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.

Hello Astrocats!

These days the weather is all over the place. Even the deserts of Texas have ice, so it's a fair sign that the world is descending into the chaos of Ragnarok. Yet the Road to 56 team presses on, and so can you! We're all here to support each other in this mod-crazy world - one patch at a time!

This month the team focused on polish and bringing in a whole avalanche of tweaks. Did you know we've done nearly 150 of these updates? How many things have you done that many times? Hopefully at least some are of you are saying "high-fives". If not, stop slacking off and find a friend to five.

Strange New Bodies updated to 0.1.6! We introduced a brand new character along with a profoundly awkward set of personal questions.

Get it here: SNB 0.1.6[www.patreon.com]

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

With mega socially-distanced elbow nudges,

-Gxp



Highlights

• The Azad Hind now have a repurposed tree of their own.

Additions

• Added niche glider manufacturers to boost your paratroopers for the para dropping enthusiasts playing Italy or Sweden.
  
• Generic city fall events for Oslo and Stockholm.
  
• Communist Colombian leader is now marked as anti-fascist so he will be less likely to join the Axis.
  
• Unique name for the Argentine intelligence agency.
  
• Changed the Estonian fascist leader to Artur Sirk, the other guy Hjalmar Mae can appear if the country is a puppet of Germany.
  
• Added historical spies for Japan, Germany, Afghanistan.
  
• Extra naval and air focuses for France.
  
• Reworked diplomatic focuses for Brazil.
  
• Decision for Azad Hind to stage an uprising in Bombay.
  
• If Azad Hind wins Nepal and Bhutan will gain freedom.
  
• [MtG] Added the Littorio class as a pair of partially built battleships in the starting Italian building list.

Balance

• Reduced the cost of the decision to influence your AI allies from 25 to 10 command points.
  
• Restored Cruiser subs for Japan.
  
• Country revolts will now spawn militia divisions rather than standard infantry divisions] on hold for now.
  
• Early game construction debuff for India.

Adjustments and Fixes

• Fixed wrong ideology being affected by the Defense of Canada regulations.
  
• Fixed Bhutanese focus granting claims to Turkey.
  
• Fixed the decision for Memel to become Lithuania demanding control of the Croat states.
  
• Fixed a bugged icon and name of an Iraqi focus.
  
• Fixed Egyptian decision to get cores on Sudan as it's impossible to occupy impassable desert.
  
• Fixed the Kingdom of Honduras still pretending to be a republic just to get American funding.
  
• Fixed Austria being able to create a puppet Serbia which would have no cores on its own territory.
  
• Fixed some missing localization in Britain.
  
• Fixed missing description for the trait submarine captain. It now enables you to show how much your naval commander is a salty sea dog who has seen worse storms than this one.
  
• Fixed the starting Austrian production that was trying to start the incorrect type of equipment. Thanks to the person who suggested adding a starting production for Austria.
  
• Fixed the name of a focus in Peru that was missing.
  
• Fixed a Canadian focus that had a tendency to automatically bypass.
  
• Fixed a tech boost in Czechoslovakia that could unlock 2 doctrines at once.
  
• Fixed a Chinese focus to create a faction with Japan that wasn't working because Japan formed its own faction anyway.
  
• Fixed the stupidly low production cost of medium AA tanks.
  
• Fixed a detail in a Greek event.
  
• Fixed a bug regarding the name of Québec.
  
• The British Raj can now reliably recore the Azad Hind states if they win.
  
• India will no longer be stuck with strikes indefinitly.
  
• India won't be locked out of their focus tree after the election if they gained independence.
  
• India will always switch government after the election now.
  
• General improvements to the Indian Focus Tree.
  
• Germany receiving the Marshall plan demands requires peace with the USA.
  
• Made some shared focuses forbidden for some countries invisible for said countries.
  
• [BftB] Fixed the decision to jail Georges II of Greece not appearing, I swear everything is working this time.
  
• [Not Bftb] Reactivated the Turkish FT that was deactivated while fixing another bug.
  
