the Chinese warlords to choose a new capital in conquered territories.

Adjustments
  • Most industrial national spirits will no longer be removed from Finland if they enter a civil war.
  • The vanilla nerf removing political power gain from Army/Air/Navy Old Guard Chiefs has been restored.
  • Replaced janitorial staff at the R56 offices with discounted AI-powered Roombas. All credit goes to Phil the intern for spearheading the initiative.
  • [LaR & GD] Communist and anarchist Spain AI will always refuse a Carlist restoration, therefore preventing the rise of anarcho-monarchism.

AI
  • Disabled Iraq joining the Axis on historical if the Allies are slow with fighting back their realignment.
  • Fixed Colombia joining the Allies far too early on historical.
  • Belgian AI should behave more intelligently when random AI is selected/historical is off, removed a non-functional AI gamerule.
  • Polish AI should behave much more intelligently when historical is off and no gamerule is selected.
  • The new AI janitorial staff is functioning perfectly. Everything is fine. Any conspicuously missing personnel are on vacation, probably.

Bugfixes
  • Fix puppeted Finland trying to declare war on the USSR under certain circumstances.
  • Restore political power gain for Old Guard army/navy/air chiefs, which was accidentally removed.
  • Fixed the Polish exile branch having illogical requirements.
  • Fixed many Afghan national spirits immediately cancelling upon receiving them.
  • Several bug fixes have been made to the various Chinese nations who received focus trees last update.
  • Restored two Norwegian victory points that were referenced in its Rt56 tree.
  • Just like in vanilla, Denmark will no longer become part of the Axis after capitulation, keeping Denmark from actively helping the Axis.
  • Fixed lootbox decisions not being entirely random and having the exact same outcome for all people in multiplayer games for example.
  • Fixed Silesia not receiving cores in its uprising if the 'Remove Some Releasables' game rule is enabled.
  • Discovered Roombas were actually black-market military killbots, patched firmware to fix. CON: There were some casualties. PRO: We don't have to fire Phil.
  • [MtG & AAT] fixed small details with the amphibious tank MIO.
  • [AAT] Fixed Danish r56 content causing problems to the AAT content.
  • [GD] Fixed the US focus to recruit the Martians... The Tender Loving Empire denied any involvement.
  • [GoE] Fixed Afghanistan never getting the decision 'Purchase Foreign Aircraft'

GFX
  • Added more unique news event pictures.
  • Readded many TfV and DoD portraits.
  • Improved a few Polish portraits.

Localization
  • Change the name of the country tag BEG to the Kingdom of Gojjam.
  • Remove inaccurate descriptions for the AI behavior gamerules of fascist Poland and monarchist Brazil.

Contact Us!
  • Questions? Comments? Let us know on Discord[discord.gg] and feel free to check us out on X! We'd love to hear from you!

Our Wiki!
  • Do you want to know more about the mod? Do you need a path guide? Come and visit our Wiki[rt56.miraheze.org]!

Credits
  • Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project.

Discuss this update in the discussions section.
Update: Sep 7 @ 10:10am
by Greatexperiment

September 2025 Update!

Highlights
  • The Republic of China, and all Chinese Warlords have received new focus trees, complete with a reworked system for the Chinese United Front.
  • Manchukuo has received a new focus tree, complete with new mechanics for Japan to combat Manchurian separatism.

Additions
  • Added Circassia as a formable for fascist and non-aligned Kabardino-Balkaria.
  • Added Confederate claims on the states that they claimed in the 1860s.
  • [MtG] Added workers brigades focus for communist Britain.
  • [MtG] The Netherlands focus tree has received new focuses in the military branches, alongside added support for focus branch auto-hiding, and an incorporation of many recent additions made by Paradox.

Adjustments
  • Egypt's focus tree has received support for focus branch auto-hiding.
  • Hatay is no longer required to form Mamluk's/Arabia.
  • Slight modifications to the Croatian, Cuban, and Egyptian focus trees.
  • Made minor tweaks to the Polynesian formable.
  • Campesino Honduras should now be able to core Panama and Yucatan from decisions previously exclusive to Central America.
  • Reworked the Federated States of Micronesia's name list.
  • Fractionally increased the electronvolts / mass of all W bosons while decreasing their Z counterparts by the same amount for a net change of zero in the weak nuclear force's coupling constant. In the unlikely event that this causes reality to crash, please feel free to file a bug report in your next available stable universe.
  • [Non-TOA] Brazil's focus tree has received small changes to improve the flow of the tree.

