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.

sooooo when the update

@MillBee this mod is currently deprecated, please ONLY use the main BlackICE mod until this mod is updated.

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

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

@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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yup that's probably because you're using the current version of BICE and my mod is very, very old. Most of this mod's features have already been added into the main BICE mod so just use BICE. Whenever I can drag myself away from V3 / EU4 I'll come back and update this mod. I already have some ideas bouncing around and it looks like the AI needs another overhaul.

I've tried loading this mod with BICE itself, however I always found that my game crashes.

My bean of a friend made me download this

UPDATE !!!!!!!!!!!! GRRRRR !!!

oh no the 'update pls' people have finally found me

update pls

It's not added because the AI should be building out a historical navy without the focuses. If there's a bug with the AI please let us know in the BICE discord.

Well BICE still DOES NOT include the naval deployment system.. at least for USA... Took me half an hour to make some corrections... but made it work just the US focus tree deployment system on these mod files.. so not sure why it isn't added.

This is very much outdated and is not compatible with NSB - most of the naval production work has already been incorporated into the main BICE mod anyways. If this mod returns it will mostly be focused on AI improvements and would not be focused on overhauling airwings.

I'm still playing BICE 6.0 thats for NSB (Utterly detest the airforces now being locked into eact 50 airwings... would this be compatible with NSB? Can u make a standalone Naval Deployment mod for US, Japan and UK?

Thank you for the explanation, I suppose I will sort of get to play your mod, and sort of not - both now and perhaps in the future

Yes this mod is obsolete as basically all of the features have been integrated into the main BlackICE mod. I'm keeping this mod up on the workshop because I plan on coming back to it one day to use it as a place to expand and experiment with BICE AI development.

is this mod obsolete?
As in not up to date?

Hey please direct all requests to the official BICE discord server. Thanks.

I love the 7.0.2 version but just a few things: Can someone add the following to the German Research Tree/time line
1) 88mm Flak 18 to 1936
2) 2 cm Flak 30 to (at least) 1937
3) Junkers Ju 87 G ("Kanonenvogel") to 1943
All three of these are iconic weapons and found in the German Oob in significant numbers so It would be nice to round out the game units with these?

@Reklaw BICE focuses much more on creating a historically accurate WW2 sim than road to 56. Bice is also much more complex, with a lot more mechanics added. I would recommend getting a handle on vanilla hoi4 before going for BICE.

Former stellaris player here. I have recently converted to HOI and am never looking back. I've gotten far enough through my first game to have a good handle on what's going on and what I'm looking for in mods.

Went with RoadTo56 with the first game just bc it was the most popular, but the Command&Control and Order Of Battle features from HOI3 and BlackICE as well as the other added complexities seem like they'd be a welcome improvement (not to mention doggos).

How else does BlackICE compare to Roadto56? Thanks in advance.

the 12k errors doggo is best doggo

whats the best doggo?

no doggo must stay

can i make the dogs go away?

because dogs are awesome

Why is there Dogs?

I don't think 1.10.04 is supported by Paradox anymore.

To get BlackICE working, head over here https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/workshop/filedetails/?id=1137372539 and follow the instructions under 'Getting Started.'

v1.10.4 how do i run this version of game? i dont see in list

This is the official BlackICE mod: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/workshop/filedetails/?id=1137372539

Where is the original BlackICE mod? Or is this the official?

Yes, this mod is deprecated for now. Most of the features, including the new focus trees have now been added directly into the BlackICE mod.

Mod shows error and cant play it

Nope, I'm going to leave generals alone for now. However, you can head over to the BlackICE discord and make a suggestion to the entire dev team.

or make it a setting in the game preset menu?

could you possibly make it so that the general slots are put back to 24?

thanks for the answer:)

Nope, three reichs and you're out.

Please create it, if Germany collapses, it is possible to create the Fourth Reich, still playing on Germany, I think it would be interesting. :)

That's a Germany thing, and this mode doesn't touch Germany. Please head over to the Black Ice discord server and talk with the devs who work on Germany.

Why are we forced to get historical divisions. I whould like to make my own SS divisions, back in the day you actually could design them yourself. Now you can only view the division and not edit them... Why didt you take this mechanic out?

@CoDy the simplet0n: Yup the BlackICE UI is a lot to get used to. But since BICE has so extensively modded the UI, going back to the vanilla UI would break the mod.

Is there a way to revert to the vanilla hoi4 graphics/UI? I just cant wrap my head around it? It looks lovely but i find it too clustered.

@ Armalite For now please use the BlackICE TEST version - it has all my added focus trees plus some extra updates for balance and stability. Please do NOT use my mod (BlackICE Expanded) and the BlackICE TEST mod at the same time!