• [Not MtG] Fix British communist trees blocking some fascist ones.
  
• [Not MtG and LaR] Fix floating spying focuses.

AI

• The USA should join the allies only in late 1941 if it's not attacked earlier.

GFX

• Izzy-wizzy, improved the portrait of the one and only: Sooty!
  
• Byzantine jets and fighters.
  
• New Focus and Idea GFX across the mod.
  
• Added extra operative portrait.
  
• Improved some decision and command ability icons.
  
• Changed an icon in the CZE tree.
  
• Added someone who could have been a Spanish general as a generic leader for Spain/South America instead because I felt that there were enough Spanish nationalists already.
  
• Added a generic African portrait as a country/army leader.
  
• Converted a generic European portrait into an operative.
  
• Realized we had a portrait for Erich Koch which has never been installed so you can see the face of this Nazi piece of shit if you form its Reichkommissariat.
  
• Sri Lanka now use Indian portraits instead of generic Asian ones.
  
• Changed the portrait of Pierre Ryckmans the Governor-General of the Congo.
  
• [Not DoD] Fix bad fighter model making the game buggy when forming Austria Hungary.
  
• [DoD] Removed the Hungarian AH fighter and replaced him with a Bf-109 due because it wasn't compatible with non DoD owners.

Highlights

• Tons of Indian content fixes and adjustments
  
• The KPD will no longer cosplay as the CPI
  
• Authoritarian World Leaders no longer get kidnapped and replaced by Indian ones
  
• Lithuania Naval branch added
  
• Germany Danzig or War branch adjusted

Additions

• Lithuania Naval Branch added
  
• Lithuania given start date navy OOB and Naval Commander
  
• Post Independence Indian Leaders now all have Traits
  
• Burma now has a starting army when released by event

Adjustments

• Germany Danzig or War branch adjusted
  
• Some Naval traits now require only 300 XP to earn
  
• India cannot declare Independence while capitulated
  
• Custom Tooltip for the Declare Independence Decision for India
  
• Hyderabad Tag now more likely to spawn
  
• The 'informal' British Empire will no longer stay with an Edwardarin England
  
• India, Bhutan, and Nepal now leave the Allies with the Asian Decolonization Game Rule
  
• Added Free India Generals for India released by Asian Decolonization Game Rule
  
• Better Tooltips for the Liberation of South Asia
  
• India can now consistently reintegrate Northern Pakistan
  
• More descriptive Focus Descriptions for India
  
• Foreign support in the Bengal famine will now consistently arrive
  
• Indian Strikes Decision now permanently increases Influence
  
• Rebalanced Agrarian Economy Ideas
  
• Netherlands events involving fascist adultery rebalanced
  
• Two Candian focuses have had their times reduced to 35 days

Fixes

• The KPD will no longer cosplay as the CPI
  
• Authoritarian World Leaders no longer get kidnapped and replaced by Indian ones
  
• Kurdistan should no longer breakaway 10 tens before learning their lesson
  
• Fixed positioning of Rt56 British alt paths
  
• Greece can imprison the King again (BftB)
  
• Unit and Equipment Stat inconstancies fixed
  
• Fixed Dominion of India for non-TfV owners
  
• Corrected Princely States idea tooltip
  
• Bhutan war goal focus and decision bugs fixed
  
• Fixed Continuity Errors with some country names and flags
  
• GFX error in the Infantry tech page fixed
  
• Soviet fixes to cold war focuses
  
• Minor Canadian fixes
  
• Other minor fixes not noted

AI

• Indian given Historical AI logic
  
• Minor Improvements to Peace AI in some cases
  
• Minor Improvements to some AI strategy scripts

GFX

• Pedro Cerda given new Portrait

General

• Germany will no longer cosplay as India.

Greetings Citizens!

