General

• Fixed Peter of Yugoslavia not becoming an adult.
  
• Fixed the r56 Bulgaria tree game rule not working.
  
• Fixed the r56 Spanish focus tree not working correctly.
  
• Replaced portrait of the Iraqi fascist leader.
  
• (not LaR) Fixed bad Spanish portrait.
  
• Fixed the looting decision being available on foreign territory.
  
• Fixed German Ai sending volunteers to the invasion of Ethiopia rather than only during a civil war.
  
• (Bftb) Fixed some Turkish companies being available at the start, bypassing the debt council.
  
• Fixed release Kurdistan game rule lacking a state.
  
• Japan should handle Indochina a bit better.
  
• Luxembourg should pick slightly more varied political focuses.
  
• (Bftb) Added Spanish civil war filters in the Bulgarian tree.
  
• Fixed Serbian autonomy focus as Austria won't grant some states to Serbia (or other potential owner such as Bulgaria, Albania or Macedonia).
  
• Fixed effects related to the state of Hattay not working and in some case crashing the game.
  
• Added a decision so that Mexican civil war states can be recognized by the US.
  
• Changed some icons through the vanilla German focus tree and added two operatives unlockable by the focus to influence Spain.
  
• Fixed the r56 Greek tree not working because the Prime Minister would not die, making politics simple and boring.

We know why you're here. You have a deep hunger, a craving... for a patch!

Wait no longer. It's time for our lovely merger with all the goodness that is 1.10.1! We're now compatible, soul-mates as it were. Not only that, but we've brought some excellent new content to the table - as is the noble and gentlemanly thing to do. We hope you'll enjoy everything here!



Do you like science-fiction? Terrible jokes involving vending-machines and disembodied hands? How about visual novels?

Check out Strange New Bodies[www.patreon.com]! It's suuuuuper early in development, but if you want to support us please do!

Also, our other game Terminal Conflict is done! If you're a fan of Cold War strategy and snarky AI opponents, take a look!



Questions? Comments? Love poems? Let us know at Discord[discord.gg]. It's toll-free! Dial now!

As always, forever and forever,

-Gxp



Highlights

• Mod updated to 1.10.1.
  
• Integration of Battle for the Bosporus DLC. (with bespoke improvements!)
  
• New Austrian Communist branch.
  
• Post-unification focuses for Scandinavian and Austro-Hungarian countries.
  
• Unique Industry and Army branches for Peru.
  
• New GFX sprinkled throughout the world.

Content Additions

• New British naval focus.
  
• New Japanese focus about an evil secret society working with the secret service, making them doubly secret.
  
• New Soviet non-aligned leader, Victor Baydalakov.
  
• New Soviet focus to reduce the cost of infantry equipment in the late game.
  
• New Soviet focus about shocktroops.
  
• New Venetian decision to core a new state.
  
• New USA Focus 'Three Dimensional Assault Force'.
  
• New traits to all Venetian leaders, because we can.
  
• New Yugoslavian Admirals.
  
• New oil field in Ukraine.
  
• New advisers for Hungary.
  
• New options for improving your breakfast experience.
  
• LaR: New Iranian specialist operative for Britain.
  
• LaR: New historical collaborators to some governments.
  
• LaR: New mysteriously mysterious operative?
  
• LaR: If Brazil is Monarchist you can form an alliance instead of revolting against yourself.
  
• BftB: New Focus tree swap-game rule for Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey.
  
• BftB: New decision to unlock camels for all tags, if you have a genie.

Improvements

• Integrated many 1.10.2 BETA softcoding improvements.
  
• Content improvements for Nicaragua, Greenland.
  
• Greece and Paraguay have been given crisis missions.
  
• Monarchist France will try to join the Cordon Sanitaire before forming the anti-German front alone.
  
• Reworked naval and air branches for Yugoslavia, Serbia, Croatia.
  
• Improved icons for many decisions.
  
• Adjusted a PRC focus so Japan won't be compelled to invade China every time.
  
• Forming Austria-Hungary grants core on the whole of Slovenia. (but not the Italian Slovene territory)
  
• Liaison conference now grants +1 coordination to naval commanders.
  
• Tooltip improvements to the Spanish Civil War.
  
• Soviet focus 'Claim the Straits' may grant a claim and war goals against Istanbul's controller.
  
• Removed partial mobilization from Portugal's start.
  
• Causing a civil war after deleting your army will create generic units on both sides.
  
• Extra training for Special Forces focuses.
  
• Germany should now avoid declaring war on Denmark if it's not in a position to crush them.
  
• Improved the text regarding American pilots landing in Asia.
  
• Better use of focus filters, new filters for espionage and resources.
  
• Some extra love for Monarchist Brazil.
  
• Expanded 'missed-connections' section for lonely world leaders.
  
