Greetings citizen!

It was 90 degrees in Alaska recently. Do you know what that means?

It means that America is still using the Imperial system, as god almighty and our lizard overlords intended. Also, my original plan of selling ice to Alaska doesn't seem quite so terrible after all, does it? ...and that's well before Atlantis thaws and hordes of mind-controlled zombie Glyptodons ride forth across Canada - causing sales to double! One merely has to think positively about these things.

Oh yes, and we have a patch. Apparently everything is in it. There are new and expanded trees, tons of bug fixes, and a whole list of amazing additions from the whole team. Particular mentions go to Blue Foxy, Sven, and Thinking_Something-or-Other. It's all listed below in a suspiciously well organized manner.

As always, send us your commentary and handwritten epic sagas via Discord[discord.gg] and Steam and Reddit! See you there!

With warmest regards,

-Gxp


Additions

• Focus Tree: French Indochina by BlueFoxy
  
• Focus Tree: Political paths for Latvia by Sven the Danish Citizen & Thinking_Waffle
  
• Focus Tree: Political paths for Uruguay by BlueFoxy
  
• Focus Tree: Reworked Bulgaria by Sven the Danish Citizen & Thinking_Waffle
  
• Focus Tree: South Africa is now available for TfV DLC users.
  
• Game Rules: Focus Tree selection options for South Africa.
  
• Game Rules: AI behavior options for France, Germany, Italy and Siam.
  
• Game Rules: Strengthen sliders for Belgian Congo and French Indochina.
  
• Game Rules: New German fragmentation options.
  
• Game Rules: Improved and expanded Soviet fragmentation.
  
• All Nations: Heavy AA deployment decisions.
  
• Map: Added a port to escape an isolated island in the Philippines.
  
• Manufacturers: New ones for Germany and the Soviet Union.
  
• Portraits: Generals for Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, and Nationalist China.
  
• Icons: Glider manufacturers.
  
• Local: Weapons tech names for Basque Country and Catalonia.
  
• Misc: Ferenc Szálasi will arrive if Hungary is puppeted by a fascist power.
  
• Misc: Traits for Miklos Horthy.
  
• Misc: Traits for Tito.
  
• Misc: Better advisers for Scotland.
  
• Misc: A certain general from 1941 may now appear in the Soviet Union.

Balance & Tweaks

• Austria: Removed Welcome message event that was not meant to be there.
  
• Estonia: Changed the focus creating the Baltic Entente to avoid the creation of two Baltic factions at the same time if Latvia has the same idea.
  
• Germany: Simplified First Vienna Award with a few tooltips.
  
• Germany: Significant focus layout changes for the expansionist/diplomatic paths.
  
• Guangxi Clique: Rebalanced a general.
  
• Italy: Removed Joint Research focus.
  
• Italy: Picchiatello focus now requires Germany to accept or refuse.
  
• Italy: Updated several requirements for misc. focuses.
  
• Italy: ARMIR special forces multiplier increased from +0.7% to +2%.
  
• Italy: Minor focus layout changes.
  
• Philippines: Added a bit of naval XP to avoid the "empty ship" problem and changed some focus icons, uses US infantry models.
  
• Map: French Indochina is now released on the map as an Integrated Puppet to France.
  
• AI: Massively improved historical AI for Germany and Italy. Important events should now happen closely to the right time. Probably.
  
• Portraits: Updated portraits for FRA, GER, ITA, JAP, SOV and SPR leaders.
  
• 3D Models: Lots of minor countries now use other tank models taken from the most relevant major, Soviet releasable countries now use Red army uniforms.

Fixes

• Belgium: Fixed German/Soviet pact events not working properly.
  
• Belgium/Belgian Congo: Fixed Katanga Uranium.
  
• Canada: Fixed portraits of generals not appearing properly.
  
• Carpatho Ukraine: Added missing localization for some decisions.
  
• Greece: Made the events to end the civil wars automatically fire at the end of those wars.
  