A big update this month as we've overhauled India, adding in quite a few little features you'll hopefully enjoy! As a bonus, why not have Canada too? No spoilers though! Fire up the mod, and let us know what you think. ;)

Other than that, we've got the usual assortment of fixes and feature improvements. The team is always hard at work, slaving away for your personal pleasure. The Road to 56 office's play Michael Jackson's "I'll be There" endlessly just so we never forget. We're gonna be there for you! Always! One patch at at time.

Strange New Bodies updated to 0.1.5! The introduction was overhauled based on some super player feedback, and it's now guaranteed to involve 347% more unmarked death flags.

Get it here: SNB 0.1.5[www.patreon.com]

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

With pancakes covered in whipped cream,

-Gxp


Highlights

• Complete Overhaul of the Indian Focus Tree with multiple unique game mechanics (non-TfV!)
  
• Complete Overhaul for the Canadian focus tree (non-TfV!)
  
• New Soviet Post War Focuses for the Stalin path
  
• British Communist focus tree branch for non-MtG owners

Additions

• More Decisions for Pakistan to influence the Bangladeshi Liberation War
  
• After approximately two years Bangladesh will have lost its will to fight
  
• Unique State Modifier to represent the Colony of Burma
  
• New non-TfV Companies for India
  
• Swaths of new Indian Ministers
  
• Loads of new Victory Points all over the Indian subcontinent
  
• Added a unique flag and name for Bangladesh as a Pakistani puppet
  
• Death of Trotsky and the establishment of Leonid Serebryakov as his successor
  
• Islamic Marxist focus for Al Andalus in order to allow Revolutionary Jihad
  
• British exile focuses for commonwealth countries and Britain goes communist
  
• Unique air force focuses for Lithuania
  
• Added some new focuses to Bhutan tree
  
• Added some new focuses to Korea tree

Balance

• Adjusted Focus and Decision Times for Pakistan
  
• Communist countries will search for a non-Soviet faction instead of forming their own faction all the time
  
• Nerf research times and stats of some Rt56 Infantry tech
  
• Law Enforcement National characters PP cost increased to better-reflected the value of the stats given

Adjustments and Fixes

• Fixed fall of Paris event triggering if Vichy France took the city
  
• Fixed an issue with Austria being promised 300 tankettes from the Italians and not receiving any
  
• Fixed Bug where Bangladeshi Liberation Interface would keep popping up after being dealt with
  
• Fixed incorrect claims for Armenia
  
• Fixed a land fort in Mexico being put in the wrong province
  
• Fixed Hungarian Motorization advisor who had no effect
  
• Fixed Greek focus trees for everybody
  
• Fixed Italian admiral who had the wrong skill level compared to his abilities
  
• Fixed the Imperial conference
  
• Fixed broken gfx in Pakistan tree
  
• Removed some problematic sea crossing in the Aegean Sea and between Okinawa and Kyushu
  
• Renamed some R56 technologies
  
• Fixed bad bypass in the Honduras focus tree
  
• Various localization fixes
  
• [BftB] Fix some Turkish Advisors
  
• [DoD] Removed mutual exclusivity between Handle the King and King Michael's coup in Romania

AI

• Siam in a faction with Japan and at war with China will no longer send its entire army to fight in China
  
• Siam and Japan handle the Burma front better when at war with the Allies
  
• Great Britain will no longer send so many troops to fight in Burma before 1942
  
• Historical AI adjustments to USA and Soviets
  
• The Soviet AI will treat Poland a little nicer before 1940

GFX

• New Focus and Idea GFX across the mod
  
• Portrait for Infante Jaime, claimant to the Throne of Spain and France (also available for Nicaragua)
  
• Moe Breg has been given a spy portrait. Batter up!
  
• New Company Icons for India

Additions

• Added a Russian American Nazi as a potential collaborator.
  
• Added focuses for Poland and Romania to invite Ukraine under some conditions.
  
• Minor localization additions.
  
• Other minor additions not noted.

Balance

• German focuses 'Volksgemeinschaft', 'Befriend Sweden', and 'Befriend Finland' are now 35 days. Down from 70.
  
• 'Decided Planner' General personality trait adjusted.
  