• Added missing A-H cores for some states.
  
• LaR: Fixed Trotsky traits.
  
• BftB: Added extra conditions to a lot focuses, mostly to avoid your ally suddenly leaving to create their own faction.
  
• BftB + LaR: Moved operatives to more logical places.
  
• DoD: Romanian focus 'Secure the Bosporus' now grants a claim and war goals against Istanbul's controller.

GFX

• New GFX around the world!
  
• New monument for Hecuba. Helen is so last millennia.
  
• Italy, Russia, Republican Spain, Austria-Hungary, and Scandinavia should have more fitting plane models.

Map

• New Super Amazing and Utterly Fantastically Useful Adjacencies.

Fixes

• Fixed the name of an Uyghur warlord instead of calling him by his Chinese nickname.
  
• Russian and Indian fragmentation game rules will now divide troops among the tags.
  
• Several billion other fixes not listed here. Blood and sweat edition.
  
• Juan I now no longer elects himself to president in the Republic of Honduras.
  
• Fixed missing tech when doing the attack officers operation.
  
• LaR: 'Expand Departments' agency upgrade now unlocks under the correct conditions.
  
• LaR, DoD, BftB: Added more DLC acronyms for patch notes.
  
• LaR: Fixed the gender of a British operative who cross-dressed a bit too much to the point that it would threaten his cover.

AI

• AI guideline for Germany to send volunteers to Italy if Mussolini is contested.
  
• AI England told to chill a little on kicking AI Italy's ass in Africa.
  
• AI weights added to prevent the Soviets from going to war with the Allies over Eastern Poland
  
• AI peace adjustments.
  
• AI now knows how to develop feelings, experience heartbreak. The apocalypse is nigh.
  
• Communist France won't declare war on Britain and Germany at the same time.

Greetings citizens of the world!

October is a favorite month for all of us here. We sit quietly around the Team 56 campfire, telling ghost stories and deciding which of us will be this year's Halloween blood sacrifice to Groania - the bespectacled goddess of the harvest, nuanced sarcasm, and jokes that will never be told because the conversation has moved on.

We've layered the mod with a whole new coat of paint, with numerous fancy gfx and other improvements - and it's worth noting that we only include a fraction of the actual changes in these notes. (They're legitimately too long) As always our motto is: Add more, add better, and always use a whole stick of butter when making pancakes.

In other news: Our game Terminal Conflict is out of Early Access! We're legit and fancy lads now. Naturally, as we teased last month, the next step is a science-fiction dating sim. ( The world is burning down around us, so why not? )

As always, we're over on Discord[discord.gg]. Let us know your favorite ghost stories, and be sure vote in the upcoming all-national powerball olympics.

With 100% better butter,

-Gxp

Patch Highlights

• New USA Focuses.
  
• More Intelligence Agency upgrades.
  
• Improvements to Nicaragua.
  
• New awesome Focus and Portrait GFX!
  
• Added four new releases for the Soviet Union; Karelia, Tatarstan, Buriat-Mongolia, Green Ukraine.
  
• AI option for 'Old School' behavior.
  
• Recipe for turning Ramen into bread.
  
• Hungarian democratic and communist paths.

Content Additions

• Leaders that will only appear if there are collaboration governments in some countries.
  
• Lots of Swedish - Hungarian Bernadotte effects.
  
• Level 7 radar and boosted late-game radar techs.
  
• More extraction decisions around the world.
  
• Possibility to 'worship' Washington instead of recreating the Confederate States of America.
  
• An event to warn the player when a spying mission has been completed.
  
• Harold Harmsworth, founder of the Daily Heil ...mmh the Daily Mail, as a British advisor.
  
• News event in case of a resistance rebellion.
  
• Resistance rebellion will boost resistance in all core states of the same country that are not already rebelling.
  
• Mission for operatives: Attack officers.
  
• Conditions with the Uruguayan focus to join the Allies.
  
• Decision to decline tungsten mining in Malaya crisis.
  
• An event to warn that an operation has been completed without incident.
  
• Japanese Focuses to take into account efforts to convince the people of East Asia that they were "freed".
  
• Japanese Focus about the Kempetai for those who didn't agree with the above.
  
• Conditions to Hideki Tojo so he wouldn't fight himself.
  
• A Japanese communist as chief of the army to ensure that there is someone to appoint after the revolution.
  
• Cycling variant for majors and Poland.
  
• National spirit for Peru and Bolivia.
  
• Hispanoamérica as a formable for Latin America.
  
• A new general for Vietnam.
  
• Small award honoring Frank Welker for his work voicing Dr. Claw in 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'.
  
• Various name and flag changes.

GFX

• Jet Skins for GRE, IRE, ITA, MEX, POL, ROM, YUG, HOL, NOR, BEL, BRA, SWE, FRA, TUR.
  
