Other Changes

• North America
  
  • Removed the “American Civil War Mobilisation” decisions as they disproportionately benefited the Combined Syndicates of America, resulting in an unbalanced win rate among the American Civil War participants.
  • Decreased how much the Entente will attempt to perform naval invasions on India.
  • Updated Canada’s interactions with Ireland, to account for the new content.
  • Improved the Entente’s AI in coordinating naval invasions during the Weltkrieg.
  • Updated the name of the Combined Syndicates of America’s general Campbell Johnson to include his middle name.
  • Updated the effects of several national foci and national spirits for AutDem, PatAut and NatPop Mexico.
  • Updated Mexico’s national focus filters.
  • Altered when Mexico’s elections take place.
  • American Field Marshals that defect to join New England are now demoted to general.
• Central America & the Caribbean
  
  • Ferrer-led Costa Rica can now form the Democratic Alliance of the Caribbean upon his takeover of Costa Rica, as opposed to at the end of his focus branch.
  • Ferrer-led Costa Rica can now attack a non-democratic Mexico that controls land in Central America.
  • Added “CODOTEL” as an electronics concern for the Dominican Republic.
  • Clarified the tooltip for El Salvador’s “Snap Elections” national focus.
  • Added Cléante Valcin as an advisor for Haiti.
  • Nicaragua’s “The Fate of Moreno” event will now only fire once, instead of after every election.
  • Buffed the effects of multiple national foci and national spirits for Nicaragua.
  • Added “Puerto Rico Ironworks” as an industrial concern for Puerto Rico.
• South America
  
  • Buffed the effects of Argentina’s democratic national foci, while decreasing their stability gain.
  • Added some tooltips to Argentina’s national foci, clarifying faction-joining options.
  • PatAut GOU Argentina can now also join the Reichspakt if at war with the same enemies, rather than only if at peace.
  • Updated the effects of much of Bolivia’s political national foci.
  • Bolivia now starts with the SocDems and SocLib in the ruling coalition.
  • Updated Bolivia’s starting party popularities.
  • Brazil can now form the Montevideo Treaty with Uruguay, if both countries are socialist and Argentina is NatPop.
  • Updated the text for multiple Paraguayan events.
  • Paraguay is now less likely to attack Bolivia/Peru-Bolivia after the Non-Aggression Pact runs out.
  • Updated the effects of several national foci and national spirits for Peru.
  • Updated Peru’s national focus filters.
  • Suriname can now be given to the Netherlands in its annexation event.
• Western & Southern Europe
  
  • Belgium and the Netherlands, either neutral or part of BeNeSam, will temporarily join the Reichspakt if they are at war with the Third Internationale during the Weltkrieg.
  • When the Union of Britain, Commune of France or Italian splinters surrender by event, their capitulated puppets are now also seen in the Peace Conference.
  • Removed the option to give Northern England to Scotland in the annexation event.
  • The Commune of France’s navy is now transferred to the Union of Britain upon final capitulation.
  • Buffed the forts given by the “Fortify the German Border” and “Extend the Line” national foci for the Commune of France.
  • Added a “Polish Exile” trait to the Commune of France’s Konstanty Rokossowski.
  • The country that hosts the exiled Pope will now receive a small attack bonus against the Socialist Republic of Italy.
  • Reduced the amount of volunteers sent to Italian splinters.
  • Tweaked the effects of national foci and national spirits for the non-socialist political paths for the Netherlands, as well as a few economic national foci.
  • Added the option in the Netherlands annexation event to decide if the country is to be released as a kingdom or republic.
  • Rebalanced multiple party popularity, political power, and stability effects for the Netherlands.
  • Added a port to Terneuzen in the Netherlands.
  • SocCon Netherlands is no longer stuck with the “Negotiating with Extremists” national spirit, or blocked from completing national foci, if they fail both of their coalition negotiations.
  • Updated the Netherlands’ national focus filters.
  • Added Northumbria as a releasable puppet in the “Fate of Great” Britain annexation event.
  • Slightly restructured Portugal’s national focus tree.
  • Field Marshals that defect to Sardinia or the Kingdom of Two Sicilies are now demoted to general.
  • Reduced the amount of volunteers sent to the Kingdom of Spain and Carlist Spain in the Spanish Civil War.
  • Increased how frequently the Kingdom of Spain joins a faction.
  • The United Kingdom asking for control over Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales will now directly annex them, rather than transferring the puppet. Allies who refuse to hand over the land are now removed from the Entente.
  • Buffed the effect of the United Kingdom’s “Germanophobic Businessman” advisor trait.
• Central & Northern Europe
  