• Communist China's 'Partisan beyond enemy lines' ideas nerfed.
  
• Generic Ideologly influence ideas drift now 0.03.

GFX

• Planes for Ukraine.
  
• Stahlhelm infantry for Argentina.
  
• Ukraine will use 2d Soviet equipment rather than Czech ones.

AI

• German Historical Focus list made more Historical. (Will go to war with Soviets in the summer of 1941 if not acted upon)
  
• Soviet Historical Focus list made more Historical. (Will take purge 35 to 70 days later than before)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed soft-lock in Rt56 Greece content for those without BftB DLC.
  
• Fixed events and content that involved new states. Most notably Vietnam post-independence war event.
  
• Fixed not being able to remove 'Jim Crow' state modifier from Louisiana.
  
• Fixed Generic Army tree branch being locked behind WIP Chinese Warlord content.
  
• Fixed some broken GFX file references within the mod.
  
• Fixed a plane having 10 times less range than expected.
  
• Fixed a Kiwi advisor who was not unlockable before.
  
• Fixed Trotsky's death being announced (by fake news media) while he is clearly alive and well.
  
• Other minor fixes not noted.

Welcome to 2021! Time for rocket packs and Elon Musk to take over the planet from his billionaire Mars base. Everything else on Earth is still on fire, so it can't be any worse? I for one welcome our Martian overlords.

Whatever flavor of Apocalypse comes, we will keep patching and bringing new content. So bang your rocks together and download via smoke signals if necessary! We'll still be here!


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

From a bunker in the Pacific Northwest,

-Gxp


Additions

• New Mongol names, made by somebody who actually knows the Mongol language.
  
• Releasing a puppet enables the overlord to keep cores (or add them in some cases).
  
• Small oil field in Syria.
  
• Reshaped Bohuslän's provinces to a more historical, sleek shape.
  
• Added coring effects to Norwegian focuses.
  
• Added new effects to the "At Any Cost" focus in the Norwegian focus tree.
  
• New focuses for Communist Chile in order to increase the chance that their Communist neighbours will join them.
  
• Added non-aligned leaders and flags for Czechoslovakia.
  
• Puppeting Iran may cause the Shah to abdicate.
  
• Added a focus for Spain to unite the country if played in fragmented world.
  
• Expanded Chilean Communist diplomatic options.
  
• More Nazi spies so you can waste them while still playing historically.
  
• New country: Grand Duchy of Baden (fragmentation game rules only).
  
• New focuses and advisors for Japan.
  
• Decisions to guide the AI of your allies.
  
• Cosmetic tag for Lithuania to become Memel if it's stuck in that city.
  
• Cosmetic tag for Portugal to become the Azores if it's stuck in that archipelago.
  
• Cosmetic tag for China to become Macau or Hong Kong.
  
• New States for Mongolia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Korea, Xinjang, and Mexico.
  
• Italy can be reformed by its many breakaways.
  
• [LaR] Focuses to increase the efficiency of the propaganda mission in some focus trees.
  
• [MtG, LaR] Communist Britain gets small improvements.
  
• [MtG] Communist Britain will get more spies to actually do something, maybe.
  
• [TfV] New focuses for India.
  
• [WTT] Inflexible strategist or brilliant strategists with high skills may unlock some abilities normally locked behind certain traits.
  
• [WTT] Added new leader abilities: "reserve transfer" and "extra fuel reserves".

Tweaks

• German Submarine high commander actually boosts submarines rather than boosting hunting submarines.
  
• City fall events for a lot cities and the Panama canal.
  
• Norwegian faction choosing event for Monarchists now loopable, in case you missed the faction name you wanted.
  
• Fly Swatter trait made may easier to unlock for admirals.
  
• Norwegian AI on advisors improved, so AI Norway will be a bit more sensible in this regard from now on.
  
• Puppets having a resistance rebellion will become free if the overlord has capitulated.
  
• Ensured that Trotsky will get a spying agency.
  
• "Ban Communism" generic decision will remove the Brazilian Communist influence national spirit.
  