• Iraq: Fixed capitalization on the country's name.
  
• Italy: Hitler visits Rome focus will now cancel/bypass if Hitler is dead/no longer in charge or if Germany does not exist.
  
• Italy: Fixed Switzerland innocently being involved in a war goal.
  
• Italy: Tons of focus localization fixes.
  
• Netherlands: Fixed problems with the Gateway to Europe decisions (MtG focus tree).
  
• Poland: Fixed a truck icon not showing up in the production menu.
  
• PRC: Bugged debuff that was boosting research is now a debuff again, rebalanced it too.
  
• Soviet Union: Fixed Yezhov advisor portrait not appearing properly.
  
• Tibet: Fixed invalid requirement and some stability bugs.
  
• Turkey: Removed send Ataturk to the army decision as he starts in the army.
  
• UK: Fixed the AI going fascist a bit too much.
  
• USA, Japan: Removed CV naval bombers units level 1 that were not supposed be in the mod.
  
• Misc: Put the continuous focus tree frame in more visible places for some trees.
  
• Misc: Accidentally insulted Bob Bobsson, of House Bob.
  
• Misc: Removed old naval content that was made obsolete by Man the Guns.
  
• Misc: Fixing game rules allowing the "debug country you are not supposed to see" to appear if you started in 1939.
  
• Misc: Fixed several 1.7 errors left over from the June Update.
  
• Misc: Fixed all remaining launch and '36 scenario startup errors.
  
• Misc: Other minor fixes not noted.

Hello everyone! Welcome to the monthly update! In Local News:

Thinking Waffle finally managed to outsmart the pirates that were holding his favorite book hostage, SpicyAlfredo is reportedly still unable to animate flesh with electricity alone, and Plutozz? No one knows. He mumbled something about alcohol and Germany, and then was never heard from again. The rest of the team is fine, probably. Unless Judge Alfred has gained access to the Necronomicon. Then things are definitely not fine.

As to the patch? It's a small update, mostly focused on technical matters with 1.7 compatibility. Pordy is working on slowly integrating our Reboot technologies and UI into the mod but it will take a fair amount of time. There are rumors of even greater things on the horizon, and no it's not just the Yeti that's been digging through the garbage bins. Besides, that's right outside - nowhere near the horizon. That's like the nearlowerizon? In any case, it's an officially sanctioned Danger Land.

Beware the Danger Land.

You can send your requests, constructive criticisms and destructive long-form smash poetry to us directly via Discord[discord.gg] and Steam and Reddit! Please do. Especially if you bring the bribes[www.patreon.com].

With love and respect,

-Gxp

Additions

• Compatibility for game version 1.7 Hydra.
  
• Applied Vanilla Performance Improvements changes.
  
• Added a brand new focus for Sweden.
  
• Added a decision to recruit historical aviatrixes as aces. (limited to some countries)
  
• Added glider manufacturers to major countries, supporting paratrooping operations.
  
• Added a Belgian infantry manufacturer. (DoD DLC owners only)
  
• Added a couple of manufacturers in Scotland and Wales.
  
• Added a secure bananaphone to Stalin's desk.
  
• Added Scotland and Wales use of British style portraits.
  
• Added three new generals for Scotland.

Tweaks

• Slight buffs to Iceland to make a Iceland playthrough a little less boring.
  
• Albania will now act more historical when historical AI is turn on.
  
• Adjusted italian focuses rewards and prerequisitions.
  
• Number adjustments to Industial Soviet ideas and Trotsky path. (overall buff to Soviets)
  
• Gifted myself rent money, mostly via selling my body to Science.
  
• Gifted the AI 40 widths template at start date so they don't spend the Army XP building it themselves.
  
• Gifted the AI a unique tech to slightly improve it's performance in offensive wars. (About a %1 bonus to various stats)
  
• Updated bookmarks. A true game changer!

Fixes

• Switzerland should no longer be able to call the Militia up while dead.
  
