Highlights

• Added experimental straits in the East Indies which may break the naval balance in the far east. ( Please give feedback on this feature. )
  
• Added more naval technologies, [MtG] naval nuclear power tech unlocks the nuclear engine for heavy ships.
  
• Added three new Venezuelan political branches.
  
• Added a transport plane level II, for advanced paradropped operations.

Additions

• Added the fall of Caracas, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Tehran, Sevastopol, Sydney, Gibraltar, and Baku.
  
• Added a Polish focus about the 303 Kosciuszko squadron (even after all these years I can't spell his name from memory).
  
• Game rule to start with an alternative universe where the American Civil War ended with a white peace.
  
• Added a news event for the rise of the Third French Empire.
  
• Added a French focus about buying weapons in the USA.
  
• Added an option for fascist France to get Pétain instead of Doriot, that's for you, the gerontophiles of this community.
  
• Puppeting Greece as a fascist will unlock historical collaborationist prime ministers.
  
• Added some British puppet leaders in Greece/Denmark and Venezuela.
  
• Fascist Germany puppeting Venezuela will now empower the local Nazi party.
  
• Fortunate commanders will have an extra chance to cheat fate and escape wounds.
  
• Added traits to many country leaders.
  
• Increased the usefulness of the Indian Asian Anti Colonialism focus.
  
• Expanded the Indian Foreign Investments decisions
  
• Added two focuses for Turkestan, you would need to unify Central Asia first of course.
  
• [Bftb] Unlocked an event to get Paul as a successor to George II of Greece in the late game for the Bftb players.
  
• [LaR] Added a focus for the Spanish nationalists to ally the French, if they want to.
  
• [WTT] Added Persian Imperial rebirth tree, you would need to conquer the Middle East first of course.
  
• [M56] Thinking_Waffle "accidentally" unleashed hordes of screaming undead upon an unsuspecting world.

Balance & Adjustments

• Colombia should not go fascist/communist as often in non-historical mode.
  
• Venezuela is more reluctant to go communist on non-historical mode.
  
• Made the German AI slightly smarter in its choice of advisor.
  
• Made the Siamese fascist and communist leaders less likely to cooperate with their ideological opposites.
  
• If Finland forms the Nordic Union via the focus tree, it will gain also cores on Iceland and Greenland.
  
• Adjusted the starting French fortifications, making them a bit more historical by including the Sarre gap of the Maginot Line.
  
• Rebalancing of several Indian focus times.
  
• Made it harder for independent India to up its Conscription Laws.
  
• Pakistan is now released more often when India goes independent.
  
• Removed the maluses Japan suffers at the beginning of the war against China.
  
• Moving the Soviet government to Sverdlovsk will increase that city's significance, making its capture almost mandatory.
  
• Adjustments to some Persian focuses (ensuring that a Tehran focus builds factories there, adjusting manpower necessary to get some wargoals)
  
• [MtG] Adjustment to the "honor the confederacy decisions" considering that you can now play the neo confederates by releasing them.
  
• [BtfB] Improved Turkey's diplomatic section, guarantees now have events and alliances will be easier to get in alt-history scenarios.
  
• [DoD] Added a steel industry tech boost to Romania as they have a steel industry focus.
  
• [DoD] Increased the fascism bonus in the Hungarian tree.

Fixes

• Fixed the Soviet AI not using its defense of the Motherland tools because its AI guidelines was badly written.
  
• Fixed an unselectable advisor for Venezuela.
  
• Fixed 'lift the oil curse' not removing Venezuelan oil spirit.
  
• Fixed many bad event pictures.
  
• Fixed some Venezuelan manufacturers.
  
• Attempted to fix the big head general in Venezuela, he's too powerful.
  
• Fixed a typo in a Greek event in which, to insult the Turks, they spelled Constantinople Istanbul.
  
• Fixed Argentina doing a focus to claim Chile and hate it even if it's in a faction with Chile.
  
• Fixed an Irish manufacturer which had the wrong research boost.
  
• Fixed the Baltic unification focus.
  
• Granted generic portraits to two Scottish and Brazilian leaders.
  
• Fixed a bug in the Polish focus to invite Romania.
  
• Fixed Ma Bufang being recruited into NRA with wrong stats and no picture.
  
• Fixed an event for Nicaraguan elections not triggering for Guatemala. Yes, it is important.
  
• Fixed the Zog vs Zog civil war in Albania. You know the true one won against his even evil.
  
• Fixed an event popup for fascist PRC if it pressures Korea.
  
• Fixed a bug where Quebec infantry wouldn't spawn after completing a specific focus.
  
• Fix for a "Great Purge" bypass condition being improperly defined.
  
• Metaxas shall now be properly dead after his death.
  
• Fixed a Romanian focus where a detail targeted Greece instead of Germany because of the two inverted letters.
  
• Fixed a Swedish focus communist bypassing when you are not communist.
  
• Fixed some Polish content confusing Danzig and Gdynia.
  
• Fixed some R56 Greek focuses lacking proper conditions, creating frustrating paradoxes.
  
• Fixed the focus to sabotage the Anschluss which was not working under some conditions.
  
• Removed Herobrine.
  
• Invited Skeltal.
  