• Chinese medium plane skin.
  
• Gold-related national spirits will show gold ingots icon.
  
• Some leader portraits of poor quality have been replaced with better ones.
  
• Increased number of Rogue Panda's stripes.
  
• New South American ace portrait.

Adjustments

• Better event pic for the Rome Protocols.
  
• More dynamic Soviet-Russian names and adjectives in a few events.
  
• Some improvements in the Czech tree.
  
• Tweaked election events for Costa Rica and Panama.
  
• Replaced old portraits of Central America.
  
• Added extra agency upgrades: Such as one that unlocks an extra operative slot.
  
• Some countries will be able to fuse their factions if they have exactly the same idea.
  
• Improved Greek fascist focuses.
  
• Picked a better picture for a Finnish news event so it's not implying that Finns are Chinese.
  
• Improved the mining companies in the game with more unique effects.
  
• Traits for French leaders so they will be less likely to cooperate with fascists.
  
• Ukraine will get resistance in case of a Russian civil war.
  
• Bypass for an Australian focus to conquer New Zealand if you already have New Zealand.
  
• +1 cat to apartment.
  
• Improved the intervention mandate system of the USA so it can create a warning if Germany attacks the Dutch or the British early on.
  
• Added a unique flag for the rebels in the USA's fascist civil war.

Balance

• Revolt level lowered from 90 to 85%.
  
• Soviet Focus 'Social Welfare' now takes 70 days.
  
• Killing an ace will remove 1 manpower.
  
• Achieved anime villain balance. (world peace via the end of all things)
  
• Oswald Mosley will be less likely to guarantee Eastern European countries.

Fixes

• Fixed issues regarding Peru-Bolivia.
  
• Molotov Ribbentrop pact issues.
  
• Norway leaving the Northern Lights because of a minor reform.
  
• A bug in Bhutan.
  
• Clones in Spain.
  
• Mexico losing its historical fascist leader when General Cedillo revolts.
  
• Some events where the title was printed over the first line of the description.
  
• Azerbaijan not owning its own territory when released through a decision.
  
• USA being able to form a faction while being a puppet.
  
• Honduras being able to join the Allies while being a puppet.
  
• Missing global flag to tell the game that there is a second American Civil War.
  
• Fascist Laos generic portrait.
  
• Bug in Greenland history file.
  
• Effect of a faulty Austrian focus to demand Slovakia.
  
• Lev Prchala not being appointable to the Czech high command.
  
• Improved some text for Latvia.
  
• Honduras not being able to get an extra research slot.
  
• National spirit for Peru and Bolivia.
  
• Waffle and Gxp added more exclamation points to their dating profiles.
  
• Confederate cosmetic tag only available if you do the 'Honor the Confederacy focus'.

Hello Citizens!

This month's patch brings you a freshly baked batch of fixes, tweaks, adjustments, revisions, and even some balancing. Oh, and our team of dedicated occult scientists also used a forbidden ritual to make Korea awesome! It was largely successful, except for that portal to the Hell dimension we accidentally opened up. (We'll release a hotfix for that asap)

In team news, Terminal Conflict is leaving early access soon! A bunch of the 56 team worked on it, and we're just so proud. Also, possibly very inebriated and/or on mind-altering substances. So what's next after successfully releasing a cold war strategy game? Dating sims, duh.

"The year is 1936, and a firmly mustached man stands at a window overlooking the dreary city. Everyone below fears him, but no one knows just how lonely and vulnerable he truly is. If only there were someone in this cold cruel world that could understand? Another well-dressed leader after his own heart? There's only one way to find a match. It's time to conquer the Earth - with love!"

As always, you can come find us on the Discord[discord.gg] - if that's your kind of thing.

With kindness and thunder,

-Gxp

Patch Highlights

• New Korean Focus Tree!

Content Additions

• Improved English name list.
  
• Improved Soviet name list.
  
• Focus to create a faction as Ethiopia.
  
• Added a Greek focus to join Romanian Faction.
  
• Added two Red Seaports.
  
• Added democratic leader for the Congo.
  
• Danzig has been given focus to declare themselves the heir to the country of Prussia.
  
• Improved democratic Hungary.
  
• Improved the Molotov-Ribentropp pact.
  
• Add Indian focus to attack Hyderabad.
  
• Added Turkish Generals.
  
• Added new Turkish political advisers.
  
• More decisions to move factories to the Urals for the USSR.

Balance/Tweaks

• Adjusted Soviet Union focuses and ideas.
  
• Disabled DoD pressures on Yugoslavia.
  
• Improved Yugslav DoD focus choices.
  
• Unlocked form the European Union for more countries.
  
• Nerfed Belgium slightly.
  
• Nerfed Poland slightly.
  
• French paths unlock the ability to create factions.
  
• Some effects regarding German investors now take Prussia into account.
  