• Fixed some formatting bugs, and some bugs with Czechoslovakia.
  
• Fixed some focus icons that were not showing up.
  
• Fixed a bug in the Iraq tree possibly causing some rare crashes.
  
• Fixed land traits being attributed to naval leaders.
  
• Fixed the gaping hole in my heart that Science left behind. You bastard.
  
• Fixed Austrian generals who went to battle in civilian suits.
  
• Fixed a mistake in a British manufacturer granting the wrong bonus.
  
• Fixed Rocket Artillery 3 now gives your rocket artillery equipment 3.
  
• Fixed Scotland not having an extra research slot.
  
• Fixed Soviets not wanting to eat Estonia after doing the Baltic Security focus.
  
• Fixed Soviet ideas not showing up.
  
• Various portrait fixes.
  
• Other minor fixes not noted.
  
• Sent a probe into the Danger Lands. You don't want to know what it found.

It's May! That means the horror of Summer is now approaching some regions of the planet . Also, the Elder God Yomagn'tho is now 0.00034% more likely to penetrate the barrier between reality and the out realms, after which it will overrun the Earth with its Reptilian minions - but hey, at least there's a new patch and horoscope!*

It's a big one in the fixes department, and there's a some new content here and there. A number of trees got updated, some generals decided to show up after slacking off, we messed with the research balance (just for the fun of it, as always), and smashed a couple of long-standing issues with the AI.

Come find us at Reddit or Discord[discord.gg]. We've also got a Patreon, if that's your jam:Patreon[www.patreon.com]?

-Gxp


General

• New Siamese focus tree (By BlueFoxy).
  
• Brand new fascist branch for the Italian tree.
  
• Improved the RT56 British fascist tree.
  
• Added some improvements to Norway: more historical advisors, a new focus, 2 new manufacturers.
  
• Made the Ruthenian tree playable if you release them as a fascist or communist country.
  
• Added Generals in the Dominican Republic.
  
• Added decisions to reform the Ethiopian army and removed their bad traits.
  
• Added a decision to form Turkestan, the union of the central asian countries.
  
• Added 2 Generic African portraits based on the military portraits.
  
• Added Kenyan leaders.
  
• Added 2 Czechoslovak generals.
  
• Added an Australian Artillery manufacturer and an Admiral.
  
• Added a port to North-East Somaliland.
  
• Added a new default menu music: Beethoven - Egmont Overture.

Tweaks

• Improved and Buffed certain Armenian focuses.
  
• Nerfed the Austrian armament focuses.
  
• Gave Catalonia naval techs and a decision to deploy a navy if you begin with the game rule "15th century Aragon".
  
• Made two paths of the PRC tree mutually exclusive to avoid changing ideology and ending the game with 9 research
  slots.
  
• Added research slots in the R56 South African focus tree.
  
• Ethiopian decision granting steel now grants steel instead of more rubber.
  
• Removed Trench Warfare for Ethiopia.
  
• Increased the speed of plane relocation that was mistakenly reduced by 10.
  
• Added names of fascist Erithrean and Somalian leaders (leaders of native auxilliary troops).
  
• +1 research slot for every country. Might be reversed if the pitchforks come out. :)
  
• Lowered the spotting chance of army transport convoys.
  
• Tought the AI to research in the etax techtree as a doctrine.
  
• Etax army focus no longer gives you Armor organization.
  
• Added Marno's ENG focus icons.
  
• Altered some defines for a better game experience.
  
• Disbanded encircled units now only return 10% manpower and equipment.
  
• Disbanding a division in the home territory will return 100% manpower
  
• Lowered base tech cost from 85 to 80 / day.
  
• Increased the year ahead penalty from 2 to 6.
  
• Increased the savable days on research to 50 from 30.
  
• Slower mission efficiency gain for bombers.
  
• Lowered the air supply mission command point cost.
  
• Default occupation policy set to gentlest.
  
• Lowered naval mines naval supremacy impact to 0.75 from 1.0.
  