• [DoD] Fixed Yugoslav peasant rebellions decisions
  
• [DoD] Made the Hungarian transition towards fascism or democracy a bit easier.
  
• [MtG] Fixed a small bug with the government in exile decisions.

AI

• Made the German AI slightly smarter at picking advisors and not pick the wunderwaffe focus too early.
  
• Told Italy that no if you are fighting France or Germany you should probably not attack Greece.
  
• Told base game tree Germany not to take "War with the Soviets" while bordering an uncapitulated enemy by land.
  
• Manchuria won't ask the USA for independence support if the USA has a communist or fascist advisor.
  
• Added more conditions to make the AI a bit smarter when researching naval techs, lots of potentials for improvements there.
  
• If Germany is not fascist, the Japanese Kodoha faction will try to join another country, especially if that country is at war with the USSR.
  
• [LaR] Made the Spanish nationalist AI more aware that yes fusing the parties require to handle the Carlists if you want to avoid the Carlist uprising.
  
• [M56] Not even the minions of hell itself can resist the sweet taste of Susan's Famous Pumpkin Pie©. Mmm. Delicious.

GFX

• Added news event pictures.
  
• Added new focus icons.
  
• Added a generic Italian portrait.
  
• Added Catalan leaders/commanders.
  
• Added a generic middle eastern portrait.
  
• Added a new icon for Liberian "Supernatural Warfare".
  
• Added Albanian pro-Italian fascist leader portrait.
  
• Confederate infantry, because why not?
  
• Replace Walter Dauge's portrait.
  
• Operative events now indicate that they are secret before self-destructing.

Localisation

• Added and edited historical division name list.
  
• Fixed events localization for a few Manchurian events.
  
• Edited localization for some rare Chilean events.
  
• Localization fixes for Belgian and Dutch events.
  
• A couple of the most obvious Lithuania missing strings added.
  
• Changed the name of the wife of Stauffenberg if the communists abolish the nobility titles.
  
• Added German capital ship names, primarily carriers, as well as battleships.

Highlights

• The Gods have demanded a hotfix, so it shall be.

Additions

• Added the CSA to please the neo confederates and allow others to split the USA, in a silly twist and an ironic nod to the Daughters of the Confederacy they were granted lots of feminine advisors. The CSA also has a unique industrial branch but can't remove the Jim Crow laws.
  
• [MtG] Added an American spy who was active in Rome and played a role in its capture.

Balance & Adjustments

• Added a base game French news event to the French Focus tree and granted it a more unique event picture.
  
• In the Austrian trees ideas with no effects to mark wars have been replaced by flags.

Fixes

• Restored the American Focus tree that was removed for something like an hour.
  
• Fix Austrian weird wargoal against Romania (at least I hope)
  
• Fixed some problematic elements of the R56 Greek Focus tree (like the focus to demand Eastern Thrace only granting claims).
  
• Locked an American chief of the air force who was supposed to be locked, added a tooltip to explain the situation.
  
• Hid some focuses requiring DLC-specific actions by some countries to avoid frustrating those playing with a different tree.
  
• Fixed an identical typo in two events

AI

• Made the British AI able to use the R56 fascist path on its own rather than pick the first focus and do nothing with it.

GFX

• Better use of city fall event pictures in some base game events.
  
• Fixed a South American event picture because two letters were in the wrong order, the devil is in the details.

Additions

• Added Venezuelan Caribbean and Gran Colombia unification trees.
  
• Added five historical advisors for Venezuela.
  
• Added a state to Venezuela.
  
• Added historical leader names and political parties to Guyana.
  
• Added historical advisor for Haiti.
  
• Added bauxite in Krasnoyarsk in the late game.
  
• Added "Defense of the Motherland" branch for the USSR.
  
• Added 6 additional loading tips for those who enjoy Civilized HOI4.
  
• [MtG] Added diplomatic alternatives to expand as the fascist USA.
  
• [DoD] Added focus for Romania to get Polish Cyclometers.
  
• [WTT] Expanded the democratic Japanese tree.

Balance & Adjustments

• Created a category for industry relocation decisions and reduced the cost of making those interesting.
  
• French La Cagoule Coup has been nerfed.
  
• Venezuelan "National Recovery" industrial path has been buffed.
  
• Democratic Japan now starts with more divisions at the start of the civil war.
  
• Bombay (Mumbai) is now 20 victory points instead of 10.
  
• Kharkov is now 20 victory points instead of 10.
  
• Rostov is now 20 victory points instead of 15.
  
• Reactivated some Brazilian production in Brazil.
  
• Communist China shall now get a max of 6 research slots.
  
• Industrial focuses for Venezuela will be more resistant to give factories in occupied states.
  
• Venezuela's starting oil national spirit will now send fewer resources to market.
  
• Expanded core states which the Republic of Venice shall get if Italy is fragmented.
  
• Heavily nerfed suppression ability of RoC if Blueshirts come to power.
  
• "Striking Communist Bandits" for RoC will now grant war goals on PRC and all communist warlords.
  
• Reshuffled and tweaked a few focuses regarding the war with Japan for the RoC.
  
• Many political monarchist Austrian focuses regarding Czechoslovakia have improved requirements.
  
• "Stabilize Hungary" shall now include all cores and claims of Hungary, thus greatly expanding the players' territorial ambitions.
  
