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Better Post-War Europe

THIS MOD IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED! CHECK THE TOP THREAD IN THE DISCUSSIONS FOR MORE INFO!


Since Paradox is unable to give us proper post-war borders/states of Europe even one year after release, I decided to create this modification. Besides 30 new states and countless other map changes, there're also several events like the reunification/division of Germany, the Korean War or city name changes to only name a few.
The most powerful tool you get with this mod is a complex manager to change the face of Europe (and East Asia) to either recreate the historical outcome of the war or complete wackiness (like restoring Austria-Hungary or the PLC).

This mod should enhance a somehow historical playthrough with the defeat of the Axis and the begin of the Cold War. For a complete list of changes, just scroll down.





State, border and country changes

• In total there are around 70 new states from Bremen to Fezzan!
  
• Revised primarily provinces and states
  
• Recreation of the Oder-Neisse border between Germany and Poland
  
• Smoother, historical borders between the USSR and Poland
  
• Partition of East Prussia
  
• Remodelled Berlin and thus capital will be split up between the two Germanies
  
• Scaled down Gibraltar, Zara, Hongkong, Singapore and Macau; they were way too huge
  
• Seperated Northern Serbia from Serbia, so you can recreate Austria-Hungary
  (I didn't edit their events, though you can create A-H with the post-war manager!)
  
• Redrew the DMZ in Korea while also adding the borders of 1950 and '53
  
• Bonn now becomes capital of West Germany
  
• Added North and South Korea with their leaders respectively
  
• Historical partition of Istria between Yugoslavia and Italy
  
• Partitioning of Switzerland
  
• Japan can be partitioned and also divided with a communist country in the North and democratic in the South

Releasables and countries

• Added 30 new releasables to the game. Many other new countries can be formed through event as well.
  
• All Yugoslav nations, such as Slovenia, Bosnia and Macedonia
  
• All SSRs, including the -stan countries
  
• Danzig, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia will be there from game start!
  
• Smaller German states to allow the Morgenthau- or Roosevelt-Plan
  
• The DPRK as an own state and the Socialist Republic of Japan for alternate history
  
• Free City of Trieste, which can be released during the post-war events

Events

• Changed some events like the Yalta conference, the partition of Poland through M-R Pact, surrender of Bessarabia and the events of the Soviet NF concerning Poland to avoid missing state transfers
  
• A dynamic manager to alter the borders of Europe and Korea and Japan
  
• The manager can change the borders of almost every European country with historical outcomes or ahistorical weirdness (e.g. Megali idea, A-H, dissolving the USSR, ...)
  
• Morgenthau- and Roosevelt Plan are available as alternatives to history
  
• Events for a 1950 unification of Germany (Stalin Notes)
  
• 18 new news events
  
• Dissolving the Allies and Comintern and creating the Warsaw Pact or NATO
  
• Dynamic events for Mao's China to demand NE China and Dalian
  
• Port Arthur leasing and return
  
• Event chain to decide what to do with the defeated Japan
  
• Negotiating the future of Korea
  
• Korean war + cease-fire
  
• City renaming (10 new cities currently)

Miscellaneous stuff and fixes

• Historical (communist) leaders of Poland, Albania and Romania
  
• Several flag and localization changes to fix the basegame's stupidity (can be chosen upon game start)
  
• It's highly unlikely that Nat. Spain will join the Axis (I removed Germany's ability to delete Spain's spirit "Recovering from Civil War"
  
• Option to enable a neutrality national spirit for some countries so they won't join factions early on
  
• Aforementioned option will also give Japan an own faction to prevent Axis-weirdness
  
• Red China can get dynamic events to annex Sinkiang, Tibet and Manchuria and eventually proclaim their country!

Some minor changes were done as well!

TL;DR: BPWE adds in several new states, events, countries and other small enhancements. The goal is to let the player create a historical map. It DOES NOT add a new timeline,national foci, technologies, units or...music, thus it's NOT a new scenario or Cold War overhaul. You will start with the vanilla bookmarks and have to defeat the Germans, Italians or Japanese to descend the Iron Curtain. Or you use console commands. Which is easier...




Each big topic is now an own "discussion" entry to ease the work of updating the description. Just click on the box below to get to the respective topic!






If you have any suggestions just post them under "Suggestions" (duh!). Please keep the original idea in mind and don't ask for NF trees or new technologies. Changing the map to represent our timeline will get the most attention.




-X Sino-Soviet split (border wars)
-✔ Enlargement for NATO + WP
-X Greek civil war
-✔ Lend-lease events for China; nations in civil war
-X Decolonization events and wars in North Africa/Middle East
-# Tweaking borders
-# Bug fixes and optimization

✔ = Done
X = In Work
# = Always in Work



-Decolonization events and civil wars
-Vietnam independence wars
-Implementation of all historical conferences
-Bug fixes + optimization
-More events and decisions
-Bug fixes, code optimization and localisation overhauls

• Make Peace, Not War - A Conditional Surrender Mod for Hearts of Iron -> LINK
  
• Cold War and WW3 Music - OSTs from WiC + SA, Defcon, East vs. West -> LINK
  
• Soundtrack of the Starmedia documentation Soviet Storm: WWII in the East -> LINK
  
• Small fix for Hungary not joining the Axis without Death or Dishonor -> LINK
  
• Trotsky's Coup - Replaces Stalin with Trotsky without a civil war -> LINK

• Alfactor29, for the French translation!
  
• Teymur Bagir-zade, ghaussst and Аниме Товарищ for the Russian translation!
  
• Chairman Meow for the 'Flickering Flags Fix' mod!

Hopefully Paradox will someday implemement the same changes this mod does...