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Only 48 hours remain for the campaign of Hearts of Iron: The Board Game, so now is the time to back it if you want a copy of your own.


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Generals!

Missed the information coming out of R&D yesterday? The Hearts of Iron Board Game Campaign over on Gamefound has officially begun!

Make sure enter your backing of the project for your own copy of the game, the campaign will only run for 2 weeks and ends on February 6th 2025~

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Generals!

Command has issued fresh orders to the front, alongside the this next patch for our War Effort 1.15.4. Below, Check out the patch notes below for tonnes of bugfixes, balance tweaks, an interesting addition to a certain blueprint operation and more!

We've also added the option to rollback to 1.15.3 in case you encounter any issues.

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- Reworked the Infantry Tank MIO to now apply modifiers to all tank classes rather than on a per-class basis. This means that each tank class now has more than 4-5 relevant nodes.
- Added and tweaked the amount of war support and stability gained through focuses through the alt-history branches for Germany. Also modified Wilhelm II's country leader trait
- It is now possible to seize Turkey's Gold Reserves as Germany, and a country can now capitulate to a German faction member (so not just Germany or one of its subjects) for Germany to be able to seize the Gold reserve of the territory they're holding of said nation.
- AI should be more interested in constructing Land Cruisers, if they have the chance.
- Tweaking the German AI to behave more historically by wanting and producing more submarines and strengthening it overall by making it focus its pp on upgrade conscription laws and such.
- Fleet Submarines Special Project now require 1940 Submarine / 1940 Submarine Hull to be researched instead of their 1936 Variant.
- AIP Engine Unique Reward - Option A, now provides -5% Visibility instead of -10%.
- The Return of the Kaiser focus now checks if the controller of Friesland is at war with Germany as a requirement, instead of checking if the Dutch specifically is at war with Germany. If Germany or one of its puppets control the state, Wilhelm II will automatically get reinstated as the Kaiser.
- Tweaked values for Land Cruisers.
- Specialized Helicopter Support Companies can not be combined with Helicopter Brigade (Generalist Helicopter Brigade).


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- Added random chance to gain breakthrough progress on steal blueprint mission.
- Added Henschel traits, and made it an Infantry Tank MIO using the reworked archetype.
- Added a decision for the Siberian formable to integrate Manchuria.


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- Tweak UK's AI weights for air chief and plane+tank technology so they start producing equipment closer to historical dates.
- AI will now more reliably assign MIOs to new equipment designs.
- Tweaking USA AI templates and tech/production progress.
- The Soviet AI will now be more keen to assign a new Chief of Army if they purge their primary choice of Chief of Army.


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- Fixed DX9 renderer not working when selected in launcher.