• France is now affected by deflation instead of inflation, reinforcing the historical accuracy of the mod.
  
• Improved requirements and rewards for many focuses of the Belgian Congo.
  
• Rajani Palme Dutt and Emilio Frugoni will now also benefit from additional leader traits.
  
• Adjusted North American Alliance the Trans-Pacific treaty and the Anzus Treaty to potentially work together and form a large Pacific faction.
  
• France can no longer rush 7 research slots from the game start.
  
• Set the default tree for the Netherlands to the MtG one and enabled its AI behaviour game rule from the base game.
  
• China will start with historical divisions which increase survivability.
  
• [MtG] The focus tree for the Netherlands has trade war and political focuses separated, allowing for a lot more flexibility if Germany or Britain change ideology.
  
• [LaR] Communist Portugal can no longer annex Spain via the "Iberian Union" focus if Spain is a puppet of another nation.
  
• [LaR] Lots of cryptology focuses such as the ones related to the Polish cyclometer have been improved to provide free intelligence agency upgrades.

Fixes

• Fixed Austrian intervention in the Italian civil war if Italy starts a monarchic coup first.
  
• Fixed the Central American Unification tree being locked from time to time.
  
• Fixed an inconsequential bug in the Finnish focus tree, just because somebody reported it accurately.
  
• Fixed a typo in a loading quote.
  
• Fixed the location of Dover, Rhodes Island, USA.
  
• Fixed France getting an ahead of time bonus for a tank that doesn't exist.
  
• Fixed Zhang Xueliang portrait not appearing if PRC goes fascist.
  
• Fixed "Cultural Revolution" being only available if the Great Chairman is leading PRC.
  
• Fixed trade relations between USA and Colombia suffering more if the latter proclaims Gran Colombia.
  
• Fixed Fascist Greece [r56 tree] not being able to demand the Dodecanese from everyone.
  
• Fixed Honduras claiming South Carolina. How many other countries can possibly claim those lands for themselves?
  
• Fixed a few focuses requirements that mention only one German focus tree.
  
• Fixed "Soviet Cooperation" focus for PRC by removing the removal of cores that didn't exist in the first place.
  
• Fixed some wrongly applied national ideas for Argentina, Chile, France, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Poland, PRC, and Russia.
  
• Fixed the "Growing Movement" being applied wrongly.
  
• Fixed appropriate traits for one of the Vichy France generals.
  
• Fixed an icon for the French "Monarchist Support" national spirit.
  
• Fixed PRC name reverting back to "Communist China".
  
• Fixed French Indochina properly transferring if successfully demanded by nationalist China.
  
• Fixed Poland perceiving Germany owning Danzig as a threat for their Soviet Alliance focus if Germany did Danzig for Guarantees.
  
• Fixed the extend button in the industry tab being in the wrong place.
  
• It will no longer be possible for Czechoslovakia to be at war with Germany and accept German rule.
  
• Removed Herobrine.

AI

• Made Napoleonic France a bit less prone to declare a new war after the first one.
  
• Made sure the AI has enough equipment ratio to get a somewhat decent army before picking a focus starting a war.

GFX

• Portrait of Chinese collaborator Liang Hongzhi.
  
• Added portraits for some Estonian advisors.
  
• Added a portrait for a Venezuelan general and admiral.
  
• Added portraits for some Venezuelan advisors.
  
• Changed some Lithuanian portraits using other people's portraits instead of generics.
  
• Changed some Chinese planes.
  
• Edited some generic icons.
  
• Unlocked German destroyer and light cruiser models which were in the base game but unused, allowed Prussia, Bavaria, and the east and west Germanies to use them.
  
• Usage Policy which make Kaiserreich is Awesome™ like us, if you reading this, subscribe and try it now.

Localisation

• Various fixes to Venezuelan localization.
  
• Added name for the Qing Dynasty if Manchukou proclaims its independence under Puyi.
  
• Ostmark is renamed Neumark to match its historical role for Germany.
  
• One shall now properly know that the Lithuanian monarchist branch is unavailable for now.
  
• Few extra localizations to Ethiopian tree and corresponding events.
  
• Some improved/fixed localization for French and Communist China's events and focuses.
  
• Flemish and Walloon generals now have proper descriptions of their true alliances.
  
• Some Venezuelan leaders now have their own description.

General

• Deactivated the decision for Danzig to Join Germany as the condition is not behaving correctly.
  
• Changed some focus icons in the PRC tree.

Greeting Space Cats!

We have an especially cool update for you this month! Some real love was given to our Caribbean compatriots that we hope you'll appreciate, especially for those of you that appreciate a touch of class.

As always our team is slaving away, thinking of nothing but your pleasure and eternal happiness. That's why we update every month even in the face of nuclear winter and other varieties of winter as well. Unfortunately we're not so good with hot environments. Surely you can understand?

There's this whole game we're making - a scifi textual adventure: Might be worth a look[thinkingexperiment.itch.io]

Questions? Comments? Let us know at Discord[discord.gg]. We'd love to hear from you!

With hearts afire in seductive passion,

-Gxp

Highlights

• Focus tree for Venezuela.
  
• Added fascist branch for Cuba.

Additions

• Added a game rule to remove starting factions.
  
• Added leaders for Kosovo.
  