• Acceptance of the ultimatum to demand Dalmatia now grants a little bit of compliance.
  
• Improved the name of a Belgian focus.
  
• USA AI will take the decision to change to fascism when over 50% popularity after the civil war.
  
• British focus to conquer the whole of India now also includes Hyderabad.
  
• Gave a better generic portrait to a rare Finnish leader.
  
• If Hyderabad is a puppet of India it will tend to be annexed by them.
  
• Told the resistance fighters that resource-producing factories are also sabotaged targets.
  
• Brought back generic faction membership as default.
  
• Brought back the German MEFO bills.
  
• Nerfed Chinese lure them in national spirit.
  
• Made France not do a useless focus when at war.
  
• Prevented Hungary from Faction jumping.
  
• Improved Indian Civil war.
  
• Moved continuous focus in Pakistan.
  
• New loading screen quotes added.
  
• Bolivia and Paraguay given the surprisingly large amount of planes that they had historically.

Map

• Added VP for Nicosia.
  
• Added VPs to the Middle East

Graphical/UI

• Added pictures to Argentine events.
  
• Jets with Austrian and American roundels.
  
• Bulgarian light plane.
  
• Generic version of the Panzer IV.

AI

• Soviet AI plan to go down the Anti-Capitalist path.
  
• USA AI will research Jet more now that it doesn't crash its late-game economy.
  
• Columbia and Chile AI will now take its time joining the axis.
  
• ENG AI should assign more divisions to the defense of the Great Britain.
  
• GER AI will put more tanks against Poland before sending its troops to the west in 1939-40.
  
• Countries with nukes will prioritize heavy bomber research more in order to deploy them.
  
• Fascist AI peace logic added when some tags conquer Turkey.
  
• Fascist AI peace logic added when some tags conquer Greece.
  
• Democratic and Communist peace AI discouraged from releasing/puppeting Bravia post-Yalta.
  
• AI weights for alt-history focus paths around the world changed.

Fixed...

• Argentinian texts.
  
• MTG focus tree trade decision.
  
• Bad portrait paths for some Generals.
  
• A focus tree about irredentism in Siam.
  
• Albanian focus being hidden behind another one.
  
• Croatian focuses not being truly ideology locked.
  
• A bunch of Honduran focus conditions.
  
• Turkey being able to get a certain national spirit twice.
  
• A Congo event not located in the Congo.
  
• A trigger to a Bulgarian event.
  
• DoD Croatian revolt.
  
• Some Albanian text mentioning Mussolini even when he is not in power.
  
• Impassable effect between two tiles linked by one pixel.
  
• A problem with the graphical categorization of motorized artillery/aa/AT. (you won't notice unless you use waffle's updated allied tank pack mod)
  
• Some clones related to Indonesia.
  
• Indonesia/Malayan/Indian commanders of British origin not joining Britain when puppet status ends.
  
• Recruit Estonian Gnerals not being available for Latvia too.
  
• South African cooperation with Britain.
  
• A Tibetan officer being impossible to recruit.
  
• Bad Chinese ace portrait.
  
• Numerous typos.
  
• USA AI value to support non-democratic UK.
  
• Relevant icons to some decision categories. (for Germany mostly)
  
• Swiss tooltip scripting.
  
• Turkish Civil War not firing correctly.
  
• Improved punchlines of some of the silly quotes.

• Repaired broken MTG on action file
  
• VP value visible again
  
• Fixed 2 Belgian generals lacking portraits
  
• Fixed effects affecting montenegrine agents when defining the nationalities of operatives
  
• Added better AI guidelines for the USA
  
• Added a focus for the USA to abandon free trade if it's consuming too much resources
  
• Fixed Ethiopian effects not working in decolonized mode.
  
• Added missing core of the celtic union in Ireland
  
• Bulgarian plane skins
  
• French heavy bomber is now a lancaster, its previous heavy bomber is now its interwar bomber
  
• Told the AI to not pick paratrooper advisor as they don't use them anyway
  
• Fix a typo in Brazil
  
• Anarchists won't try to improve the workers conditions because they don't need stability and it's well known that they don't care about the workers at all...
  
• Fix Italy trying to declare war on itself after asking for Dalmatia "politely"
  
• Fix bad bypasses in some Swiss focuses
  
• Fix bad leader check in Mexico
  
• Trotsky should not create the 4th international against himself anymore
  
• Fix Canadian fascist event triggering at a very inopportune moment
  
• Fixed indonesian event about not living in a salad...mmh I mean Batavia is either not a good name for a city or not a good name for a salad.
  
• Fix Turkey having national spirit twice rather than one replacing the other
  
• Added a bypass in an austrian focus
  
• Fixed civil war R56 spanish mini tree (re)appearing at the wrong moment
  
• Fixed a bad dynamic text in an event, I wasn't even looking for it.
  