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- Fixed CTD when selecting a sea tile for raid.
- Fixed saved event target localization.
- Fixed issue where scientist would not produce breakthrough after finishing a project.
- Fixed issue that a special project could be completed but never finishing.
- Fixed exploit of stacking same support brigades.
- Fixed unlocked equipment from special project if country had active license.
- Fixed offset tutorial glow.
- Fix issues with planes getting assigned incorrect models.
- Added and tweaked available and bypass triggers for focuses in the Democratic/Non-aligned branch.
- Added an AI weight in an event for when Austria is asked to join Germany's faction.
- BEL: Spanish Intervention now allows Belgium to join the war directly as well as creating a faction with the Spanish Republicans.
- Fixed the Yukon territory having an incorrect population total.
- Fixed an issue where Congo could send an event to Germany or the Soviets for support despite them not existing.
- Fixed an issue where Germany could be the only country to gain 3 Special Forces Branch Specialisms.
- German Volksmarine ships should no longer use the SMS prefix.
- German "Deutschland Class" ships now use the Historical Panzerschiffs namelist.
- Fixes error in transferring Polish states in the event that Poland is a puppet when Austria demands their annexation.
- Fix strategic bombing targets priority.
- Fixed multiple issues with Tank Designer icons and models and fixed their sorting in Soviet Union, USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy and British Dominions.
- BEL: Fixed Belgium not being able to add bicycle battalions.
- fixes unlocalized cancellation trigger in decisions.
- Edits and removes redundant/non-functioning modifiers.
- When completing the focus Autarky Achieved, remove any potential Factory and dockyard output penalties, as well as Expected Consumer Goods.
- Remove the Price Controls Measures decisions when completing the focus Autarky Achieved.
- It is now possible to complete the Focus Supreme Leader after Germany capitulates 3 major countries.
- The Baltics should now refuse Soviet's attempts to annex them through events if Germany has completed the necessary focuses and guaranteed the countries.
- Fixed the name of a Hungarian industrial concern..
- Fixed an issue where a debug-string would display in i Hungarian focus for setting up the Slovakian OOB.
- Fixed MIO efficiency bonus not applied after loading a save when converting equipment.
- Fixed a spelling error in the name for the Austrian Armoured Train model.
- Fixed two issues regarding the Swedish "Reichsprotectorate Nordland" cosmetic tag. They now also gain claims on Nordic territory when completing the focus.
- Fixed an issue where the Italian bonuses from the focus Befriend Japan would only apply if they were in a faction.
- Fixed the fall of Calcutta, Delhi and Singapore events not happening unless the cities were directly owned by the UK.
- Fixed a Danish advisor having an unlocalized available requirement.
- Fixed old content for Oppose Hitler to work with the new focus Rally the Wehrmacht too.
- Fixed inverted variant names for improved and advanced carrier airframes.
- The Greek focus Realign ourselves with the central powers will now check the correct focuses based on if Götterdämmerung is enabled or not.
- Fixed an issue where Khakassia and Evenkia couldn't access the Siberian follow-up decisions.
- Fixed tooltips referring to nuclear production rate.
- If Britain accepts and joins the Anglo-Germanic Cooperation Program, the German National Spirit Redirecting Naval Production changes as per the focus tooltip.
- The focus Anglo-Germanic Cooperation Program now cancels if Germany and Britain is at war with each other and if Britain no longer exists.
- The Emperor's new Clothes; reinstating Wilhelm II will no longer remove the new monarchist infantry model.
- Fixed an issue where the Congolese fascist monarch couldn't access the fourth research slot focus.
- Fix battalions not being available if game was loaded while having active expeditionary forces of the same type.
- Swedish national spirit "Hungersköld" is now successfully removed if you build 14 civilian factories or have 45 civilian factories including trade.


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- Fixed so that saved event target localizations are now evaluated before Götterdämmerungs extended context localization. Order is now: contextual localization V1; saved event targets; contextual localization V2.

Generals!

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Generals!

We've released a minor hotfix to address a number of graphical content options recently added with Götterdämmerung.

This is in addition to our developers continued efforts on Hearts of Iron IV, most recently with Patch 1.15.2.

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- Replaced some graphical content in the German version of the game.
- Removed game option to use silhouette portraits for German leadership and focuses.

That’ll be all for today, so please continue sending in your bug reports in the meantime!

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The year is rapidly coming to an end but the battles rage on. Below, you’ll find a brief snapshot of how your collective efforts shaped the Frontlines this year, whether you focused on making the best Division templates, completed the focuses you needed for victory or Promoted the best friend one can have. For the full roundup, march over to the forums and let us know what stats you wanna see next time!


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Generals!

Our delightful Command have been hard at work since the initial release of Götterdämmerung, so we’re pleased to share with you our latest innovations, a few hefty bug fixes and some gameplay tweaks!

Be sure to read them below, and let us know what you think!

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- Concealment Expert visibility reduction changed from -15% to -10%
- Submarine Torpedoes Hit Chance reduced from 0%/+1%/+1.5%/+2% to 0%/+0.5%/+1%/+1.5%
- Anechoic Tiles visibility reduction changed from -25% to -20%
- Submarine Snorkels visibility reduction changed from -7%/-15% to -7%/-13%
- Increased the amount of factory and dockyard output penalties when hitting max MEFO penalty
- BEL: Added Weekly Manpower to The Belgian Legion.
- Balancing the Prioritize Economic Growth branch by adding Civilian Economy trade law and slightly re-arranging the reduction of Consumer Goods Factory factories through focuses
- If Germany completes the focus "Seek to the Eastern Front", Poland will be more willing to join an alliance with them

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- AI correctly resets its desire to unlock army/navy/air spirits when unlocking a spirit

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- AI equipment templates now allow specifying a design_team (MIO)
- Added code support for new on-action before a peace conference starts
- Can have multiple same_support_type on support brigades

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- Added a new European President cosmetic tag flag and made the 3 versions all use one central tag. Changed adjective from Dutch / Belgian / Austrian to European.
- Added a game option to use silhouette portraits for German leadership and focuses.