• Added a historical communist leader for Angola.
  
• Added commanders for China and Guangxi Clique.
  
• Added the traits Vigorous and Fortunate. (added that trait to Zhukov considering the number of times he escaped serious wounds if not worse)
  
• Added 1 oil and a decision to drill oil in Cuba, increasing the game carbon footprint and accelerating global warming.
  
• Added decisions to get Aluminium all over the world, mainly in the late game and in the Caribbean.
  
• Moved aluminium in Italy (and a little bit in Yugoslavia) to fit the actual geological situation.
  
• Replaced aluminium with Aluminium Plants in Norway, Japan and partially Italy and Switzerland.
  
• Added a decision for Danzig to join Germany, solving some weird peace conferences.
  
• Added a focus for Germany to invite Venezuela to their faction.
  
• Added Historical mountain range and states for Manchuria.
  
• Added a South African metallurgy focus for the countries able to form the Monomotapa.
  
• Added a focus for Ethiopia to ally Japan.
  
• [partially WTT] Added more unification trees for Arabia, the Caribbeans, and La Plata.
  
• [DoD] Added a Hungarian focus about their 1941-44 historical mining plan in North Transylvania.
  
• [LaR] added Ivan Agayants as a Soviet operative.

Balance & Adjustments

• Changed mining focus for Tibet.
  
• Replaced Hanns Benda with Rolf Carls for Germany as he actually commanded ships.
  
• Unlocked the Caribbean unification decision for more countries. You can now try to spread Rastafarianism as Greater Jamaica I guess...
  
• Norway (and other countries) will produce its aluminium through factories and not through mining as they imported Bauxite the output was the finished product.
  
• Reduced the amount of time for the commonwealth development focuses.
  
• Reduced the effect of Brazil's Constructing Contracting national spirit.
  
• Reduced the range of flying boats as they filled the North Atlantic gap too easily.
  
• Improvements for Lithuania. (some branches are still locked though)
  
• Eisenhower and McArthur won't be able to lead the army and be president.
  
• Improvements of China and warlords starting OOB(aka starting unit/templates).
  
• Made the monetary reforms to fix Hyperinflation as Nationalist China a bit easier to do.
  
• All Chinese warlords except PRC receive weak NRA army debuffs.
  
• Militia required the same manpower as infantry but lesser training time, equipment and supplies.
  
• Tweaked events outcomes for getting The General Who Did Not Resist in PRC focus tree.
  
• Moved "Join the Comintern" in the Uruguayan tree.
  
• The Abruzzo state now start with Napolitan cores
  
• Generic focus "industrial boost" will no longer cancel if you are suddenly below the industrial threshold.
  
• [WTT] Boosted the trait "winter expert" in order to offer refreshment considering the theme of this update.
  
• [WTT] All Imperial Autonomy levels will give fewer factories to the overlord.
  
• [BftB] Adolfos died in the Aegean sea. The true Basileus is not a Komnenoi but a direct descendent of the Palaiologoi, taking the regnal name of Tiberios IV.
  
• [BftB] Restructured Turkey's Ottoman branch further.

Fixes

• Unlocked the base game event 'The Fall of Singapore' if Japan or one of its allies take Singapore from Britain or British Malaya.
  
• Removed South Carolina from the Colombian FT.
  
• Fixed some bonuses of continuous focuses being stackable for Senate level unlimited power.
  
• Fixed missing Turkish armour icons.
  
• Fix base game bug blocking war propaganda decisions when war was ended too quickly.
  
• Fix a problem with the communist revolutionary for Czechoslovakia.
  
• Removed Korea's ability to get 7 research slots.
  
• [DoD] Fixing communist uprising decisions and a civil war decision for Bulgaria triggering an uprising in Turkey for communist Yugoslavia.
  
• [WTT] Disabled the spammy and broken 'Communist Threat Defeated' event for China.

AI

• [MTG] told the AI to use some advanced naval traits, why the game locked part of its own content remains a design mystery.

GFX

• Kurdish planes.
  
• East German planes.
  
• Portrait of Abdallah I of Jordan.
  
• Improve portraits of multiple Chinese commanders.
  
• Portrait of U Nu of Burma.
  
• New focus icons for Honduras.

Localisation

• New Venezuelan Focus Tree comes up with localization.
  
• Added descriptions in the Korean Focus Tree.
  
• All levels of Japanese subject Manchuria will be named as "Empire of Manchuria".

Greetings Mod Fans!

It's another beautiful day on this spinning globe of ours, and with the dawn comes another patch! As always, here's your monthly horrorscope:

Aquarius:
Now isn't the time to invest in a new style. Whatever you pick, it will be out of fashion by next month due to the Sun exploding.

Pisces:
Joining an ancient secret society might seem like a good idea, but be warned: It's probably a pyramid scheme.

Aries:
The big decision you've been considering will go well for you. It will also annihliate the pre-industrial civilization living on Alpha Centauri IV.

Taurus:
Interpersonal relationships are more important than ever. Don't forget to let your nemesis know how important they are to you.

Gemini:
Consider a healthier lifestyle and diet. The xenomorph growing inside of you needs nutrients too!

Cancer:
This is a period of contemplation. Use it to consider your actions, and be at peace.