Bugfixes
  • Hungarian focus "Intervene in Czechoslovakia" will now, as intended, transfer claimed border provinces in exchange for a guarantee.
  • Develop Tungsten in Paraiba no longer gives tungsten in Rio Grande do Sul.
  • Fixed a bug which prevented Germany from forming Reichskommissariat Hindustan.
  • Fixed not being able to escalate the Mysore/Goa border war as Raj.
  • Trotsky's Permanent Revolutionary trait should now properly be replaced with Triumphant Revolutionary.
  • The Banana Republic national spirit for Honduras should now be removed once completing the Five Year Plan focus.
  • Ported new Victory Points from the recent war patches and Graveyard of Empires update.
  • Fixed incorrect categories for Asymmetrical Warfare land doctrines.
  • Fixed a resource decision in Canada drilling in the wrong state.
  • Fixed bad national spirit icon for workers brigades.
  • Fixed Central-America's cores when it is formed at launch via the game rule.
  • Readded civil war decisions for Road to 56 communist Germany that had been lost in the Gotterdammerung update.
  • Realized the Ancient Lost City was actually found a while ago. Much disappointment.
  • [AAT] Fixed Fascist Iceland and other Nordic countries demanding Malaysian states in their focus trees.
  • [ToA] Fixed having to be at war with Germany/Italy to progress down the Fascist Argentine branch.
  • [Not ToA] Fixed a number of small bugs in Chile (no naval MIO, a blue commander portrait...)
  • [GD] Kaiser Wilhelm II now gains Imperial Connections.
  • [GD] Fixed Belgium having no available chief's of air.
  • [GD] Fixed Belgian Flemish-socialist path failing to give them their correct leader.
  • [GD] Fixed Belgium being unable to use the Benelux formable with the DLC-tree enabled.
  • [GoE] Corrected a tooltip in the Construct the Dukan Dam focus.

GFX
  • Improved the portraits on many Siamese characters.
  • Changed some flags of various minor nations.
  • Changed the Confederate non-aligned and fascist flags to be the battle flag, with a decision to switch to the Stars and Bars or Blood-Stained Banner.
  • Improved Brazilian national spirit icons.
  • Added a few news event pictures.
  • How many folks read these notes? Maybe we need to give out more coupons.
  • [NSB] Added unique event pictures for formables on the Soviet's releasable tags.

Localization
  • Fixed the state of Sikkim being called Ashgabat.
  • Fixed some anachronistic victory point names, changed Monaco City to French and added an Italian name.
  • [NSB] Improved the text of several formable news events.

Credits
  • Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project.

Contact Us!
  • Questions? Comments? Let us know on Discord[discord.gg] and feel free to check us out on X! We'd love to hear from you!

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Update: Aug 7 @ 1:24pm
by Greatexperiment

August 2025 Update!

Additions
  • New companies and an aeronautical scientist for Portugal.
  • Added resources in French Indochina, a tiny bit being controlled by Japanese interests.

Adjustments
  • RT56 Portugal has seen a large overhaul to the Fascist branch, as well as smaller changes elsewhere.
  • Gave the Philippine mining company a mining-orientated trait.
  • The focus to get dockyards in Nha Trang will build them there in priority and give you a naval base.
  • Gave free political power to Vietnam upon independence.
  • Some Czechoslovak focuses can't be done if the target countries are controlled by a player.
  • Adjusted Khotan Clique AI to not do their military factory focus on historical, to hopefully avoid the Xinjiang war going on for eternity.
  • On Portugal's Road to 56 focus tree, the Communist/Democratic coup may now be performed peacefully if there is less than 30% authoritarian support in the country.
  • Fixed decision "Take Control of the Japanese Mining Companies" never appearing on Vietnam.
  • [MtG] When historical AI focuses are off, democratic/communist UK/USA will no longer declare war on Mexico when they nationalize their oil fields.
  • [BftB] Adjusted the Damascus Diktat focus for Turkey to be more flexible in case of a disunited Syria.
  • [BftB] Incorporated many vanilla changes made to Bulgaria since the DLC's launch.
  • [ToA] Brought over many vanilla changes to Chile.
  • [GD] Incorporated many vanilla changes and fixes made to Belgium since the DLC's launch.