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- Fixed transport planes description text
- Fixed CTD caused by incorrect update sequence
- Fixed typo in German Scientist's name Helmuth Walter
- Fix AI sometimes not moving its troops after a civil war starts
- Fixed typo in German city Würzburg.
- Fixed typo in Bormann's trait.
- Fixed typo in effect tooltip of German focus Strike Eastward.
- Fixed various issues with spelling errors and grammatical inconsistencies in African Union events.
- Fixed an issue where Romania would be blocked in their focus "Split Yugoslavia" due to Debar not being targetable by the subsequent decisions.
- Austrian decisions should no longer annex tho overlords via decisions targeting their puppets
- Fixed a spelling error in the Luxembourgish election event.
- Added Schleswig to the Yalta Conference to better resemble a historical post-war Germany
- Fixed an issue where non-Götterdämmerung Hungary would accidentally bypass their focus "Protect Czechoslovakia".
- Slovakia won't receive Slovak states if they're controlled by someone else, and neither will Poland. Poland won't receive Zaolzie if Germany partitions Czechoslovakia with Hungary if Germany and Poland are at war with each other
- Fixed an issue where Turkey was locked out of joining a faction with a Monarchist Germany when having the Götterdämmerung dlc enabled.
- Fixed an error where two unique German traits could be randomly generated for characters.
- Fixed an error where a Greek Admiral had an army trait incorrectly assigned to him.
- Italy's decision to support the Hungarian claim to Vojvodina will now also work in historical scenarios.
- Fixed an incorrect naming syntax for a constitutional Kingdom of Hungary.
- Albania now gets the correct party name when Wilhelm of Wied becomes their country leader.
- Fixed a misspelled name for a German Mine Clearing vehicle.
- BEL: Legacy of the Great War requires you to be at war.
- BEL: King's Surrender text no longer refers to a "full state", you only need to hold Liege, Antwerp or Brussels. The Ardennes can be safely sacrificed for the greater good (the greater good).
- BEL: Peacekeepers reduce Global Tension Required by -100% instead of -75%.
- Corrects grammar in the focus Legitimistische Jugend
- Removes misleading tooltip stating that the anschluss ratio will start ticking down much earlier than it actually does
- clarifies the effects of going "Via Danube to Europe" and how this makes integration harder
- BEL: Removed early election as this is simulated by Government Resigns.
- BEL: Updated Advisor type icons to better suit their role.
- Makes sure only faction members are targeted by the federalization decision.
- hides popups for hidden techs in Austrian focus tree
- Fixes Austrian subjugation and annexation decisions cancelling incorrectly if the targeted country gets annexed while the decision is ongoing
- Canceling the MEFO Bills after annexing Czechoslovakia from the focus Fate of Czechoslovakia will now trigger the MEFO Payments National Spirit. The same fix have been applied to similar circumstances elsewhere, such as carving up Yugoslavia through focuses
- If Germany has completed the Focus Brothers in Arms, they should no longer receive the Event Austrian Pro-German Sentiments and thereby annex Austria.
- Land Cruisers should no longer be able to have more than one aerial module.
- No more Austria diplo annexing the Soviet Union in weird edge case scenarios
- Germany will no longer be able to steal Slovakia if its a puppet of Romania and created by the focus Split Czechoslovakia after completing Fate of Czechoslovakia
- Cancel Germany's National Spirit "Redirected Naval Production" is they're at war with Britain, or if Britain is either a subject or doesn't exist nány more
- The focus Assemble the Red Orchestra is now available with and without the DLC La Resistance
- German focuses to annex Czechoslovakia will now be bypassed if Czechoslovakia is a subject of Germany and have done one of the focuses "German Satellite" or "German Protectorate"
- Fixed Supersonic Jet template design bonus to be granted if you own "By Blood Alone"
- Fix bug where AI started trading with countries it didn't have a valid trade route to
- Vichy France should no longer increase the monthly increase of Germany's Consumer Goods Factory factories in Economy of Conquest any further when they reduce their own National Spirit of "Occupation Cost", unless they outright remove the Spirit all together


That’ll be all for today, we hope you enjoy causing mischief and mayhem on the battlefield with these new inventions. Please do continue sending in your bug reports in the meantime!


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