Leo:
Your suspicions about your partner are about to be validated. They are cheating on you with your clone.

Virgo:
No matter how much your heart yearns to express itself, never write poetry. Doing so would awaken the Elder One and bring about the Apocalypse.

Libra:
Things might seem difficult at times, and no matter how hard you try goals seem further away. Don't give up! Becoming Emperor of the Universe takes time!

Scorpio:
Someone may come asking for your help. If they do, give them a bale of hay and your crops will be plentiful this year.

Sagittarius:
Search your fridge. Any rotten vegetables or condiments are sure to be a dark omen. The end is nigh.

Capricorn:
There's nothing that can be said about you, except that you're pretty cool. Keep it up!

We also have another project, Strange New Bodies! If you like fancy words and silly humor - Check it Out[thinkingexperiment.itch.io]!

Questions? Comments? Let us know at Discord[discord.gg]. We'd love to hear from you!

With hearts afire in seductive passion,

-Gxp


Highlights

• New countries: Swaziland and Lesotho.
  
• New generals and advisors for Venezuela.
  
• Alliance focus filter.
  
• More post-unification mini-trees.
  
• Three German admirals.
  
• Turkmenistan now has historical oil and can achieve the American dream: more oil.
  
• Advisors and commanders for Israel.
  
• Revamped the PRC focus tree, making it easier to understand and follow the desired path.
  
• Decommunisation will now affect even more Russian cities and regions.
  
• Historical communist for Madagascar (maybe it was 14 in 1936).
  
• Added fuel silos in Palestine and Lebanon to represent the two ends of the Kirkuk - Haifa and the Kirkuk - Tripoli pipelines.
  
• Added free building slots in Palestine in order to allow the presence of the fuel silo.
  
• Other historical fuel silos in Japan, USA, Germany (some unlocked through focuses).
  
• More late-game American election events.
  
• [LaR] Yet more Soviet and Italian historical spies.

Balance & Adjustments

• "American Caesar" Douglas Mac Arthur, son of a Union civil war veteran, will not be able to honor the confederacy and move the government to Richmond for no reason whatsoever.
  
• Generic industrial focuses are tweaked to give factories in core states.
  
• Added a new decision to "Settle the Question of the Capital" for PRC.
  
• Nerfed and buffed several national spirits and ideas of PRC.
  
• USSR will now gain cores on Eastern Poland should Poland complete "Accept Border Realignment".
  
• Removed the naval/paradrop invasion alert due to the difficulty to trigger an event for the previous controller of a state.

AI

• United Front shall now form more often.

GFX

• Planes for South Africa.
  
• Adding pics for some Canadian events.

Fixes

• Fixed the small bug introduced by the last patch.
  
• Fixed a bug where Luxembourg would try to join a non-existent faction.
  
• USA Nato focuses no longer require LaR focus thus being available for everybody. Freedom for everyone!
  
• Venezuelan fascist leader now has the correct portrait.
  
• Fixed bad conditions for some extraction decisions.
  
• Non-communist Russia should not suffer from the anti-Comintern pact.
  
• Mengjiang will not do a collaboration government in Mongolia as that would create Mongolian Mongolia and they should core the region instead.
  
• Algerian focus to join the Axis will bypass if you are in a faction with Germany, crazy right?
  
• Fix a weird theorist of the Guanxi Clique.
  
• Updated the effect in Chile that has a small chance to cause a problem.
  
• Fixed few Chinese designers being unavailable for warlords and vice versa.
  
• Iceland shall no longer be a "Disloyal Subject" if it is already independent.
  
• "Victors of the Great War" for France will no longer be removed via the civil war.
  
• Added missing core for Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  
• Fixed formable Greater Syria not getting its cores.
  
• Fixed a bug caused by a confusion between a tech name and the unit it unlocks.
  
• [not MtG] moved USA continuous focus box that was blocking the new Nato focuses.

Localisation

• Fixed typos and other bad event option texts.
  
• Expanded the lore of some vanilla events.
  
• Fix some Turkish events lacking text.

Hello border gore enthusiasts!

It's that lovely time again where we rally our resources, count our comerades, and think long and hard about our place in this giant and utterly horrifying universe. It's patch day! Not even the return of the undulating tentacle god of Abraxos could keep us from our sacred duty of providing you - our most valuable and esteemed friends - with yet another massive serving of fresh content!

As always, our team here at the labs have been in overdrive - check out the whole list below!

Did you know we do monthly streams now? It's TRUE. You can listen to Thinking_Waffle, Yours Truly (Gxp!), and Special Guests ramble about game design, mods, and the end of the world! It's on the first Wednesday of every month here on Twitch[www.twitch.tv].

We also have another project, Strange New Bodies! It's a pretty awesome little RPG, and if you're into that sort of thing - Check it Out[thinkingexperiment.itch.io]!

Questions? Comments? Let us know at Discord[discord.gg]. We'd love to hear from you!

With Love stat set to maximum,

-Gxp


Highlights

• Now supports 1.10.7!
  
• New NATO focuses for the USA.
  
• Several new focuses for multiple countries! Details down below.
  
• New AI Behavior options for China and one for Italy!
  
• New generic decision to use scraps to reduce the penalty for lacking resources.
  
• East and West African Unions as formable countries.
  