Bugfixes
  • Removed a "Performance Test" event which allegedly fired for people and broke the game in 1938.
  • Many requirements for Turkey completing focuses in the vanilla tree will now use Road to 56 equivalents when its tree is loaded.
  • Fixed the Portuguese-triggered civil war in Brazil giving fewer units to the Portuguese-controlled side than intended under some circumstances.
  • Indonesian Army Chief "Mangkoenegara VII" has the correct trait.
  • Fixed a few small and large portrait bugs in Portugal.
  • Fixed the Polish non-historical AI frequently not doing political focuses and failing to stop the peasant revolt.
  • The Polish focus to develop Gdynia won't indicate the construction of dockyards in foreign lands and the related forts won't be built if Gdynia is not controlled.
  • Told the game to load the historical leader of Cambodian communists.
  • Fixed the Flemish name of the Congolese intelligence agency appearing elsewhere due to a broken condition.
  • Palestinian focus "Dealing With The Husseinis" correctly grants the "Forced Secularization" national spirit.
  • Re-enabled Finnish decisions to surrender to the USSR that had been wrongly assumed duplicate.
  • Fixed decision "Take Control of the Japanese Mining Companies" never appearing on Vietnam.
  • [Non-MtG] Fixed German naval focuses being compatible only with MtG.
  • [MtG] Fixed a few broken Mexican tooltips.
  • [BBA] Fixed Haile Selassie Gugsa being a "secret" Italian fascist leader.
  • [AAT] Fixed a few broken Danish tooltips.
  • [ToA] Added war goal warnings to many Argentine/Brazilian/Chilean focuses that were missing them.
  • [ToA] Fixed having to be at war with Germany/Italy in the Argentine Fascist path.
  • [ToA] Fixed the Argentine/Brazilian/Chilean AI's being broken while historical AI focuses were turned off.
  • [ToA] Roberto Maria Ortiz now becomes country leader after completing a focus with the same name.
  • [GoE] Fixed a few Afghan advisors always being unavailable.

Credits
  • Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project.

Contact Us!
  • Questions? Comments? Let us know on Discord[discord.gg] and feel free to check us out on X! We'd love to hear from you!

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Update: Jul 7 @ 10:04am
by Greatexperiment

July 2025 Update

Highlights
  • Revamped the communist path for Honduras.
  • [GoE] Both Indian trees are available via game rules.
  • [GoE] The Afghanistan changes from the latest War Effort patch have been incorporated into the mod, alongside the addition of several advisors previously restricted to the rt56 tree and many fixes.

Additions
  • Added a small Niuean economy tree.
  • Added new advisors for various countries, mainly the Americas.
  • Added new companies for various countries.
  • Added new country leaders for various minor countries.
  • Added an Embargo China branch for the UK.
  • Readded the "Expand Katowice Resources" focus for Poland from vanilla.
  • Reworked the phosphate trade mechanic for Nauru.
  • [LaR] Added the "Institute Price Controls" focus for Spain from vanilla.
  • [GoE] A few Iraqi events from the latest War Effort patch have been incorporated into the mod.

Adjustments
  • Added infrastructure to all Ethiopian states.
  • Blocked the VP renaming button in multiplayer so people can't spam it to lag the game.
  • Honduras's decision "Take the Spanish Throne" has been reworked to no longer release you as Spain.
  • Nuking the Panama or Suez canals now blocks them.
  • Added "super-historical" branches (prior only available to the AI) for a few countries.
  • Adjusted effects of Soviet focuses "Soviet Artillery" and "Superior War Machines".
  • Germany can now use the "Industrial Requisition" decisions if they have Totaler Krieg economy law.
  • Rearranged the RT56 British fascist tree.
  • Yugoslav focus "Form the Balkan Federation" will now grant certain military commanders from annexed nations.
  • Added flavour to a few British industrial focuses.
  • Reduced amount of resources in Katowice and replaced part of the steel production with steel mills.
  • Soviet focus "Eradicate Western Fascism" now has a bypass in order to not be locked out of "The Iron Curtain" focus in some situations.
  • [GD] All German focuses that require 40% ideology support will no longer stop if ideology support falls below 40%.

Bugfixes
  • Fixed a variety of issues with the Finnish AI.
  • Alfie no longer appears at the bottom of an operative slot.
  • Fixed a missing tooltip in the German focus "Crossing the Atlantic".
  • Fixed German fortification focuses assigning to the wrong states.
  • Fixed Liberia forming its own faction on historical.
  • Fixed Syria annexing France if the latter capitulates with the two at war.
  • Fixed the Portuguese focus "Modernize the Rural Regions" downgrading the Guarda state to developed rural (from town).
  • Fixed focus tree offsets for RT56 Afghanistan, Romania and Poland.
  • Fixed the victory point for Syktyvkar being missing.
  • Imported Khakas namelist from vanilla and copied that of Seychelles to Mauritius.
  • Fixed the Indonesian decision 'Expand the Bandoeng Arms Factory' giving air research facilities.
  • Fixed decision 'Nationalize Artillerie Inrichtingen Bandoeng' requiring a Burmese state.
  • Dardanelles and Bosporus straits are now synchronized.
  • [AAT] "Kungliga Vattenfallstyrelsen" industrial concern correctly upgrades when infrastructure is built in Northern Sweden.
  • [GD] German democratic AI should no longer fail to get rid of August von Mackensen as country leader.
  • [GoE] Fixed the Saadabad Pact shared branch overlapping with other focuses if branch hiding is disabled.
  • [GoE] Fixed Iraqi and Iranian focuses to nationalize their oil not working correctly.
  • [GoE] Fixed Afghanistan with the vanilla tree loading in with the RT56 balance of power.