  • AI-controlled Austria will temporarily no longer go down the “End the Dual Rule” path, unless set to do so in the game rules.
  • Added a failsafe for Austria to join the Reichspakt if Germany is threatened during the Weltkrieg, if no longer a faction leader.
  • Austria now loses any claims or cores on Galicia and Lodomeria, upon transferring to Poland and/or Ukraine.
  • Trieste is no longer retained in the Treaty of Budapest, if Germany intervenes.
  • East Prussia can now be annexed by Russia, if Russia has annexed Poland.
  • Added traits to Galicia and Lodomeria’s generals, indicating if they are more aligned with Poland or Ukraine.
  • Updated Germany’s decision to promise greater autonomy to Poland after the Second Weltkrieg, so that it is now slightly more expensive, is available to every German government, and now makes Poland less likely to revolt.
  • Germany will now always grant full independence rather than more autonomy to player-controlled Poland post-war, should they have promised it during the war. Democratic Germany will always also grant full independence, while authoritarian Germany will change Poland’s puppet type.
  • Germany will now receive 25 political power if they have completed the “Second Expedition to China” national focus, and the League of Eight Provinces wins the League Collapse War.
  • Germany’s “Clash of Civilisations” national focus will now also add a claim on Latgale.
  • The Treaty of Moscow now also gives Germany its claims, if it should happen to have any.
  • Germany will no longer call in puppets to minor wars, assuming there is no stake in said war.
  • Updated the decision category text for Germany’s Black Monday minigame to show the correct duration of Black Monday turns.
  • Improved AI-controlled SocDem Germany’s war support situation.
  • Added a tooltip informing a player of the consequences of forming the Nordic Federation.
  • Updated Poland’s “TKS” tank template, and renamed it to the “TK-4”.
  • Updated the names of Poland’s first two tank technologies.
  • Poland’s “Centralne Warsztaty Samochodowe” Military Industrial Organisation is now available from game start.
  • Added Jules Borel as a commander for Switzerland.
• Eastern & Southeast Europe
  
  • Bulgaria’s “Mission to Konstantiniyye” national focus now grants them military access through Ottoman territory and the Bosphorus straits.
  • Updated Artur Sirk’s leader description for Estonia, and added leader descriptions to all other leaders.
  • Estonia or Latvia joining a faction will now remove their mutual guarantees.
  • Updated the effects of several national foci and national spirits for Greece.
  • Clarified and streamlined how Latvia removes its “Desperate Situation” national spirit.
  • Bialystok will no longer defect to Poland controlled by Generalgouvernement Warschau.
  • Added Vasily Shulgin as a potential AutDem/PatAut puppet leader for Russia.
  • Tweaked Russia’s AI with how it handles its front against the Reichspakt during the Weltkrieg.
  • Added a leader description to Russia’s Grigory Zinoviev.
  • If Russia attacks a neutral Latvia, Germany and Riga will annex the Courland state from Latvia.
  • Removed the attack bonus from Russia’s “Great Patriotic War” national spirit in most circumstances.
  • Buffed Socialist Russia's stability.
  • Improved how AI NatPop Ukraine manages its political power.
  • Ukraine’s “Emergency Recruitment” decision will now only be available for socialists.
  • White Ruthenia’s Military Industrial Organisations are now unlocked from day one, and instead improved by the relevant national foci.
• Africa
  
  • The Congo can now be given to Belgium or France in the annexation event.
  • Guinea now starts as SocLib.
  • Yacine Dialle is now the SocLib leader for Guinea, rather than AutDem.
  • Added Horma Ould Babana, Sidi el-Mokhtar N’Diaye, Merebbi Rebbu and Ahmed al-Hiba as the Totalist/Syndicalist/RadSoc, SocDem/SocLib/MarLib/SocCon, AutDem and PatAut leaders for Mauritania, respectively.
  • The national focus causing Mittelafrika’s collapse will now continue even if its requirements are not met.
  • Added Elhadj Abdoulaye Diallo, Koumandian Keita, Albert Liurette, Georges Olivier, Elhadj Camara Baba, Aguibou Mody and Barry Diawadou as the Totalist, Syndicalist, RadSoc, MarLib, SocDem, SocCon and AutDem leaders for Guinea, respectively.
  • Mittelafika can now only send volunteers to countries in Africa.
  • Morocco can now only break free from Germany, if Germany is at war.
  • Niger now starts as SocDem.
  • Boubou Hama is now the SocDem to Totalist leader for Niger, rather than PatAut.
  • Added Ibrahim Niass and Sultan Barma Mustapha as the PatAut and NatPop leaders for Niger, respectively.
  • Added Ziwange Chikulamayembe and Kawinga IV as the AutDem and PatAut leaders for Nyasaland, respectively.
• Caucasus & Middle-East
  