• Slightly lowered naval mines damage.
  
• Changed some automatic acceptance into factions by events to ask to join it.

Fixes

• The Russian Tsar now has the correct portrait.
  
• Fixed some Soviet focus icons that kept disappearing.
  
• Removed bad advisors in Africa.
  
• Put the game rules in the correct order.
  
• Fixed some USA decisions.
  
• Made the reloading the Congolese focus tree automatic.
  
• Gave control of the Congolese public force to the Congo.
  
• Fixed the Turkish air force not appearing on the map at the start of the game.
  
• Fixed the "Long Lance" - among other details for Japan.
  
• Added stats to some Admirals who lacked them.
  
• Fixed a crash if some attachés were hired by Latvia.
  
• Moved the continuous focuses frame up in the Irish tree.
  
• Fixed British carriers having no deck space at the start of the game.
  
• Fixed the name of Democratic Chile to avoid the famous "Chile declares war on Chile".
  
• Fixed the African claims of the German Empire to fit their 1914 colonial possessions.
  
• Fixed the decision to form Transcaucasia as a foreign country.
  
• Fixed Polish Moscicky portrait.
  
• Fix on Soviet Baltic claims branch bypass issues.
  
• Fixed a lot of icons not appearing.
  
• Fixed missing portraits in Czechoslovakia.

*Your Tarot is - Wheel of Fortune, Reverse Emperor, and The Star. Your color is blue with purple polka dots, and your lucky number is n-1. Finally, be sure to avoid large investments, unless you've recently gotten a haircut.

Hello! We're back to a regular schedule now, with updates on the 7th of each month. April is about continuing bug fixes and dealing with 1.6.1 + 1.6.2. Most of the compatibility fixes are not listed below, but hopefully you will feel their presence as you click seductively through those production queues.

The team is fairly burned out from the patch orgy of last month, but look toward May to bring back the full potency that you've come to rely on for your enjoyment and satisfaction. We always aim to please.

Please find us on Reddit or Discord[discord.gg]. Additionally, did you know that you can help us send our pet ferrets to university via Patreon[www.patreon.com]?* It's a terrible lie, but at least it's a cute one.

Best wishes,

-Gxp


Additions

• Added new game rules allowing you to split up countries.
  
• Added a focus tree game rule category that allows DLC owners to toggle the 56 or DLC focus trees. (Currently only available for the Netherlands)
  
• Addition of manufacturers, mainly in the British Isles and the USA.
  
• Addition of a trait for Flying ship manufacturers, enabling maritime patrol planes to be relevant.
  
• Addition of a British concession in Iran.
  
• Addition of new portraits and further graphics consolidation.

Improvements

• Operation Weserubung focus for Germany now requires you to be at war with either ENG, FRA or USA to start it instead of the previous requirements.
  
• Germany can now do the Befriend/Invade Turkey, Iran and Iraq focuses after completing the Second Vienna Award focus.
  
• Prepare Italian Invasion focus for Germany will no longer bypass if Italy is in the Axis.
  
• Reorganized and rebalanced Ethiopia a bit.
  
• Replacement of (some) modern Iranian manufacturers by historical ones.
  
• The extra research slot in the RT56 Fascist UK focus tree is now a bit harder to unlock.
  
• Minor layout improvements in the RT56 Fascist UK focus tree.
  
• More units should now consume fuel.
  
• Changed the name of some countries.

Fixes

• Added some missing 1.6 events.
  
• Fixed more missing portraits.
  
• Fixed several issues with some African nations and tags to be more in line with the 1.6 changes.
  
• Fixed the UK not being able to become fascist after completing the State Visit to Germany focus.
  
• Fixed the non democratic paths of the MTG UK not working properly for various reasons, one of them even leading to possible crashes.
  
• Fixed the Panay Incident colliding with the event about the Italian defeat in Ethiopia.
  
• Fixed the Invade USSR focus for Germany not warning the Soviets that they are about to enter war.
  