GFX
  • Added a new small winter logistics icon.
  • Improved a few Siamese portraits.
  • Improved several Tannu Tuvan portraits.
  • Improved and revised many Peruvian portraits.
  • Altered the stretching of the Bhutanese historical and communist flags.

Credits
  • Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project.

Contact Us!
  • Questions? Comments? Let us know on Discord[discord.gg] and feel free to check us out on X! We'd love to hear from you!

Discuss this update in the discussions section.
Update: Jun 7 @ 9:31am
by Greatexperiment

June 2025 Update!

Highlights
  • The Rt56 and AAT Finnish tree have been combined into one with the old Rt56 alternate history branches available to non-DLC owners.
  • Improvements for Australia: the Labor party path is now available, all the leader have traits and some focus rewards have been improved.
  • Portugal has received new options to cooperate with Spain, as well as a small overhaul to many of its focuses, advisors and decisions.
  • [GoE] Added the "Saadabad Pact" branch from vanilla.
  • [GoE] Added the option to switch between Afghanistan trees.

Additions
  • Added the "Strengthen Warlord Activity" branch for Warlords from vanilla.
  • Added dozens of advisors.
  • Added dozens of MIOs.
  • Added an option to disable the Austrian civil war minigame in the initial event.
  • [MTG] Expanded the Dutch colonial branch, including new options to deal with Indonesian separatism.
  • [BftB] Focus auto-hiding and new focuses from recent war effort patches for Greece have been integrated into the mod.
  • [AAT] Added special forces doctrine cost reduction in special force focuses instead of granting a training tech boosts. (as those are not used with the dlc)

Adjustments
  • Rebalanced several focuses on the Dutch East Indies.
  • Made several adjustments for Egypt to make it easier to handle Sudanese separatism.
  • Adjusted fascist Romania so less focuses are mutually exclusive.
  • Romanian attack-USSR branch will now function if Soviets break Molotov-Ribbentrop.
  • Soviet focus "Improve Railway Network" now makes the entire Trans-Siberian Railway level 2.
  • Chinese "Request German Intervention" will now be available if the Tripartite Pact has been created.
  • Several war goal focuses that previously didn't will now provide warnings for players; AI will also be much less likely to begin war goal focuses if they are not ready to declare them.
  • Imported several vanilla Intelligence Agencies.
  • Around a dozen advisors have improved traits.
  • The USA will not do warplan focuses against countries it's allied with.
  • [BBA] When player control over peace conferences is enabled by gamerule, navy actions will now also consume just 1 point.
  • [NSB] Alberts Kviesis is the starting country leader for Latvia.
  • [AAT] Removed some redundant generic MIOs.
  • [GD/GoE] More tags can use some some monuments: the Papal States benefit from the Colosseum, Prussia the Reichtag, Greece Hagia Sophia.

Bugfixes
  • Fixed a few traits.
  • Romania should no longer pull countries from factions.
  • The German event to switch to "Economy of Conquest" will now fire as intended.
  • German focus "Claim Old Colonies in the East" is not covered by "Ally Chiang Kai-Shek" focus.
  • [MtG] Finnish decision "Mining the Sea" doesn't lay mines in Northern Brazil.
  • [LaR] Fixed a bug where puppeting communist aligned Republican Spain before the "War of Independence" would lead to a war against the SOV tag later.
  • [BftB] Greek focus "Realign Ourselves with the Central Powers" now works for nations using Götterdämmerung focus trees.
  • [NSB] Estonian focus "Unite the Finnic Identity" now gives core on Trøndelag.
  • [ToA] Brazilian focus "Expand Fordlandia" correctly grants its effects.
  • [ToA] Fixed the portrait of Rafael Franco.
  • [ToA] Fixed Higinio Morinigo not taking power after Rafael Franco.
  • [ToA] Fixed Nimio de Anquin political role.