• Nerfed some Polish generals who were above the curve
  
• Fix bad tag when using dynamic extra nationality for the operatives
  
• Fix bad plane model for Australia (may have caused a crash or two?)

• Repaired broken MTG action file.
  
• VP value visible again.
  
• Fixed 2 Belgian generals lacking portraits.
  
• Fixed effects for Montenegrine agents when defining the nationalities of operatives.
  
• Added better AI guidelines for the USA.
  
• Added a focus for the USA to abandon free trade if it's consuming too many resources.
  
• Fixed Ethiopian effects not working in decolonized mode.
  
• Added missing core of the Celtic Union in Ireland.
  
• Bulgarian plane skins.
  
• French heavy bomber is now a Lancaster.
  
• Told the AI to not pick paratrooper advisors as they don't use them anyway
  
• Fix a typo in Brazil.

Patch Highlights

• Chile Improvements.
  
• French Indochina adjustments.
  
• Unit VO's Lines given to more tags. (TfV DLC Owners only)
  
• New leader GFX throughout the world.
  
• Vanilla USA adjustments and flavor additions.

Content Additions

• Spanish focus to befriend portugal instead of invading them.
  
• More Turkish manufacturers, traits for Ataturk, generals.
  
• More unique codenames to always stay in shadows.
  
• Leaders for Al-Andalus.
  
• Spies will have a small chance to get secondary nationality.
  
• A couple of unique names for intelligence agencies.
  
• Plausible leaders in Naples, Sicily, Venice.
  
• Anarchist operatives, fear their guitars.
  
• Laotian fascists?!
  
• Decision to form Greater Syria.
  
• Focuses for Celtic countries.
  
• Decisions to core Zara and Trieste as Venice.
  
• Late game oil field in the contested region between Bulgaria and Romania.
  
• Boosted Syria if you start in fragmented mode.
  
• Game rule to start as united Celtic union under Scotland.
  
• Decision for Egypt to core Sudan.
  
• Decision for Greece to core Cyprus.
  
• Trait for Augustus Mussollini when forming the Roman Empire.
  
• Decision to create Greater Syria.
  
• 2 extraction decisions in Syria.

Balance/Tweaks

• Improved Chile to make changing ideologies in the early game easier.
  
• Gave a level to Friedrich Paulus.
  
• Improved marines focus for the USA, changed some icons.
  
• Focus to improve the mines for R56 spanish tree changed to excavation tech boost.
  
• Improved wargoals focus of the R56 spanish tree on the nationalist side.
  
• Reduced the number of female operatives to reflect the historical ratio a bit better.
  
• Removed stability bonus of the 'Lure Them In' chinese national spirit.
  
• Greek focus granting the king direct control over the army.
  
• Nerfed the starting army for Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia.
  
• Changed recruitable population bonus of Austrian Front 5%->2%
  
• Made some manufacturers available for other countries if they form the celtic union.=
  
• Additional instructions for Romania so it can appoint a government at a more opportune moment.
  
• More instructions for Germany so it won't pursue wargoal focuses if some enemies are not beaten.

Graphical/UI

• Neo-Confederate plane skins.
  
• Korean plane skins.
  
• Siamese plane skins (1941-1945 versions).
  
• Norwegian plane skins.
  
• Venitian plane skins.
  
• Iraq plane skins.
  
• TfV owners will get a more historical Swedish interwar plane.
  
• Some countries will now use the generic version of the French fighter.
  
• Advisors for Austria.
  
• Images for some decision categories.

AI

• Removed the Paratrooper trait as an unlockable for the AI.
  
• Japan will more likely escalate the war in China.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where a Free France news event would trigger as a regular event and vice versa.
  
• Fixed Chilean ideas that are invalid when not fascist.
  
• Fixed broken tooltips for 2 latvian focuses.
  
• Fixed Korea being released with buggy territory control.
  
• Fixed demand Slovenia in the German tree.
  
• Fixed mistakes in Senegalese and Russian country names/adjectives.
  
• Fixed expansionist Hungarian focuses being locked behind fascism.
  
• Fixed Israel lacking even generic advisors.
  
• Fixed a bug when Hungary demands overlordship over Slovakia.
  
• Fixed a clone of Chiang Kai-shek who was probably Fantomas.
  
• Fixed a South African Abwehr agent cloning device.
  
• Fixed an incorrect leader appearing with a Spanish game rule.
  
• Fixed bugs in two China-related focuses in the Indian tree.
  
• Fixed demanding Wallonia not granting Eupen.
  
• Fixed Austrian focus to establish a Serbian puppet.
  
• Fixed Italy inviting Austria to the Rome protocols even if they are at war with them.
  
• Fixed electing a democratic king in Hungary not changing the political regime.
  