  • Renamed Armenia’s Christophor Araratov to Christophor Araratyan.
  • Socialist Armenia can now join the Eastern Syndicalist Union, if it contains Persia.
  • Rebalanced the number of volunteers received by both sides in the War in the Desert.
  • Slightly buffed the effects of Egypts initial Black Monday recovery national focus branch.
  • Renamed Georgia’s Iosif Baratashvili to Iese Baratashvili.
  • Buffed the effect of the Ottomans’ “Centralised Military Production” national spirit.
  • Increased the additional resistance for the Ottoman Empire, that is given by an area having “High” or “Very High” revolt risk.
  • Persia can no longer complete the “Revoke the 1913 Shatt al-Arab Protocols” decision, if the Russo-Ottoman Convention has been ratified.
  • Clarified the requirements for Persia’s “Reassert Claims on Iraq-i-Arab” national focus.
  • RadSoc Persia can now join the Internationale.
  • Persia will now only claim Baluchistan via event if the Dominion of India exists.
  • Improved Russia’s AI in handling defence in Central Asia.
  • Should Tripolitania somehow become independent prior to the War in the Desert, they will now preferentially align with the Ottomans over the Cairo Pact.
• East Asia
  
  • Anqing's default government name is now “Anqing Government” and it will now use “Nanjing Government” if their capital is in Nanjing.
  • Updated the traits for Anqing’s Liu Heding.
  • Unified China will now greatly increase the victory points of its new capital, should it be one of the four major alternate capitals.
  • Forming the National Protection Alliance now clears the leader's Chinese Alignment.
  • Chinese splinters that can join the National Protection Alliance via national focus will now create a national government upon taking the focus, if the National Protection Alliance has formed and already died.
  • Chinese splinters can only demand annexation of Tibet, Mongolia, and Xinjiang’s splinters, if the Northwest Conflict has ended.
  • Clarified the effects of several Chinese events involving going to war for the control of the concessions.
  • Chinese splinters set to join the National Protection Alliance in the game rules will now only submit to the NPA leader, not any non-aligned Chinese splinter.
  • Fengtian now starts with access to the Japanese arms market, for players with the Arms Against Tyranny DLC active.
  • Implemented Japanese naval icons for Fengtian.
  • Fengtian will wait to call in Japan if it has cored Beijing.
  • Fengtian can no longer finish the national focus to core Beijing if they do not own it.
  • Fengtian must now fully unite China before it can take the “The Ultimatum” national focus.
  • Hunan will now actually submit to Yunnan if they fully surrender to them.
  • Hunan’s Cheng Qian now changes his Kuomintang Officer trait if he aligns with the Right Kuomintang.
  • Hunan will not surrender Zhenyuan to Yunnan if it is a subject.
  • Hunan will now submit to Right Kuomintang-led Yunnan via the “Enter the Yangtze Valley” national focus if they are also led by the Right Kuomintang, and not a subject.
  • AI-controlled Hunan is now more likely to join the National Protection Alliance.
  • Hunan will now prefer to seek an alliance with Left Kuomintang-led Liangguang, over Right Kuomintang-led Yunnan.
  • Japan will now get a wargoal on the Chinese splinter that annexed Fengtian, regardless of whether they broke away from them or not.
  • Left Kuomintang-led Hunan can now align with a Left Kuomintang-led Liangguang if the Left Kuomintang lost the League Collapse War.
  • Kuomintang-led Hunan can now submit to other Kuomintang-aligned Chinese splinters via decision, regardless of their alignment within the Kuomintang.
  • Japan will now take the “Continental Warfare” national focus under more conditions.
  • Japan can now send an ultimatum more than once, if Fengtian backs down. Accepting the ultimatum now increases MarLib popularity.
  • Updated the traits for League of Eight Provice’s Zhou Fengqi, Zheng Junyan, Zhou Yinren and Shangguan Yunxiang, and gave Yinren a Military High Command role.
  • Implemented German plane icons for the League of Eight Provinces, and Qing.
  • Updated several technology names and icons for the Left Kuomintang.
  • The "Soul of Whampoa" song now plays for the Left Kuomintang, when completing the "Soul of Whampoa" national focus.
  • Liangguang will now offer an alliance to Hunan and Yunnan if they are compatible governments, instead of demanding submission.
  • Liangguang's “Western Expedition” national focus now accounts for if Sichuan has a government it can ally with, and will now puppet Yunnan if both are led by the Right Kuomintang, even if they have already formed a government. It also accounts for when Long Yun is leader of Yunnan.
