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Alternative History, Fixes, Gameplay, National Focuses
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Welcome to Black Ice Expanded
Version 2.2 - France Expanded
This version is compatible with Hoi4 v1.10.4

BlackICE Expanded is now RELEASED on the BlackICE Test Version!
After months of work, the French and UK focus trees have been re-released on the BlackICE test version! These trees have been reworked, rebalanced, and have had some new focuses added to them. Please subscribe to the BlackICE Test version (which also contains even more new features besides my focus trees) and check out the new content!

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1851181613

Current Features
French Focus Tree Expanded
  • France's focus tree has been entirely overhauled. Brand new focuses have been added to help France address her economy, to rearm her military, and to expand her influence across Europe.
  • The French focus tree revolves around political crises that will shake the foundations of the nation and force you to choose widely different options. Will the Popular Front win the 1936 elections and pass their reforms? Will France choose to intervene in the Spanish Civil War? Will France take a more aggressive stance against Germany?
  • Once war with Germany breaks out, France can direct the Allies to sit back and starve Germany of vital resources or to lash out in an aggressive attack to save Poland. This decision will be yours.
British Focus Tree Expanded
  • The UK's focus tree has massively expanded. You now must choose how Britain shall rearm herself prior to the outbreak of war. As the rearmament programmes evolve, you will be forced to prioritize different armed services.
  • Once war breaks out, new focuses will unlock, giving you powerful diplomatic abilities, allowing you to raise colonial troops, and beat back the Germans if France falls to the Blitzkrieg.
New Naval Deployment System
  • England, Japan, and the United States (so far) have had their major naval deployments automated via national focuses. This improves the capabilities of the AI to build not only a historically accurate navy, but a much more deadly one as well.
AI Update
  • Modded nations have had extensive work done to their AI so that they will put up more of a fight. Expect more difficult wars - especially at sea. AI updates were the initial reason I made this mod, so many more AI improvements are on the way!
New Unit Sprites
  • Do you play with the non-NATO icons for your armies and hate that Black Ice has no unit icons for things like motorized artillery? Well, I added them. Lots of them. Practically every unit that has ever thought of driving a truck now has a unit icon with a truck. No more sneaky units using up all your precious fuel! Let me know if I missed anything!

Planned Features

Add a simulation for the Battle of Britain and the London Blitz.
Expand the naval deployment system to Italy.
Work more on Black Ice's AI to make it even better.
Add more history into the mod through focus descriptions and new events.



It should go without saying that this mod requires Black Ice to function
I would like to extend a special thanks to the team behind Black Ice - for making Hoi4 a much deeper and more rewarding game.
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Without Reason  [author] 23 May @ 10:02am 
I'm currently cooking up a rework for China and Japan because the balance between the two countries seems to be a bit off. The work is very slow because of work (teaching is hard) but it's coming along. I'm also going to be doing a lot of traveling this year sooo release will be... not very soon.
hello-darkness65 3 May @ 7:50am 
sooooo when the update
Without Reason  [author] 16 Oct, 2024 @ 2:30pm 
@MillBee this mod is currently deprecated, please ONLY use the main BlackICE mod until this mod is updated.
🐝MillBee 12 Oct, 2024 @ 8:16am 
Hello, mod is dont work no? I got only crash if I try it to play it with test version and try to load game as japan and got every time crash. THX
krabb 2 Sep, 2024 @ 4:35am 
I see, however, I swear the BICE AI gets EXTRA extra stuff given to them, they have amounts of equipment and units that the player physically cannot reach at the same time as AI playing the same nation
Without Reason  [author] 26 Aug, 2024 @ 5:50pm 
@Real Canadians Never Die: I've actually been doing some reading on that recently...

@krabb: That would be insanely hard because Hoi4's AI wasn't designed to handle all the extra stuff that BICE adds. The AI just kinda breaks and ends up doing nothing. This isn't something modders can fix, the entire AI would have to be rebuilt by Paradox.
krabb 18 Aug, 2024 @ 2:46am 
Is it possible to get rid of the Cheating AI that gets free research, free divisions, equipment and everything else? Like a toggleable option somewhere before the game starts.
I want to play the mod without having to go up against overwhelming odds unrealistically early despite doing my best.
Patriote 15 Jun, 2024 @ 5:55am 
Well, an interesting tipping point could be the Spanish Civil War where the communists and the Radicals fought against each other in the Front Populaire coalition on the topic of intervention.
Without Reason  [author] 14 Jun, 2024 @ 7:04pm 
Thanks! It took a ton of work to get the focuses to appear/disappear correctly. I still really want to build out the communist path at some point but that would take a ton more history research.
Patriote 14 Jun, 2024 @ 1:03pm 
Can I just say I think you have the best France focus tree in the entirety of the workshop. No focus tree has ever better represented the crippled political state the Third Republic found itself in before World War Two. Congratulations.