• New focus tree filters.
  
• Lord Debug now becomes a political dancer as he leads every ideology of that strange unknown named "somewhere abroad".

Additions

• New political focuses for Lithuania
  
• New focus on gold mining in Korea
  
• Two new focuses for Slovakia
  
• Five new focuses for fascist Sweden for extra interactions with your allies
  
• Soviet focus branch about the death of Stalin to clarify the transition
  
• Extra focuses and adjustments for the Soviet "Iron Curtain" path
  
• One extra starting research slot for Liberia. Enjoy your new African scientist heaven
  
• Mengkukuo can now choose to remain under Chinese protection
  
• [DoD] Focus choices for Yugoslavia between the Balkan Worker's Congress and another European power.
  
• [LaR] Two new names for generic intelligence agencies. Shoutouts to the brother of the Waffle!

Balance & Adjustments

• Added missing cores to formable nations. Also adjusted descriptions so that the list is fully visible for 1366x768 desktop resolutions
  
• Better (more historical) selection of advisors for the Netherlands
  
• Netherlands tree slightly adjusted for better visibility and buffed some industrial focuses
  
• Danzig is now extremely reliant on its militia
  
• Reduced the cost of two Argentine focuses
  
• Adjusted requirements and effects for a few focuses involving Gran Colombia
  
• Developing the colonies for France now requires to own said territories or have them as puppets
  
• Austrian territorial demands now have higher chances to succeed
  
• Finland will now cede all states claimed by the Soviets instead of just Karelia
  
• Iran receiving weapons from the Soviets will make Iran like the Soviets more
  
• Adjusted positions of Belgian political branches for better visibility. Also adjusted air and equipped navy focuses with few extra dockyards
  
• Democratic Soviets will now remove claims on Baltics, Poland, and Finland if MR is signed and said countries are invited into Soviet new faction
  
• Slightly less war support for democratic France

AI

• Romania should be more willing to build infrastructure in oil-rich regions
  
• AI should protest less about other countries attachés, spending PP on more useful things

GFX

• Planes for the united baltic state, some planes for Estonia and Latvia
  
• Planes for the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth
  
• Planes for Mongolia
  
• Planes for Iran
  
• Portrait for Li Shouxin
  
• Better use of decision GFX
  
• [LaR] Effect to create an intelligence agency will now be yellow to be in line with the rest of the game

Fixes

• Fixed the contribution of one of the team members to Battle for the Bosporus
  
• Fixed the French focus "Go with Britain"
  
• Fixed Brazil's diplomatic alliances, adding faction fusion for a rare case where they would try to ally with Portugal
  
• Fixed Turkey forming a faction then trying to invite faction leader Italy
  
• Fixed locking chance from Trotsky's tree
  
• Fixed Trotsky's USSR not having the glorious red of communism
  
• Fixed some Czech focuses which had effects displayed but had no actual effects
  
• Fixed an Albanian general with inconsistent stats
  
• Fixed conditions and requirements for several Soviet anti-fascist political focuses
  
• Fixed "Demand Slovenia" and "Fate of Yugoslavia" event chain to prevent border gore if Yugoslavia starts releasing puppets
  
• Fixed Austria being granted a war goal against itself and territories ceded by Yugoslavia via an event
  
• Fixed effects and tooltips for Austrian industrial focuses
  
• Fixed focuses involving the Italian-Ethiopian war. They will be bypassed for Ethiopia if countries sign a premature peace
  
• Fixed "German Guns" event for Ethiopia so it will fire correctly
  
• Fixed "German Pressure towards BeNeLux" event so it will now fire accordingly
  
• Fixed Congolese "Plea for Autonomy" will so it will no longer feature Canadian patriation
  
• Fixed "Invite Foreign Investors" so it will no longer feature Hungary for various countries
  
• Fixed it so Iraq will no longer join the Allies in 1939 on historical settings
  
• Fixed Romania properly turning fascist-like they historically did
  
• Fixed "Marco Polo" event chain so it highlights correct transferred states and involves Mengkukuo too
  
• Fixed "Escalate War with China" so it is no longer bypassed automatically - no more operation Ichi Go in 1939
  
• Fixed Ernst Thälmann being no longer opposed to communism
  
• Fixed British decolonization focuses regarding India so they will be properly canceled if Britain becomes a puppet
  
• [WTT] Fixed "Demand Indochina" as Pacific Guardian Japan
  
• [WTT] Fixed the states missing to form the Roman Empire and gain its cores

Localisation

• Capitalization tweaks for the Italian content
  
• Improved descriptions for Belgium involving Benelux and military scientific cooperation with major factions
  
• Expanded event options for more lore in Colombian events
  
• More description flavor for Soviet Iron Curtain events and focuses
  
• Drastically expanded focus descriptions for Bhutan tree. As if someone would read those anyways...
  