• Fixed missing cores and claims for the Restoring Our European Territories German focus.
  
• Added a decision for the Congo to reload its focus tree as a temporary workaround.
  
• The independence path for Manchukuo should no longer bypass War with Japan.
  
• Miscellaneous localization fixes and improvements.

*Absolutely no funds will actually be used to educate furry ADHD terror snakes. They wouldn't be able to pass the entrance exam anyway.

• Added 1.6.1 stuff
  
• Added stats / skills for a number of Admirals
  
• Added naval treaty ideas to England, France, and Japan
  
• Added MtG variants to countries that didn't have them
  
• Added a number of new game rules
  
• Added Fascist leader for Uruguay
  
• Added more ship anti-air techs
  
• Updated oppose Hitler focus
  
• Updated Yugo / Soviet research bonuses
  
• Updated a number of OOBs
  
• Updated a number of flags
  
• Updated Hungarian tech
  
• Fixed issue with permanent ideology boosts
  
• Fixed a situation where there could be two Tunisias
  
• Fixed the USA starting with 100% war support
  
• Fixed missing Belgian truck gfx
  
• Fixed a number of invalid focuses for Germany, Czech, and Soviets
  
• Fixed the building icons. Again
  
• Fixed the wandering tech
  
• Fixed unified South America bug
  
• Fixed portraits in Kurdistan
  
• Fixed Leon Blum
  
• Fixed Mussolini
  
• A whole long list of other items, small fixes, tweaks and pancake recipes

• Added military and industrial focus tree for Latvia.
  
• Added Blackshirts fascist path to UK. There are now two ways to go fascist: The MTG way and our classic fascist tree.
  
• Added the Man the Guns naval techs in the Electronics tab.
  
• Added additional possibilities for equipment conversion.
  
• Added tons of manufacturers for the Commonwealth.
  
• Added fuel consumption values for air units.
  
• Added expanded xp levels to air units to match naval and ground.
  
• Added new portraits for Adolf Hitler (GER), Francisco Franco (Nationalist Spain) and Alberts Kviesis (LAT).
  
  
• Changed Brazilian invasion decisions. Now costs 50 Political Power and 30 Command Power per decision.
  
• Changed some news events to be more compatible with vanilla.
  
• Changed icons in the British tree.
  
  
• Fixed a CTD related to Brazil involving war goals.
  
• Fixed GER focus tree related new vanilla events.
  
• Fixed a large number of decision categories.
  
• Fixed tons of UK and US Man the Guns decisions.
  
• Fixed issue with German dismantle decisions.
  
• Fixed Total Mobilization still requiring senators if you weren't the US.
  
• Fixed Kurt Schuschnigg (AUS) portrait being removed by mistake.
  
• Fixed even more research related bugs.
  
• Fixed some false conversion options.
  
• Fixed some building placement bugs.
  
• Fixed background issue with Infantry tech tab.
  
• Fixed duplicate entities problem.
  
• Fixed missing naval traits.
  
• Fixed categories problem with a number of Portraits.
  
  
• Removed the fuel production cost for all equipment.
  
• Removed AI Game Rules that didn't actually do anything.

• Removed unit production fuel requirement.
  
• Added equipment convertibility to Armored Car tree, and various plane conversion options.
  
• Fixed construction menu.
  
• Fixed a number of graphical issues and missing art assets.

• UK now uses Man the Guns content for its Democratic paths. (along with communist, monarch and decolonization paths if you own the DLC) The fascist path has been replaced with our old fascist tree.
  
• Fixed congress issues. (Plutozz assures us that this is absolutely the case.)
  
• Found some more research fixes that had somehow ended up in the Romulan Neutral Zone.
  
• Just kidding. Please don't go after Plutozz.
  

• Fixed bug that was causing negative research bonuses.
  
• Enabled some radar related equipment.
  
• Added Jim Mattis to releasable Patron generals.
  
• Some other small changes.

• Small fix to address a launch CTD.
  
• Removed some USA content.