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The Road to 56 [Beta]

October 2025 BETA!

**Highlights**
- Optimized hourly ticks, which are now around 6% faster.
- Added a partial focus tree for Cyprus.

**Additions**
- Ernest James Renaud will transfer to Quebec after its independence.
- Walloon and Flemish trees are now based of the RT56 generic tree.
- Added Inuit Union as formable.
- Added more historical characters in the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Ethiopian releasables).
- Added communist Filipino politicians.
- Added decisions for the Chinese warlords to choose a new capital in conquered territories.

**Adjustments**
- Most industrial national spirits will no longer be removed from Finland if they enter a civil war.
- The vanilla nerf removing political power gain from Army/Air/Navy Old Guard Chiefs has been restored.
- [LaR & GD] Communist and anarchist Spain AI will always refuse a Carlist restoration, therefore preventing the rise of anarcho-monarchism.

**AI**
- Disabled Iraq joining the Axis on historical if the Allies are slow with fighting back their realignment.
- Fixed Colombia joining the Allies far too early on historical.
- Belgian AI should behave more intelligently when random AI is selected/historical is off, removed a non-functional AI gamerule.
- Polish AI should behave much more intelligently when historical is off and no gamerule is selected.

**Bugfixes**
- Fix puppeted Finland trying to declare war on the USSR under certain circumstances.
- Restore political power gain for Old Guard army/navy/air chiefs, which was accidentally removed.
- Fixed the Polish exile branch having illogical requirements.
- Fixed many Afghan national spirits immediately cancelling upon receiving them.
- Several bug fixes have been made to the various Chinese nations who received focus trees last update.
- Just like in vanilla, Denmark will no longer become part of the Axis after capitulation, keeping Denmark from actively helping the Axis.
- Fixed lootbox decisions not being entirely random and having the exact same outcome for all people in multiplayer games for example.
- [MtG & AAT] fixed small details with the amphibious tank MIO.
- [AAT] Fixed Danish r56 content causing problems to the AAT content.
- [GD] Fixed the US focus to recruit the Martians... The Tender Loving Empire denied any involvement.
- [GoE] Fixed Afghanistan never getting the decision 'Purchase Foreign Aircraft'

**GFX**
- Added more unique news event pictures.
- Readded many TfV and DoD portraits.
- Improved a few Polish portraits.

**Localization**
- Change the name of the country tag BEG to the Kingdom of Gojjam.
- Remove inaccurate descriptions for the AI behavior gamerules of fascist Poland and monarchist Brazil.

**Credits**
- Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project, as well as for opportunities to learn about the related history.

**Contact Us!**
- Questions? Comments? Let us know on [Discord](https://discord.gg/sp6ZZrM) and feel free to check us out on [X](https://twitter.com/RT56_Mod)! We'd love to hear from you!

**Our Wiki!**
- Do you want to know more about the mod? Do you need a path guide? Come and visit our [wiki](https://rt56.miraheze.org).