GFX
  • Added many Pre-GD Focus Icons for Germany.
  • Better GFX and interface positioning for YUG decisions.
  • Added a few dynamic news images for SAF and AST.
  • Commonwealth mechanized infantry gfx will use the Bren carrier, Ram carrier and Kangaroo for their level 1 to 3.
  • Updated Semaun's leader portrait.
  • [BBA] Added a generic version of Ho 226 flying wing. It will be used for the German jet CAS and be an optional GFX for everybody else.
  • [BBA] Improved the use of YUG 2d plane GFX.

Localization
  • Fixed numerous typos.
  • Added spacing for numerous effect tooltips.

Credits
  • Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project.

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Update: May 7 @ 9:16am
by Greatexperiment

May 2025 Update!

Highlights
  • The April Fools surprises have been disabled by default; they can be re-enabled in the Custom Game rules.
  • Most Germany/Finnish/Iran/Iraq changes from recent War Effort patches have been integrated into the mod, with India and Afghanistan soon to come.

Additions
  • Added historical ace names for Germany, Japan, Siam, Romania, Canada, etc.
  • New advisors for the United Kingdom, British RAJ, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, the Netherlands, and Dutch East Indies.
  • [MtG] Ported Dutch changes such as the availability of Fokker and DAF.
  • [MtG] Countries that were historically British Protectorates will now be released as such once UK decolonizes in its Communist tree.
  • [AAT] Added an MIO for Belgium.

Adjustments
  • Siam's focus Negotiations With France will now send its event requesting Cambodia and Laos to France instead of French Indochina.
  • Rt56 Switzerland focus General Fortifications Program now gives the Swiss Fortifications state modifier.
  • Romanian focus Increase Air Research now grants an aeronautical research centre.
  • Buffed the effects of several focuses in the Egyptian military tree.
  • Disallowed the potential of cloning Karl Pius von Habsburg and Vasyl Vyshyvanyi.
  • The Papal States now start as a bastion of Catholicism.
  • United Kingdom advisor Ernest Bevin now has the better Trade Unionist trait instead of Quartermaster General.
  • Portugal's advisor Jose Hipolito Raposo now has Minister of the Interior, in addition to his Fascist demagogue trait.
  • The Peru-Chile border now has 2 tiles (was 1) on both sides, which should improve the quality of life of fighting wars in the region.
  • R56 Portugal has received some small balance updates to strengthens air builds, and slightly weaken the Communist/Democratic branches while buffing the Fascist/Non-Aligned paths.
  • [LaR] Random agency upgrades reward now includes RT56 upgrades too.
  • [ToA] Communist USA will no longer be able to intervene against communism in Latin America.
  • [GD] Submarine anechoic tiles are now available for 1940 submarines and cruiser submarines like in the base game.

Bugfixes
  • Integrated as many bugfixes from the 1.16.5 patch as possible.
  • Rt56 Belgium's focus Restore the Auto-Cannon Unit now correctly grants MIO funds.
  • Fixed Greater Italy decision never appearing.
  • Fixed various Has Researched RADAR tech requirements never functioning.
  • If anyone defeats Poland's faction leader without joining their war against the USSR, the USSR now gets to keep East Poland instead of it wrongly appearing in the peace deal.
  • [MTG] Fixed Mexico's focus Triumph of Synarchism still appearing in some instances where it is supposed to hide.
  • [LaR] If removed, the Recovering From the Spanish Civil War spirit will no longer re-apply itself with certain focuses.
  • [LaR] If you complete the Spanish Civil War too quickly, Falangist Spain will no longer be stuck with the Carlism national spirit.
  • [LaR] Karl Pius von Habsburg will now be chooseable as a Carlist claimant, unless he is crowned by Peru earlier in the game.
  • [AAT] If Norway decides to put Trotsky into house-arrest, and later decides to deport him, Mexico will now get the correct event for his arrival.
  • [GD] Hungary no longer demands Transylvania when Germany has a focus available to give it to them.

GFX
  • Added several new focus icons.
  • New portraits for Venezuela and Liechtenstein.
  • Removed many duplicate national spirit icons throughout the United States, Germany, Sweden and Ireland.
  • Fixed some Eastern Front Pack planes GFX not being used.
  • [LaR] changed a number of Spanish focus icons.
  • [LaR] Added several missing Portuguese advisor portraits for those with the DLC enabled.

Credits
  • Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project.

Contact Us!
  • Questions? Comments? Let us know on Discord[discord.gg] and feel free to check us out on X! We'd love to hear from you!

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