• Improved news report for Albanian occupation: Not only Zog will now submit to Italy
  
• Better descriptions featuring lore behind the London Conference
  
• Improved news event for the creation of non-aligned factions
  
• Three new "tips" for those reading while the game is loading

FPIID RRFJE DYKDK GVSRY UWIGB DHWDN XCFEQ OLFGW WCIKU BHVKT NVYVA ZWHXJ AFQXN MWBYQ JXTCE FLFMA DVPHS YNBNY MVWLX HTUZQ OJFOL OAXDX CDVHX SELGT OSDQS DAAID YAGDG SWHQJ DVLGN LSYMK APDAO BNYQY VZMGZ DVVLV TWLIE DVDKM FPSUD YKBAY KXHHB HCWQQ SELJK IPWDC JHXGN XIROG UEXCS ISKRB ZSQTJ ZBWPS MGANO NNSOL ZZATK GA

Walzenlage: I, II, IV
Umkehrwalze: B
Grundstellung: T, Y, G
Ringstellung: J, R, X
Steckerverbindungen: A-W, E-G

Questions? Comments? Let us know at Discord[discord.gg]. We'd love to hear from you!

With free deep-fried ice cream for all,

-Gxp


Additions

• Focus tree for Algeria.
  
• Focus tree for Azad Hind if you launch of Indian fascist revolt.
  
• Some Italian diplomatic focuses have been reduced to 35 days.
  
• Added extra focuses for Kodoha Japan in order to ally Poland or a potential Baltic league such as the Romanian Cordon Sanitaire if it's at war with the USSR.
  
• Added events serving as alerts in case of a naval or air invasion on your territory, because somebody has to tell you that you suddenly lost control of 3 of your most important cities.
  
• Added the fall of Dublin for non-British forces, enjoy your Argentine occupation!
  
• More Dutch and Polish names.
  
• Decision for Morocco to core Mauritania and Western Sahara.
  
• Decision to drill a small oil field in eastern Slovakia.
  
• Countries like Yemen and Afghanistan will gain the Great war tanks they had. The quest continues.
  
• Russian counter-coup is available up to 1939 because the ai had problems with it.
  
• Events to warn the player when he reaches maximum army navy and air XP.
  
• Added historical oil production in Bahrain (Qatar) and on Ceram island (Moluccas) + decision to increase oil production on Sumatra.
  
• Added tooltips to most of the Czechoslovakian focuses so now you see what you will get after their completion.
  
• Made some minor improvements to the Philippine tree.
  
• Historical Nigerian leaders.
  
• [DoD] Communist Yugoslavia can send volunteers to support the communist uprisings in the Balkan countries and then form the Balkan Federation.
  
• [DoD] Boosted some Romanian military focuses and added a new one.
  
• [LaR] National Resistance reaching an average of 45% will grant an extra operative to the occupied country if its government exists.
  
• [MtG] One extra naval focus for Colombia.
  
• [WTT] Focus for communist Japan to restart the Chinese civil war if its allied with the Chinese communists.

FIX

• Improved Austrian events regarding annexing Transylvania.
  
• The focus to spread communism in South America for Brazil won't affect countries at war with Brazil.
  
• The USSR will not be so obsessed with rocket focus until 1942.
  
• The Fall of Rio event now has a picture of Rio instead of Athens.
  
• Wilhelm Pieck will now despise democracy and fascism and will not be marked as "exiled".
  
• Fixed the spelling of "Gyumri".
  
• Vichy France will not be created if Occitania exists.
  
• Improved some city fall events.
  
• Improved Russian counter-coup and Colombian events.
  
• The Blum-Violette Agreement now requires to control Algeria.
  
• The full name of the Islands of St-Pierre & Miquelon will now be displayed fully.
  
• Communist France will be able to deploy more volunteers.
  
• Fixed some bugs in Argentina, like the military missions being always refused.
  
• Arab countries will start with desert infantry researched.
  
• Updated "Secure Interests in Africa" event for South Africa to give only that British colonies which are fully controlled by Britain.
  
• Fixed an event for Warlords which forced them to join the United Front against Japan.
  
• "Reaffirm Albanian Protectorate" for Italy will now fire properly.
  
• Fixed the fall of Bogota and the fall of Dublin having mistakes that would make a dynamic name invisible.
  
• The Canadian focus to form an alliance with America will now free Canada instead of Australia.
  
• [MtG]American fascist expansionist focuses will not be possible if you are a puppet.

GFX

• Added pictures to Austrian events without pictures.
  
• Added a portrait for Tunisia.
  
• Planes for Honduras, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Slovakia, Finland, Lithuania, Poland-Lithuania. Fighter and medium bomber for Mongolia, Jet for communist China, Heavy bombers for Scandinavian countries.
  
• Geared up the commonwealth with extra generic commanders.
  
• Honduras will use Polish tanks.
  
• Romanian heavy tank 1 will now use the French B1 model as it's fitting a 1936 tank.
  
• [LaR] Fixed a detail with the use of Spanish tanks.
  
• [not Bftb] if you don't have Bftb and play in multiplayer, the Ottoman Sultan will be represented by Messali Hajj, Venizelos will have a portrait.

No fluffy love letters this month! We're all hard at work, and this time we're getting right to business! Enjoy the notes below!

Questions? Comments? Let us know at Discord[discord.gg]. We'd love to hear from you!

With suplex hugs and high-fives,

-Gxp


Highlights

• Fixed the position of various VPs on the map, especially Memel and Kirkenes as they appeared to be on the neighboring tile.
  
• Game rules to define AI FT paths for the Soviet Union.
  
• Changed how Yalta Conference effects fire.