• Fixed some problems with the Armenian and Georgian committee in exile.
  
• Fixed Greece joining factions while being a puppet.
  
• Fixed strange cores on territories claimed by the PRC.
  
• Fixed a focus allowing Guatemala to switch factions.
  
• Fixed bad portraits for the admiral in Brittany.
  
• Fixed a bug where Czechoslovakia could get 2 doctrines.
  
• Fixed demand wallonia not granting Eupen to France.
  
• Fixed the dissolution of Belgium not granting some troops to the remnant country.
  
• Fixed Germany producing too much AA and not enough AT.
  
• Fixed cavalry animation bug.

Greetings fellow scientists!

Our researchers have been hard at work formulating new and ever-expanding ways to torture you with quality content, shiny features, and endless puns. The general theme of this patch is improvement! The AI got a big ol' jolt of electro this time around, and we've polished, brushed, and even lovingly caressed the edges of as many rough surfaces as we could find. Thinking_Waffle even decided to try stand-up comedy. Life goal achieved?

Oh, and in case you missed the news: We just released a DLC called "Eyes Only" for the Cold War strategy game Terminal Conflict! It adds super cool spy stuff to the game, and maybe even an unfortunately very mortal cyborg kitten secret agent. (RIP cyborg kitten, you were too perfect for this world)

As always, you can come find us on the Discord[discord.gg] - if that's your jam. Peanut butter is also acceptable.

Stay cool kids,

-Gxp

p.s. Due to reasons both horrifying and utterly arcane, this patch is not save compatible. :(

Patch Highlights

• Chile Focus Tree Over'h'aul.
  
• Fascist Honduras has been given 'a' Democratic ANCAP alternative.
  
• New Leader and Ge'n'eral portraits sprinkled all over the world. What a mess.
  
• Added more minin'g' decisions.
  
• New Tag Szeklerland: SZK.
  
• Latin American Content g'i'ven QoL adjustments.
  
• New Regio'n'al News Events. Mostly in Latin America
  
• Significant AI improvemen't's.
  
• Add Eupen-Malmedy and North Sc'h'leswig stat'e's fo'r' Kaiser border lov'e'rs.

Content Additions

• Chile Focus Tree Overhaul.
  
• New Regional News Events. Mostly in Latin America.
  
• New Tag Szeklerland: SZK. Located in North Transylvania.
  
• Fascist Honduras branch has been given a new Democratic ANCAP alternative to its Banana Empire.
  
• Added more mining decisions.
  
• Added decision for Muslim countries (except Saudi Arabia) if they take Mecca and are not godless communists.
  
• Added decisions relative to Mohammed Menziane changing country to Al Andalus or Morocco depending on the situation.
  
• Improved Vichy France tree.
  
• Improved Free France tree.
  
• Mini tree for France if it continues the war in Africa.
  
• Improved German and Luxembourg namelists.
  
• Added a Romanian general and a spy.
  
• Added names for Kosovo.
  
• Added Belgian Spies.
  
• Added historical Paraguayan advisors.
  
• Added an Argentine spy.
  
• Restricted French resistance agents to a French capitulation.
  
• Canada will get access to some Quebec focuses.
  
• New more historical start date names for a few countries.
  
• A few new start date generals added to a handful of tags around the world.
  
• A few generals and admirals have had their traits and stats adjusted.
  
• Added focus to Germany's tree for the Kaiser to ask Denmark for North Schleswig.
  
• Overall Luxembourg Focus tree improvements.
  
• Turkey now has a new focus tree branch about building their own faction.
  
• Game Rule to deactivate some extra technologies.
  
• Added focus descriptions for Scotland.
  
• Added some steel mills around the world.
  
• New leader traits given to a few Latin American leaders.
  
• Improved some focuses for Argentina and added a new one to invade Brazil.

Balance & Tweaks

• 'Civil Unrest' modifiers changed to hurt more.
  
• Czechoslovakia has had their starting stockpile deficit slightly increased.
  
• Climate Infantry Buff: Battalions require 5 less support equipment and consume 2% less supply a new 10% movement bonus.
  
• Small Improvements to South American Focus trees.
  
• Militia Nerf: Battalions require 5 more Infantry Equipment and consume 1% more supply.
  
• Shock-troops Buff: Numbers improved to bring them in line with Vanilla special forces.
  
• Some existing News Events made regional.
  
• Better names for Al Andalus.
  
• Some tech changes for Al Andalus.
  
• Mohammed Menziane will join Al Andalus if the correct game rule is activated, otherwise he will join Morocco.
  
• Adjusted layout of some focuses in the Austrian focus tree.
  
• Lowered the amount of Political Power necessary for establishing East Pakistan.
  
• Pakistan's "Muslim Unity" Mechanic now requires more political power and compliance.
  
• Several naming adjustments across several countries and cosmetic tags.
  