  • Kuomintang-led Liangguang will now get its government name at the same time it becomes a Chinese national government, instead of from an earlier national focus.
  • Kuomintang-led Liangguang will now rename itself at appropriate times.
  • Liangguang’s Li Zongren and Yunnan’s Zhu Peide will no longer gain the "Generalissimo" trait if they are subjects.
  • Updated the Yiguandao's description in Liangguang.
  • Kuomintang-led Liangguang will still get its “Government” cosmetic name, if they were a puppet and later broke free.
  • Improved Mongolia’s AI in declaring wars, and Russia’s AI with handling Mongolia.
  • Added coalitions to several event effects for Mongolia.
  • Rebalanced a few Mongolian national spirits.
  • Qu Yingguang now starts as a field marshal in Shandong in 1936.
  • Qu Yingguang-led Shandong can now get Dezhou back from the Qing, if they submit.
  • Qu Yingguang can no longer get away with trying to coup the Zhili Government by being a subject before the coup happens.
  • Qu Yingguang can no longer very politely ask to join the government he just tried to coup.
  • Qu Yingguang can now join a Zhili Republic Qing, if he didn't back the Manchu Coup.
  • Qu Yingguang will no longer join Qing on his own accord or back the Manchu Coup, if Qing doesn't send them aid upon him taking power in Shandong.
  • Edited Qing’s “Fangs on the Border” mission during the Central Plains War, so as an intermediary step between seizing Shanhaiguan and declaring war, Fengtian will move into Tangshan.
  • Puyi gets his uniform if puppeted by Russia.
  • Very slightly edited the position of Qing’s national focus tree.
  • Shanqing Tianguo now keeps its name when puppeted.
  • Renamed the “Zongchang Clique” in Shandong to “Zhang Clique”.
  • Shanxi will no longer lose their neutrality national spirits if they are in a defensive war. These national spirits will now also boost their surrender limit, and are removed if Shanxi unites China.
  • Zhili-aligned Sichuan can now join the Reichspakt in some circumstances.
  • Doubled the stability benefit from Sichuan’s “Set Up Treatment Clinics” decision.
  • Sichuan’s “Battle of Shihe” no longer affects claims or cores.
  • Sichuan’s Industrial Corps now loses all popularity when Liu Xiang fails in “The Xikang Rout” event.
  • Re-added Yuthok Tashi Dhondhup as a general for Tibet.
  • Totalist Tibet can now join the Eastern Syndicalist Union after the Northwest Conflict has ended.
  • Burhan Shahidi now joins SocDem Xinjiang.
  • Renamed Yunnan’s four warlord clique names.
  • Added Chen Cheng as a commander for Yunnan.
  • Upgrading Yunnan’s Kunming Arsenal now upgrades a support equipment Military Industrial Organisation, instead of small arms.
  • Yunnan can now only be targeted for an alliance by other Chinese splinters, if it has finished its civil war.
  • Yunnan will now bypass its committee and government national foci if it is a subject.
  • Yunnan’s national focus to deal with the Left Kuomintang will now instead target whoever is the owner of Nanjing, after the League Collapse War has ended.
  • Yunnan's “Ultimatum to Sichuan” national focus will now offer an alliance, demand submission, or give a wargoal when appropriate.
  • Kuomintang-led Yunnan will now only ally with Sichuan if Chen Jiongming is dead.
  • Increased Tang Jiyao-led Yunnan's likelihood of doing their foreign policy national foci.
  • Tang Jiyao-led Yunnan will no longer declare war on Tibet via national focus, unless he has united China first.
  • Long Yun-led Yunnan now has the ability to form the National Protection Alliance, and all of the same foreign policy decisions as Tang Jiyao.
  • Long Yun now purges all Left and Right Kuomintang Officers in Yunnan after coming to power via civil war or couping the Left Kuomintang.
  • Long Yun couping Zhu De now removes 30% RadSoc popularity.
  • Tang Jiyao, and Long Yun's isolationist path for Yunnan can now remove the “German Economic Control over Gejiu's Tin” national spirit.
  • Added the “Left Kuomintang Officer” trait to Yunnan’s Zhu De and Chen Yi.
  • Updated the text and effect of the “Zhu De’s Proposal” event for Yunnan.
  • Left Kuomintang-led Yunnan can now submit to Right Kuomintang-led Liangguang if they come to power without the game rule being set.
  • Zhu Peide's “Cult of Personality” national focus for Yunnan now renames Yunnan’s NatPop party and adds them to the ruling coalition.
  • The starting political national foci for Kuomintang-led Yunnan now add political power, instead of removing it, and the likelihood of how Kuomintang-led Yunnan are to try to form a Chinese government has increased.
  • Increased the political power reward for Long Yun’s political national foci.
  • Adjusted the priority Yunnan gives to completing the “Deal with Nanjing” national focus, and the focus now gives a wargoal on Shandong, if it exists.
• South Asia & Oceania
  