• A few Norwegian idea tweaks.
  
• The Norwegian Army starter focus now gives some old equipment rather than command power, as that wasn't too useful in the early game.
  
• Moved Continuous Focuses and certain focus icons in the Norwegian focus tree for easier accessibility and a nicer visual.
  
• Add 3rd research slot to Carpatho Ukraine.
  
• More tweaks to country names, and cosmetic names as well.
  
• Removed excessive research slots for Manchuria.
  
• [LaR] Expanded departments will grant 2 spy slots instead of 1 and be slightly cheaper
  
• [LaR] Increased the efficiency of ideology boost spying missions.
  
• [DoD] Improved the Hungarian decision to integrate puppet Czechoslovakia when forming Austria-Hungary.

GFX

• Portraits for US admirals.
  
• Less blank portraits for players without DLC in MP.
  
• Celtic planes.
  
• Some extra event pics.
  
• Post civil war nationalist Spanish fighter.
  
• Even more flag fixes, changes and additions.
  
• [MtG] CSA planes will happear if you "honor the confederacy".
  
• [MtG] generic portrait for head of intelligence.

Fixes

• Latvian Naval tree will now work as designed.
  
• Corrected building graphics, airport placements and rocketsite placements, for Jamtland, Norrland, Bohuslän and Västergötland.
  
• Fixed to which provinces should belong to Jamtland, and which should belong to Norrland.
  
• Fixed Alemannia formable not taking a R56 German state into account.
  
• Fixed the Imperial Conference in the British tree.
  
• Fixed légitimiste France not being able to remove disjointed under specific circumstances.
  
• Fixed various typos.
  
• Fixed Guatemala being able to make a faction that goes to war against itself.
  
• Fixed multiple potential paradoxes caused by the Austrian focus tree, such as making an agreement with an non-existing country.
  
• Fixed Russia being Russia.
  
• [LaR] Spain will not become Anarcho Monarchist anymore.
  
• [DoD] Fix Hungary being able to get a core on Malaya.
  
• [Bftb] Kemalist Turkey will use other plane models than Polish interwar fighters.
  
• [WTT, BftB] Fix lots of inconsistent cores in formable decisions (like Arabia not getting Qatar).
  
• [Not MtG] Fix rare crash when Nepal create motorized units for non Man the Guns owners.
  
• [Not WTT] Moved Japanese continuous focus so the non WTT players can enjoy the latest additions.
  
• [Not DoD] Fix bad plane model for Austria after forming Austria Hungary.
  
• [Not LaR] Fix légitimiste France not being able to support the Spanish nationalists.

2020 is finally coming to a close! Oh, goodbye 2020 - we won't miss you. Unless of course World War III starts next year? Or Cyberpunk 2077 is terrible? Things can always be worse, but do you know what always makes things better? A new patch!

We've included the usual assortment of improvements, expansions, and amazingly obscure references. For all the lovely details check the notes below!

In other news, this month we will be doing a livestream with the team! Mostly it'll be a chance to chat with the esteemed gentleman that make this mod possible and maybe pose some serious philosophical questions (is reality really real? should I buy that green hat?). When our plans are finalized we'll post the details on Discord. See you then!


Version 0.1.3 of Strange New Bodies, our Choose Your Own Adventure style RPG, is out! We update every month, just like the mod. The game is very early in development but feel free to check it out!

• Strange New Bodies[www.patreon.com]

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

With mega hugs and duplex high-fives,

-Gxp


Highlights

• Political branch and other content for Al-Andalus. (accessible via game rule)
  
• More diplomatic focuses for the "Support the Kodoha faction" branch.
  
• Japanese focuses regarding the Free Indian Army.
  
• Generic city fall events for Berlin, London, Ottawa, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Rio and Delhi.
  
• Jim Crow laws across the USA and decisions to fight segregation.
  
• Historical Tuvan advisors.
  
• [LaR] British/Allies spying operation in order to convince Roosevelt that Hitler wants to rule the world, by creating a false map of South America under Nazi dominance.