• Hungary DoD naval branch will grant you naval xp so you can actually build ships if you have MtG.
  
• USA focus will boost all Marines techs instead of just levels 1-3.

Map

• Siberia Impassable zone adjusted.
  
• Small Himalaya impassable adjacency adjustment.
  
• A couple releasable tags given claims added throughout the world.
  
• Add Eupen-Malmedy and North Schleswig states.
  
• Add West Bank and Gaza states.
  
• Add West Virginia state.

Graphical

• Flag changes across all countries.
  
• New Paraguay Advisor and General GFX.
  
• New taskbar icon.
  
• New planes.
  
• New Leader and General portraits all over the world.
  
• Improved base game plane textures.
  
• Better use of the Maghreb infantry model.
  
• Used some relevant focus icons in other places for a better look.

AI

• Germany's Alt Historical AI went though a training montage and is much better.
  
• Countries without steel or oil or without tank techs will not take mobile warfare.
  
• Countries should build a bit more infrastructure in the late game.
  
• Lowered the amount of Military factories required for minors to consider building tanks from >69 to >45.
  
• Latin America countries have been given some basic logic to handle common alt-history situations better.
  
• Latin America countries are less inclined to send their whole army over to Europe or Asia.
  
• Latin America countries with start date navies will build more screen ships and submarines when fascist.
  
• Columbia, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil will sometimes send aide to their preferred side of the Spanish Civil War.
  
• Democratic France and England are heavily discouraged from guaranteeing certain tags in Latin America if the World tension is south of 55-95%.
  
• Italy should be less inclined to do "suicidal" focus choices.
  
• Having nothing better to do capitulated countries will invest in espionage.
  
• Romania should not betray the Cordon Sanitaire anymore if that faction is in a stable state.
  
• Romania should betray its faction and join the communists if it's invaded by the USSR.
  
• Luxembourg is better at using its focus tree and given a tiny chance go alt-history.
  
• Some Countries had their chance to select certain focuses reduced if it would ruin a play-though.
  
• Some Countries focus values adjusted to give more variety in alt-history focus trees.
  
• Added some new tags to the Soviet AI's 'Let's not get involved in this if they're not in our sphere' list.
  
• AI peace deals have less border gore. Though you can't completely separate an artist and their craft.
  
• Hungry is more inclined to align with Germany on alt-history.
  
• Democratic England is a tiny bit more tolerant of Soviet Aggression in alt-history before 1941.

Fixes

• Killed the evil twin of admiral Muselier, or maybe the other one.
  
• Fixed bugs in the Paraguay Civil War.
  
• Fixed bugs in the Argentine focus tree.
  
• There are no longer any tags with an 'impossible start'.
  
• Declaring Congo independence should also make you independent.
  
• Loading the R56 Portugal focus tree will give you that tree. Amazing.
  
• Fixed GFX of the new USA advisors.
  
• A few history file errors fixed in regard to admiral stats.
  
• Ataturk now won't join the communists against himself.
  
• Fix Kurdish Uprising stealing land.
  
• Fixed a performance issue related to targeted decisions.
  
• Fixed some details in the Colombian Focus tree.
  
• Focus to choose the capital as the PRC will never be bypassed.

Greetings, hello, and a fantastic day to all!

How was your month? Hopefully you're keeping active and indulging in lots of calorically intense desserts. Pie? Cake? Chocolate truffles? Honestly, the sky is the limit - what with the world ending, who needs a diet? This of course has nothing to do with the official Road to 56' recipe book we plan on releasing later this year...

Pakistan has a new focus tree, and we've expanded quite a few others. The map is also getting some lovely tweaks and maybe - hold your breath - we fixed that desync bug. I know it's been hard for everyone, but please know that we have suffered along with you in this time of MP instability.

...but that's not the biggest news! Now I'm sure you're asking, "...but Gxp, what could be more amazing than a Road to 56 country cookbook?"

Our team is happy to announce that we are launching our DLC "Eyes Only" for the cold-war strategy game Terminal Conflict this week! It's finally DONE! To celebrate, as well as show off our suave selves, we will be hosting a livestream over on Twitch[www.twitch.tv] June 9th! Thinking_Waffle, SpicyAlfredo, and Abraxsas will be there! Also, maybe, your favorite Lumberjack-in-Chief (yours truly).

That's June 9th, 18:00-20:00 CET on Twitch[www.twitch.tv]!

We're also going to be giving free copies of the game and DLC to folks that are hanging out with us! So if you want to get into the old Cold War while the new one starts up, we've got you covered! Oh, and the snarky AI is totally included gratis too.

As always, never forget - you are the best. We're glad to hang out with you on Discord[discord.gg] and internet high-five anytime.

With much respect and love,

-Gxp


Patch Highlights

• Compatibility for 1.9.3 "Husky".
  