  • Added Abdul Rahman Mahmoodi as the SocDem, RadSoc, Syndicalist and Totalist leader of Afghanistan.
  • Afghanistan’s Mohammad Nadir Khan is now a field marshal, and starting Chief of Army.
  • Afghanistan’s Nasrullah Khan is now a field marshal as well as second-in-command.
  • Afghanistan’s Ali Ahmad Khan is now also a general, as well as political advisor and Military High Command member.
  • Renamed Afghanistan’s AutDem and NatPop parties.
  • Demoted Afghanistan’s field marshal Ali Khan.
  • Decreased the skill and improved the traits of Afghanistan’s commander Mohammad Daoud Khan.
  • Tweaked the effects of several events for Afghanistan.
  • Updated the effects of multiple political national foci and national spirits for Australasia.
  • AI-controlled Australasia will now refrain from seizing Hong Kong if the Legation Cities have gone, or may still go, pro-British.
  • Clarified the tooltips in Australasia’s trade missions.
  • The Bharatiya Commune will now always join the Internationale, unless RadSoc or a differing game rule is active. If RadSoc, the Bharatiya Commune will always go Isolationist.
  • The Bharatiya Commune will now create the Eastern Syndicalist Union with any country that seeks an alliance with it, if the faction has not already been made.
  • Members of the Bharatiya’s Commune Eastern Syndicalist Union faction will now all join the Third Internationale, if the Bharatiya Commune later becomes Isolationist and dissolves the faction.
  • Countries rejected by the Bharatiya Commune into the Eastern Syndicalist Union will now all join the Third Internationale.
  • Adjusted the political power and stability cost to multiple faction-related events regarding the Eastern Syndicalist Union and related countries.
  • Burma is now more likely to be taken by the Dominion of India in Peace Conferences, and Canada more likely to give it to them.
  • AI-controlled RadSoc Burma, Indochina and Philippines will now always join the Eastern Syndicalist Union over the Third Internationale, unless the game rules are set otherwise.
  • The Dutch East Indies can now be offered to the Netherlands in its annexation event, in exchange for an alliance.
  • The Dutch East Indies cannot now be restored after being abolished by the Congress of Batavia.
  • German East Asia can now only send volunteers to countries in Asia and Oceania.
  • Added Iskander Ali Mirza as an advisor for the Dominion of India.
  • Increased the penalty for occupying Insulindia.
  • Socialist Insulindia and Siam can now join the Third Internationale, in addition to the Eastern Syndicalist Union with the Bharatiya Commune.
  • Added more initial arms market access for Siam, for players with the Arms Against Tyranny DLC enabled.
  • Siam now gets an event to peace out with Burma, if they have their revolution mid-war.
• Miscellaneous
  
  • Added quotes by Michael Collins, Jim Larkin and Eoin O’Duffy to the loading screen quotes.
  • Updated the quote by James Connolly in the loading screen quotes.
  • Added a loading screen quote from John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields”.
  • Removed the “Dismantle Faction” button.
  • Countries turning socialist will now automatically return volunteers sent to non-socialists, and vice-versa.
  • Volunteers are now recalculated if a government change happens.
  • Increased the cost of taking ships in Peace Conferences.
  • Liberating countries in peace conferences will now release them with a suitable government.
  • Slightly nerfed the AI’s 1940 fighter designs.
  • Implemented several new national focus icons from vanilla for many countries.
  • Updated a few of the national focus and national spirit icons for Germany, Hunan, Mittelafrika, Portugal and Yunnan.
  • Added a path guide for the Legation Cities.
  • Updated the path guides for the Second American Civil War participants, Argentina, Austria, Burma, German East Asia, the Ottoman Empire, the Netherlands, Siam and Turkey.
  • Reformatted the Leader Descriptions for Assyria, Bharatiya Commune, Bhutan, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dutch East Indies, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Dominion of India, Indochina, Insulindia, Kachin, Korea, Morocco, Mysore, Nepal, Nicaragua, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Princely Federation, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Senegal, Somalia, Transamur, Wales and West Indies Federation to include date and place of birth.