Additions

• Added decisions if you have Yugoslavia and Yugoslavian sub countries as puppets, allowing you to fix border gore without commands.
  
• Added Belgian fascist diplomatic focuses, giving you the option to join other rising fascist powers.
  
• Added Swedish fascist focuses.
  
• Added white Russians who can become generals or lead non-communist Russia(s).
  
• Added more victory points for Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and the Western Sahara.
  
• Added a second decision for Germany to get another paratrooper general.
  
• Added another generic European portrait.
  
• Added theorists for Finland and focus to integrate Iceland into Nordic Union.
  
• Added Advisor for Albania.
  
• USA given new start date national spirit.
  
• [MtG]Added potential leaders for CSA and Unaligned States of America
  
• [not WTT] Added a focus for SWE, DEN, and NOR to form Scandinavia
  
• [LaR] Added a British officer who was serving Japan as a spy

Balance

• Rt56 infantry techs nerfed .
  
• Nerfed some China idea and focus rewards.
  
• Etax tech 'Small Arms' and 'Heavy Firepower' no longer give max planning.
  
• Grand Battle Plan land doctrine buffed slightly.
  
• Mass Assault land doctrine buffed slightly.
  
• Asymmetrical Warfare land doctrine nerfed.
  
• Maintenance, Logistics, Field Hospitals, and Military police support companies upgrades have been given slight buffs.
  
• Radio Direction Finding Techs now give small suppression bonuses to Military Police and a Unit type on research.
  
• Motorized Shock Troops gain stats in land doctrines techs when motorized do, though much less.
  
• Climate Infantry given 5% more attack bonus on their preferred terrain type.
  
• Militia Infantry buffed.
  
• Al Andalus game rule will now grant 2 extra factories to Andalusia.
  
• Increased the efficiency of Swedish industrial focuses.
  
• Adjusted a communist Chilean idea.
  
• Added effects offering the Carlists the opportunity to create the Holy Alliance, potentially allying with catholic monarchs and finally crush the anti-papists or something.
  
• Game rules to define AI FT paths for the Soviet Union.
  
• Some USA focus times have been halved.
  
• China no longer starts with a ton of free guns.
  
• Slight Soviet Nerfs in various areas.
  
• Adjust Restrictions on Albanian Diplomatic Focus tree.

Adjustments and Bug Fixes

• Germany's 'Volkssturm' focus removed, given an 'Endsieg' event that triggers automatically instead.
  
• Changed how Yalta Conference effects fire (More Yalta, less border gore).
  
• Fix a base game bug where fascist Indonesia winning a civil war would be automatically become a puppet of Australia.
  
• Fix some focuses for Al-Andalus.
  
• Turkey releasing Syria should keep Alexandretta.
  
• Beria can't serve under himself anymore.
  
• Fix country names for Kurdistan and Occitania.
  
• Fix an Andalusian decision granting cores on Algeria instead of Tunisia.
  
• Repaired revolts.
  
• Adding text of hidden game rule ideas adding operatives as their names can appear in the interface.
  
• Fix decisions to recruit German generals as Austria after forming the HRE. Added checks to not get SS generals.
  
• Fix some Swedish focuses that would break without a certain DLC or if the country is occupied.
  
• Fix misplaced victory points.
  
• Fix a Branch of NZ tree where you would lose the ideology of your master, slowly making your democratic independent NZ less democratic, with no possible recovery.
  
• Fix the mobilize reserve ability as I realized that I confused two effects.
  
• Improved Iraq/China tree focus positions for better visibility.
  
• Improved End of the occupation focus of Vichy France.
  
• Improved South Africa demanding British colonies.
  
• The Banana empire hired an artist to find the perfect yellow to make very sought after Banana monochromes.
  
• [Bftb]Fix some details for Bulgaria.
  
• [Bftb]Fix some details for Turkey.
  
• [DoD] Added effects to unlock the Hungarian communist focuses if they become a communist puppet.

AI

• Germany AI will send more troops to defend core German states instead of conquered territory when losing against the Soviets.
  
• Germany AI should now send some troops to Africa to help the Italians in some cases.
  
• Made the Italian AI more efficient in Africa in some cases.
  
• Italian AI will delay joining Germany in wars in some cases (Allows them to better prepare fronts such as Africa).
  
• Soviet AI will be able to do the counter-coup correctly.
  
• Added AI logic to Germany that makes them less likely to invite South American counties to the Axis before they've asked nicely.
  
• AI Italy will be less inclined to invite Venezuela to the Axis after Germany has capitulated.
  
• Adjustments to how England AI views early WW2 fronts.
  
• AI Siam should again want to ally Japan over Germany in most cases.
  
• Small Historical AI focuses adjustments for USA and Soviets.
  
• Soviet AI will now stockpile infantry equipment after 1939 (previously ran itself into large deficits for no good reason).

GFX

• Reworked A-H generals.
  
• Swiss jets GFX.
  
• [Not BftB] if you play BftB Bulgaria in MP, its head will serve as a portrait for the regency council.
  
• Added some Russian focus icons.
  
• Added an Afghanistan general portrait.

Localisation

• Added Localization for Soviet Focuses and National Spirits.
  
• Added Localization for Iran, Iraq, Latvia, South Africa.
  
• Better Localization for the Generic Focus Tree.