• New focus tree for Pakistan.
  
• New political tree for Luxembourg.
  
• New political tree for Turkey.
  
• New army tree for Saudi Arabia.
  
• New game rule toggle for Germany enabling the Vanilla focus tree.
  
• New states, including Germany along the Rhine, Yugoslavia, and more.
  
• New water crossings.
  
• New releasable country: Kosovo.
  
• MP Fuel desync fixed.
  
• A standing mixer might seem excessive, but there should be no compromise when it comes to delicious food.

Content Additions

• More spies and better generic agency names.
  
• Game rule to increase the number of spies granted by intelligence agencies.
  
• Game rule to decide which countries will start with intelligence agencies.
  
• Mini 'preview' tree to Spain.
  
• 'Revolt of the Arrow Crosses' focus for Hungary.
  
• USA alternate history flavor with a couple new advisors, a non-aligned leader, two new generals, and one army high command leader.
  
• Commanders and the regency in Iraq.
  
• Advisors and commanders for Palestine and reduced compliance to the British.
  
• Historical advisors for Argentina and Uruguay.
  
• Decisions for unions to recruit generals of reattached countries.
  
• Mobile warfare theorist variant of De Gaulle.
  
• Mining decisions to replace the scrapped Austrian mining focuses.
  
• Prospecting mine decision in northern France.
  
• Greater Hungary, Greater Bulgaria, Greater Croatia, Greater Serbia and Kosovo releasable.
  
• Complex textures can be created by mixing different types of flour and integrating them loosely. This is how we end up with delicious flavor islands within the culinary continent.

Map

• States in Germany so the natural borders of France can be achieved.
  
• States in Yugoslavia, so everybody can get their share of the Balkans.
  
• Northern Chile given a new state to better reflect Bolivia's claims.
  
• Water crossings added to make combat less frustrating in certain areas.
  
• Don't pack in your dry ingredients when measuring. Scoop into the scoop.

Balance & Tweaks

• The non-LaR Spanish Civil War will fire in July or if the focus 'Strike First' is completed.
  
• Hungarian claims will grant cores in southern Slovakia and Northern Transylvania.
  
• Better use of operative portraits.
  
• Enriched some name lists.
  
• The Austrian tree has been rebalanced significantly in certain areas to be less frustrating.
  
• Heavy tanks can no longer be converted from their Great War ancestors.
  
• Yugoslavia should be a bit more rational in its choice between the Axis and Allies.
  
• Some countries can trigger RSI when puppeting Italy.
  
• Fascist Argentina will no longer cause as much world tension.
  
• Don't be afraid to make your own syrup. If you have barrels of sugar, or have a giant oak tree in the backyard, why not go for it?

Graphical

• Various planes for Sweden, Finland, Austria, Turkey, Lithuanian, and Croatia.
  
• Reforming Austria-Hungary as Austria grants Hungarian infantry models.
  
• Many Graphics and Portraits replaced with better assets.
  
• Even a small amount of presentation goes a long way. A light storm of pepper, oregano, or ancestral blood across the top of any dish can do just that.

AI

• Behavior paths for Germany which adapt to whatever focus tree you have selected.
  
• Behavior paths for Turkey.
  
• The Directorate of Ukraine will not be formed by the AI anymore.
  
• Italy will be slightly less pushed towards attacking some countries.
  
• Greece will be less inclined to attack its neighbors if it's already at war.
  
• Fascist non-historical AI Germany will, on average, not die as quickly.
  
• Fascist Honduras AI will act more logically.
  
• Fascist Bolivian AI will be more active.
  
• Paraguayan civil war is more likely to happen in ahistorical.
  
• Bananas are not in-fact a good substitute for eggs. Trust us. It was horrifying.

UI

• Streamlined some elemtents of spying.
  
• Removed buttons related to the discontinued 1939 scenario.
  
• Milk chocolate is overrated. For a bold flavor, go dark.

Fixes

• MP Fuel desync fixed.
  
• Scout planes won't cost absurd CP amounts.
  
• Fixed research boost that fascist Japan gets when it loses in China.
  
• Fixed military decisions for Ethiopia.
  
• Fixed some issues with civil wars in Portugal.
  
• Always be sure to chill your cookies ~30 minutes before baking. This is the true test of a true chef - resisting temptation to rush while on the path toward true flavor.
  
• Fixed wrong Mexican tree loading at the end of a civil war if the rebels won.
  
• Fixed the Raj revolt in some cases.
  
• Fixed Mengukuo ending at war with Japan if two specific events occured on the same day.
  
• Fixed missing event chain related to the "Form the Benelux" focus and decision.
  
• USA fascist demagogue and communist revolutionaries will now be mutually exclusive.
  
• HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE 1942 WORLD CUP?
  
• Other minor tweaks and fixes not listed.