Content Additions

• Decisions for Wallonia Quebec and Palestine in order to move their capital.
  
• Diplomatic options for Carlist Spain. (in both trees)
  
• Minor shale oil resources exploited during the war.
  
• Generic Chief of the Navy for Mengukuo.
  
• Focus for British tank variants.
  
• New Zealand tree improvements, with extra research slots, focuses, and effects for existing focuses.
  
• The Oster Conspiracy will put the General Beck in power. Non-communist ways to fight the Nazis will bring back Werner von Fritch and Werner von Blomberg.
  
• Decision for Serbia to gain cores on Montenegro.
  
• [DoD] Improved splitting Czechoslovakia and dismantling Yugoslavia as Romania with extra decisions and events.
  
• [LaR] Extra historical collaborators.
  
• [LaR] Spanish operatives.
  
• [LaR] Bonus! Christopher Lee?!
  
• [LaR] A Mongol operative serving the Japanese.
  
• [LaR] Peter Tennant, head of the SOE in Scandinavia as a historical British operative.

GFX

• More Indian portraits.
  
• An extra admiral portrait for Europe and South America.
  
• Free French (British) planes and Vichy French fighters.
  
• Planes from the Spanish civil war.
  
• Non fascist planes for Italy.
  
• New Scandinavian planes. At least we told them they were new.
  
• Some handsome Scottish Admirals.
  
• [LaR] Used some generic commanders as operative portraits.
  
• [BftB] BftB interwar Greek planes only show when relevant.

Balance/Tweaks/Improvements

• Renaming Berlin to Germania will increase its VP value.
  
• Decisions to unite the Levant will rename Jerusalem to "Al-Quds".
  
• Added an opinion boost between Hyderabad and the Ottoman Empire due to a dynastic marriage between the daughter of the Sultan and a relative of the Nasir.
  
• Reduced the losses done by the resistance to occupying garrisons.
  
• Tweaked the way the AI handles occupation, leading to a better control of resistance.
  
• Göring is now a famous aviator. He flies a tiny plane.
  
• Germany should not attack CZE if already at war.
  
• Fascist Iran gets a compliance bonus with other ethnic Iranian states.
  
• Added historical Turkish divisions and gave them some some iphones.
  
• Poland will get access to bicycle units.
  
• Various improvements in Estonia: Historical operatives, leader traits, fixed a focus not working properly, improved a military focus.
  
• The resistance revolt news event will now mention who is revolting and offer fashion advice.
  
• Improved various elements of the Norwegian focus tree.
  
• Releasing Croatia along the Dalmatian coast will release Dalmatia instead.
  
• [DoD] Increased AI willingness to accept licenses. Also, you can now fence stolen goods.
  
• [DoD] Hungary will get access to bicycle units through its focus tree.
  
• [LaR] Added effects creating intelligence agencies in some trees where relevant.
  
• [LaR] Mongol spies will tend to share with other Mongol tags.
  
• [MTG] Added more naval module tech boosts in trees without them.
  
• [WTT] Maghreb countries (and Al Andalus if you don't have LaR) can now form Arabia.
  
• [BftB] Improved Balkan entente path in the Turkish tree.

Map

• Fixed the course of a river in Romania.
  
• Added 2 states in Sweden, made Orkney island into a state.
  
• Added Victory Points in the United States.
  
• Added list of tourist traps and souvenier shops worth visiting during your invasion.

Fixes

• Fixed bugs in multiple Bftb greek events and decisions.
  
• Fixed some generic portraits not showing in China.
  
• Khrutchev shouldn't come back to life anymore, unless you unlock the Occult DLC.
  
• [DoD] Fixed a bug where communist Yugoslavia would not get a national spirit.
  
• [DoD] Fixed giving dividing CZE between Germany and Hungary now grants Czechia to Germany.
  
• [Tfv] Fixed the model of the New Zealand "Big Bob" tank not appearing. "Bigger Jim" and "Biggest Fred" are still in development.